blindleader
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Gpxsonar V1.5 In The Making...
blindleader replied to -=(GEO)=-'s topic in GPS technology and devices
I would vote for being able to sort caches by timestamp but I consider it much more important for that feature to find its way into GSAK, which is where I log caches from. You should be able to select whether the sort is done on the latest or earliest timestamp. -
Keeping my databases updated is the reason. There are more than five thousand active physical caches within 100 miles of my centerpoint so I have eleven PQs spread over the week to keep them current in a GSAK database. Some of them are mystery caches for which I have notes, corrected coordinates, etc. So whenever I want to go caching, there's no need to create a new PQ. I just go to the database and run the desired filter to select the caches I want, and they will often have information not available from the PQ. One overlooked advantage of having caches updated in this manner is that when I look at a cache page on my pocket PC, it has all the logs going back to when I started keeping the record, not just the last five logs. That comes in handy when someone has posted better coordinates than the official ones, or has made comments that augment the description.
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Gpxsonar V1.5 In The Making...
blindleader replied to -=(GEO)=-'s topic in GPS technology and devices
Accomplished by logging a field note. -
Is there a character count limit on cache descriptions as there is in the profile page? If so, what is it?
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Except everyone who does surveying.
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In the past year there have been more and more puzzle caches placed within the clity limits of Seattle. When puzzles were rare birds, the average quality tended to be high. The recent glut has greatly increased the proportion of (insert politely derogatory adjective here) puzzles. This has led to puzzle fatigue and angst among Seattle cachers. I thought I'd submit my two cents worth in the form of a list rather than my opinions about the properties of good puzzles. This is no where near a comprehensive list, just a quick glance back over my three years of caching, picking out a few I thought were good. I won't be providing a list of puzzles I thought were (see politely derogatory adjective again). You can make your own list of those. For geometers: GC2789 Flatland GC6CBD Completing the Square Fiddle with the text: GCG8P4 Sabina's Cache by Rustynail GCGYGQ Structuralist Geocache by Umbaba GCPQ94 Far Flung Places by globalgirl Hard, but Excellent: GC284F The Contact Cache GCHCH3 Minimalism by dayvi GCHCJ5 1, 2, 3... ...GO! by fiendorfoe Dealing with pictures: GCKJW7 Spartan Scytale by MarcusArelius GC284F The Contact Cache by fractal GCD447 MisLED GCMNTX Queen Anne Typo by markta GCRB7G Alas! by markta GCRCWK Boggle Academy by Fish Soup Internet Research: GCME8E Tango India Whiskey by Blue Heron GCPQ11 Driving Across the U.S.A. by ohjoy! GCRJF2 42 by Camp Latona Humerous: GCP7H4 Third base! by c0yote & co Third base! by c0yote & co Puzzles in the field: GCMJ6Q Thou Shalt NOT... by globalgirl GCRWKJ Leggo of that cache! by markta And my all time favorite: GC284F The Contact Cache by fractal
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COMPSYS21 is an accurate, though clunky (you'll have to convert all coordinates to ° ' ") program for doing all kinds of geodetic intersections, including Bearing-Bearing (triangulation).
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One solution I've seen for keeping a potentially submerged container dry inside is to stand it up in another container with the seal at the top. Even if some water gets in the other container, it's unlikely to rise to the level of the seal on the inner container. The water gets emptied out every time someone finds the cache or you do a maintenance run. I've seen this technique used with a bison capsule inside a pill bottle. I'm not sure how you would do it with an ammo can. You can't get a .30 cal box inside a .50 cal box and those are the two readily available. But there are other types of containers available at surplus and sporting goods stores that might work.
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Pictures can be uploaded to the cache page and optionally displayed there. All files other than .jpg must be hosted some place other than geocaching.com and linked on the cache page. In my experience, especially mine, people really hate cache pages with sound. If you really need a sound file, just link it; Don't play it.
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Ppc And Pda That Broke While Caching
blindleader replied to Alan2's topic in GPS technology and devices
If you just wanted to start an argument, why didn't you say so in your original post? signing off -
How is that different from 98% of all software available today
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(Difficulty/Terrain)
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Ppc And Pda That Broke While Caching
blindleader replied to Alan2's topic in GPS technology and devices
Speaking only for my iPAQ 2215. It doesn't like being dropped, handled roughly, or getting wet. It was never meant for those conditions. My hand held GPS receivers have been rained upon, dunked in the mud, dropped, sat upon, and suffered any number of other indignities without harm. If I were relying on a PPC based GPSr, I'd have given up or gone broke long ago. -
You're putting numbers given in dd mm.mmm format into a program that does not take that format. You can only use decimal degrees or degrees minutes and seconds. Make sure you use one of the punctuation examples given in the dialog box. N33°31.903' W081°43.330' is N33.53172° W081.72217° is N33°31'54.2" W081°43'19.8"
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Make a Field Note and select "Fount It" as the type
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Getting back to the OP. Australia is a long way outside of the range of coverage. Until other countries or the US start building ground reference stations in Australia, WAAS will be completely useless there. No plan I've ever seen provided corrections to anything. The ground stations currently in service still provide coverage only for North America and Hawaii.
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Help With Cache Description Involving Benchmark
blindleader replied to DJ the Not So Ordinary's topic in How do I...?
Interesting, but I doubt the cache owner appreciates you publishing spoilers in the forums. -
I had thought there was a pinned topic somwhere with a FAQ on paperless caching, but I don't see it, and forum search is disabled so... Google paperless geocaching. The short version for PPC: 1. Get Pemium membership. 2. Install GPXSonar 3. Get gpx files through Pocket Queries. 3. Transfer gpx files created byeither Pocket queries or GSAK to the PPC. 4. Use GPX Sonar to open gpx files and view complete cache pages.
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How do you get cache waypoints into your unit, dowload or hand keying? What Datum was your unit set to after you reset it? What kind of reset did you do? Look in the manual. There are at least two kinds. What datum was it set to when you recorded your original home coordinates? I know you most likely don't know the answer to that questioin, but you can find out by setting the unit's datum to WGS84, taking a new fix at the home spot and compare the result to the original from a year ago. If you input coordinates by hand, you need to make sure your datum is the same as the source (WGS84 for geocaching.com). You also need to be aware of the various formats that coordinates are published in so you can convert them properly, or set your display format to match the source (ddd°mm.mmm' or UTM for geocaching.com). If you download waypoints from your computer, then none of that makes any difference. I surmise from your description of the problem, that you key in coordinates by hand and that you were unaware of the information in the above two paragraphs.
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A little knowledge can be dangerous . The writer of that content assumes, incorrectly that the earth rotates 360° in 24 hours (what we call 24 hours). The conclusion that the trace of the orbit on the surface of the earth repeats daily is wrong, as can be observed by anyone who looks as his satellite screen on successive days or looks at the results of satellite prediction software on successive days. For further study: sidereal time.
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You know this for a fact? Or do you assume they don't have permission?
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Spoiler Sync
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So much misinformations gets repeated over and over. It does not matter how your GPS is configured. Datum, format, anything.
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And the number one reason not to use geosynchronous orbits is that the satellite geometry would be horrible to the point of being useless 100% of the time. You think 50ft EPE is bad now, think about operating in the hundreds of feet of error at best. And if you live at a low latitude, think in terms of many miles of error and approaching infinity as you approach the equator.
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First Modernized Gps Satellite Operational
blindleader replied to PDOP's's topic in GPS technology and devices
All the Navstar satellites are in 12 hour orbits.