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Fra le tante novità su www.geocaching.it volevo segnalare quella della funzione Cerca-Chiama-Cache! Quante volte, di fronte a una cache apparentemente introvabile, hai sentito la necessità di contattare il proprietario o un amico geocacher che c'è riuscito prima di te? Quante volte hai dovuto rinunciarvi perché non avevi il numero della persona giusta o chi ti avrebbe potuto aiutare non era reperibile? CCC ti consente di chiedere aiuto a un'intera community di geocacher mentre stai cercando una cache particolarmente difficile. È sufficiente disporre di una connessione Internet o, in alternativa, di un semplice elenco contatti salvato sul dispositivo. CCC è anche disponibile come app per telefoni Android! Naturalmente completamente gratuito. Occorre però registrarsi su geocaching.it per poter utilizzare CCC per Android. In soli 2 giorni di iscrizioni a questa funzionalità il numero di cache 'coperte' da CCC è già salito a 846! Quindi per il 13% delle cache italiane potrai metterti in contatto (via cellulare, SMS, Twitter o email) con chi ha già trovato la cache che stai cercando. E questa percentuale naturalmente non farà altro che salire ancora, ad esempio grazie alla tua stessa iscrizione

My Android Geocaching app of choice is GeoHunter, which uses Pocket Queries (requires premium membership.) Does everything well, even field notes that can either be saved to a file and uploaded to geocaching.com later or sent on the fly via SMS (text messaging.) I use c:geo to load a few caches on the fly from geocaching.com without having to run a PQ or transfer files, but this requires a data connection with a good signal and drains the battery faster. (You can store the caches for later and/or import PQ/GPX files.) Comes in handy to touch the cache URL in an email and have it load up on the device right away, especially for FTF attempts. However, to mark a cache as found, you must log an entry that is posted real-time on the geocaching.com cache page (again, requires data connection and drains battery.) You could save the log to post later, however, apparently there isn't a field notes feature. Another program that I pretty much keep just for backup is Columbus. It has an attractive interface and nice features, now even shows live online map like c:geo as well as post logs directly to geocaching.com, but it does not show recent logs for imported PQ/GPX files. I don't know why, but you have to press the Logs button from the menu and then it will download the last few logs from geocaching.com. If you want to view the cache hint, you must press the Hint button in the menu. The hint will then be displayed on the screen for three seconds. No field notes and buggy GPX import process (required third-party file manager that converts spaces in the folder/file name to %20 that you must then manually change back to a space.) Two things that I really like about Columbus: 1) all waypoints can be shown on the map along with the geocaches, which is useful for locating parking and other points of reference at a glance without having to go through each cache; 2) in addition to the list of imported/saved caches, Columbus also provides a Travel Bug inventory list from all of the caches.

There's many different ways of getting twitter messages. You can get them as SMS to your phone if you want, or you can run a dedicated application on your PC. You can also just look at the website, get it as RSS, as email, or pretty much any other way that you'd like. Most applications are 3rd party tools thanks to their open API, pretty much anything is possible. Just looking at what Maingray posted earlier in the thread even those other sites are not often updated.

There's many different ways of getting twitter messages. You can get them as SMS to your phone if you want, or you can run a dedicated application on your PC. You can also just look at the website, get it as RSS, as email, or pretty much any other way that you'd like. Most applications are 3rd party tools thanks to their open API, pretty much anything is possible.

Most US carriers have an email address that will send an sms or mms (I prefer mms because the links are clickable) to your phone. I have Sprint and use their mms address for my phone number to get notifications to my phone. Go here to find the one for you carrier.

You need to be a premium member. If you are, go here: http://www.geocaching.com/notify/default.aspx Create a new notification. Name it (something like: New Listing [Traditional]). Select the cache type you want to be notified about, then select publish from the checkboxes. Your home coordinates should already be filled in if you have entered them before. Set your distance (default is 10, I do 25). To have it texted to you, there are a few ways. You can set the next field, the Send To:, to your phone's email. Check here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/ to see what your carriers is. I have AT&T, so I (used to) have mine sent to 1234567890@mms.att.net I changed to a better way, though. I now have it sent to my normal e-mail, which is through gmail, and set up a filter for gmail to forward anything with "[GEO] Notify" in the subject line to my phone's email address. This makes it so I save a copy in my gmail and get it on my phone. I know this is confusing so if you have any Q's just ask.

