martinp13

quote:Originally posted by embra:

This is a GPX file sent to you from Geocaching.com, from the Personalize Query page? Not a LOC file, and not a GPX file saved from EasyGPS, right? _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

Palm's new Zire should fit the bill... only $99 I think. Black and white screen, probly AA or AAA batteries, I think 8MB of memory, which should hold all you need. Go play with one at your local CompUSA/etc and see how you like it. Fizzy: thanks, that's just what I needed. I'm not stupid, but I'll be damned if I could come up with that on my own... I was close, but no tequila. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

I live in Texas, and I'm going to visit my Mom in Atlanta next weekend. Is there a way to have two separate gpx2html->Plucker folders? I don't want to just load them both... the Texas one takes forever as it is. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

quote:Originally posted by Prime Suspect:You can just set up a bookmark to automatically log you in. It's still almost 10K of text, not including pictures, and it doesn't fit on a small screen. And once I get there, I have to click on "Visit my cache page", which is another ton of ill-fitting text. On a desktop/laptop system, it's fine, and exactly what I want. But I have different needs and capabilities when I'm in the woods. Jeremy: the .NET stuff will be interesting. I don't know how Microsoft-centric their set-up is when it comes to PocketPC versus Palm OS. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

I think you can run a WAP emulator, but it runs honest-to-goodness web pages (minus some fancy stuff like javascript, etc). Besides, the options on the WAP page are: List caches by: US State Country US Zipcode And all it gives for a cache listing is cache title, hider, lat/long, state (ie, Texas), date stashed. That's it. Not very useful, I'm afraid. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo! [This message was edited by martinp13 on February 08, 2003 at 06:04 PM.]

I'm working up a geometry-based cache, and can't figure out why some geometry calculations aren't working. If there are any experts in both, email me and I'll explain the details. Thanks! _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

I had a hard time saying everything I needed to say in the subject line! I have a Handspring Treo, and it does a decent job of browsing the internet. I have been using the "offline" tools like Mobipocket and its user-created kin. With them, I can get everything I need, except a way to interface with the mother ship. Right now, if I'm in the field and want to email a cache owner, I have to log in thru the main screen, which has WAY too much stuff, graphics, ads, zillions of links, etc. I'm paying by the kb, so I'd love to have just a very VERY limited set of geocaching pages: a simple main login screen. If you get past that, then you get: view cache by waypoint ID (with printer-friendly response shown automatically, map not needed) email owner of waypoint ID maybe even log cache by waypoint ID I don't need to search, or chat, or read forums, or anything like that when I'm staring at my small screen in the woods. I just want to be able to do basic geocache stuff on a small screen. Anyone else have ideas of stuff that would be useful? _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

quote:Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy:+ Puzzle caches. What you'll find at the given coordinates may or may not be the final cache, but whatever it is, you'll have to solve some sort of puzzle to get to the logbook. + Quiz cache. Distinct from a puzzle cache, believe it or not. The coordinates for this cache will require you to get the correct answers on a quiz of some kind, whether it be a trivia quiz or a list of virtual cache stages with associated questions. + Cache Description Required. Some puzzle caches and quiz caches put the puzzle or the quiz in the first-stage cache container, and some put it in the cache description. If this attribute is set, you know that you'll need to read the cache description before seeking this cache. + Invalid coordinates. The given coordinates do not point to the cache; you'll have to read the cache description to get the actual coordinates. (Offset caches would have this attribute set, too.) Obviously this is a subset of the "Cache Description Required" attribute, but it's not an equivalent set: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=29484 has an actual first stage at the given coordinates, but you won't know what it is or what to do with it unless you read the description. I agree with the first two, but not the last two. I am a firm believer that you HAVE to read the cache page before you go looking. The cache hider spent time to create the page... so spend 5 minutes reading it. I have 2 current caches ("Legacy of Six Flags" and "Power & Glory") that have "bogus" or "cache page info needed" coords. Why would anyone EVER go look for something without knowing the details?? In my book, that's just plain dumb. If you go look for my Six Flags cache and end up at the Parking Lot Booths, keep looking... I'm sure you'll find something there one of these days. But it won't be the cache box. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

Also, you need to be able to set a date in the "future" for event caches, since the "date placed" is the date of the event. I think you would only need to limit dates in the logging of a cache. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

If you leave the GEOCACHING.COM window cling on the WHITE backing, and tape the whole thing to the inside of your tinted back window, it's very visible. I've had mine up there for nearly a year. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

quote:Originally posted by The Leprechauns:The only hi-tech gadget that I use is the GPSr (unless you count the car, and a light when night caching). One reason I am a geocacher is to get AWAY from technology. I see... so you don't think the computer you're typing on is a "hi-tech gadget". And why are you using a light at night? Break out the oil-soaked torches! Come on... if you're going to get back to nature, get ALL the way back. Don't slam my crutch when you're using one yourself. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

