DavidMac

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whеrigo wаymarking groundsрeak Ah well The Cheeseheads beat me to it by a few minutes. Bet it'll keep a few folks wondering though...

I was bored so I did a little digging, and found a good explanation of what's going on here. Essentially, Firefox treats two consecutive hyphens as either the opening or closing delimiters for a comment, and expects them to exist in pairs of two between <! and > . In the green text in my post above, the two hyphens in the username Arrow-- are interpreted as a second "comment open delimiter"- essentially, a comment within a comment. Thus, the browser searches for another -- farther down the page, finds one the next time Arrow-- is mentioned, then assumes that the comment should be closed after the next instance of the > character. The problem is made more complicated by the fact that Firefox allows whitespace and other characters between the -- and the > . Take a look at the source code of one of the cache descriptions in question using FF 3.5 and you'll see that a significant portion of the code is displayed in green italicized text... indicating a comment. Is this a bug in Firefox? Technically, no. the browser is interpreting the code correctly. In practice, this incredibly literal interpretation of the html spec creates more harm than good and has apparently led to numerous complaints from web developers. For now I think the only option is for Groundspeak to come up with some sort of workaround for usernames with two hyphens.

That's... shocking.

Same thing here, using Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X. I agree that it probably has something to do with the fact that the hider's name is Arrow--). Looking at the page source, having the -- characters inside the HTML comment <!-- Description Written By: Arrow--) --> seems to trick Firefox into treating a large chunk of the page as an HTML comment.

Same here. I was a bit surprised to receive 9 queries in one day. Guess I'm getting my money's worth out of my premium membership.

Oops. Duplicate post.

I never would have thought that feature would be tucked away in that program. Thanks!

I'm going through some very old cache data circa 2003 for stats purposes. I have a list of caches, some of which I've found, some of which I haven't. The only data I have for these caches is a name, and a numeric number. This is NOT the same as the GC code, but used to work in a similar fashion. For example, here's a blast from the past... a watchlist email from 2003. The URL no longer works but it references an ID number: How can I find the cache listing using this number (18385)? Is there a method that works on the site or does anybody know of a formula I could use to convert it to a GC code?

... and I'm guessing you had to call the fire department to get your tongue unstuck?

I haven't seen a cache a day challenge yet... and I think it's an interesting idea. I'll take it even further... I'd like to see certain types of challenges listed separately from other caches, either as a separate cache type or on a separate page. Preferably on a separate page; for now it's hard to find out about many challenges without resorting to bookmark lists that may not be up to date. And for the different approved challenge "types" to be listed out (county, delorme, fizzy, etc) with a mechanism for people to suggest new and creative possibilities (topo quads, for example). I've also thought it would be interesting to do away with the "final cache" after completing a challenge in lieu of a Waymarking-style system where cachers could volunteer to manage certain geographic areas and verify that others have met the requirements. I'd also like for challenge rules to be standardized for each challenge type, so as to do away with state-to-state differences between otherwise identical challenges (for example, virtuals count in one state's challenge but not in another, subject to the whim of the challenge hider). Oh, and I also want a pony . But I realize that such a system would be low priority and would cause quite the uproar from those who like the system as-is if implemented.

My money is on at least two new forum threads being started within 5 minutes after 8 PM from users who had no clue about the downtime. (yeah, the notice was at the top of the weekly email newsletter and in several places in the forums, but I bet it'll still take many people by surprise)

Since a moderator edited the title (that grammatical error isn't mine, btw ), can I assume that the right people know about the above? I understand if it's low priority... just wanted to bring it to their attention.

Here are two issues I noticed with the User Routes feature. The first one is simply a broken link... the creating a route link on the Create / Edit a Route page (purple link in the image below) doesn't take me to the correct knowledge base article, but here instead. The second is more of a feature request, but since the feature doesn't work as expected it has the icky, squishy feel of a bug. When modifying a route, you can drag from the middle to choose one or more via points. This can be handy for creating loops or alternate routes. In the example below, I created a route for a nice caching run that takes me through Kentucky and Virginia then down to Cumberland Gap. The two blue dots are my manually selected via points. I get the route set up just the way I like it, and click the Save Selected Route button. Then I create a pocket query, tweak a few settings, and preview the query. Wait a minute... this route picks up too many caches along interstate 75 that I don't want! Easy fix, right? From the pocket query page, click on View Associated Route, then the Modify Route link near the bottom of the page. Everything looks just fine... then I drag the start point marker north a bit from Williamsburg to London: See the problem? My intermediate points are gone. This means that for intricate routes, I have to reselect all of the via points again every time I make a minor tweak to the start or end points. I realize that intermediate points are probably not saved along with a custom route, although a saved route still passes through the points until I edit the route. Would this be an easy fix?

