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    Photo competition - January 2014

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    I know of one location on Birkrigg Common which was a GZ which was archived before I found GC. Very photogenic GZ

    Like GC16VYN, for example? Let's see a photo! B)

    Going out this weekend with camera weather permitting to Birkrigg Common. Above archived GC was not on my radar, thanx now it is.

     

    What I have noticed when trawling through archived GCs is cachers boosting their numbers by retro logging archived GCs where CO has faded away. Often the box and log book have been removed. Canny! How do I know? I have removed the geolitter and not logged the removal.

    Also cachers who retro log when they get a solitary account from being in a team. <-- OK

     

    Also I am guilty of the following. Placing a GC in same place as archived GC. This occurs when adoption is not possible but GZ is good and popular.

    Photo competition - January 2014

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted · Edited by flipflopnick

    I see no pix as yet. Hmm need to remedy that. When rain stops.

     

    For Cumbria had already created a public list of archived caches as new cachers place their proud hides in old locations. Who knew it would useful.

     

    I know of one location on Birkrigg Common which was a GZ which was archived before I found GC. Very photogenic GZ

     

    http://coord.info/GL2YNP2V log by GAZ is an example re-used location.

    How Far Would You Go...

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted · Edited by flipflopnick

    A few years ago my Uncle died. The funeral was down south of England, only 260 miles one way. So I grabbed the necessary for Apsley Cherry-Garrard's grave whilst away.

    This involved staying overnight for 2 extra nights, driving a further 120 miles. I used my own car. Not a great cost. But several days of planned Waymarking resulted with only 6 quality Waymarks posted nearby and several more on the journey there and back.

     

    The journey I will do some day is to Waymark Tom Crean's grave, in Eire. This will involve a ferry crossing with car or flight and hire car, and several nights accommodation.

     

    Whereas the longest Waymark in the making is over 2 years. I found the postcard "RUSH HOUR". There then followed the search for the bridge depicted. Eventually found in a book of illustrations of pack horse bridges, as I wrote 2 years later.

    The visit to Wasdale and Row Bridge was delayed for 2 weeks after finding. Grabbing the necessary took only a few minutes. Slightly disappointing after all that expectation. A day trip from home.

    WHat to collect so to speak...

    in General Waymarking Topics

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    To help with what each Category needs, load the zip file of text files I maintain onto your smartphone. Then search those text files for specific words to see whether it is possible to Waymark what you are about to photograph. Originally created text files to know which needed GPSr in view.

     

    In time you will not search that often. Only when you are unsure what is needed. Take pix of everything including the coordinates after 2 minutes. Writing stuff down can lead to "transmission" errors.

     

    Prior to visiting a site, I download a .gpx file of existing Waymarks. And load into app on smartphone.

    HTH

    Biggest Problems at the Moment

    in General Waymarking Topics

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    I had the waymark with two photos that I uploaded in Windows 8 (they both appeared correctly oriented when I was uplaoding), then I uploaded the same two pictures from my Windows 7 machine (I manually rotated on hard drive). In the waymark gallery, the first two showed sideways, and the second two showed correctly. It was the same browser window, so I can't blame the browser.

     

    Some operating systems read the EXIF orientation field in the image. JPEG & TIFF images have this field. This is why Windows 8 might show images with correct rotation. XP does not auto rotate. Camera puts orientation tag in image, or you can do it manually with EXIF editor, as mentioned above.

     

    Some sites read EXIF orientation field in the image. e.g. Groundspeak sites, Panoramio, , flickr, ...

    Some sites do not read EXIF orientation field in the image. e.g. Britishlistedbuildings.co.uk, facebook, ...

     

    Irfanviewer freeware will lossless rotate images when site does not read EXIF orientation field in the image. Many programs have a setting to read EXIF orientation field in the image. e.g. Irfanviewer, Zoner photo studio. Choose whether to enable this feature.

    NB after rotation, might need to remove EXIF orientation field in the image when site does read EXIF orientation field in the image.

     

    Do not confuse EXIF orientation field in the image with lossless rotation of image.

     

    Browsers probably do not read the EXIF orientation field in the image as the page is sent from a server which will do image processing. You can open an image on your hard drive with your browser.

    Confused. I am.

    Geocaching Map Enhancements

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    Opera 12.x was the last version of Opera to use their own HTML engine. There was no Opera v13 nor v14.

