NateDawgCC

Nice - thank you! I'll see if I can crank out a cleaner version later today if Groundspeak has not changed their stuff. The problem with the innerHTML method is that non text elements are affected as well. Probably not an issue here, but with more things being changed, the potential for error increases. Here is a little add in for GreaseMonkey to fix the line height. // ==UserScript== // @name Geocaching.com/my // @namespace http://www.geocaching.com/my // @include http://www.geocaching.com/my/default.aspx // ==/UserScript== function addGlobalStyle(css) { var head, style; head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; if (!head) { return; } style = document.createElement('style'); style.type = 'text/css'; style.innerHTML = css; head.appendChild(style); } addGlobalStyle( 'table.Table th, table.Table td {' + 'padding:0.2em !important;' + '}' + 'p, #Content h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, fieldset, .Spacing {' + 'margin-top:0.5em;' + '}'); -Nathan

Just thought I'd throw another screen shot in here to validate other folks' claims that their "Friends" page is messed up. What's wrong with this page? Besides Slimy being my Friend, I mean... Looking over this thread, I have counted ONE person who likes the white space to...oh, I don't know, a hundred maybe? who HATE it. It makes users scroll unnecessarily. It prints out the same way it looks on the page and uses twice as much paper - don't make me go all environmental on you! And any editor who employed it in today's world would be out of a job faster than he could say "spit." Would YOU read a magazine if you had to turn pages every few words? Let me put it in very simple terms for the Groundspeak Team: DITCH THE WHITE SPACE! IT'S BAD DESIGN! My friends page has a big blank spot... My screen resolution is 1680 X 1050 -Nathan

White space... you're doing it wrong. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/12...ty-an-overview/

Try and find some Duracote, it works better then krylon. If possible LIGHTLY sand the container before rising it off with alcohol, sandblasting would be better. I used this on some paintball gear, check out this paintball forum for more info. http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/archive...hp/t-58755.html

Another tip you might find helpful, search ebay for "geocache" you'll get a quick overview of the tricky containers that people are using to hide caches. My favorite is the piece of rebar that gets inserted in the hole of a cement parking lot block.

look at the Garmin BT GPSrs they are designed to stick on the top of a car, and survive any weather that your car could survive (at highway speed). As for the PPC, like I said before, I use the 6700 from Verizon wireless. insurance is only like $6 a month. And, it covers everything even water damage from dropping it in a creek... go ahead ask me how I know.

OK, time for an update.... first off, GeoScout looks promising. I used it for like 4 hours last night loading caches, and downloading maps, the auto download map function is by far the best I have seen for geocaching. The ability to download caches right from the gc.com website is also very cool. On a smart phone which uses both WiFi, and the cellular network this program is almost never without an internet connection. this is much better than other programs which require me to download from gc.com to my laptop then from my laptop to my phone. Now for the bad news... today I go out to my truck and try to sync it with my GPSr and it was all down hill from there. with GeoScout as the only application running, and using the GPSr. It gives me this error message. “No data received from GPS for 5 minutes. Please check GPS connection and restart.” Now when I turn on GPS port sharing and launch GPSDash2 it will connect and GeoScout will give the same error message. Next I found out just by dumb luck that when I’m in my basement I don’t have a good enough signal to get a GPS lock, so I launch GeoScout and it will run without the error message as it is trying to get a satellite lock. I can watch the NMEA data flow from the one or two satellites that it has, but once it gets a lock the flow stops and I get the same error message. This program looks very promising but right now it's just a big waste of memory if I can't find a way to fix this. I posted a issue on the GeoScout issue tracker, now I just have to wait and see if I get a reply. If anyone else has encountered this same issue, please let me know. Thanks, Nathan

I'm using the same phone, but with the Garmin 10 BT GPS. I just loaded GeoScout after having used (without problems) GPSDash2 and Garmin Que. and I get a message that says: “No data received from GPS for 5 minutes. Please check GPS connection and restart.” I can see the NMEA data scroll by before it crashes. Have you seen this with your set-up? I'm trying to figure out if it's the phone or the GPSr...

Hello Alain, I'll have to try geoscout... thanks for the tip. This is the set-up I started with, so I've been paperless from the start. Thanks, Nathan

Hi all, I'm using a XV6700 which is a Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC from Verizon wireless. My GPSr is the Garmin 10, they connect via bluetooth. I have a 2GB MiniSD card in the phone that has plenty of room for the maps, gsx files, some programs and mp3s to listen to on my way through the woods. I'm currently using a few software apps, I hope to find a way to combine some in the future. I have GPXSonar to find the nearest caches and to read about the cache as I'm trying to find it. Qarmin Que gives good turn by turn driving directions to drive me as close as possible to the cache and is useful for road trips. then I use GPSDash2 while I'm hiking in the woods to try and actually find the cache. GPSDash2 works well if you can find a JPG map of the park because, it can be loaded and calibrated with two or three known GPS points I.E. water towers, parking lots, houses, anything that can be seen from Google Earth. map the cords from Google Earth to the points on the JPG. Here is an example of a day spent geocacheing with my set-up in the St. Louis Parks System. The STL Parks System has JPG maps for all all the parks on there website, these maps have the trails and other points of interest marked on them. I download them to the map utility on my laptop for GPSDash2. I then pick out GPS points from Google Earth that match points on the map I then build the map and use Active Sync to send the map and the GPX file for that park to my phone. I use Garmin Que to drive me to the Parking lot. Then I switch to GPXSonar to find the closest Cache and read about it. I then switch to GPSDash2 to guide me to the Cache it will typically get me with in 10 feet of the cache. Another nice feature with using the phone for geocaching is that if I have a cell signal, I can use the Verizon data network to surf the web, and go to the geocaching.com website to log my find, while I'm at the cache. The phone also has a camera for taking pictures while caching or for the caches that require pictures to prove that you found it. Other handy tools would be the Note application for writing clues or making notes about caches. the calculator for any caches with math problems in the clues. Surfing the Internet to Google trivia questions that some caches have in the clues. I'm rather happy with this set-up it allows for paperless caching and is a little more flexible then using just a hand held GPS receiver. The cons would be: -cost, just the phone is more money then a Garmin 60cx. If you have a need for a PocketPC phone other than geocaching and can justify the cost(or you have too much money and can't figure out what to do with it) then this might not be such a problem. -Having two things (phone and GPS antenna) to hold is a pain. I've come up with a dumb but simple solution for this, I put the Garmin 10 under my hat... that way I'm just like signal with the antenna on top of my head. it gets better reception up there anyways... right? -It can be time consuming to switch from one application to another, some times they don't share the serial port for the GPS well, this requires me to shut down all applications that use the GPS, then shut down the GPSr and turn off the phones bluetooth. then I have to turn on the GPSr and the bluetooth and open up the application that I need. If anyone else knows of applications that would work with this set-up to help stream line this process please let me know. -The phone is not waterproof, and is a little on the fragile side. my solution is get insurance on it from Verizon. (I already took advantage of this once) I hope this helps, Nathan Rover