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Any idea why when I sent waypoints to my GPSr (Magellan Meridian Platnum) the first 200 are fine, but after that the description field is empty?

I believe that is a shortcoming of the Magellan GPSr's.

GrandpaKim's right; although Magellans allow for 500 waypoints per file, only 200 of them can have comments. If you are using DirectRoute autorouting, you might see the turn instructions lose the street names because of this.

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GaryAZ

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When I look at  http://gsak.net/help/hs2000.htm, it shows the Waypoints in the  GCXXXX format.  I would like to get there.

Click on View

 

Click on Add/Delete Columns...

 

Click the little box next to Code so that there's a check mark there

 

Click on the OK button

 

You should now have a column titled Code

I may have not explained my problem very well. I have a column headed "Code", a column headed "Waypoint name" and a column headed "Smart Name". This is basically the same as the display in FAQ at http://gsak.net/help/hs2000.htm. My problem is that the column headed "Code" ,with my data, does NOT display GCXXXX as shown in the FAQ. Rather it displays information very similar to the information in the column headed "Smart name". In my column headed "Code", I would like the GCXXXX to appear and I can't figure out how to make the change. I'm sure it can be done because it is shown in the FAQ. Appreciate your patience with my post.

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ClydeE

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When I look at  http://gsak.net/help/hs2000.htm, it shows the Waypoints in the  GCXXXX format.  I would like to get there.

Click on View

 

Click on Add/Delete Columns...

 

Click the little box next to Code so that there's a check mark there

 

Click on the OK button

 

You should now have a column titled Code

I may have not explained my problem very well. I have a column headed "Code", a column headed "Waypoint name" and a column headed "Smart Name". This is basically the same as the display in FAQ at http://gsak.net/help/hs2000.htm. My problem is that the column headed "Code" ,with my data, does NOT display GCXXXX as shown in the FAQ. Rather it displays information very similar to the information in the column headed "Smart name". In my column headed "Code", I would like the GCXXXX to appear and I can't figure out how to make the change. I'm sure it can be done because it is shown in the FAQ. Appreciate your patience with my post.

You can't change this in the way you are asking.

 

The information in the code column comes from the GPX file that you load.

 

The the problem would appear to be the GPX file you loaded into GSAK in the first place.

 

Any GPX file sent from Groundspeak will use the GCXXXXX code, so the implication of your problem is that you loaded a GPX file from a third party or you have used some utility to generate the GPX file which does not have the GCXXXX code.

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GaryAZ

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Gary. I'd suggest loading a new pocket query GPX file into a new database and see if you get what you want.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have been playing with this PQ and maybe I corrupted it. Will see what happens and let you know..

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ClydeE

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I turned off my NAV and my firewall, uninstalled, reinstalled, and still no luck. It immediately says (not responding) as soon as I open it. Anyone else have any advice?

Did youy turn off NAV while actually trying to run GSAK.

 

Every case I have come up when this happens is because of real time scanning in the virus scanner. Usually it is just sufficient to exempt the GSAK install folder from real time scanning. In just about all cases, once GSAK starts up the first time, from then on it is ok - so you could try booting to safe mode and try to get it to load at least once.

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Ranboze

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New WPs in a dowload

Apologies for this lame question, but it's been bugging me and Im just not understanding the help screens.

 

When I load a PQ to an existing database, I want to be able to quickly and visually identify new waypoints that have been added, e.g., what caches are there now that weren't there before. I've tried clicking on Set User Flag as well as and ONLY update if user flag is matched, but each time, a flag is set for waypoints that already existed in the database, even though there's no new logs for them. How do I get the user flag to mark only the NEW waypoints that have been added?

 

I know there is a really simple fix, but Im just not gettin' it.

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GeoJunkie

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New WPs in a dowload

Apologies for this lame question, but it's been bugging me and Im just not understanding the help screens.

 

When I load a PQ to an existing database, I want to be able to quickly and visually identify new waypoints that have been added, e.g., what caches are there now that weren't there before. I've tried clicking on Set User Flag as well as and ONLY update if user flag is matched, but each time, a flag is set for waypoints that already existed in the database, even though there's no new logs for them. How do I get the user flag to mark only the NEW waypoints that have been added?

 

I know there is a really simple fix, but Im just not gettin' it.

There's a third box: "Clear all user flags first". If you check that box, then at the end, only the caches added by the PQ you're loading will be checked.

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beejay&esskay

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New WPs in a dowload

  How do I get the user flag to mark only the NEW waypoints that have been added?

