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quote:Originally posted by fractal:As far as my brain tells me, I am the creator of the puzzle. I created it earlier this month, and created the graphic as well. I am flattered that people like my puzzles, and I don't mind if you use them, but please give credit where credit is due, and be kind enough to ask first. I have tried to contact the owner of the cache in question, but have not heard anything back from him as of yet. -fractal Discovered new word today: Copy-Cache Getting in touch with this person if very difficult. I had to do some things to get them to talk to me. Check out my thread would it be tacky if....? to see what happened in the saga of the lame and corrupt cache. MPB2 [This message has been edited by madphatboy2 (edited 30 January 2002).]

quote:Originally posted by fractal:As far as my brain tells me, I am the creator of the puzzle. I created it earlier this month, and created the graphic as well. I am flattered that people like my puzzles, and I don't mind if you use them, but please give credit where credit is due, and be kind enough to ask first. I have tried to contact the owner of the cache in question, but have not heard anything back from him as of yet. -fractal Discovered new word today: Copy-Cache Getting in touch with this person if very difficult. I had to do some things to get them to talk to me. Check out my thread would it be tacky if....? to see what happened in the saga of the lame and corrupt cache. MPB2 [This message has been edited by madphatboy2 (edited 30 January 2002).]

quote:Originally posted by Hawk-eye:OFF SEASON!!! What kind of talk is that ... there is no off season ... TURN IN YOUR DOUBLE A'S and GO WATCH THE SHOPPING CHANNEL till you come to your senses! amen

quote:Originally posted by Hawk-eye:OFF SEASON!!! What kind of talk is that ... there is no off season ... TURN IN YOUR DOUBLE A'S and GO WATCH THE SHOPPING CHANNEL till you come to your senses! amen

OFF SEASON!!! What kind of talk is that ... there is no off season ... TURN IN YOUR DOUBLE A'S and GO WATCH THE SHOPPING CHANNEL till you come to your senses!

OFF SEASON!!! What kind of talk is that ... there is no off season ... TURN IN YOUR DOUBLE A'S and GO WATCH THE SHOPPING CHANNEL till you come to your senses!

At least you admit your insane, now I dont feel like the only nut in this time zone. What you can do is several things: 1. Set up some virtual caches. 2. Go to the local park or a place like that, mark waypoints, talk a walk, make a fake route. Then try and do some trac logs . 3. Get used to UTM'S AND MAPS, practice for the summer. 4. Here are a few links to help alleviate cabin fever. http://www.maptools.com/UsingUTM/index.html http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/staff/swormley/maps/utm.html http://www.astro.uio.no/~kjetikj/compass/ http://www.equipped.org/devices26.htm http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/topo/ http://www.brunton.com/ http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/mapcompass.shtml Its almost February only about 4 months of winter yet. ------------------ JoseCanUSea

quote:Originally posted by 300mag:HELLO DON We where getting worried lol.Talk about bad luck tick and Nammie got stuck for a while.It seems everyone had a great time SUPER. I also liked it a lot. Looking forward to another one like this. PS: By the way CLIFFY found another one of your caches lol. yeah, well I've found 80% of his five caches, and he's found 15.4% of my 13 caches (not including event caches). Not eactly bragging rights on either count, if you ask me. And go down to the states again. You guys in Ottawa have more caches that we do in Montreal.

HELLO DON We where getting worried lol.Talk about bad luck tick and Nammie got stuck for a while.It seems everyone had a great time SUPER. I also liked it a lot. Looking forward to another one like this. PS: By the way CLIFFY found another one of your caches lol.

