Hard Oiler
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Makes a lot of sense to me. I've seen what happens when people start searching through a handheld GPS for the next waypoint while driving. The Ontario law is pretty benign compared to some of the others around the world. I'm off to the UK next week where getting caught operating a handheld GPS or cellphone while driving constitutes dangerous driving with the possibility of 2 years in jail.
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I've done that but I was the driver and at least contributed by driving to the right lampost
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That's a big improvement. The map on the cache page is now the Google map. Double click it you get the Google Map with all the closest caches. Click the My Topo tab and you get them superimposed on the NRCan Topo Map. They aren't that up to date (I'm not sure that there are any more recent ones) but that's way better than what was available before.
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On achieving the 3000 milestone yesterday. And on picking a cache that hadn't been found in 6 months to do it (and in the snow too!) http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b7-997d70f3c042 And a confession - they also found a cache close by that I know exactly where it is but still couldn't find it again last Friday when caching in the area with friends - I guess they have that geocaching sixth sense that comes with experience and know just where in the snow to dig! Tony
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Following up on the EarthCache issue.
Hard Oiler replied to The Blue Quasar's topic in Waymarking Archives (Read-Only)
I just got one too today (two actually - one for my Waymarking earthcache and one for my geocaching earthcache). Shouldn't be too hard to comply with the requests and they make sense to me. -
Armchair Loggers
Hard Oiler replied to ChapterhouseInc's topic in Getting Started with Waymarking (Read-Only)
I've seen some too. One of my waymarks got "visited" in a category I don't own with the log: "Can't remember the date I visited this" No picture posted even though this was a category that requires a picture. I don't believe I can delete the log and not sure if I really want to anyway. If someone wants to visit then that's fine with me although I wish they'd say something slightly more interesting . It really is an interesting spot -
Hmm - I did just notice that the currency variable only has one currency option. There are still a few parts of the world that don't use $'s
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How To Change The "officers" Title.
Hard Oiler replied to Jake39's topic in Waymarking Archives (Read-Only)
I think if you want different names you have to make them different ranks (click on Group Ranks to add another rank/name). They can all have the same permissions but you'll need to change the officers to the new rank/names that you've added. I think that's how it works although I haven't tried it in practice. -
Ontario War Memorials
Hard Oiler replied to yorelken's topic in Recruitment and Category Proposals Archive (Read-Only)
It's really pretty straightforward and you'll get lots of help from other officers. Give it a try -
Ontario War Memorials
Hard Oiler replied to yorelken's topic in Recruitment and Category Proposals Archive (Read-Only)
I checked a couple of local ones and there do seem to be a lot of omissions and errors. A good reason for a Waymark category to correct them . I wonder if the category shouldn't be Canadian War Memorials with Province as a drop-down variable. That would make it a bit broader and an opportunity for more waymarkers to contribute. -
Wonder why you'd need it with an Explorist. Mine will even get a signal in the basement. Did lose signal once but I'm convinced that was because they turned off the satellites
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You're absolutely right Your turn NP
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Amazing! Here's one for the map readers. If you see the following symbol on a Canadian topo map what would you expect to see at the location?
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Based on what my satellite screen looks like and a vague memory my guess would be that they range between 55 North and 55 South for a total range of 110. Mind you if true my GPSr wouldn't be very accurate at the poles .
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I had to look it up too and it really is a trick question (even tougher would be who was the first finder of any cache in Canada and I seem to remember that someone did once figure that out too)
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Post deleted (should have read page 2!)
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Or you can just click here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.asp...&lon=-81.798733
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NP your memory is working well EGNOS it is. I would also have accepted "European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service" . And it does appear to be working well. I was consistently getting an EGNOS signal and a 2 metre accuracy last time I was in Europe. Not that that helps much as many of the hides were pre EGNOS. Over to you
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Hard Oiler replied to ChapterhouseInc's topic in Getting Started with Waymarking (Read-Only)
Geez - I sent you one - you mean you never saw it -
That was a good guess . Here's a GPSr one. If you take your GPSr to Europe and get a WAAS enabled reading what is the name of the system that you are getting your "WAAS" signal from.
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Got it somewhere but no idea where so I'm guessing that it's Chart #1