Marvin A

Perhaps you have already found the solution to your problem, but otherwise give me some infos. Is it with all Events? What browser do you use? What Calendar software do you use? What does not work?

Hello Geocaching.com (Groundspeak) have some guides in French. Just choose french in the end of the page at geocaching.com, and go to "jouer" > "guide" in top of the page. Don't forget the french section in this forum. ---- Geocaching.com a plusieurs guides en francais. En bas de la page d'accueil, choisis "French" au choix "Choose a language". Puis vas dans "Jouez" et "Guide" dans le haut de la page. Tu as une section "placer des caches". Prends le temps de bien lire les endroits autorisés ou non. Deux ressources supplémentaires: Pour ton coin: http://forum.geocaching-france.com Et si tu trouves pas, il y a celui de mon coin!: http://wwww.geocaching-qc.com Et oublie pas qu'il y a aussi une section Française dans ce forum. Bon géocaching! ----------- Marvin A" Stats / Geo-iCal

Now Geo-iCal is Google Calendar compatible. So people with Android, will be able to synchronize their Google Calendar with Geo-iCal, then sync the device with the Google Calendar. Do not try the links for the iPhone. I put instructions on the web site (same link as before). The schedule synchronization with Google iCalendar is very slow. About every 6-24 hours. But this should not be a problem. Last point, notify the owners of Android in your next events; They will not read this topic because it indicated for iPhone in the title! Make them a surprise! If you have any problem, don't hesitate to ask!

I felt the reason why he asked this question. I asked him his opinion on the system to see if it's in the rules with the "terms of use". Meanwhile, I disabled the start page. Maybe I was too excited to share this. I should have checked before, not after. Sorry.

How exactly do you do that? Basicly I start with my GSAK; Then I made a macro that takes the events and makes the ICS text files. The format for ICS (iCalendar) is really simple. I upload the ICS files to Internet and community can use it.Are you curious about the macro or by The ICS file?

After building the system for my country and my province, I added the US to my iCal system. The link is http://www.plante.ca/ical/. I think iPhone owners (or iCal compatible system) will love this system. Here is the message (adapted) I posted in the Canada section to describe the service. (topic here) ===================== I love the ability to have multiple calendars on the iPhone. That's why I wanted to have geocache events for my province in the phone. After some research, I realized that nobody seemed to have published a calendar in iCal format, neither my province nor to any other. So I developed a system that compiles the events, make the iCalendars (Thanks to GSAK!) and place it to the internet. I liked the result so much that I finally made the system for all provinces(and now all states). Up to you to tell me if the system is useful or not! To subscribe to the calendar: Go with your iPhone to the link http://www.plante.ca/ical Pick state that interests you. Subscribe to the calendar. Some points on the system. First, I'm not very good in English. Even if Google help me very much, if you see any errors don't hesitate to tell me. When you subscribe to a calendar, it can take 30 to 60 sec. before seeing the events. Mega-Events have an asterisk before the code. For each province, I indicate the distance from 1 to 4 cities. I selected the cities to make it possible to do a little trigonometry, and know roughly where the event in the province is. Feel free to suggest other cities. But, I cannot add all suggestions! Geocachers in the province may be needed to talk to themselves! USA: Give me a few cities (approximately 1 to 4) that I can add to the description with the distance and angle (N, NW, S, etc.) of the event. Look in Canada's calendar for an example. Caches are updated regularly, about twice a week. Includes only active caches! Not disabled or Archived! (Maximum of 90 days old) County in "Location" provided by GSAK. But can by changed by owner The iCal are compatible with iPhone and Outlook. That does not mean they are not compatible with other software. Share your experiences! In Beta test. No SLA (Service Level Agrement) is provided. Enjoy! Marvin A"

Add the owner's name in the description.

Sorry for the delay. Very busy at work and working on the following later in this post! Happy that you seem appreciate these iCal. Westacular is right when he says there is no simple way to do this. So I develop a method "not no simple" for owners of a cache to control some options for their event. See below. The county data come directly from GSAK database. I'm not able to change that. The problem is the term "County" that differt from province to another. In Québec, county is a big administrative region and we have 17. I know that in some provinces, counties are much smaller. If you would like more information, I suggest you go to the website of GSAK to discuss. But for the owner of the event, there is a solution! See below! London seems a good suggestion to add, and I'll replace Sault Ste-Marie by Sudbury as this city seems bigger. Someone have good suggestion for North-West?? Does anyone live there? And now, for owners of caches events!! I developed and tested in Quebec this week, a system that allows owners to control some parameters listed in iCal/iPhones calendar. We'll see if it works well, but for now this is good. The principle is to add a specific code in the description that will be caught by Geo-iCal system (cool name, no?). Here is the code and explanations: You should put in the short OR long description the code : ?iCalInfo:YYYYMMDDThhmm;YYYYMMDDThhmm;F;5M;Location;Description" The parameters are separated by; Code begin with ?iCalInfo: followed by parameters. Param1# : YYYYMMDDThhmm is the Start time and date. YYYMMMDD is Year, Month, Day. hhmm is Hours, minutes. Warning! The date and time are separated by a capital T! Total should have exactly 13 characters. Param2# : YYYYMMDDThhmm is the End time and date. same syntax as Param #1 Param3# : Not implemented yet; Leave F Param4# : Not implemented yet; Leave 5M if you build the code manually. Param5# : Location; will REPLACE the county, but will precede the province and the country Param6# : Description; a SMALL description. Will be added following cities in the description. Be sure to have the quote (") at the end. Example: if the following code for the Entogeek's event (GC2PPXD) is found in the description : ?iCalInfo:20110408T1400;20110408T1600;F;5M;A meeting room in an Ajax condo;This event is an opportunity for you to learn a bit about the diversity of the insects and arachnids with which we share our planet." people will see this in their iPhone. (Sorry for french parts). http://www.plante.ca/img/example1.png You find it complicated? You can use this web page to help you create the code. As a bonus you can have a nice icon to popularize the service!

I love the ability to have multiple calendar on the iPhone. That's why I wanted to have geocache events for my province in the phone. After some research, I realized that nobody seemed to have published a calendar in iCal format, neither my province nor to any other. So I developed a system that compiles the events, make the iCalendars (Thanks to GSAK!) and place it to the internet. I liked the result so much that I finally made the system for all provinces. Up to you to tell me if the system is useful or not! To subscribe to the calendar: Go with your iPhone to the link http://www.plante.ca/ical Pick a province or provinces that interests you. Subscribe to the calendar. Some points on the system. First, I'm not very good in English. Even if Google help me very much, if you see any errors don't hesitate to tell me. When you subscribe to a calendar, it can take 30 sec. before seeing the events. Mega-Events have a asterisk before the code. For each province, I indicate the distance from 1 to 4 cities. I selected the cities to make it possible to do a little trigonometry, and know roughly where is the event in the province. Feel free to suggest other cities. But, I can not add all suggestions! Geocachers in the province may be needed to talk to themselves! Caches are updated regularly, about twice a week. Includes only active caches! Not disabled or Archived! County in "Location" provided by GSAK. The iCal are compatible with iPhone and Outlook. That does not mean they are not compatible with other software. Share your experiences! In Beta test. No SLA (Service Level Agrement) is provided. Enjoy! Marvin A"