Bunson_Honeydew

I am curious if there has been any headway in extracting xml or comma deliniated data from a Google Maps route query so that it can be imported as an arc in GSAK? In searching here, I have only found passing mentions about it, but nothing solid.

Wow, who knew I would piss someone off. I wrote that which the OP quoted... We got 6 caches that day in a late afternoon, 5 of which weren't straightforward urban cache 'n go caches. The cache descriptions is something I'm learning I have a tendency to not pay so much attention to now that I'm paperless using my Nokia 3650 phone. I find myself reading the description once I'm parked and out of the car and en route to the cache. We parked the car as close as we could to the cache, spotted up the hill and thought, "we could look for the trail, but it's only 500ft that way." We were hasty and impatient and excited to see where the cache was. Sure, I didn't say how cool the trail was, but it certainly was interesting, what part of it we had walked on. I had fun jumping back and forth across the motorcycle rut as if it were a halfpipe. After reading the description we decided to take the trail back to the car as it sounded as if that was the intended way to access the cache, and it looked interesting. We walked it North from the cache for a good 3/4 mi. before it started to take a sharp turn East and the car was West. We decided to bushwhack back to the Scoobyroo. It's no biggie man. We had fun at your cache. I enjoy bushwhacking under proper circumstances. Sometimes it's not so fun, but this time it was. At nearly 200 caches, I still get excited about them, and forget sometimes to read the description in advance. If I ever go back to your cache, I'll find the trail. This time around it wasn't prudent. I have every reason to believe the people before us did it the "proper" way, and every single person who visits from now on. Please don't get worked up. We enjoyed your cache. Like I said, it gave me a reason to tool around Walker Valley, one of my favorite spots in Skagit Co. I like getting funny looks from the big trucks when some compact Subaru comes blazing through a big mud pit. EDIT: I just re-read your description. How about a simple explaination of how to access the trail. We didn't exactly see an obvious trail from the direction we came, and the logging trucks seemed to be pretty active on the gated side roads so we didn't go that way. We didn't see your trail, so we didn't take it. Instead of getting mad and changing a cool cache, how about bolstering your description with suggestions on how to access it as it was "intended" and not getting pissed off when someone doesn't do it the way you wanted.

A fellow geocacher forwarded this to me and I couldn't resist posting it. I have seen a fair amount of discussion about NudeCacher while lurking, and he actively caches in my area. Fortunately I haven't encountered him while on the trail, but apparently someone recently did...the police. http://www.skagitvalleyherald.com/articles...news/news01.txt While I'm not certain it was him, many of the details seem to fit with NudeCacher, namely where he is from and the area where he was caching. This cache is most likely the one he was attempting, which is on the same trail and one which he appears to have not found yet. I find it all rather humorous really. Poor guy, surely there is some place a man can cache sans clothes...

I was slightly amused when I saw this and thought I'd share it with my fellow geocachers. Its a skin for Winamp that looks a LOT like my Magellan Meridian. Download it if you'd like. It looks very well put together. http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=131994

I've been looking for these for a while too. Stock must have recently run out and reupped, because they were there a couple months ago, but were not when I looked a week or two ago. I'll be ordering one ASAP for my new GeoMobile.

I run into this problem too. I have a Meridian GPS Green and Mapsend Streets USA. When I go to send the map data to my GPS, I get the same error. I found that sending smaller sections of maps works. I haven't discovered the exact threashold, but it seems that if my map exceeds 1mb it times out and won't work. If I limit my map to smaller sizes it works flawlessly. I don't know if its a problem with the GPS or in the software, but I suspect its the software allowing itself to time out too soon. Also if it does time out when trying to add a map to the card with maps remaining, it clears the whole card including all previous maps. Does any of the other map software support sending maps to external SecureDigital reader/writers? [This message was edited by Bunson_Honeydew on April 21, 2003 at 09:26 PM.]