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Viajero Perdido

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  1. It could be argued that, for walk-to-the-geocache purposes, more precision isn't needed. The app I use does roughly the same thing, and it's never bothered me. But for times when you really do need that accuracy (puzzles come to mind), there are various tools available to measure distance between two sets of coords, and do it accurately.
  2. Scrolling text should be for emergencies only.
  3. This is always good. My owner dashboard, in the last few entries toward the bottom, shows entries deep into the past: a couple of 2019, then 2012. A wee glitch. (But somehow, magically, that 2012 log was one I really enjoyed re-reading. How did you know?!?)
  4. So, once you have your first draft written up, click "Submit for Review". It'll prompt for a reviewer note. That's where you should explain your request for delayed publishing. The reviewer may send it back to you for changes (after which, submit again), or - if all goes well - will likely say it's good to go, and lock the listing against further changes. This is simply so they don't have to review it a second time on the publishing date. This is how it works in our local area, where we annually have a coordinated mass-publishing event involving many hiders, followed by a big weekend of fun.
  5. You should be able to see the page, including background image, after you've specified the image during an edit cycle. This applies when viewing the site on a computer. Some mobile browsers, eg Brave on my huge-resolution Android tablet, even in "desktop" mode, simply refuse to show background images. So try a proper "computer", eg desktop or laptop style, if you have one handy.
  6. Oops, hadn't thought of that, sorry. Here: Substitute the two links with your own checker of course, and note the use of a link to Groundspeak's rules, rather than repeating them here.
  7. Put the most important stuff first ... before people go TLDR. Keep it brief. (TLDR = too long, didn't read.) Skip stuff that could apply to ANY cache (replace as found, etc.) Keep it interesting (defense against TLDR). Pictures are nice. Humor is good. PS, if anyone thinks challenge cache boilerplate is too wordy, feel free to borrow this tightened-up version.
  8. I assume you mean the "browse" map, the one with a search button. Try teasing the map a bit (zoom, pan). For me, that unsticks it, usually. It's been quirky from the beginning.
  9. If I was the artist, I'd be aghast at people poking/pulling/prying at my work. We can find better places. Please.
  10. Just to clarify something for Robert's and maybe the OP's benefit... The "street" in OpenStreetMap is a bit misleading. It does streets of course (and mapping companies like TeleNav have actually hired people to improve street navigation), but I can comfortably assert that OSM has become the best source for trail maps, generally worldwide. I travel, I cache, and OSM is all I use. Groundspeak builds their maps from OSM. All thanks to those volunteers. So if the OP has any hiking at all in their caching plans, again, I'll urge the use of a map based on OSM. Some surely still exist for Garmin.
  11. I fail to see how serving up a simple image file requires cookies at all. I followed the link and another, and still don't see the logic ... unless Google changed the URL format suddenly (Hey!!!), which should then simply require a tweak to the URL in the cache page. But again, how would that require cookies? I mean, other than that Google likes to follow everything you do. EDIT: I was going to suggest Proton Drive, as I see they have a free tier, but also now see they're not on Groundspeak's short list of three. So ... never mind. ED-EDIT: I deleted a follow-on post (if anybody wondered) because I was confused and made no sense, never mind.
  12. I'm guessing this was a conscious decision to dumb it down for newbies, at the expense of more nuanced uses, as above. A trend imported from the app? Given you need to explain to the reviewer how puzzles are solved, putting that info in a standard Note log (oops) would reveal a spoiler because regular notes are (were) visible after publishing.
  13. For years I've had two goals that motivated me. Increase my average terrain rating to 2.5 (done after many years), and increase my Lonely FTF record. Yeah... FTFs and lonely caches only interested me if the two things were combined in one, a lonely cache that was never found. It was a thrill to get my first 1+ year lonely FTF; took years and I had to scramble up a mountain for it. It was a challenge to try (and fail at) a 5-year lonely FTF; needed airplanes, boats, and passport for that one. It was a major thrill to later actually succeed at a 5-year lonely FTF; another mountain. It was sheer calendar luck to hit a 10-year FTF to the day, and now I think I've taken this challenge about as far as it can go ... without quite considerable effort. I don't think there's any official support for this kind of goal (something about guidelines), but it's easy enough to keep track of by yourself. I'm kinda coasting now... (Whew.)