     

    Instead there was v15 and now v16. All future versions of Opera browser will use the same HTML engine as Google Chrome.

    What this means is GME script users can still use the script, but installation is as follows.

     

    Install Opera 16 in a separate folder if need be.

    Install Tampermonkey from Opera extensions site.

    https://addons.opera...permonkey-beta/

     

    Find GME on userscripts.org

    http://userscripts.o...pts/show/109145

    Click big INSTALL green button.

    choose Tampermonkey option, i.e. OK twice.

     

    To apply hack above by JimJinks post #372 to show GME maps on main cache page.

    http://forums.Ground...dpost&p=5291357

     

    Open Opera extensions.

    Choose Tampermonkey Options,

    click on "Geocaching Map Enhancements" words themselves to open Tampermonkey script editor.

    Find line 66 and create a comment by putting two // at beginning of the line, then paste in below the new line of code

    I also altered GME version to 0.6.6.2 A

    Find SAVE button above.

    Acknowledge change alert. OK

    Good to go, close Tampermonkey editor tab.

     

    Same applies to Geothumbs found on userscripts.

    Waymarking App Android

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    There is one Android Waymarking app in development. I am not connected with it. Merely found it by accidental search. Its mention was deleted from the official FB Waymarking.com page.

    Search for WAY(another word for ape or chimpanzee) rolleyes.gif

    In the meantime let's find ways round the lack of API.

    Any chance of listing what the "authorized" geocaching apps are so that we don't inadvertently mention an "unauthorized" one?

     

    There was only one geocaching application mentioned by you and others prior to the previous post in this thread. As far as I know it is the only unauthorized geocaching application.

    Waymarking App Android

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    The camera app of phone will embed GPS coordinates in a photo. Somewhere on the settings of app is USE GPS. But have to wait one minute before coords are accurate enough. Not sure my phone camera is good enough.

     

    Still use a LEICA D-LUX and old fashioned hand held GPSr, which I put down whilst taking pix. Then after one minute or more I photograph GPSr display as last photo of series showing coords. One photo each day is of GPSr time to nearest second ie HH MM SS. As camera time is also set. This picture shows the difference between GPSr time and camera time. Then when I stitch coords into images I know the time difference. Coords stitching is called GEOCODING. The best app is ZONER'S photo studio. Others are geosetter, geotag?

     

    Once WM is published I delete COORDS image.

    Which android phone

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    Do not get a windows mobile smartphone unless it is running Win7 or 8 mobile. Earlier versions are unreliable. Android software is great and apps are free. Some are paid for, but generally the free app is better, Win mobile software may cost.

    On Sunday grabbed a Samsung Galaxy S (1) from nephew, by time left his house had installed c:geo and logged cache found earlier that day using wifi. Could have used 3G as have data package but wifi is much faster. Android phones need less CPU and working ram, so should consume less battery. Screen, wifi and bluetooth are all power hungry but turned off easily in Android when not in use.

    Previous HTC HD2 was crap in comparison to Galaxy S. Only redeeming feature was it could run old Memory-map OS2004.

    The newer the phone generally the better gps chips. Data package necessary for ad hoc caching. Try giffgaff.com

    If battery life an issue, carry a spare.

    HTH

    Caches at roadside milestones

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted · Edited by flipflopnick

    If CO want to be really clever a more prominent link instead of just putting a text link to Milestone Society could be to include their masthead image.

     

    p7spep_masthead.jpg

    Milestone Society

     

    which is this text below. Copy and paste in to Edit page of GC.

     

    [url=[url="http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk"]http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk[/url]]
[img=[url="http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk/p7spepper/img/p7spep_masthead.jpg"]http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk/p7spepper/img/p7spep_masthead.jpg[/url]]
Milestone Society[/url]

     

    or a smaller pictorial link

     

    milestone.gif Milestone Society

     

    [url=[url="http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk"]http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk[/url]]
[img=[url="http://www.laragb.org/graphic-links/milestone.gif"]http://www.laragb.org/graphic-links/milestone.gif[/url]]
Milestone Society[/url]

     

    A text link would be 

    Milestone Society http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk

    HTH

    Caches at roadside milestones

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Thanx, keep them coming.

    Have asked Google what it knows, but milestone also refers to number of caches found.

     

    Google have this site specific search

    "milestone -find -list site:www.geocaching.com" filters out numbers and bookmark lists leaving just caches.

     

    There are some lovely caches involving mile markers now on the list.

    Keep them coming.

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