kirchwitz

On my PC, when it happens, it not only freezes the selected tab but also one CPU core goes up to 100% load and stays there until I close that tab (non-multi-threaded) or Firefox (multi-threaded). Maybe some kind of endless loop or wrongly programmed recursion. Just guessing, I'm not a javascript programmer. Unfortunately, my first approach was to blacklist https://www.geocaching.com/account/scripts/custom/message-center-header-widget.js with AdBlockPlus but this makes the whole website unusable. For example, on geocache pages, logs are not loaded any longer, and also the mini-map preview won't work, and coordinates cannot be changed any longer. In other words, not loading message-center-header-widget.js at all seems to break most (all?) other javascript code on that page. Taking a photograph, really cool idea. Have to remember that! But I'm using your add-on now, so hopefully I won't have any more crashes. :-) Again, thank you so much!

Great community here, thanks for the Add-on. Excellent job! However, how do we make Groundspeak eventually fix the bug in their scripts? With Firefox' new multi-threading architecture (Electrolysis), Groundspeak's javascript code basically crashes Firefox. Just have one GC.com tab sitting in the background. Boom! It's no longer enough to close the GC.com tab, because Firefox still keeps processing the broken Javascript code. Everything is lost, all tabs, you have to kill Firefox. :-( It's also disappointing when writing a long online-log for a found geocache, and then Firefox crashes and all text is lost. Happens so often. *sigh*

Im Prinzip ja, doch wenn es einem nicht zum ersten Mal passiert, dass man entspannt zu Hause loggen will (schlimmstenfalls erst einige Tage später) und der Cache bis dahin vom Reviewer gesperrt wurde, kommt man schon in Versuchung, unterwegs schnell ein "TFTC" oder "Später mehr ..." abzusetzen. Geloggt ist geloggt! Das Sperren fürs Loggen oder teilweise sogar das vollständige Sperren (auch gegen Ansehen) ist so eine Unsitte. In letzter Zeit dem Gefühl nach häufiger. Zwangsarchivierung von vermurksten Geocaches kann ich verstehen, doch warum sollen diejenigen, die einen Geocache in gutem Glauben gefunden haben, ihn nicht loggen dürfen? Die Geocaching-Historie ist eine wesentliche Funktion der Plattform geocaching.com, doch die erfüllt sie auf diese Weise nicht mehr.

Thanks, worked perfectly fine. Sorry for my post. I wasn't sure if it was better to wait some days (maybe somebody needed to do some work on the internal database) or to simply go on and log the next cache. Didn't want to do anything wrong. I really, really enjoyed Signal's Time Machine (the cache(s), the video, and all the funny logs), and maybe that becomes (or already is?) a tradition on Geocaching.com. Geocaching community is great! Thanks for all the fun! Keep up the good work!

Today (2. April 2013) the STM-Cache no longer shows up in the list of caches found, but it still counts for the statistics (eg, number of finds). Hopefully, this will be fixed as it makes counters & statistics somewhat useless now. Stupid me... shouldn't have logged it just to honour the nice joke and the very good video.

The main advantage (feature) of the Geocaching Live application was that you could be anywhere on the world and get a current map with caches and basic information. No need to prepare anything offline and transfer it to the phone. Just have fun with geocaching - whereever you are. This has gone now. SmartGPX is cool if you know in advance where you're going. Good tool to organize a large amount of GPX data (but you need to get those files on your mobile device first). SmartGPX is also able to view caches in Nokia Maps. Although the offline feature of Nokia Maps is very nice, it has two big disadvantages: (1) no satellite view, (2) always tries to put you on streets and not where you really are. As far as I know, SmartGPX cannot view caches on Google Maps instead of Nokia Maps. If you know where you're going and you have an online connection, it's also possible to import GPX data into a personal layer for Google Maps. However, there's still the problem that you have to prepare things in advance. I also offered help to Geocaching.com to try to convert the GC Live S60 app from old to new API, but nobody answered my mail. They shouldn't have asked for help if they didn't want it anyway. Or does anybody know where the source code of the GC Live S60 app is available from? (What's the benefit of keeping it secret?)

Just read it today, and that's very bad news. I like my Nokia E71, and there's no real need to buy a new mobile phone (it just does what I want). I'm sure there are still a lot Symbian S60 phones in use world-wide. I've written a mail to the address supplied in the text. Maybe it's not too difficult to adapt the software to the new API (like it was very easy to configure a new mapserver some weeks ago). However, my programming skills are primarily C for Unix, but I have no experience with Java on mobile devices yet. I'm not sure if I want to buy a new phone just for Geocaching. What's coming next? No more support for Android 2.3, Windows 7 and iPhone 4? I'm paying premium member, and of course I don't expect Geocaching.com people to put a lot of work in development of old Symbian S60 applications or the old API (it hasn't changed for 1-2 years anyway), but I would have preferred a better planned ramp-down with a much longer time for users to find a new device which fits there needs. (Hey, it's not even Christmas where a lot of people get new phones. :-) A warning only a few weeks in advance is not right. Maybe this is a sign to have a time-out from Geocaching in general. For me, it's a hobby and it should be fun. But this is no fun now. *areallybigsigh*

After doing "jar xvf GeocachingLive.jar" and looking at "ay.class" with a binary viewer, the correct new URL for OpenStreetMap is: http://tile.openstreetmap.org/[iNVZ]/[X]/[Y].png (notice the INVZ instead of Z, and as always non-default "WGS84/Spherical") Works great on my Nokia E71 (still love it for its excellent GPS receiver). Is the source code of the GeocachingLive software available? There's a couple of minor bugs I'd really like to see being fixed. It's such a great application and works on so many phones. Wow, cool, I didn't know that. Was always wishing for a satellite view to better locate caches. With "lyrs=y" it does what I want. Thank you so much for posting this URL.