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  1. If this is not the right place, please feel free to move this.

     

    I am writing an application that reads in pocket queries and displays them on a map. I already have it parsing the gpx and wpts.gpx files. I want to be able to list the associated waypoints under their geocache, but I am at a loss as to how to link the waypoints with their geocaches as there seems to be no reference in either file to the other. Is there something I am missing?

     

    Thanks!

  2. Wow! Never again did I expect to hear from Spooky Boo again! Thank you very much for resurrecting him to be a happy travel bug again! All of our travel bugs went missing, and to recover at least one means a lot :mellow:! Thank you Brown Coat, letting us know what happened to him is really shiny of you :).

     

    The Beast.

     

     

    Hopefully the owner of Spooky Boo the ghost TB will run across this post.

     

    I still have him.

     

    His story is long and strange and fraught with disaster. He has been lost, found, re-lost, found, abandoned, forgotten and almost destroyed. He has been found and tormented by cats and took a soul cleansing trip through the washer and dryer. He was put somewhere where I wouldn't forget him. Then I forgot where I put him. (go figure). Then he waited in the car and missed his trip to The Bahamas where I intended to leave him.

     

    Then he went rogue and was relocated by a family member right before his destined trip to Roatan Honduras. I couldn't find him till I got back. He also missed out on Florida because he hid in the bottom of my computer bag.

     

    All of this is true.

     

    As of now... Spooky Boo is safely enshrined in my computer cabinet where all things important live.

     

    Halloween is just around the corner and Spooky Boo is about to come out of forced retirement. Look for him in October around Atlanta and the burbs. I might even make him his own "one time FTF cache" so someone can grab a FTF for finding the long forgotten Spooky Boo. If not, then he'll just show up in another cache somewhere. We'll see.

     

    Sorry for having him for so long.

     

    -Brown Coat.

  3. But will it filter out Premium member only caches!? Keep that in mind. I hope it gets famous, then I could say that I have the creator on my friends list! :D:D

    You would need to log in to create the pocket query or to (eventually) do the automatic querying so GC.com should do the filtering automatically.

  4. That looks awesome. Could it work with Pocket Queries? That should get around any TOU issues.

    It already is working with pocket queries! That's how I'm loading the data you see in there now. :)

     

    I still have an email out to Groudspeak, because I think it would be awesome if it could update the display dynamically, but this is a good intermediate step!

  5. I am pretty sure that app would violate the TOU agreement. Better check before proceeding.

     

    Also sounds a lot like the trimble navigator Software - have you looked into that?

     

    Good call, I sent an email requesting permission and information. Thank you.

     

    I am writing this app for the Android platform, so the Trimble software won't work for me. :(

    While waiting for Groundspeak to get back to me I started off with loading in gpx and loc files so I could have something loaded. I now have it load in the file and display the caches on a map. You can pan / zoom the map and when you click on the cache it gives you the option to see the cache page or to navigate to it. Both of these seem to be working though I can't be 100% on the navigation screen until I get real hardware to test it on. Anyway, here are some screen shots of what I have so far. The accuracy is so bad because I am using a built in GPS simulator that has the accuracy hard coded to 100m.

     

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  6. I am pretty sure that app would violate the TOU agreement. Better check before proceeding.

     

    Also sounds a lot like the trimble navigator Software - have you looked into that?

     

    Good call, I sent an email requesting permission and information. Thank you.

     

    I am writing this app for the Android platform, so the Trimble software won't work for me. ;)

  7. I am pretty sure that app would violate the TOU agreement. Better check before proceeding.

     

    Also sounds a lot like the trimble navigator Software - have you looked into that?

    TOU agreement? I've heard of TOS, what's TOU and do you have a link to it?

  8. I an working on a mobile application that will sit on top of Google maps and display caches in the immediate area. How can I go about querying the GC database? I've seen how the queries that return html are formatted, but parsing that would be tough. Are there queries that return xml, gpx or loc?

     

    Do you realize how hard the area would be to do? You would have to make a xml of everywere. I think at least. Work on central ohio first. We will have it it first ;)B)

     

    My idea is to use positional data from the device's GPS and then request an area around that position. The query that gets executed when you search from GC.com looks like this.

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat_ns=1&lat_h=40&lat_mmss=05.879&long_ew=-1&long_h=83&long_mmss=04.775&dist=5&submit8=Search

     

    lat_ns=1 tells us that it's North

    lat_h=40 is 40 degrees

    lat_mmss=05.879 is the decimal minutes.

     

    these are the same for the Longitude

     

    dist=5 says that we want to search a 5 mile radius.

     

    This returns an html file that the browser displays. I want to make a similar query that returns an xml file that I can parse right away to show that caches on the map. I wouldn't be keeping the xml files around and I would only have caches on the map in the area around where you are looking at that time.

  9. I an working on a mobile application that will sit on top of Google maps and display caches in the immediate area. How can I go about querying the GC database? I've seen how the queries that return html are formatted, but parsing that would be tough. Are there queries that return xml, gpx or loc?

  10. When I try to load a kml file that I made in Google Earth it gets distorted. This is what it looks like in Google Earth:

     

    Correct.png

     

    Here is what it looks like on Geocaching.com:

     

    Wrong.png

     

    I have the kml file and can email it if anyone is interested.

  11. I just released my first TB and I was looking through the page for it and messing with some of the options when I noticed some strange behavior. When I drop down the combo box under Trackable Item Owner Options there are three choices:

    1. Recalculate Distance
    2. Mark Item Missing
    3. Move to Last Location

    If I choose one of those and hit the "Go" button and then drop down the list again there is a second copy of these options. This will keep going as many times as you press the "Go" button. Here is a screen capture incase I am not explaining clearly.

    GeocacheProblemBar.png

    As you can see the Red bar shows the three original options and the Blue bars show all of the options added per button click. I am using Firefox 1.5.0.8, incase that helps.

  12. If you google html font it will bring up a bunch of references to the font tag and all of its attributes. The one you want is size. It would look something like this

    <font color="red" size="7">STEALTH-REQUIRED</font>

     

    -=EDIT=-

    D'OH mgbmusic beat me to it!

  13. While reading through the SCREEN NAME IS MORE THAN AN ALIAS thread there were several people that I wanted to send messages to so I could ask more about the things they mentioned. I thought of contacting them in order to either more clearly understand what they were talking about or to see how they got into it or to express a shared interest. My question is, would that have been out of line? How would YOU react if some random member on here sent you a message asking you stuff like that?

  14. No, I got them from Geogearstore. Much cheaper to get them from them than to buy them from any webshop in Norway, they even charge less for shipping!

    Maybe the person who put the number on there got confused by the slashed-zero and used your Ø instead?

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