drsolly

I don't like trusting anyone else with my data any more than is necessary. This is from a both a safety and security perspective. Admittedly it would be no big deal if a GPX file was either lost or compromised, but for most of my stuff it would. I just feel happier keeping it under my control. If there was a big advantage to it, then that would be offset against the risk, but so far I haven't seen one in my environment. Rgds, Andy OK. I'd have thought that for a GPX file, safety and security don't matter. The info is public info, if you lose it you can easily make a replacement, for this pparticular type of file, I don't see any risk. But I do think it's pointless copying data up to the cloud in order to copy it back down again. I use iTunes and copy the GPX file from my own server to the iPhone. I'd agree with you about many other kinds of data, though. Back on the subject of Memory Map on iPhone. I've worked out how to make the GPX file colour-code for the type of cache, and how to use different icons for micro/non-micro/problem with cache. On the down side - I actually tried to use it yesterday. It seems to take a *very* long time to settle on where it is, much longer than my Loox. I suspect it's taking too long over averaging (I have it set to ten seconds, which is as low as it will go). I'll have to use it some more.

Thanks for the info Jon. Just went to look at it and it says "DropBox Cloud Storage". Is that the only way it works? If it's cloud, I won't use it on principle, if it syncs directly I'll look further (though I have to say that I can't at present see how it is any easier than iTunes). Rgds, Andy What's the principle involved?

What would MM say if you asked them for an upgrade?

Your field of vision is smaller than you thought. This explains it rather well. http://xkcd.com/1080/

Well done!

It was tough, but someone had to do it.

We're in BIG trouble if BT ever realise that they also own a bunch of green boxes.

When you say "mobile devices", there is no problem on MemoryMap for WinMobile (PocketPC), but I'd be surprised if you can do it on an iPhone. Rgds, Andy I use my own scheme for icons on the PocketPC (Mio and Loox) but I can't see an easy way to do it on iOS.

As you say, that's better than nothing, but I'd much prefer there to be a way to show the whole page. The iPhone has (a mobile version of) Safari on it, but Apple keep apps segregated and I don't think there is a way to 1) download the pages from GSAK to an offline store such that Safari can see them, and 2) link Memory Map to Safari to display the page, and 3) easily get back to Memory Map from Safari without going via the main menu. Rgds, Andy There might be a way to do it. There's a http server that you can run on the iPhone, and maybe if you used the address 127.0.0.1 the iPhone browser would look at the iPhone server and Bob's your uncle, because I already have the cache pages as HTML files. If that is possible, then I do know how to create a GPX such that Safari will see the HTML files. I don't know if anyone has done it - it's entirely possible that I could go to all the trouble of setting this up, only to find that APple already thought of it and don't allow 127.0.0.1 in an URL, or something norrid like that.

I've partially got round that, by inserting types and hints into the "description" field. So I know what size, trad/multi/whatever and I have the hint. I haven't done any work on how to put the cache page on, but if I can see how to run a browser on the iPhone, then I can put that info on as html and link to that; that's the way I do it on the Mio and the Loox. Yes, the display is really pretty.