Hi Dewns, I understand what you mean. I think you're asking if you can both get email and also a text or SMS message sent to your phone. The answer is that you can, and there are a number of different ways to accomplish this. The most effective may be to set up an auto-forward rule for your incoming mail that will send anything meeting particular criteria (sender, subject line) to an email address linked to your phone's texting function. All of the major carriers support this. What email service do you use, and can I assume you're using an AT&T phone?

Nálam is visszaáll 80km-re. Gondolom szándékos, hogy ne okozzon túl nagy szerverterhelést. 80-nal tobbre nem lehet allitani. Nekem az is boven eleg, mivel a mail-t direkt olyan email cimre kuldetem, ahol azonnal kapok SMS ertesitest. Azonban van par otlet a feedbackben, melyell az ertesitesek jobbak lennenek, ezekre erdemes szavazni szerintem. Pl. http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1057923-add-further-cache-details-into-notification-mail?ref=title http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1175201-more-notification-options?ref=title http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/1187935-notifications-by-state-country?ref=title

http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/ Also, if you have MMS on your phone, using the MMS gateway address (for example phonenumber@vzwpix.com) will get you more characters than the SMS gateway.

Az ördög ügyvédje még nem szólt... - pocket query: Én szeretek minden egyes ládaoldalt megnézni, mert - ha nem is olvasol végig a leírást - tudom, hogy hová megyek s a láda miért is van ott. A PQ-val nagy a csábítás arra, hogy kimenj, beszedj 30-50-100 ládát s azt sem tudod, miket láttál, jó jó lehet velem vitatkozni, a láda nevére ki-ki talán emlékszik. Típus szerint szűrni pedig úgy is lehet, hogy ránézel a térképre s a mystery s egyéb csalafintább rejtéseket meg meg sem nézed. -könyvjelző: Énnekem eddig bőven elegendő volt a rendes tagsági könyvjelző mennyiség, nem is tudom, mennyi a felső határ. Láttam rengeteg bogarat s érmét PM nélkül is. - statisztika: Készítettem magamnak. Az meg például nem érdekel, hogy mi a legészakabbra fekvő megtalált ládám, ahogy az sem, hogy earthcache micsoda master vagyok, azt nehogy már ők mondják meg. - sms/email új ládáról: Anélkül is van már vagy 10 FTF-em s amúgy is, elég sűrűn nézem a térképet. - com támogatása: 30 USD/év az nem sok, még magyar szemmel nézve sem. Ettől függetlenül én ne fizettem még nekik. Úgy is csak olyan változtatásokat eszközölnek, amelyek nem tetszenek. Milyen jó is volt a régi honlap felépítése... Ah... Majd ha magyarul is elérhető az oldal, talán átgondolom ismét. Csupán szeretek vitatkozni...

A geocaching.com nem kuld SMS ertesitot, csak egy e-mailt. Az SMS ertesito ugy mukodik, hogy az email ertesito kuldesehez egy olyan postafiokot adsz meg, aminel van SMS ertesito szolgaltatas. Ott be van allitva egy szuro segitsegevel, hogy ha ilyen email erkezik, kuldjon egy SMS-t. Amit en a PM-ben kihasznalok: - pocket query - konnyen letoltom pl. az adott ponttol 30 km-es korzetben az osszes olyan kest, ami erdekel (be lehet allitani szurok segitsegevel), foleg olyan varosban jo ez, ahol tobb mint 1-2 kess van, - bookmark - listak letrehozasa, pl. nekem van egy origami es egy komaromi erodredszer listam, - nincsenek reklamcsikok a keresesnel a ladak kozott, - lehet szurni a ladakat a terkepen is tipus szerint, - es persze a mar emlitett ertesito - nekem erre kulon email cimem van, amirol mindjart kapok SMS-t is, ha megjelenik a lakhelyem kornyeken uj lada. Raadasul, a PM-el tamogatom az oldal fejleszteset is, es amint latni, foglalkoznak az oldallal es folyamatosan fejlesztik.

No need for a workaround. Just type the verification address the system sends to your phone into the browser on your computer. Well, with gmail, Yahoo, or some other web-based email account, wouldn't you still have a "copy" of all the emails when you log in on the web? And you could just reply to that email? I wouldn't think SMS forwarding would remove the emails from the Yahoo or Gmail inbox. But I'm just muddying the waters here, OP said "problem solved".

Well, what you would get is the first 160 characters of the standard cache notification email converted to a text message. So you tell us your provider, we use the sms list wiki link a couple of posts up, and help you do it. Unless you've already figured it out.

You can send an SMS text via email. Here is a list of the address to use based on the provider: SMS List Wiki.

Some cell providers assign unique email addresses to their phone numbers that can be used to send SMS messages through email. Who is your service provider?

The below links show the track points and check-in/OK message points. The PN-60w/Spot Communicator (SC) are actually two separate devices communicating together via a wireless link (not Bluetooth). The SC is able to act as a standalone albeit a bit more limited than when it is connected to the PN. As a standalone, it sends track points and can send an SOS with a pre-defined message every 5 minutes until the batteries die or until you cancel the send. Connected, you have 14 pre-defined canned messages you can send to a group from a pre-defined list of up to 10 groups and you can include Twitter and Facebook and Spot Adventures. I'm not sure if it is enabled yet, but You will be are able to log geocaches with the Spot through your GC account. This is all through the GlobalStar satellite network. Messages can be sent to Email or SMS text messages to a phone as well as the social networks. The custom messages cost $.50 per message. The canned messages is part of the basic plan. On both hikes noted below, I had about an 80% success rate in heavy rain forest foliage and tight terrain along with severe inclement weather. One of the messages I sent from the Hoh River Trail was custom typed and sent while rehydrating dinner at camp, the rest were canned. On Baker Lake, all but 2 or 3 messages I sent were custom typed from the PN and sent to the SC for broadcast. Most messaging needs can be easily handled by carefully thought out canned messages. East Shore Upper Baker Lake Hoh Rain Forest The areas of failure were either due to bad postioning in my backpack (the first 2 hours of the Hoh River hike), or very limited sky (tight ravines at Baker Lake) and occasionally, densely populated forests where the standing trees literally blocked the view of all but a sliver of the sky. My observation was if the PN was able to receive a decent 3D signal of 4 bars or more with as low as 20% signal strength, chances were good I was able to send out a message. I had an opportunity to try the Spot I after it was out for a while and I was pretty disappointed. I had no desire to touch the Spot II with the publicized issues it had. The SC is a little smaller in size than the Spot II, pretty rugged, and the LED lights make it very clear what it is doing at the time messages or track points are being sent. The only problem is there is no feedback to indicate the message was successfully sent. This is strictly a one-way device. This made me nervous on the Baker Lake hike, but I was pretty confident for most of the hike on the Hoh that my messages were getting out. When I reached the Jeep at the trailhead on Baker Lake and sent out a message that I was OK and heading home, my daughter left me VM on my cell for when I got back in range (45 minutes out of range from above the dam) to join her for dinner. How cool was that? My wife has given me grief when it has taken me well after dark before I can get within cell phone range to let her know I'm off the trail and Ok. Getting out of Hoh to Forks was pushing an hour. From Twin Falls Lake trailhead off the Granite Falls mountain loop highway was almost 2 hours out. With the SC and the PN, she knows immediately and has no problem sleeping peacefully well before I get home. When a check-in/OK message is sent, it actually sends three times over a 20 minute period for redundancy and picks up the coordinates from the PN so you can type and send on the fly providing your SC is properly positioned for the send. Track points are made every 10 minutes (non-adjustable). Once you start the SC to send track points, you can disable the wireless and the PN will hand off the responsibility to the SC to act as a standalone. If you don't, you also gain a history that you can save as waypoints and sync it to your included Topo software. A couple of things to be aware of when making your purchasing decisions. 1. You can buy the PN-60w as a separate device, but you are currently unable to buy the SC separately from the PN. This may change in the future and may require proof of purchase of the wireless PN. The other iterations of Spot will not be able to communicate with the 60. It's a hardware issue that cannot be upgraded by firmware. 2. There is an annual service. Current pricing for everything except Spot Assist will run you about $230 per year. That includes insurance for 2 rescues up to $25K each and insurance for product replacement (Spot only). It also includes 500 custom type and send messages and track progress. The basic service of 99.99 will allow SOS, Help, Check-in/OK, custom canned messaged to family and friends and posting to the social networks and logging your finds on GC. 3. Standby time is considerably shorter than the 1 year most folks are accustomed to with the previous iterations of Spot; about 4 months. Overall, I'm impressed with the device, and won't hit a trail without it.

I am looking for a way to correct the same problem. My validating SMS said "(Validation Instructions) Greetings from Groundspeak Just one more step to validate your account. Click the link below: http://www.geocaching.c" Then I ran out of room for the text message. and did not have the rest of the needed address. Any idea how to correct this, or a work around? Thanks I forwarded the messages to my home email address, then I pasted it all together with Notepad and used that in my browser to validate. Worked pretty good for me and I'm using a Razor VE20.

All of the notifications sent out are emails. SMS is not a direct option. You will need to use the SMS Gateway for your carrier if you want them sent as SMS. Note that SMS will typically be limited in length. Using the MMS address (if you have that option) will give you more characters. Here's a list of gateways for various carriers. http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/

There is a new problem with the SMS. When You enter new email address they ask for You to validate the email address. but when you try most phone shorten the email address. That stops You from validating the email. Any way to fix that?

You can set up a new notification for published caches by checking the publish type when setting up a new notification. To have it sent to you as a text, you need to know the sms email routing name for your cell carrier. example 123-456-7890@vtext.com. The numbers would be your phone number. Other carriers can be googled im sure. I hope that helps!

Hi Mark, you know how to get an automatic SMS text notification ? No sorry, I've not tried to do that. I believe the SMS notification available on Geocachinc.com is only available in the USA. If you have an Email provider who does SMS notifications you could set that up to trigger on receipt of a notification Email.

After update was added secondary e-mail validation. I used mobile e-mail to sms at my mobile operator, every mail which come to this mail address are send to mobile phone as sms, but there are sent only first 60 characters. Than I´m not able to validate this e-mail addres!!! There is no mail box, only resend to mobile phone.

where does it say USA only? works anywhere as long as your phone can receive emails as SMS http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/

sure can, you set up Notification http://www.geocaching.com/my/subscription.aspx Instant Log Notification Feature you will choose "Log type(s): Publish Listing" you will have to set up a separate notification for each cache type though no need for iPhone, you can get the notifications as SMS to a cell phone if you have one, you just have to figure out what your sms gateway is and enter that number instead of your email, otherwise you get regular emails here is the list of known gateways http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/

Get the application Geocache Navigator by Trimble ($19.99 BlackBerry App World) and you'll be able to access maps, compass, radar, hints, logs, descriptions right on your BlackBerry. As for accessing this site: The BlackBerry browser leaves a lot to be desired. It's good for mobile sites, not so much with full sites, especially image heavy sites. Try using uZard Web or Bolt Browser instead for full web sites. uZard supports Flash. It's beta however and needs some work. Bolt has been out a while and is very quick and renders sites PC style. Another nice feature of Bolt is you can download a plugin that adds "Open With Bolt" in your BlackBerry menu. Then when you get a link sent by email, SMS, BBM you can highlight the link, press Menu, Open With Bolt. If you download the add on, when you click on links in your email Bolt will launch to open the link. Bolt Plug-In Launcher i hope the BlackBerry browser is upgraded very soon (webkit).