BrentC & Pam

It really depends upon what you want to do with the GPS and loaded maps - you get what you pay for in this life - that includes features and up to date data. I suppose you could import your own 60c from someone like www.gpsdiscount.com for about NZ$550 - which might leave you some $ towards buying auto-routing maps etc Brent www.nzgpsmaps.com

as in current virtual caches eg 911 Fire Fighters Memorial Places where it is not appropriate to have a small hidden camouflaged box

Oop's I should look at this forum more often - they are available now - email me - brent@nzgpsmaps.com

Errr - Thanks - yep we do know how lucky we are for just a couple of grand, a sleeping bag and a hitch-hikers thumb you could have a couple of weeks holiday Hey Snoop - what are those warn thingys <---------------------------------------------

I like Tumonz for quick zoom, 3D, camping grounds and Auto Route. I have started using Oziexplorer with the 1:50,000 TopoPro maps for creating tracks to upload to GPS. The Polymedia GPSMapped is also usefull. Ciao, Brent

http://www.geosoft.co.nz/ Ciao, Brent

Please don't include me in yet maybe after my next holiday in the UK However you can also get stats and logs from UK Logs UK Cacher stats Ciao, Brent

I have been following a thread on the sci.geo.sattilite-nav news group - all things GEO. Geosmashing: using GPS-guided weapons to destroy a target I coined it right here folks * Geospin: using GPS as an excuse to rail against something you don't like, that involves the use of GPS. I coined it right here folks * Exclamation at finding a fancy rock in a geocache site: "Gee, a geogeode!" * geotrashing: Publishing an insult about someone along with their precise location. U heard it here first! * GeoFlashing: Putting naked pictures of yourself in a cache. The picture is taken at a cache site. I coined it here, folks, and I'm sorry * Geoflushing: Flushing your GPS out the toilet. * "Geohashing" - renaming all your waypoints "######" . . . . . . * Geoclashing: Two teams of geochachers arriving at the same time, with different brands of GPSr. * Geocrashing: driving your vehicle into something or someone because you rely on your GPS too much. - You mean that the little triangle on the screen of my SP3 isn't REALLY my car? * Geosplashing Traditional form of Geocrashing involving an absent ferry. * Georashing: 1] hiking too many miles while holding you GPS reciever, so that you develop a rash. 2] being too much occupied by your GPS so that your girlfriend develops a rash. 3] very fast navigation using a GPS * Geomashing, aka Geocrunching: that noise you heard was your gps hitting the pavement after you took off with it on your trunk, so you back up to get it...oops! * Geowriting and geopainting: using geographical co-ordinates (for example a track record) to create a geotext or a geordrawing. Not only coined it but actually used on this NG by the undersigned * Geowhingeing: to complain annoyingly or continuously about something perceived as relatively unimportant in a gps newsgroup (informal). e.g. "joe mehaffey is a spammer" - The usual cause for geowhingeing is geospamming or goetrolling. - Ok, I'm coining "geohurl", a reflexive upchuck which occurs after being subjected to one too many "geo-" words. - And I beg to differ: the usual cause for geowhingeing is a sticky click-stick on a Garmin GPS receiver. - I'm afraid you may be about to geohurl. I wanted to trademark geonut (as a mild version of gpsnut) but somebody is already using it!!! How about defining geoidol and geoidiot to make sure that nobody will confuse it with geoid. - I'm geo-laughing my geo-*** off ;-p That was really geofunny !!!! * GEODESIC DOME: A hat with geometrically determined GPS antenna panels. * geointeresting....... - geo BORING - Geoboring is drilling into the ground to find oil and other resources. Please refer to your geodictionary. * geogeeks..... * GeoMoshing: Using your GPS to find the mosh pit. * GeoMetroGuide: A map of tiny parking spaces * Geowashing: 1) Washing your Geo Metro. 2) Designating your shower as a geocaching site. * Ciao, Brent

I wonder if clicking on a cache in nzcaches.tk we could open 2 windows - 1, the cache deatil at geocache.com 2, a map of the cache area at geosoft.co.nz or wherearewe.co.nz. Way beyond my limited webblying, but probably a doddle to the techy boys. Ciao, Brent

quote:At the very least people will have got an idea of my personality and how my buttons can be pushed I seem to have got it down to a fine art now. Ciao, Brent

