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    Magellan Explorist XL

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Yes, pulling the card out and using it in a read/writer would work, and appears to be the short term solution. Not convenient for loading cache files or unloading your track files several times a week, but will work.

     

    Steve - You guys are scaring me. I literally just ordered my eXplorist XL about 20 minutes ago.... :blink:

     

    I ordered up the Nuvi 650, but only now realize that it has no ability to display coords. It is great for driving to cache area.... but my old Mag has finally bit the dust. Hopefully I have made a good purchase...

    Two Killed In A Crash Near Lake Isabella

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    N6IDF and K6SNE

     

    Per N6UZS (and I quote from the SoCal Geocaching web site):

     

    ust a minor clarification on what transpired here. Mike and Dave were on the end of the month All Day transmitter Hunt. There were 4 transmitters in ammo cans transmitting from these locations:

     

    T4 Weldon N35 37.452 / W118 20.294 On Brooks Rd about 1/4 mile past (south) the last residence

    T10 Cook's Peak road N35 37.097 / W118 25.600 On Cook's Peak Rd about half way up from Squirrel Mountian Valley

    T2 North shore N35 41.000 / W118 25.500 On Serria Way about 1 mile west of Stine Cove recreational area

    T11 Sawmill Rd N35 39.914 / W118 33.425 On Sawmill Rd about 2 miles west of Wagy Falt Rd

     

    The only reason why "GPS treasure hunt" was mentioned by the sheriff to the media was because the hider had the coords to all of his transmitters. This was provided to assist the search and rescue teams search the right areas. I highly doubt they were involved in any kind of official cache hunt as they weren't into caching that I know of.

     

    They last checked on the radio or by cell at 8pm Saturday night and the hunt had started at 10am Saturday from Palos Verdes. This particular hunt was only meant to last 10-12 hours but hunters will stay out all night driving the mountain roads looking for the transmitters.

     

    For more info and updates on pending services please contact Steve N6XFC at nsixxfc@cox.net.

     

    I knew Mike and Dave since about 1994 and have hunted with the 2 of them many times. They will sorely be missed.

     

    Dave was married a couple of years ago and his wife just had a new baby about 8-9 months ago. Mike was unmarried.

     

    Mike was driving his beloved 1991 Jeep Cherokee at the time of the crash. He had just spent the past several months doing major repair and body work to it and was looking forward to participating in the May All Day Hunt.

    Two Killed In A Crash Near Lake Isabella

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    posted 5/29/06

    LAKE ISABELLA - A crash has claimed the life of two people near Lake Isabella over the holiday weekend.

     

    According to the California Highway Patrol, two men were participating in a GPS (Global Positioning System) treasure hunt that began in San Bernardino county Saturday.

     

    The Highway Patrol said the two men were given GPS coordinates to locate and follow a course.

    After they failed to make it to a check point, they were reported missing. Just before 2 a.m. Monday, search and rescue teams located the crash site. They hit a canyon wall and veered back across cook peak road and then plunged down a steep cliff, according to CHP.

     

    The men were driving a 1991 Jeep Cherokee.

     

    Although, their names have not been released, one is 35-years-old and the other is 46-years-old.

    Both men are from Southern California, one from Yukipa and the other from Anaheim.

     

    http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?...1F-061E11A04216

    Waypoint Distance Measurement

    in Website

    Posted

    I guess it could be construed as a crawl - all of two pages when a coin is logged (about 2 a week).

    How did your old app work with Members Only caches, where you have always needed to be logged in?

     

    If it's only a couple of caches a week, then there are several easy solutions for you. One is to manually put the coords into a database that your app can use from then on. Two caches a week doesn't seem like a big imposition.

     

    But easier still, you can just add the caches that your coins visit to a bookmark list, and get the PQ of that list delivered to you every week. Then you have all the coords automatically.

    I actually had it scripted so it would send me an e-mail if it recieved a strange response from the GC site. I then would manually retrieve the info.

     

    For now I have simply deleted this feature. No big deal...

    Waypoint Distance Measurement

    in Website

    Posted

    I believe your site was crawling through the Geocaching.com page. That's a violation of the terms of use.

    Hmm - Crawling almost implies trawling...

     

    The way it worked before is that a coin would be logged, and my script would look up the wapoint for the last cache the coins was in as well as the new one, get the lat/lon from that page then I used my own algo to compute distances...

     

    I guess it could be construed as a crawl - all of two pages when a coin is logged (about 2 a week).

     

    Oh well - guess it will have to go... Heck, I would even be willing to pay to have access to this ability....

    Waypoint Distance Measurement

    in Website

    Posted

    Wondering if anyone has figured out a way to grab waypoints from a cache page to compare distances.

     

    Here is the senerio.

     

    People can log my Vacman geocoins on my site, and for a couple of years I was able to track the distances these coins traveled. Now that GC requires a user to be logged in to view WP info, it will no longer work My system is now broken (in this regard only). I hate to take this feature off my site, but I might have to if I can't figure another way to do it.

    Ciphers

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    In my area there are 120 caches listed within a 5.6 mile radius (keep in mind that some of this area is ocean), out of those 120, 11 are puzzle caches... there is nothing more frustrating than knowing that your "perfect" circle of found caches is polluted by a puzzle cache you can't solve.... :huh:

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