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quote:Originally posted by AllenLacy:Just FYI an example of using perl to read a zip file use Archive::Zip;# lots of code# where $path contains the full path to zip filemy $zip = Archive::Zip->new($path); my @members = $zip->memberNames();for my $member (@members) { my $Content = $zip->contents($member);# code to convert GPX which is in $Content to HTML} Shoot! Allen beat me too it! But I can even simplify. Since the zip files we get from geocaching.com always contain one, and only one .gpx file... use Archive::Zip;# lots of code# where $path contains the full path to zip filemy $zip = Archive::Zip->new($path); my @members = $zip->memberNames();my $Content = $zip->contents($members[0]);# code to convert GPX which is in $Content to HTML --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) --------------------------------------- [This message was edited by skydiver on April 01, 2003 at 09:58 AM.]

quote:Originally posted by John E Cache:I was thinking of automating a few things too. What software are you using to do the automation? I'm using 'The Bat!' as my email client. Has the most robust email filtering options I've ever seen. For the scheduled tasks, just using XP's 'Scheduled Tasks' option in the Control Panel. quote:About zip files, I don't think perl can access zip files without calling an un-zip program. What Allen said. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

Ok, so far SWEEEEEETTTT!!! Awsome Job!! I have one request though. I have my email client set up to automatically extract my GPX files to the GPXSpinner directory, and want to schedule a task to automacially run Spinner after the last file arrives. My only problem seems to be that I'm receiving the GPX files as .zips, and would like to continue to do so, but the standalone version of Spinner doesn't recognize these. Any chance we can get it to recognize zip files like the classic version did? Thanks for the hard work! --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

They don't bother me. I've left WG bills in caches, and I've taken other peoples WG's bills out and spent them on the way home. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

Bushwacking? I'll show you some Bushwacking! --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

Thanks for the plug Mopar. True it's not a place one would go geocaching ... oh, no, wait, it is. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

Here's a couple from my outings. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

From what 'traveling caches' I've seen come thorugh this area, it appears a lot of people have been using this as a method to avoid forking over a few bucks and paying for a travel bug tag. It's often the same general concept, just that one doesn't require you to support the geocaching.com site in any real way. I have no objections to the ban. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

I'm more interested in the challange part of the hunt be getting TO the cache location, either by way of a long ardous hike, or complicated puzzle. Once I get within 20 feet of it though, I'm not usually too interested in having to hunt too hard to find it. Too me, hunting for a highly camoflagued cache isn't a challange, it's just busy work, and I've always hated busy work. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

quote:Originally posted by Jeremy (Admin):As a listing service, geocaching.com doesn't really have an authority either way for maintaining a cache. It is each user's responsibility to maintain their own caches. The only time the site steps in is if it is completely clear by other geocachers that a specific cache has been plundered/damaged/missing. After every attempt has been made to contact the cache owner we temporarily transfer ownership of the *listing* on the site so it can be maintained. If the owner comes back and asks for their cache listing to be returned to them, we do so. We may create "aging" of caches in the future so people know how long it has been since someone has visited the web site and checked in on it. However, if the cache is in good shape there is no need for someone to have to log in to the web site periodically to say that they checked in on it. It's a nice gesture, certainly, but I don't think it's my position to enforce this rule. Worst case is the cache listing is removed from the site and becomes a cache with new listing. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location I don't think it's too much to ask people that part of maintaining a cache is simply confirming that they are still alive and paying attention to the logs. And I don't think anybody is suggesting that this be a method of guaranteeing that the owner has physically gone and checked up on the cache, just that they're paying attention. This, to me, just seems like an ideal method of identifing 'At Risk' caches BEFORE they become a problem and start to reflect poorly on the sport. And I doubt anybody would think this feature would equate to geocaching.com overstepping their bounds of authority. Geocaching.com already rightfully has the authority to approve/reject/archive/transfer cache listings as necessary. This would just help make the archive/transfer part happen BEFORE any land managers or anticachers had a reason to get upset. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight:We have active cachers in my area who have ignored all my emails (asking about a cache of theirs that was smashed up by a bulldozer that I found.) they continue to place new caches, they also took care of the problem with the smashed cache. Then they didn't ignore your email or the problem, they just didn't choose to personally respond to you. These people would almost certainly renew their cache when the time came, just like they fixed the smashed cache when it was necessary. The owner of this cache on the other hand, was ignoring all the emails people sent to him. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight:Just because the cache owner is ignoring their emails doesn't mean they don't love and cherish their cache. Doesn't matter how much they love and cherish it, if they are ignoring the emails they get when people post problems with the cache, and so don't go do something to correct the problem. A major part of the responsibility of maintaining a cache falls into recognizing when there is a problem (by reading the logs people post), and doing what needs to be done to fix it. You can't do that if you're ignoring your emails, and therefore have essentially abandonded the cache. time to let somebody else, who doesn't ignore their email to pick up the torch. quote:Further, what if you adopt a cache on geocaching.com that is on one of the other sites. Now you got two owners and only one cache to go around. New owner can go adopt the same cache on the other site, if they want to. Either way, I don't think that's Jeremy's responsibility to worry about. If we hold up improvements to this site, because someone thinks they need to be coordinated with the wannabe sites, then we can immediatly kiss a lot a great upgrades goodbye. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

