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quote:Originally posted by james f weisbeck kd7mxi terra utah:What is the lat long of the x-plane"a-12"crash site near wendover ut/nv? May 24, 1963: An A-12 (#123) crashes due to pitot icing 14 miles south of Wendover, Utah. 14 miles south of Wendover, Utah would be: N40 31.951 W114 02.235 http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

Hunting benchmarks is a great idea! It's a good fit with GeoCaching. May I suggest, if the Geocaching Team adds this level of GPS usage to "geocaching.com", that they also add "wreckchasing", too. Wreckchasing is searching out and documenting military and civilian plane crash sites. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm http://coloradowreckchasing.tripod.com/ http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

quote:Originally posted by Wander Lost:Since you are taking suggestions, how about an option to prompt for the cache type? Such as "Normal, Large and Micro"? The program already handles (or should) this. Are there others that I can trap for? Let me know... http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

quote:Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup, in another thread: That's why my cache description spefically states, "None of the micro containers are covered. Each is in plain view, but you’ll basically need to be right on top of them before you’ll be able to see them." On the other hand, I've heard people complain about virtual caches when, rather than reading cache description pages, they do a mass download and go out searching for caches that they have no idea what they are looking for. (In my mind, these people are doing themselves a disservice...possibly missing out on cautions and/or hints about cool things to look for or do while they're at the cache site.) I hope, though, that even if a person has no idea what kind of cache container (or not) they are looking for, that they will use courtesy, and not tear the area up. When I traveled last, I am guilty of downloading waypoints en masse, and going from one to the next, even if it is a virtual. Here is a good application if the GeoClipping software. Clip and sync before you travel and seek. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

I got mine at TheNerds for about $75 plus $10 shipping.

quote:Originally posted by Ben:Hey man, it keeps on getting better and better. Just a shot in the dark, but is there any way to have the map that is displayed on the Geocache page be displayed on the palm - if it supports photos? I have done this kind of thing with Plucker. I wrote parsers for the cache pages and the General forum, weather and more. Creates a whole web site all formatted for the Palm, complete with topos, satellite radar weather images, that can be Plucked. It is a lot of software to install, configure, and run. I found Plucker has a penchant for locking up my Win2000 Server from time to time. That is why I decided to go with a simple, low tech solution. I read that many folks were happy using the built-in MemoPad application to store cache data. With copying text from a web browser, formatting the text and sending it to MemoPad, there is little point of failure. Now, as you know, MemoPad is just for text, not pictures! So automating pictures gets us back to the Plucker world. If you want to see a sample of this work, you can download this sample Plucker file (compiled for 256k color Palm m505): http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/downloads/csgeocaching.pdb http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

quote:Originally posted by byonke: My thought would be to have the GC#### included in the title line that goes to the note. Often the GC#### is the easiest thing to find when searching for waypoints in the GPSR. Done! v1.0.2 05-01-02 Added waypoint to the title. Thanks to byonke for the suggestion. Added support for pasting into Word and other applications. One use for this is to create your own custom printouts. Added 'Include Logs' option. Added instructions on the initial screen. Added 'Prompt for Difficulty / Terrain' option, and 'Difficulty / Terrain' dialog. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

I have been wishing for a voice recorder built in to my GPS to add a quick comment to that ad-hoc waypoint I just created.

quote:Originally posted by byonke: Are you ready for enhancement requests yet? Brian I am ready! One thing I like to do is print out a cache sheet. I use Word, and copy certain info from the cache page, and Paste Special (Unformatted) into the right side, and paste a nice topo on the left side. Maybe this program could format that text, too? So, what are enhancement ideas? Let's do it!

quote:Originally posted by Clan Ferguson: How long should I let the program run. After 10 minutes the window still says Processing... Thanks so much for the heads up with the issue you reported. I think I have discovered the cause, and made the application more robust in that regard. Please see the new instructions on the web site, and download and install the latest version. Issue: "Blank screen upon launching program. Message: Processing ... " SOLUTION: The focus (cursor) cannot be in the Address edit field in Internet Explorer. Please click on the cache page. This will establish the page area (rather than the URL) as the target of our clipping. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

Thinking about a new gadget (or two)? Do you intend to but a Rino this summer, even though you already have a GRPr? BTW, I think this product is a brilliant marketing idea by Garmin - they will sell two where they might have sold one.

Sorry. I did not realize that following up these threads would create this reaction. The GeoClipping software is of interest to many Geocachers with Palms - who have brought up the subject over and over. I was just following up to tell them I have invested a lot of work on the software project, and would like to share this tool with them. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm

GeoClipping Use this application to clip information from the cache pages at Geocaching.com, formatted for the MemoPad application of your Palm. The cache information will be cleaned up, and formatted to read nice in MemoPad. The content will be truncated to 4k, so it will fit one memo. This application was written for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer. To use: 1. Using Microsoft Internet Explorer, navigate to a cache page you would like to place in a Palm MemoPad record. 2. To include any encrypted hints, navigate to that page before clipping. To do this click on the "cheat" link on the cache page: Additional hints can be decrypted below. You can decrypt the hint with the chart, or you can *cheat*. 3. Run the GeoClipping program. The GeoClipping program will see that Microsoft Internet Explorer is running, and will set focus to it, select all the text, and copy it to the ClipBoard. 4. It will then parse the text, and place the formatted text back on the Clipboard. 5. If you have your Palm Desktop running, GeoClipping will set focus to it, switch to the MemoPad, add a new record, paste your clipped data. 6. You are now ready to navigate to another cache page, and repeat the process. Prerequisites 1. You must have a c:temp directory. 2. You must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer. 3. You should have the Palm Desktop running - and you should not be in a record editor. Bugs 1. Currently, difficulty and terrain values are not available - you will have to enter these in yourself. Please report any bugs to rschoolf@hotmail.com License to use is hereby granted to the GeoCaching community, released to the public domain. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm