ClayJar
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I'm leaving on Bacon Quest III: Bacon + Cheese = PI a week from Thursday morning... if you get close enough to want to test, feel free to use my itenerary as a test case, hehe.
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I'm leaving on Bacon Quest III: Bacon + Cheese = PI a week from Thursday morning... if you get close enough to want to test, feel free to use my itenerary as a test case, hehe.
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My brother (currently in basic with the USAF) ordered one before he left. It's around here somewhere, so I can probably help you a little.
Basically, there are two programs you need to transfer over, and then you go into the map directories and look under the state and county you want maps for and load those as well.
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Originally posted by NigelP:Is there a way of copying a .IMG file to the SD card through the GPS? (trying to avoid buying the reader/writer).
If you have a 64MB or smaller SD card, you can probably get away without buying an reader. Of course, then you can only have one mapset, and it'll take eons to upload. It's a bit like asking if you can paddle a canoe with your bare hands (to avoid buying a paddle); it's perfectly possible, but I can't see anyone actually doing it.
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Originally posted by NigelP:Is there a way of copying a .IMG file to the SD card through the GPS? (trying to avoid buying the reader/writer).
If you have a 64MB or smaller SD card, you can probably get away without buying an reader. Of course, then you can only have one mapset, and it'll take eons to upload. It's a bit like asking if you can paddle a canoe with your bare hands (to avoid buying a paddle); it's perfectly possible, but I can't see anyone actually doing it.
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It seems that jumping off a very tall bridge (perhaps into a dry riverbed) would be a much more efficient way to commit suicide than all the utter stupidity that is MapBlast.com. If I were the CEO over there, I'd live up to my title and start executing already. Sheesh! I think I'm going to nominate them for a "Bonehead of the Day Award" if I can get up the energy to transcribe The Unbelievable History of MapBlast!: How to Kill Your Corporation in Seventeen Thousand Simple Steps.
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It seems that jumping off a very tall bridge (perhaps into a dry riverbed) would be a much more efficient way to commit suicide than all the utter stupidity that is MapBlast.com. If I were the CEO over there, I'd live up to my title and start executing already. Sheesh! I think I'm going to nominate them for a "Bonehead of the Day Award" if I can get up the energy to transcribe The Unbelievable History of MapBlast!: How to Kill Your Corporation in Seventeen Thousand Simple Steps.
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The only place where you can have a geosynchronous orbit is over the equator, and if all the satellites were over the equator, you would not be able to tell north from south.
As it stands, the satellites are in orbits which give good fixes as much of the time as possible (I assume it's at least an NP-complete problem, eh). The orbits are monitored by ground stations, and each satellite broadcasts the almanac every 15 minutes, IIRC. (In other words, if you can flawlessly receive one satellite for 15 minutes, you should have a complete, updated almanac.)
Anyway, even with satellites in geosync orbits, there are still variables to be dealt with. There is no panacea to do away with all of chaos theory and orbital mechanics; so they'd have to monitor the satellites anyway if they wanted to have such precise fixes. (And since I'm really tired and fading fast, I'll let someone else take it from here.
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The only place where you can have a geosynchronous orbit is over the equator, and if all the satellites were over the equator, you would not be able to tell north from south.
As it stands, the satellites are in orbits which give good fixes as much of the time as possible (I assume it's at least an NP-complete problem, eh). The orbits are monitored by ground stations, and each satellite broadcasts the almanac every 15 minutes, IIRC. (In other words, if you can flawlessly receive one satellite for 15 minutes, you should have a complete, updated almanac.)
Anyway, even with satellites in geosync orbits, there are still variables to be dealt with. There is no panacea to do away with all of chaos theory and orbital mechanics; so they'd have to monitor the satellites anyway if they wanted to have such precise fixes. (And since I'm really tired and fading fast, I'll let someone else take it from here.
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Okay, now that some details have followed (I didn't say *I* was going to be giving them, did I?
), let's see where we stand.Saturday would lock out two cachers who *could* make it on Sunday... and if it were on a weekday, we may even have Jamie Z (who has paddled through our fair state, IIRC) come down and join us.
On Sunday, July 14, 2002, I have a window of about 1-4pm that I can make, if it's in Baton Rouge. (We're having a band come in and play Sunday night, so there's no possible way that I can get out of Sunday morning or night that weekend. Sometimes it stinks to be the go-to guy.)
I'm not sure whether we could get anything together on a weekday at all... If Friday counts, we could probably get something together for a Friday evening... maybe a Friday evening get together at a non-dusk-closing area. Hmmm... here's a thought: I (or some others of us) might be able to talk someone into letting us have a bonfire/cookout on their land... that would give us a chance to have a good time, and in addition... we could have some night-caching.
I'm not sure how many of us have ever night cached, but it adds a whole new dimension to the thing. I know a guy who would probably not mind us going out there, and there's a good enough parcel of land to set up a small handful of one-night caches. Those who don't like to night cache would still be able to have fun chatting with the others by the food and fire, but those of us who might want to try our hands could have a nice evening.
Okay, so it's a slightly oddball suggestion, but hey, we're in Louisiana... We're supposed to be a bit strange, eh? Anyway, let me know if a Friday evening cookout sounds like fun (we could chat and eat before it's dark, of course). I think it might be a really memorable event. If Sunday afternoon sounds better, though, I'm perfectly available for that, as long as it's in Baton Rouge and within the 1-4pm window (stinks to be me, I know).
(I should be able to tell you guys about the Arffers, Markwell, "Hard as PI" (GC-something-or-other), and such by then, I hope. I'm planning on taking "BaconQuest III: Bacon + Cheese = PI" by then... I'm nearing 100 finds.)
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Okay, now that some details have followed (I didn't say *I* was going to be giving them, did I?
), let's see where we stand.Saturday would lock out two cachers who *could* make it on Sunday... and if it were on a weekday, we may even have Jamie Z (who has paddled through our fair state, IIRC) come down and join us.
On Sunday, July 14, 2002, I have a window of about 1-4pm that I can make, if it's in Baton Rouge. (We're having a band come in and play Sunday night, so there's no possible way that I can get out of Sunday morning or night that weekend. Sometimes it stinks to be the go-to guy.)
I'm not sure whether we could get anything together on a weekday at all... If Friday counts, we could probably get something together for a Friday evening... maybe a Friday evening get together at a non-dusk-closing area. Hmmm... here's a thought: I (or some others of us) might be able to talk someone into letting us have a bonfire/cookout on their land... that would give us a chance to have a good time, and in addition... we could have some night-caching.
I'm not sure how many of us have ever night cached, but it adds a whole new dimension to the thing. I know a guy who would probably not mind us going out there, and there's a good enough parcel of land to set up a small handful of one-night caches. Those who don't like to night cache would still be able to have fun chatting with the others by the food and fire, but those of us who might want to try our hands could have a nice evening.
Okay, so it's a slightly oddball suggestion, but hey, we're in Louisiana... We're supposed to be a bit strange, eh? Anyway, let me know if a Friday evening cookout sounds like fun (we could chat and eat before it's dark, of course). I think it might be a really memorable event. If Sunday afternoon sounds better, though, I'm perfectly available for that, as long as it's in Baton Rouge and within the 1-4pm window (stinks to be me, I know).
(I should be able to tell you guys about the Arffers, Markwell, "Hard as PI" (GC-something-or-other), and such by then, I hope. I'm planning on taking "BaconQuest III: Bacon + Cheese = PI" by then... I'm nearing 100 finds.)
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Originally posted by The Heavenly Host:Does that mean that if my GPSr displays 1/1000 of a minute, and that is about 5 feet at my house. If I go to the poles, am I more accurate? Can I approach 0 as an accuracy? If I am off by 2/1000 where I live, that could be 10 feet, but near the poles, it could be 2 feet. Or, is it still as inaccurate regardless of your location?
The "hdd mm.mmm" coordinate space gets more accurate as you approad the poles. One thousandth of a minute of east or west even drops to identically zero when you're *at* the poles. So, the "rectangle" of the coordinates plus or minus half a thousandth of a minute will shrink as your latitude increases.
Now, the accuracy of your GPS receiver will not be intrinsically any better. You should have a really good view of the sky, which would improve reception, but you almost certainly be out of WAAS reception (and even if you weren't, there are likely no ground stations in the area to compute the errors anyway), which means you wouldn't have that helping.
So, basically, if you could know *exactly* where you were, as you go nearer the poles, you can express that more and more precisely in a given format of lat-long coordinates; however, that does not mean that your GPS receiver will in fact be working better (and it may even be that you need a block heater for it just to keep it warm, depending on season
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Originally posted by The Heavenly Host:Does that mean that if my GPSr displays 1/1000 of a minute, and that is about 5 feet at my house. If I go to the poles, am I more accurate? Can I approach 0 as an accuracy? If I am off by 2/1000 where I live, that could be 10 feet, but near the poles, it could be 2 feet. Or, is it still as inaccurate regardless of your location?