  14. Since it looked like the answer to the OP's question was going to be no (better maps in the AL app), an alternative was proposed, another app. (The one I use, actually like, and seems to have improved since Fizzy tried it out). A screenshot of that app was shown with AL stages on-screen, along with caches, in a now-deleted post. Both would likely have been loaded via GPX files, not directly through the API. I know the app handles caches well via GPX files. It's quite likely it'll handle AL GPXs too, assuming there's a way to get your hands on such files. By "handle", I mean, it'll treat them as waypoints, maybe with a special icon, that you can navigate to, displayed on a high-quality map. You'd still need the AL app as well to handle the AL "magic". PS, that alternate app is on the yes-we-can-talk-about-it list.
  15. Is the URL format for this page easy enough to figure out (eg, containing an obvious username or user-id-number), for those not opted-in? If so, what is the format? I don't want to opt-in to marketing stuff, thanks anyway. I'm already a customer.
  16. I think you'd really enjoy caching in "the Chinas". Well, except maybe the weather that time of year, and I know little about mainland China. Hong Kong especially. I've been going there annually (last few years excepted of course) in winter, ideal hiking weather then, for caching my brains out (+heart+lungs+knees) on their excellent trails with so many interesting high-terrain hides. The map is incredible, as you've probably noticed. I'll be there shortly, and might walk right past this place because new caches have sprouted along the trail. (Look closely; there's a geo-buddy at work.)
  17. AliExpress has a huge variety of rare-earth magnets at very modest prices. If you don't like ordering from China (2-3wks), other big-name retailers like Amazon almost certainly carry them too. Rare-earth magnets are crazy strong. They'll be the only thing left after the tin has rusted away.
  18. Just to add, Locus has many ways of displaying OSM maps; the example shown by HHL is just one of them. There's a good variety of online maps, and when you consider offline maps which can be themed - some themes having many checkbox options - the different ways of displaying OSM would number in the hundreds or thousands.
  19. Try again with the OSM maps. OSM is just a database, and various maps are built from that. One well-known provider of OSM-based maps (the ".nl" one) just stopped updating one day, became a zombie site. There are other providers of OSM maps for Garmin, but again, I'm not the one to know details. If you're willing to move over to a phone, your options expand dramatically. You want topo contours, hill shading, and auto-routing on trails, with spoken directions in a sultry voice, why yes, we have several choices... PS about your Garmin, that 30' off-ness doesn't sound too unusual; tomorrow it might be 30' off in the other direction. And/or, that basemap might've been misaligned. Those units are considered excellent for GPS accuracy, but even today, no unit is perfect. Modern phones are fully up to the task too, so you have lots of quality choices.
  20. Because sometimes we like to move coords from place to place. Solve a puzzle, key in the result, for example. Any other questions?
  21. Likely due to copy protection; they want you to buy new maps for a new unit. (From memory, corrections welcome.) Suggestion: those maps will be old. Buy a new memory card (assuming new huge-capacity ones will work in an old unit) or scrounge a reusable old card of suitable size. Download OpenStreetMap, which will be free and current. I'm not up on details (I stopped using my Garmins years ago), but they can be found with a forum search, and/or others will chime in here with more info. Best of luck.
  22. Three tildes are how I visually separate sections. Now three tildes have magic? This isn't about fixing the log. It's a bug report. The page layout is broken. PS, the "How to format" popup makes no mention of tildes. Thus, I did nothing wrong. PPS, while on that subject, I just noticed the clown code changed from [:o)] to [:O)], now using capital O, breaking all old logs using the original, including 259 of mine. Not the first time old logs have gotten uglier without being touched. Bit decay. There: three bug reports in one. Do with them what you will.
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