Awesome site that I've been using for a while now. I downloaded the GRSM waypoints and put them in the GPS. many of them were scaled from topo maps but I'm still surprised at how accurate they are. So far all the ones I've tested in the field are within 40-300 feet.

I've been editing the file by hand to insert the time into my log or sometimes to write a brief sentence or two before uploading. This saves me from having to paste in the info later when composing my log on the site. Messing around with the file, I found that you can submit other log types too... for example if you log an event as "found" on your GPS, when composing your log on the site you need to select the "attended" log type (since you can't post a Found It to an event). Sure it's quicker to just select Attended from the menu, but there are other possibilities too. If you enter a log type into your field notes which a particular cache type can't accept, when you compose your log the dropdown box reverts to - select one - GCGQ5G,2010-02-09T17:39Z,Needs Archived,"" GC1Z7DN,2010-02-09T18:24Z,Attended,"" GC1Z7DN,2010-02-09T28:44Z,Published,"" (The "publish" log type didn't work though... I thought it was at least worth a try )

Wow... all of mine arrived at 1:09 AM, just 2 minutes after your post. Now that's service... thanks! edit: yeah it's the middle of the night, but that's no excuse for me quoting the wrong post. If they can fix a PQ server at this hour than surely I can manage a simple forum post.

I'm about to try some regular PQs (one that I had enabled weekly came through just fine yesterday) but for now I can't get the All Finds PQ to work at all. I last ran it on November 6, but when I click the button the page reloads and... nothing. The button stays enabled, the date doesn't update, and the query never comes. I get the same result in two different browsers. Edit: my regular queries don't seem to want to run today either.

I'll second the part about hundreds of ticks! In some areas you just have to brush up against a plant, then you may happen to glance down at your pants and spot what at first looks like a muddy streak... but when you look closer you'll see that it's made up of hundreds of tiny ticks the size of a pin head. Deet doesn't seem to deter them unless you spray every inch of your clothing, as they just cling to whatever piece of fabric or skin happens to brush against their areal perch. In fact, after it happened to me twice in the same area, I never went caching there again in the summer months.

What if it only notified owners if someone changed the log type? That way you would know it if someone went back and changed their note to a find after the fact.

If that's the case, I would suggest the following: why not detect the user agent, and serve up different css to different browsers? That way iPhone users can get a version that's more visually appealing (or readable) on the device, and those of us on personal computers get another look more tailored to computer screens. Personally I think the font is way too big. If it's hard to read for some, you should be able to bump up the font size in your browser... I bumped mine down after the redesign but now there's too much whitespace and the line spacing just stands out more. The website if designed properly should be able to scale upwards or downwards gracefully (to a point) to fit the users preference.

Here are some screenshots from the Colorado. I don't know about the other models, but the 400t sold in the US is a bit lacking when it comes to the world basemap outside of North America. Here's a view of the UK with only the default basemap enabled... the amount of detail is pitiful: Here's the same view with the raster map. It gets a bit blurry below this zoom level but it still looks much nicer: Some of Europe with the default basemap: Europe with the awesome raster map:

Actually this is more along the lines of what I expected:

My first thought was "Where are you going to find a rhododendron branch straight enough to make a hiking staff?" Then I realized where you're from. I now remember that there are different species in WA state than the stout, weedy, twisty stuff we have back east. I'll second ironwood. I also have one that I made from an American chestnut sapling that had to be cut down. There are too few chestnuts around and I hated that this one had to be destroyed, but since it did I figured I'd put it to good use. It's good strong, smooth wood with a nice taper to it. I didn't remove the bark and it wears like iron.

Yep, we bought a clean one once for food. Just be sure to check whether the lid can be opened and easily resealed tightly enough that water doesn't leak in. The lids have different types of closures and some of them require a wrench to close properly.