Ladysolly is fed up with the Mio and wants a replacement - she says it keeps crashing, and can take forever to get running again. At the last event I attended, Jeff Bones showed me his Montana 650, and I was very impressed because he showed me he can use Memory Map maps (and I have a full UK set of those). So I did some research, I'm looking at £300 for a Montana 600. More research - the Memory Map Adventurer is £250. And then I had a blinding flash of light - she's got an iPhone, which she adores. So I looked on the Memory Map web site, and they offer memory Map for iPhone for £4.99. I seem to remember looking a while back and it was something like ten times that? Anyway, £4.99 sounds good. Then I read the reviews. two thirds of them said "Rubbish" "Ripoff" "don't buy". One third said "Excellent", "great". That's a weird situation, so I read them more carefully, and what the "Ripoff" people were saying, is you can't put your existing Memory Map maps onto the iPhone app. But the Memory Map web site says you can. So I formed the hypothesis that you can, but some people couldn't work out how to, or did it wrong, or something. So we splashed out £4.99. Call me insanely bold. Then I followed the procedure on the Memory Map web site for installing the maps, and hey presto - maps. OS mapes, 1:50,000 which is ladysolly's favourite. Then I looked at the procedure on the Memory Map web site for putting GPX files on, and fell about laughing. They think you have to email the GPX files to yourself. My GPX files are several megabytes, and it's insane to send them across the internet them to gmail so that I can then download them from gmail to the iPhone. And, of course, you don't have to, I found a *much* quicker and easier way. Memory Map on the iPhone is cheap, and it works, and you can use your already-bought maps, and you can transfer GPX files from your PC (you can make them using GSAK, or just use PQs), and the app itself is easy to use, and ladysolly is a very happy bunny. Oh, and by the way, it also works on her iPad. Here's my blog on how I did all this. http://drsolly.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/memory-map-on-iphone.html

Just as I was completing the second circuit today, I happened to look at my back tire, and saw an ominous bulge. Looking closer, I could see that the tire was completely worn away, and I think I was seeing the gel insert that I use to prevent punctures. I've ordered a replacement tire, I'm getting a Marathon Plus MTB, as recommended by this thread. That puncture prevention gel tape is the bees knees. It's "Dr Sludge anti-puncture tape" and since I installed it, I haven't had a single puncture, and I'm riding over some very rough ground, and I often go over thorny branches before I'm able to stop. I also use Kendra thorn-resistant inner tubes, because when your out on a ten mile circuit and you're five miles from the car, a puncture is very bad news.

A cacher found a tupperware of cocaine a few feet below one of my caches. He told the police, I disabled the cache, and some weeks later when I thought it would be OK to replace the cache, I was surprised to find that my cache was still there, and intact.

The accuracy will be maybe 10 meters, 5 if you're lucky; it's a combination of how accurate your device is, and how accurate the setter's device was. In the middle of a forest with many trees, that would be 10-15 meters. In the middle of a city with high buildings, that would be 20-30 meters. If the police ask you what you're doing, explain about geocaching. If anyone else asks you, tell them "I'm counting the slugs". But in my experience, most people completely ignore you. I was doing a cache, there was a bridge over a river, and the bridge was in the middle of town, carrying a main road. I got down on the pavement, lying down, in order to feel for the cache on the metalwork of the bridge, working my way along by wriggling forward. People (and there were a lot of people) walked round me or stepped over me. No-one was interested in what I was up to.

Hooray, the Olympics has attracted a tourist to London.

I've been caching in Gosport, I visited there a few times, spending my money there and helping the local economy. But I've done most of the caches there, so tell them it's fine by me if they ban geocaching, I'm just as happy to go to Portsmouth, Fareham or Titchfield. Could they also ban tennis, golf and cricket? Because I don't play ony of those games.

Woo hoo, the Geolympix just went Mega!

To be fair, they are both data recording devices Very true, and the biro, with refills, could record more than the 300 gb hard drive. Eventually.

The classic was this log on one of my caches: Took 300 gigabyte hard drive, left biro.

I was hunting for a cache amongst a pile of rocks and suchlike. I changed position and heard a terrible "CRACK" noise. At that moment, I knew that I was on top of the cache. But most containers aren't that fragile.

I've been to Gosport a few times on caching missions, and incidentally doing a tiny amount to boost the local economy. Oh well. There's lots of other places I can go.

Mine new puzzle was slightly delayed by the new requirement that you have to explain to the reviewers how to solve the puzzle. But available now. http://coord.info/GC3M1NE

Inspired by that cache, I've just set a puzzle cache with a blank cache page and no hint. I'm hoping it'll be approved soo.

You can have a look now at the geocoins for the Geolympix. http://www.geolympix.com/geolympix-sample.gif Note the hole at the top. That means that you can thread a thread through and wear it round your neck, almost like a medal.

Or. You could run two computers, your wife on the Mac and you on your existing machine.