Whoa - back up the bus Magnum I didn't say I wouldn't vote for yah Snoops. I found this bit of Eric's post interesting quote:Jeremy wants to regionalize the approval process, and would like to employ approvers active in a local geocaching organization knowledgable both in the local limitations and the global geocaching.com requirements With regard to a GPS Society - it could be up and running next week. It just needs a few hours to trash out 6 pages of objects and a small registration fee. Subs per member could be as low as $1 - ongoing expenses would need to be governed by what the members want the aims and objects of the Society to be. Ciao, Brent

I like this post on Virtual Caches in the General Forum ******************************* WGA Geocacher posted February 28, 2003 01:48 PM This site is supposed to be a database of geocaches, not a database of Interesting places, Interesting monuments/sculptures, Interesting historical markers etc. If its an interesting place you want to lead someone, post it over on www.waypoint.org which IS a database of Interesting things. As virtual caches by definition don't actually have a cache, which is what this activity was created to hunt, there needs to be compelling reasons to qualify as more than just a point-of-interest (POI). If there is a great hunt or hike involved, well then perhaps a virtual might qualify. But a drive-by location, or as this cache owner states ...just steps from a couple of very popular (to the locals anyway) coffee bars and a community centre and on the bike path around the Creek..., just doesn't meet the requirements of a VC to me. As the guidelines state, a view is a view, a park is a park, and to paraphrase, a sculpture is a sculpture, not a cache. __________________ -Alan ************************* Ciao, Brent

quote:Hopefully this problem with NZ cache approval will be resolved shortly with Gavin (Rediguana) and I being able to approve the caches. Jeremy gave it the thumbs up some time ago, but as yet it hasn't been implimented. I don't like to pester Jeremy, but I did e-mail him again about it today. Fingers crossed, shortly we will have local cache authourisation and then the long awaited DOC MOU so we can continue geocaching unhindered here in clean green NZ Did I miss the voting process regarding who should be able to approve NZ caches. Also, I am pretty much with Eric on this cache - a reasonably well known nice view should be a traditional cache. So, hurry up DOC. Ciao, Brent

quote:Originally posted by Navigull:There are 2 questions for cachers. Erik was the reviewer. the URL was http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=60478 Thanks Brent Navigull Erik hates lame virtual caches - but loves his Land Rover - go figure He will come back with an answer to your message - he is just harder to please than some of the Rubber Stamper reviewers - when Erik approves your cache - you know it must be a good one Unfortunately we can't see your cache because it hasn't been approved. Maybe you could copy and paste the relavant detail into a post. Ciao, Brent

quote:Originally posted by wlswat: I've added an 'x' to the maps on: http://www.geosoft.co.nz/ for each cache in NZ. Cheers, Simon. Very good Any way of adding better zoom control To see all of Christchurch, you have to zoom out to 128km - about 5 zoom outs - pick a cache mark - then another 5 zoom ins to about 8km to get the pan close enough to show the X on the lower map. Ciao, Brent

Did you have a question that Cachers had to answer? I suppose your reviewer could have been the dreaded Erik - ask for a review by a NZ moderator. Post the page url - so that we can vote on it. Ciao, Brent

maybe we need to think a little criminal In the dark Ciao, Brent

DOC trying to swallow another Cacher - while speaking the official Gummint language. ......... Ciao, Brent

Too slow Nick. Seems funny that you turn left 200 metres before one mental hospital to visit another one. Ciao, Brent

http://www.ect.org/news/torture.html http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/libs/medical/prevmed.html http://www.cchr.org/art/eng/page36.htm Ciao, Brent

http://www.varsity.co.nz/newspapers/gyro/secret_place_9.asp He He Ciao, Brent

Hey DJM Drop into a supermarket, pick up some French Bread, Cheese, maybe a prepared salad, a selection of cold meats - a bottle of screwtop Marlborough Riesling wine for the passengers and some disposable plates, knives, forks, goblets (for the wine) and some napkins - then have a picnic at the appropriate time. Rgds Brent

I see that are also two new Caches by Bit Sprayer close to Shag Point http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=51613 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=51600 Ciao, Brent

Hey DJM When you are at Shag Point, you could add in Trotter - planted today and will be on Geocache site by tuesday. Ciao, Brent