GeoBuddy does not have a complete import/export file format. There is so little documentation that I never could get the text DGS format to work. Its main virtue is as a way to convert a Grouldspeak XML LOC file directly to Garmin's Mapsource and maintain the data. Would very much like to see better inport/export support of CSV's with formatting and default values. Since GeoBuddy does not talk to the GPSR, or Import Mapsource data and Mapsource does not export waypoints, it is not the best way to manage waypoint sets. EasyGPS only supports TopoGraphix format LOC files and reads the Groundspeak XML LOC files. Its main virtue is a way to transmit Groundspeak XML LOC files to the GPSR. It unfortunantly discards the description field when importing to my Vista. Waypoint+ is another tool that reads the GPS and had some import/export functionality. It doesn't support Mapsource or LOC files and has poor text format support. G7TO WIN is the best that I've found so far. http://home.attbi.com/~g7towin/ It has the best CSV support that I can use to make global changes to icons or other data. It also has the most complete import/export file type library with the major exceptions of PCX5 importing and LOC import/export. Waypoints can be exported as PCX5 WAYPOINTS and then imported into Mapsource without having to go through the GPSR. This is an interesting waypoint manager although it needs the ability to deal with simultanous waypoint lists and to delete selections of waypoints. I've sucessfully used this software to create a waypoint list of local NGS Survey markers. GPS Tracker is an intereting program that exports and imports in PCS5 format. It supports merging and selecting waypoints better then any of the above programs. Global replacements of text within descriptions are possible. It doesn't list but plots waypoints, tracks, and routes over a bitmap image of a map to get some sence of where you are. I favor this program for waypoint batch selection to create smaller waypoint files that I can import into my GPSR as needed. There is a real "Black Hole Effect" of data in all of these programs where they import one format but don't export it back the same way. I've been keeping my waypoint files in CSV format so that I can edit and import them wherever and however needed. Mapsource only exports in TAB DELIMITED which it doesn't even read back ! For now, I keep my waypoint library in CSV format and convert them to PCX5 format for importing into Mapsource.

Who cares about the Rino! Give me a GPS in a 2-meter ham radio! With the network of ham repeaters, the distances and audience you can communicate with will run rings around a Rino. You can even talk over the Internet with the new IRLP system. What's IRLP? Pop those letters into any search engine, and find out. Then go get a ham radio license, and get in on all the fun! Anton, N2RUD

s a sighting compass is good, because we have some landmarks that we can use. As to the declination I prefer one that is adjustable, thus when I print out my maps, that have True north lines, I can use the compass to plot triangulations without much difficulty. When it comes to brand, I prefer AMERICAN made and that is why I use Bruntons. But it is owned by the Swedes, who make real good compasses. I like to make my compass and GPS talk to the maps I have, just because I'm real curious as to where I'm at, and when you are involved with SAR it can be quite important. Someone's life depends on it. You would be surprised on how many people I meet in the High Country that can give you the numbers on their GPS's and where there vehicle is, but when you ask them where they are at on the map you just get a weird look. Here is some links for you. http://www.brunton.com/ http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/mapcompass.shtml P.S. Next time you come to CO, check out some of our Caches out here. Here is an added link for you that shows some trails that are not listed on store bought trail guides. Trails that were walked and Plotted all by foot and hand, with GPS"s and Compasses. http://www.fortnet.org/pwv/ ------------------ JoseCanUSea [This message has been edited by JAMCC47 (edited 25 January 2002).]

I've been shopping for a GPS unit for over two months. I was seriously considering the Handspring due to the number of modules available for it, the ability to talk with MS Outlook, and the price. A lot of the newsgroups chatter was unfriendly toward the GPS implemtations on the Handspring but was finally chased away by the following review: http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/gps050301a.htm Too bad since I was entertaining thoughts of using the color handspring with the camera and GPS modules to record my visits.

One of the things I noticed is that the Meridian doesn't appear to communicate with the PC if it can't achieve sat-lock. I have observed this with both TopoUSA and USAPhotoMaps. When I get sat-lock, each program can talk to the Meridian and transfer data. If not, nothing seems to work. Has anyone else noticed this?

quote:Originally posted by mrgigabyte: I use the following testing technique... and it TASTES like a cow pie... Then I better not step in it! Look I know it can get cold up there in Canada ... but that's just sick ... I think you need to talk to some one professionally about that ... little querk .. "a".

quote:Originally posted by mrgigabyte: I use the following testing technique... and it TASTES like a cow pie... Then I better not step in it! Look I know it can get cold up there in Canada ... but that's just sick ... I think you need to talk to some one professionally about that ... little querk .. "a".

Hope you don't mind an American butting in here but I wanted to suggest you talk to Moun10bike. I seem to recall him recently mentioning that he's not using his coins as travel bugs anymore because they seem to drift off anyways. Another thing to keep in mind for travel bugs is that not everyone knows how to log them and at this point seem to have a high tendancy to go MIA. If I were you I would definitely go for the hole in the coin so that you can attach some sort of laminated instruction card if you are going to use them as travel bugs. Just sharing my thoughts.

