rediguana

quote:Originally posted by Adman:Perhaps a travel bug could be attached to the books Hehe perhaps a _ring_ might be appropriate Cheers Gav

Lookie what I just found... http://nzfpm.marketeer.co.nz/category.pasp?emguid=DA80C4EC00084290A0966E2E47EBAFE4&categoryid=43 Might try and pick one up tomorrow. Most interestingly, "As well as detailed maps and easy to follow directions, GPS references are provided to accurately pinpoint major locations. ". Looks like we could get this project going again. I personally think it would be best if we did this in a community fashion rather than by individuals - of course individuals will be left to do some of the placing etc. This could get interesting Cheers Gav

quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy:let me put my GPS12 alongside youe eTrex... I too have been recently able to make a comparision between my GPS 12XL and a standard etrex that I won. I have found the etrex to be perfectly adequate, but as Neill says, under canopy the 12 maintains a much improved lock. For the enthusiast, I would always recommend the 12 over the etrex. And the external antenna plug is great in a car - sure beats having the gps slide all over the dash! Cheers Gav

Well, the South Island package has arrived. All those from the SI who ordered goods should contact either Nick or myself to arrange payment & collection. Cheers Gav (just thinking of all the TB's on the loose around NZ!)

quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy:Gavin arrives back from his big OE tommorrow Gav's back, and the South Island package isn't here either. I know that even though they said 4-6 weeks economy, I sent some packages in August that didn't turn up till October, so don't give up hope, I think they are just taking their sweet time. And I would have been badly pinged for excess backage coming back if I had have done that - it was bad enough as it was!! Cheers Gav

quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy:Any progress on dates??? I'm still keen, shall we get on with organising this then??? Cheers Gav

Good to hear that the largest contributor to geocaching in New Zealand is still around!! Hopefully we might see you hunting some caches again??? It was mostly Donovan's caches that got me hooked into geocaching - they provided the momentum to get me to the point of placing my own as others arrived on the scene. Hope you're keeping well?! (and thinking of doing some caching ) Cheers Gav

Congrats on your year, and also 50 found caches recently too!! In answer to your questions ariwa, I also read probably the same post as you to slashdot, although I didn't really get into it until I got a GPS in April 2001. Then things took off from there Cheers Gav PS Sorry about the brief postings, busy boy for the next two weeks.

just had a quick look and its very pretty! I look forward to using it in just over a couple of weeks when to kiwi shores mwahahahahahaha

quote:Originally posted by BigNick:How about the ability to take a tracklog and the digital photos ... Yeah, I saw that a few months ago somewhere, sounded like a pretty darn neat idea especially for travellers I would need one of those trimble caps with the antenna pocket so I can leave the GPS in the pocket. Actually I saw on slashdot I think that GPS chips are nearly available for consumer electronics just like phones. Soon cameras may have GPSR's as well! Cheers Gav

quote:Originally posted by BigNick:How about the ability to take a tracklog and the digital photos ... Yeah, I saw that a few months ago somewhere, sounded like a pretty darn neat idea especially for travellers I would need one of those trimble caps with the antenna pocket so I can leave the GPS in the pocket. Actually I saw on slashdot I think that GPS chips are nearly available for consumer electronics just like phones. Soon cameras may have GPSR's as well! Cheers Gav

Sorry bout not replying, has been quite busy over here. Still only another 6-7 weeks till I return to NZ. Brentc, thanks for the offer of the road track logs! I think what we should try and do is get the highway road shapefiles and look at utilising these if possible. Now, if you want to log an waypoints on the way, that would be useful. I would recommend that if anyone wants to do this. Currently use the .loc format, and we can easily get it out at a later point in time once we build a decent database. When I get back I'll pull out my service station db and make it available, and we can start from there. Mostly I've done service stations, banks, major fast food, and supermarkets at this stage. Cheers Gav

Sorry bout not replying, has been quite busy over here. Still only another 6-7 weeks till I return to NZ. Brentc, thanks for the offer of the road track logs! I think what we should try and do is get the highway road shapefiles and look at utilising these if possible. Now, if you want to log an waypoints on the way, that would be useful. I would recommend that if anyone wants to do this. Currently use the .loc format, and we can easily get it out at a later point in time once we build a decent database. When I get back I'll pull out my service station db and make it available, and we can start from there. Mostly I've done service stations, banks, major fast food, and supermarkets at this stage. Cheers Gav