The "hdd mm.mmm" coordinate space gets more accurate as you approad the poles. One thousandth of a minute of east or west even drops to identically zero when you're *at* the poles. So, the "rectangle" of the coordinates plus or minus half a thousandth of a minute will shrink as your latitude increases.
Now, the accuracy of your GPS receiver will not be intrinsically any better. You should have a really good view of the sky, which would improve reception, but you almost certainly be out of WAAS reception (and even if you weren't, there are likely no ground stations in the area to compute the errors anyway), which means you wouldn't have that helping.
So, basically, if you could know *exactly* where you were, as you go nearer the poles, you can express that more and more precisely in a given format of lat-long coordinates; however, that does not mean that your GPS receiver will in fact be working better (and it may even be that you need a block heater for it just to keep it warm, depending on season
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- MapBlast! lets you set up to, I think, 6 pins.
When the advanced search is finished, *then* you'll be able to load all the waypoints into whatever program you want (possibly with a bit of indirection in there), but until that comes along, I'm not completely sure there's a good answer for you. (Or for me, for that matter.
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- MapBlast! lets you set up to, I think, 6 pins.
When the advanced search is finished, *then* you'll be able to load all the waypoints into whatever program you want (possibly with a bit of indirection in there), but until that comes along, I'm not completely sure there's a good answer for you. (Or for me, for that matter.
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MapSend Topo's street detail is great. It *does* have the same limitations as the rest of the MapSend family (sometimes the streets are a bit off, but that's from the source data and really isn't a big problem).
When it comes to the Topo data, with MapSend Topo, you'll have enough lines on there to see the lay of the land or what have you, but if you were orienteering cross-country, you'd still want to have your paper maps to get even more detail. For everything short of orienteering, I've found the detail adequate (and if you're orienteering with a GPS receiver, isn't that cheating anyway?
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MapSend Topo's street detail is great. It *does* have the same limitations as the rest of the MapSend family (sometimes the streets are a bit off, but that's from the source data and really isn't a big problem).
When it comes to the Topo data, with MapSend Topo, you'll have enough lines on there to see the lay of the land or what have you, but if you were orienteering cross-country, you'd still want to have your paper maps to get even more detail. For everything short of orienteering, I've found the detail adequate (and if you're orienteering with a GPS receiver, isn't that cheating anyway?
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It's not the price when I get there, it's the fact that I'd need a couple more drivers and three weeks of vacation time. (What is that? You say I should *fly* there? What's the fun in that?
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Originally posted by Capt. Jack:Post their e mail addresses and we'll (talk) to them!
Um, please don't start another of those things. I know people that *still* don't understand that an e-mail can *say* it's "from" anyone. I figured Klez would teach them, but some people never learn.
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Originally posted by Capt. Jack:Post their e mail addresses and we'll (talk) to them!
Um, please don't start another of those things. I know people that *still* don't understand that an e-mail can *say* it's "from" anyone. I figured Klez would teach them, but some people never learn.
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Originally posted by Markwell:Ummm... not sure what you mean...
Bacon the food? If that's what it takes to get someone up from Baton Rouge, sure, I'll bring a pound of bacon.
In the beginning, well, back in March or so, the DFW area cachers had another breakfast cache ready. They said there'd be bacon, and *poof*, I showed up. (The restaurant over-cooked the bacon... it was like bacon sticks.)
Last weekend, the GGA had their anniversary meeting (wow, they're good). They, *ahem*, strongly implied there'd be bacon, and *poof*, I showed up. (There was no bacon anywhere!)
In a few weeks, there's going to be a picnic in the Chicago area...
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Originally posted by Markwell:Ummm... not sure what you mean...
Bacon the food? If that's what it takes to get someone up from Baton Rouge, sure, I'll bring a pound of bacon.
In the beginning, well, back in March or so, the DFW area cachers had another breakfast cache ready. They said there'd be bacon, and *poof*, I showed up. (The restaurant over-cooked the bacon... it was like bacon sticks.)
Last weekend, the GGA had their anniversary meeting (wow, they're good). They, *ahem*, strongly implied there'd be bacon, and *poof*, I showed up. (There was no bacon anywhere!)
In a few weeks, there's going to be a picnic in the Chicago area...
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Details to follow.
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If you're on a Mac, you can use an IRC chat client such as Snak. You'll have to set up the server and channel in Snak yourself, but if you have trouble, you can ask here, I imagine, as there are at least two Snak users in the chats.
Server: irc.openprojects.net
Channel: #Geocache
suggesting new email feature
in Website
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Whenever that happens, I just login and re-click the link. Seems easier than searching for the user.