bonstetten
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The first 66s(t) are delivered in Switzerland and Geocacher have made the first experiences with them.
https://podcast.paravan.ch/?p=6575 (german only, but with photos) -
...what is a high quality geocache?
- Location (Scenic view, historic place, special location,...)
- Container (suprising, clever, technical ontruction,...)
- "Story" (listing, Iinformation about the place, puzzle, ...)
- A geocache, where you smile wehen you explain your experience month later to others
... what is a low quality geocache?
- when you ask you self, "why I had to come here to log the cache?" and you know not what you can write more as "tftc" in your log
- you can not remember about this cache 3 month after...
What steps can the community take to improve geocache quality?
- Give feedback about cache-quality in your log. Even if it is negative, it can done friendly
- help new geocacher to hide your first cache. In switzerland we have a "godfather"-system in the communt
What steps can Geocaching HQ take to improve geocache quality?
- Restrict hiding geocaches to new owners. Examle: You only can hide 3 Geocaches. More Geocches are allowed to hide when you other Geocahes get some (%)-FP
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Provocative Idea: When a geocaches des not get a least one (1) FP after 100 founds, it does not meet the quality standardhe community and will be archived.
(The figures can be discussed. But regardless of what we mean by quality, Favorite points are a sign of "good" caches in the communiy) - Honor cache-owners of good geocaches: TIll now, just the feedback (logs) are the only reward for chache ownders. Wy not go on wih "virtual caches", or spend free premium-Memberships depening on (%)-FP
- Pleas help to search quality geocaches wih %FP (over the geocaching.com. Just looking for number of FP is not enough to find quality geocaches. I do Geocaches-trips with long jurneys just to finde 3..5 Geocaches in one weekend. Then I'm just looking for caches with >70% FP
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Hier gibts erste Erfahrungen zum eTrex Touch:
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Das Problem scheint nicht an geocaching.com zu liegen. Hier die Erklärung zum Problem:
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On the page
http://www.geocaching.com/track/ActivationCodeRetrieve.aspx
the name for "activation code" (german: Aktivierungscode, correct) is the same as
used for "Tracking Code", where also "Aktivierungscode" is used (wrong, should be "Trackingnummer").
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Du kannst in der PQ auch den Suchradius oder andere Kriterien definieren.
Wenn z.B. innerhalb des Suchradius keine 1000 Caches liegen, sind auch keine 1000 in der PQ.
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4.- ... Du beim Öffnen des Kühlschranks beim Anblick der Tupperdose rufst "Ich hab ihn!"
5.- ... Bei der Engegennahme eines Paketes vom Kurier mit "TFTC" unterschreibst
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Im Schweizer Geocaching Podcast Nr. 17 gabs einen Bericht (Interview) mit Geocachern auf einer Kreuzfahrt:
http://podcast.paravan.ch/?p=702
Leider in "schwiizerdütsch"
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Congratulations - but I do not like this to do manually on regular basis, if there's a possibility to automatically download the images.
I'm hoping that Groundspeak will make that possible.
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Garmin newest firmware versions (Montana, Oregon, ....) have a new feature: "Added Geocaching with Photos (Link)"
This new feature is also already implemented on opencaching.com and allows downloading fotos together with the listing, which are linked together.
I suggest to implement this feature also on geocaching.com with the feature [send to GPS]
See also:
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Read till the bottomOk, but I hope that this also can be automated by geocaching.com
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Montana (WebUpdater) software version 3.80
Changes made from version 3.70 to 3.80:
Added Geocaching with Photos (http://garmin.blogs.com/softwareupdates/2012/01/geocaching-with-photos.html)
Nice, but only described with opencaching.com
Does it also work with geocaching.com? Does anybody already has experience?
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Yes I do that so....I was wondering if anyone's found a way to send a number of caches to their GPS at the same time...
As Premium Member you can generate "Pocket Queries" (.gpx-Files) wich you can receive by email oder download from your geocachin.com-account and simply drag and drop onto your eXploris GC (into folder "Geocaches").
Last weekend I loaded more than 8000 caches into my eXplorist GC within some minutes (after the pocket queries where generated by geocaching.com)
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Yes, you can copy gpx-files like pocket queries directly to the new Magellan device. I'm using the new device on a Mac.If you can just load gpx right into the device and not have to use VantagePoint, that alone would be a huge improvement.
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After experience with other GPS & manuals, I do not want to have a printed manual which is not longer up to date after the next firmware release.Hey how soon do you think someone would be able to post up a link to the new units owners manual??
I recomend to the manufacturers (Magellan?) to have a up to date manual online on the website.