This thread might help. Also you can talk about triangulation as well, since the GPS receiver is kind of using "reverse triangulation" to determine it's own location. Here's my take on triangulation. Just a couple of thoughts... ------------------ Markwell My GPS Activity Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt [This message has been edited by Markwell (edited 23 January 2002).]

that AOL and Yahoo Instant Messanger do not. I am also one that will NOT install either of them on my computer. I have ICQ, and do not want a conflicting client. I use ICQ with BuddyPhone to talk to my dad for free! mIRC is easy to download and configure, and I am sure many people would help if assistance was needed. I also used ClayJar's Java link with great success. Totally AWESOME. Tons of fun. See ya next week... mtn-man from the GGA! [This message has been edited by mtn-man (edited 22 January 2002).]

that AOL and Yahoo Instant Messanger do not. I am also one that will NOT install either of them on my computer. I have ICQ, and do not want a conflicting client. I use ICQ with BuddyPhone to talk to my dad for free! mIRC is easy to download and configure, and I am sure many people would help if assistance was needed. I also used ClayJar's Java link with great success. Totally AWESOME. Tons of fun. See ya next week... mtn-man from the GGA! [This message has been edited by mtn-man (edited 22 January 2002).]

I am posting late, but what a blast!!! I thought it was so funny when someone said, "So where is everyone from?" ZIP, ZIP, ZIP goes the scrolling screen. Wheeeee! Excellent job, ClayJar. I know the GGA members would be honored to participate in a future moderated session. Last night was pretty much a fun free for all. It will be too cool to see Jeremy in there if he can check in next week. Everyone will freak out! Last but not least, chat does offer some interactivity that AOL and Yahoo Instant Messanger do not. I am also one that will NOT install either of them on my computer. I have ICQ, and do not want a conflicting client. I use ICQ with BuddyPhone to talk to my dad for free! mIRC is easy to download and configure, and I am sure many people would help if assistance was needed. I also used ClayJar's Java link with great success. Totally AWESOME. Tons of fun. See ya next week... mtn-man from the GGA! [This message has been edited by mtn-man (edited 22 January 2002).]

I am posting late, but what a blast!!! I thought it was so funny when someone said, "So where is everyone from?" ZIP, ZIP, ZIP goes the scrolling screen. Wheeeee! Excellent job, ClayJar. I know the GGA members would be honored to participate in a future moderated session. Last night was pretty much a fun free for all. It will be too cool to see Jeremy in there if he can check in next week. Everyone will freak out! Last but not least, chat does offer some interactivity that AOL and Yahoo Instant Messanger do not. I am also one that will NOT install either of them on my computer. I have ICQ, and do not want a conflicting client. I use ICQ with BuddyPhone to talk to my dad for free! mIRC is easy to download and configure, and I am sure many people would help if assistance was needed. I also used ClayJar's Java link with great success. Totally AWESOME. Tons of fun. See ya next week... mtn-man from the GGA! [This message has been edited by mtn-man (edited 22 January 2002).]

quote:Originally posted by Rich in NEPA: Max, most of the Garmin units will talk directly to each other, and Garmin sells a simple GPSR-GPSR cable. I've already done it with my 12XL and map76 a couple of times, as well as swapping waypoints with friends in the field. It's definitely a very handy feature. Other than that, I've been using G7toWin on my laptop for general waypoint, route and track management, and to exchange data between MapTech's Terrain Navigator program as well as to/from my GPSR units when I'm home. Programs such as G7toWin and EasyGPS, to name just two, are genuinely helpful and easy to use. Cheers ... Can you transfer waypoints from GPS to GPS on Garmin models such as the eMap, Etrex series, or GPS V? If so, what GPS menu option do you use? I have read the manuals for many of these models and have not seen this option mentioned. Steve Simpkin

dude, bunk, why not talk to those 2 goys that hide them???

quote:Originally posted by Max Wedge:Or better yet, maybe a direct link GPS to GPS? Max, most of the Garmin units will talk directly to each other, and Garmin sells a simple GPSR-GPSR cable. I've already done it with my 12XL and map76 a couple of times, as well as swapping waypoints with friends in the field. It's definitely a very handy feature. Other than that, I've been using G7toWin on my laptop for general waypoint, route and track management, and to exchange data between MapTech's Terrain Navigator program as well as to/from my GPSR units when I'm home. Programs such as G7toWin and EasyGPS, to name just two, are genuinely helpful and easy to use. Cheers ... ------------------ ~Rich in NEPA~ ==================================================================== ? A man with a GPS receiver knows where he is; a man with two GPS receivers is never sure. ? ====================================================================