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    GPX log from Garmin 60CSX and 62s store compass compass direction information?

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    Does anyone here know if the GPX log from Garmin 60CSX and 62s store compass compass direction information? If so, does anyone here know of any software that will not only geotag, but take the compass information and tag it to the image?

     

    Thanks!

    My 60CSX has Time, Lat, Long, Elevation for each point. Each track has a name too. No compass info noted. With that said, the distance and direction information that I have seen in MapSource must be derived from the track point data.

    Problem Downloading Pocket query

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    A virus is an option. Another possibility is that the zip file has gotten associated with another application from a software installation or update. What application do you use to uncompress zip files? What application do you use to manage waypoints? I use GSAK for waypoint management and it takes care of unzipping. If you right click on the downloaded zip file, "open with" the appropriate application. If it is defaulting to some other application that may work around the issue.

    Beta maps on iPhone

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    It already does that. The first time one goes to a GC link from the iPhone one is posed with the question of whether to use the app or Safari, then the question doesn't ever get asked again. I'm sure there is a way to reset the value but I can't find it on the iPhone. Perhaps it is on GC.com. I prefer to have it open in Safari. Early on in the history of the app there were many page formatting issues that made the listing unusable or clumsy. Having the preference set to Safari gives one the option of a different view.

    I phone help

    in General geocaching topics

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    Can anybody please help. In June I downloaded the iPhone app. It worked perfectly up to this morning. Now whatever I type in it says "No geocaches found". I have tried all 3 categories, caches I know are there- still same reply. I went to my 'saved' to look forr 'caches nearby' and was given the message"no network ". I don't understand what has happened. Please could someone help, we are off to Leyland on Sunday and were hoping to have a good afternoons hunting!

    I have had that happen on occasion. It seems to be that at some point there were network issues so the app/phone decided that it would try to continue without using the internet. I found that if I completely closed the app things started working again. To completely close the app with iOS 4…1) hit the home button twice quickly, 2) press and hold one of the icons at the bottom that represent processes running, 3) After the icons get the minus sign and start wiggling, scan through and find the geocaching app and pick it for closing, 4) Press the home button once, 5) Click in the screen, 6) Navigate to the geocaching app icon and try again.

    anyonne else having problems uploading the stats

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    over the last month or so i have been having problems uploading my stats to my profile , im fully aware or the way to do it but i get this message back

     

    ( unknown result revived form server (returncode 302) )

     

    anyone else getting this and have found a way round it ?

     

    i have reinstalled and installed software trying to get it to work but as im getting a " sever " error im guessing its geocaching end ...

     

    No problems here. Have you updated the two gsak macros required to perform the stat update function? About a month ago they updated the gc web site in a fashion that required a modification to the macro(s). Macro > Run > New Version > All

    Ever leave your GPS at a cache?

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    Never for more than a minute or two. That happened when I first got into geocaching and hadn't developed good practices. Now I always have a clip on my belt for the GPSr, or it goes in my pocket. I don't place the GPSr on the ground while messing with a find either. I also have a clip on my backpack that gets used on occasion. One circumstance where I am at risk is when I use the GPSr waypoint averaging feature to get good coordinates for a cache. I usually hang it on a branch at the hide.

     

    I have lost one pair of sunglasses though.

    Logging multies you did not find

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    Yesterday, I spent a considerable amount of time searching for the final of a multicache that is probably missing http://coord.info/GC2339F . I figured it must be there since the last 3 cachers had found it. Unfortunately, because of the length of the description, the actual logs were not downloaded into my GPSr, so I couldn't see what they said, only the status of the find. Even if I did have them, I most likely wouldn't have read them for a while to prevent spoiling the cache. When I got to Wi-Fi access to log my caches for the day, I read the previous logs and discovered that only the first of the 3 found the final. The next person found stage 2 broken and on the ground, which he replaced where he thought it might've been, but he couldn't find stage 3. The cache was actually last found 3 months ago, not 2 weeks ago, like the log status would make you believe.

     

    So I logged a DNF and even pointed out in my log that the last 2 were not really finds just in case the CO didn't actually bother to read the logs and assumed the cache was alright due to the smilies. Now another cacher has just posted a find, but in his description posted that he couldn't find the final after 30 minutes.

     

    This isn't the only multicache I've seen this happen to. I realize people post finds on other types of caches just because they spent 3 minutes searching the "correct" spot or they solved the difficult puzzle, but it seems multies attract more of these. I guess they think that since they actually found a physical container, even though it is just one stage, then it counts as a find. I have even seen one CO in his description telling people to post a separate find log for every single stage of a multi (a cache I still want to find, but I am only going to post 1 find when I sign the final).

     

    So what is everyone's take on this? Am I wrong and this is actually acceptable behavior? Am I right and these logs are creating unnecessary confusion for future cachers and COs?

     

    The trouble with Squishy is that the coordinates for stage three are off by 50-100 feet. Despite numerous comments in the logs about it, the CO has declined to make a change. An argument in the COs favor is that many people have found it.

     

    I routinely log DNFs for multi-caches where I didn't make it all the way to the final. In some cases it means I didn't find a preliminary stage and sometimes it means I found all the preliminary stages but didn't find the final. In some cases I'll post a note. I tend to use the note approach when something interrupts the caching adventure other than my failure, such as darkness, rain, other obligations...

     

    I have posted finds for cases where I have found cache remains. I have done so when the items found were clearly cache related. In one case the CO requested that I change my found log to a note. In that particular case the CO had already been there and cleaned up most of the remains, and unknown to me, archived the listing.

     

    In general, the found logs are better left to those instances where the final is found and the log signed. Creating found logs for unfound finals doesn't appear to be particularly useful.

    Missing Pocket Query(s)

    in General geocaching topics

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    Has anyone else had a pocket query show as being run but not show at their ISP? The first time it happened to me was on Thursday 8/13/2009. It happened again today, Thursday 9/3/2009. The first time it happened, none of my queries came through. Today, 1 of 3 came through. Is gc.com having an issue that only appears on Thursday?

    Here is an update.

     

    I finally received the missing PQs.

     

    PQ......GC Time........Rec'd Time.....Comment

    #1____1:21 am_____1:21 am ____Good deal

    #2____1:18 am_____8:40 am_____Where did it get lost

    #3 ____5:39 am_____6:18 am_____Slow to arrive

    #4_____5:21 am_____6:18 am_____Slow, PQ created to duplicate #2

    My ISP is roadrunner. I haven't noticed any delays before. The PQs #1-#3 were ones that I have setup to run every week on Thursday. They had run many times without issue. For some reason the first one arrived in a timely manner but the others took an hour to 7 hours to arrive.

    Missing Pocket Query(s)

    in General geocaching topics

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    Has anyone else had a pocket query show as being run but not show at their ISP? The first time it happened to me was on Thursday 8/13/2009. It happened again today, Thursday 9/3/2009. The first time it happened, none of my queries came through. Today, 1 of 3 came through. Is gc.com having an issue that only appears on Thursday?

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