I received the test device without manual and I could use it. Perhaps the filesystem (appart from the directory "Geocaching") needs some explanation.
But if you play arround a little with the new Magellan, you will be familiar with it soon.
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The new Magellan GPS is from the geocaching functionality similar to the Garmins: Download geocaches from the website or load pocket queries/GPX-Files by drag and drop from your PC to the connected device.From what I saw, It is going to aid getting geocaching into the general public without all the technical stuff we have to do to get the gpx files onto our GPS units.
On second thought , geocaching in the mainstream...not good. I can just imagine a new Reality TV show about Geocacher...NOT GOOD !
You have some more informations like attributes or images (announced function) and you are able to load much more caches on it as on the current Garmins.
You can not expect that the number of caches increases, but the number of cachers will not.
I think the device is a good device to start: You have a lot of geocaching functionality for an good price (will be announced soon). I'm waiting for an update on Garmins side to top the functionality on their products. The Magellan device has some features, that Garmin owners are waiting now for a long time.
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I've to possibility to test the new Magellan GPS as part of the "Magellan Insiders Programm". Magellan will re-launching the "eXplorist" with a new modell, especially dedicated to geocaching.
It's a small handheld device (comparable with the Dakota) in a rugged case, without touch-screen, but four buttons and a joystick below the display.
One important thing first: You wil able to load many thousands of Geocaches (ex. from pocket queries) including description, hints, attributes on the device and...
..tata: It should be possible to also load images from a cache-description which can be displayed when reading the cache description (This funcionality is already not available on my test device).
Also HTML-Descriptions will be shown as on the website what's nice, but also can result in very small, bad readable characters (perhaps this will be improved in the next firmware version).
The device does not has an magnetic compass.
Actually I can't publish photos from this nice device before the official launch (soon!).
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You can run a pocket query on the bookmark list, and sort the query results in many different ways using third party software such as GSAK.
Within the bookmark list itself, you can edit the title of each entry to force a different sorting. For example, any cache located in France could have "FR-" in front of the cache name, "DE-" for German caches, etc. Then you could view all the similar caches together within the list.
Thanks for your feedback.
My suggestion ist to have fast access to the information directly on the website without dealing first with PQ, etc.
I not allways take my notebook with me when traveling, but in many spots you can use the interent (Internet- cafes, Hotellobby, etc.). And on business pc enviroment it is not allways allowed to install private software.
And further: if you live in Switzerland sometime DE and FR-Caches cound be onyl some hundred meters away :-) So that information is not in all cases helpfull.
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Suggestion:
I would like to have the possibility to order my bookmark list ex. "by distance" and/or serach the bookmark-List by different options
Use case:
I've a large "to do" bookmark list where I collect special caches to do, spread out all over europe.
Now I want to find one of the caches near at home or in a special aera where I will stay.
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Using Pocket queries (PQ) on the Garmin Oregon / Colorado results some times in following problems:
- Some cache descriptions are to long (I think > 8000 chars) and are not displayed completly on the GPS/PQ
- Some cache descriptions need included images to find the cache. But the images are not included in the PQ
I mostly go caching with pocket queries on my Oregon.
Therefore I suggest following:
- Add an indicator the to the cache owner that his description exclude a defined length or add an (automatic) atribute (ex "long description"), that this caches can be selected/excluded from PQ
- Add an cache atribute "Image needed to solve", so it is possible to exclude such caches from a PQ
- Some cache descriptions are to long (I think > 8000 chars) and are not displayed completly on the GPS/PQ
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double entry - deleted.
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Run the webupdater once or twice and then try again.Any ideas
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Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them. Thanks.
I defined my pocket queries to sent by email "uncompressed", so I can drag the gpx-file from the email directly to the GPS (Oregon).
But: Since this week I get the XML-Pocket query inline with the E-mail-text, not longer as attachement!
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Solved the problem after trying different things:
What works (until now):
- Quit Safari
- Delete (or rename) the file "Cookies.plist" in [user]/Library/Cookies
- Start Safari --> now it works normal again
Delete the Cookies or the cache allone did not helped.
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Garmin GPSMAP 66 series announced on 2018-08-06
in GPS technology and devices
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The hardware of the 66 ist fine - it like it.
BUT: The Geocaching functionality of the 66 seems unchanged to the Oregon7x0, GPSM 64, ..: It's still not possible to do real logs using the comment you entered or send the log as filednotes to edit.
If you found a cache, it sends a default logtext . If you entered a comment when logging it does nothing. (Please confirm this behavior)
Still after years I do not understand why Garmin does not hear to customers or ask beta testers before releasing a new version. I am convinced, that Garmin will be able to increase software quality.