I'm not an admin, but I'm going to guess that the answer is yes. MOOG (Missoula Org Of Geocachers) has one of these accounts, and I'm sure I've seen other organizations that do it too. In fact, I think some organizations even got a Premium Membership for thier account. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

Yup, I like the idea a lot, too! I think maybe 90 days is a little too often, but 18 months isn't nearly often enough. And I guess if it's just a matter of a little click to renew the cache, then I'd prefer TPTB err on the side of too often, and I certainly wouldn't complain if I needed to renew my caches every 90 days. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

quote:Originally posted by oregone:Both viewpoints--hippie AND mullet--had nothing to do with geocaching, so i'm hoping that by archiving the cache i won't have to read anymore about that cache in irbil, iraq for a while. Ahhh.. ok. Can't argue with that at all. All that would annoy the #%#@#$%@#%^# out of me too. Thanks for the clarification. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

quote:Originally posted by The Leprechauns:Iraq's one and only cache has more than 100 accounts watching it. Each of them received an e-mail earlier today, notifying them that the cache had been archived until the situation in Iraq is a bit more conducive to geocaching. Ok, I guess I missed that one. Got a link? Archiving it seems like a silly knee-jerk reaction though. Don't we always say that we each are responsible for knowing what we're going into before hunting any cache? These may be extreem circumstances, but I think the rule still works very well, even now. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

I'm watching off and on out of the corner of my eye, primarily because it's history in the making. No I'm not siting on the edge of my seat with baited breath, but I'm also not going to turn it off and miss a historical moment. I can give it just enough attention to witness something important, while focusing most of my attention on other important things to do around the house. I haven't noticed any "feeding abject fear and paranoia", and the media doesn't have much choice but to speculate when they can only get little teasers of information of what's going on. But it's a lot better than sacked on the couch watching somem mind numbing sitcom and munching potato chips. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

So I was just thinking, I know there are many geocachers out there who are military members (I'm former military myself), so I would bet that at least a couple are in Iraq at the moment, and probably have access to a very accurate GPS... and Iraq doesn't seem to have any caches yet. You should be able to tell where I'm going with this. Anybody care to speculate? --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

quote:Originally posted by Jeremy Irish:000domains.com charges you $13.50 per year on domains. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location I can do one better. $8.95 for one year at godaddy.com, discounts for more than that. I have several domains registered through them and can recommend them highly. For hosting, I don't know about the company you mentioned, but I have used ezpublishing.com for several years, and have no complaints what-so-ever. Very good company. Later: And then I notice a couple people already mentioned godaddy. Oh well. Now can everyone pretend that I'M not an idiot? Please? --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) --------------------------------------- [This message was edited by skydiver on February 27, 2003 at 08:17 PM.]

Just be prepared for complaints from people who think your cache is 'too difficult', like I did. Some strange people seem to think that the quality of a cache is directly proportional to the number of finders. Don't let them stop you from placing hard caches though. There are those of us that like, and target, the really, really, really hard caches. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

quote:Originally posted by pdxmarathonman:Oh my gosh! This bug has been stuck in this cache for OVER 3 WEEKS! Haha. Ya, the three weeks doesn't really bother me much. I've had bugs sit stagnant for much longer than that. The fact that this is this cacher's first hide, does make me just a little nervous. Now the three MONTHS that that person kept the bug, while not responding to any of my emails asking about the bug's fate... ya, that had me a bit tweeked. I, and the locals here following the bugs travels, had pretty much given up on it ever resurfacing again. The real reason for the rescue request though, is that a geocacher in Missouri is going to Germany in June and volunteering to take any bugs that can get to him in time along. Certainly not an emergency, but in case any PDX geocachers were just looking for an excuse to get outa town, I figured I might as well provide it. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

Hey Portland area geocachers! Any of you up for a road trip to go help this bug get moving again? Thanks! --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

I'll see if I can get this bug moving in your direction. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

The general consesus (from my experience) is that bugs are a seperate game. So, no, when you take a bug you don't need to leave anything in exchange. And likewise, if you just leave a bug, you don't get to take anything either. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------

I say give it a try. If someone around Missoula tried something like that, I'd likely participate at least once. If I didn't like it after that, then I just wouldn't do it again. You don't need a majority of the local geocachers to want to do it, just enough of them to make it work. The only concerns I'd have with something like this is making sure people didn't get so focused on winning that they started tearing up the environment looking for things at different stages, or breaking the law speeding in their cars or shortcutting across private property. That would have the possibility of drawing a lot of negative attention to geocaching very quickly. Since you're from Idaho, check with the Idaho Geocachers Forum and see what the folks there think of your idea. --------------------------------------- "We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ---------------------------------------