Yeah, I'm sure your family will be just tickled when you end up dead because you were too "proud" to carry a cellphone with you when you went hiking. I almost always carry my phone, and I leave it off. Why NOT have a safety net? I guess you gotta preen and grunt with the rest of the apes, but I think we've evolved a little past that. You might try to think of someone ELSE next time you go caching. Wow... I think that's my rant for the month. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

quote:Originally posted by trippy1976:I do a lot of business travel. There has never been a place where I haven't been able to use my Earthlink account to access the net. You don't need broadband to look up cache pages. Very true... I even used my Earthlink account down in Australia for net access from the bed-and-breakfast. Wish I had been geocaching back then. Directionless: when are you setting up your WIFI access point? _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

The new print-friendly layout is AWESOME! I think you actually DID listen to all my whining for the past year. Thank you! _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

As a virtual cache hider, I'm gonna make it dam hard for an armchair geocacher to scoop my cache. Don't ask something obvious, or even related to the virtual cache. For my Stratosphere virtual cache in Las Vegas, I ask for a phone number up at the top. Even someone who goes there every day isn't going to know that useless trivia unless they go look at the phone, and my requirement is then met. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

As a virtual cache hider, I'm gonna make it dam hard for an armchair geocacher to scoop my cache. Don't ask something obvious, or even related to the virtual cache. For my Stratosphere virtual cache in Las Vegas, I ask for a phone number up at the top. Even someone who goes there every day isn't going to know that useless trivia unless they go look at the phone, and my requirement is then met. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

I was going to place a virtual in the park right outside the Fairmont, but there was no good place to hide the rock I brought. The nearest cache is over a mile away, but I may go in search of it tomorrow. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

Go to Mapblast, and type in the address. Click Create Map, the map will come up, and a browser cookie will be set with that address. That address is now in the Address History pull-down menu, so select that address. Let the map refresh. Scroll around in the browser URL field, and look for "cookieval=(decimal latitude)%3A(decimal longitude)%3A". Not the cleanest method, but it does work, and it's free. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

Go to Mapblast, and type in the address. Click Create Map, the map will come up, and a browser cookie will be set with that address. That address is now in the Address History pull-down menu, so select that address. Let the map refresh. Scroll around in the browser URL field, and look for "cookieval=(decimal latitude)%3A(decimal longitude)%3A". Not the cleanest method, but it does work, and it's free. _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

quote:Originally posted by Crusso:Help.... Not A programmer..... Read thread..... Feel like I'm drowning...... What does this do? How does it work. I hope Jeremy puts a basic "how to" primer on the site for us users who can just barely use a PDA & EasyGPS. Right now this GPX discussion is all "in progress" stuff... nothing that most end users want or need to see. The current pocket query stuff is a good compromise for now, so go check it out. It's usable on your PC too! _____________________________________________________ > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

You can still get it. Though you can't click on the picture, you CAN click on the "MapQuest Maps (BEST)" link to the left of the picture. It has the lat/long embedded in it, and will work just like clicking the picture. Enjoy! > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

You can still get it. Though you can't click on the picture, you CAN click on the "MapQuest Maps (BEST)" link to the left of the picture. It has the lat/long embedded in it, and will work just like clicking the picture. Enjoy! > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

It's really not that hard to reply to the emails of people logging a virtual cache. - I added an email link to me on the cache page that includes the cache ID ([GCnnnn]) on the subject line. - I use Eudora as my email client, and have it look in the subject line for that cache ID. If it finds it, it routes it to a folder I set up just for the cache. - I saved off a piece of "stationery" that says congratulations, log it if you haven't already, thanks for playing, blah blah. When a new email with the correct info shows up in the folder, I reply to it with the stationery. 15 minutes of setup means I can reply to each finder in about 15 seconds. And there's nothing that says you *have* to respond to each finder. I just think it's polite, and gives the finder a thumbs up. > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

It's really not that hard to reply to the emails of people logging a virtual cache. - I added an email link to me on the cache page that includes the cache ID ([GCnnnn]) on the subject line. - I use Eudora as my email client, and have it look in the subject line for that cache ID. If it finds it, it routes it to a folder I set up just for the cache. - I saved off a piece of "stationery" that says congratulations, log it if you haven't already, thanks for playing, blah blah. When a new email with the correct info shows up in the folder, I reply to it with the stationery. 15 minutes of setup means I can reply to each finder in about 15 seconds. And there's nothing that says you *have* to respond to each finder. I just think it's polite, and gives the finder a thumbs up. > Martin (Magellan 330) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!