Oh bollucks. Got ready to hook up the GPS in the car on Sunday morning for the drive from Wilmington, Delaware, to Staten Island, NY to visit NYC for the day. I find that my antenna plug is busted, broken. I check out the plug and it has been munted and pushed into the casing somewhat. Bugger bugger bugger. I have no idea how that happened, but it must have taken a fair bit of force. I don't even know when!! So it's now got a few things wrong with it. I'd love to get it serviced here but time is fast running short. Thinking of getting a cable for the etrex so i can use that in the meantime... either that or get a new GPS - perhaps mine is cached out already Cheers Gav

Oh bollucks. Got ready to hook up the GPS in the car on Sunday morning for the drive from Wilmington, Delaware, to Staten Island, NY to visit NYC for the day. I find that my antenna plug is busted, broken. I check out the plug and it has been munted and pushed into the casing somewhat. Bugger bugger bugger. I have no idea how that happened, but it must have taken a fair bit of force. I don't even know when!! So it's now got a few things wrong with it. I'd love to get it serviced here but time is fast running short. Thinking of getting a cable for the etrex so i can use that in the meantime... either that or get a new GPS - perhaps mine is cached out already Cheers Gav

quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy:That shouldn't be a problem Gav, only if you have changed your AA batteries! Maybe it's all the skyscrapers over there blocking the signals? In DC, nothing is allowed to be taller than the Capital building. We have very short buildings. And I've left fresh AA batteries in for days, and it still comes up with the message, and takes forever to acquire. Thats why I assume it has to download the whole almanac again Cheers Gav

quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy:That shouldn't be a problem Gav, only if you have changed your AA batteries! Maybe it's all the skyscrapers over there blocking the signals? In DC, nothing is allowed to be taller than the Capital building. We have very short buildings. And I've left fresh AA batteries in for days, and it still comes up with the message, and takes forever to acquire. Thats why I assume it has to download the whole almanac again Cheers Gav

I've discovered what having a faulty memory battery means - it seems it takes sooo much longer to acquire the sats as I believe it to be downloading the almanac again! Cheers Gav

I've discovered what having a faulty memory battery means - it seems it takes sooo much longer to acquire the sats as I believe it to be downloading the almanac again! Cheers Gav

quote:Originally posted by BigNick:As it was my idea... Yes, not to steal the idea from Nick, I just thought we should get discussing it so we can nail down a date ASAP for everyone who needs to organise around work! Cheers Gav

I can recommend Olympus digital cameras if you can find one. I'm on my second now and have found them to take excellent pictures! Cheers Gav

I can recommend Olympus digital cameras if you can find one. I'm on my second now and have found them to take excellent pictures! Cheers Gav

Some talk ensued recently via email, and mention was made of having a cache event up here http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=11803 Nothing more has been said, but I thought I'd post here, and see what sort of interest there would be in getting a few together to slog up the hill, stay the night, claim the cache and come back down the next day. Sometime in January perhaps whilst everyone is one holiday? Perhaps we could have a BBQ sometime in Chch too once I get back?? Cheers Gav [This message was edited by rediguana on September 17, 2002 at 02:23 PM.]

Well that makes quite a few of us, but I'm more than keen to learn again - I did computer science at uni a few years ago, plus have done some web and db development. Something like this would be new to me as well - especially dealing with the whole cross platform issue - as I for one want it to work under Linux Great to see support and interest for such a project though!! It looks like we have a good mix of people interested which is good, as programming won't be the only tasks required - there will be design, testing and documentation as well Keep the comments, thoughts and suggestions coming, I'm going to keep chatting with BigNick off list, and we'll get some more details planned then. What sort of functionality would you like to see?? Cheers Gav

Well that makes quite a few of us, but I'm more than keen to learn again - I did computer science at uni a few years ago, plus have done some web and db development. Something like this would be new to me as well - especially dealing with the whole cross platform issue - as I for one want it to work under Linux Great to see support and interest for such a project though!! It looks like we have a good mix of people interested which is good, as programming won't be the only tasks required - there will be design, testing and documentation as well Keep the comments, thoughts and suggestions coming, I'm going to keep chatting with BigNick off list, and we'll get some more details planned then. What sort of functionality would you like to see?? Cheers Gav