 

I know there is a really simple fix, but Im just not gettin' it.

There's a third box: "Clear all user flags first". If you check that box, then at the end, only the caches added by the PQ you're loading will be checked.

No, any waypoint in the PQ will be checked, not just the new ones.

 

The way I handle this is a filter "created today" that has as its only selection "date created during the last 1 day".

 

Clearly that won't be looking at just the last update, but it gives me what I need.

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GrandpaKim

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New WPs in a dowload

Apologies for this lame question, but it's been bugging me and Im just not understanding the help screens.

 

When I load a PQ to an existing database, I want to be able to quickly and visually identify new waypoints that have been added, e.g., what caches are there now that weren't there before. I've tried clicking on Set User Flag as well as and ONLY update if user flag is matched, but each time, a flag is set for waypoints that already existed in the database, even though there's no new logs for them.  How do I get the user flag to mark only the NEW waypoints that have been added?

 

I know there is a really simple fix, but Im just not gettin' it.

There's a box titled Add Only under Database update options. What you will need to do is load the file twice.

 

The first time with Add Only checked and Set user flag checked (and optionally Clear all user flags first checked). This will load and check only new waypoints.

 

For the second time loading, chech Newer only and uncheck Set user flag. This will load the other waypoints and update your database, but will not check them or uncheck your additions.

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Ranboze

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There's a box titled Add Only under Database update options. What you will need to do is load the file twice.

 

The first time with Add Only checked and Set user flag checked (and optionally Clear all user flags first checked). This will load and check only new waypoints.

 

For the second time loading, chech Newer only and uncheck Set user flag. This will load the other waypoints and update your database, but will not check them or uncheck your additions.

I think that does the trick. THANX so much. B)

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soreyes

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I am using GSAK to export HTML files for use on my Nokia 3650. On the device I use Doris browser to view the HTML and it work great. I have a question about the Custom URLs. I would like to have a link to the live cache page on the wap.geocaching.com site available within each cache page. I have the link appearing, but the wap. part seems to be ignored by GSAK and I go right to the geocaching.com html pages rather than wap. The full html is too much data for the little browser to display efficiently.

 

I believe that having 'Custom waypoints' checked within the HTML export is what created the waypoint. Here is what I have within Custom URLs in the settings area:

Geocaching.com=http://wap.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=%code

 

The link being generated by GSAK looks like this:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d4-b3fbca227c97

 

Where am I going wrong.

 

 

(Note that i edited this question about 10 minyes after I first posted it after realizing what the generated link looked like.)

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ClydeE

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I believe that having 'Custom waypoints' checked within the HTML export is what created the waypoint.

No, the link you refer to is generated when you tick this box:

 

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If you want custom Url's to show in your HTML you need to go one step further than just ticking this box (notice the ! after include):

 

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Click on help, then click on the help hot link topic for this box. (it you don't know how to use the "hot link" feature in for help dialogs please see this post

 

Now you will then get this help box:

 

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For example, to show MapQuest as a link in your generated HTML then your custom URL should be:

 

!MapQuest=http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=%lat&longitude=%lon

 

Long winded answer (done so for clarity), but in a nutshell the solution is to just prefix your custom URL with ! (exclamation mark) B)

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ClydeE

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Clyde, I'm using 6.0.2 Build 24, and just noticed that the difficulty and terrain ratings don't show up on printed output. Is this normal?

The difficulty and terrain stars are removed from the condensed print to keep it, er.., condensed :rolleyes:

 

If you want to know the difficulty and terrain of a cache in this print you can alter your default description format for HTML

 

Go to Tools=>Options=>HTML and change your "Waypoint description for HTML" to:

 

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WascoZooKeeper

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Clyde, I'm using 6.0.2 Build 24, and just noticed that the difficulty and terrain ratings don't show up on printed output. Is this normal?

The difficulty and terrain stars are removed from the condensed print to keep it, er.., condensed :rolleyes:

 

If you want to know the difficulty and terrain of a cache in this print you can alter your default description format for HTML

 

Go to Tools=>Options=>HTML and change your "Waypoint description for HTML" to:

 

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Cool. Thanks.

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ClydeE

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Google Earth

 

This free tool is proving to be popular and I am considering a native export in the next version.

 

However, for those that "want it now" you can download the GoogleEarth.txt macro from http://gsak.net/Macros.php

 

This macro will automatically generate a temporary KML file, then show these waypoints in GE. The macro currently just sends down all the waypoints in your current filter, but it would not be hard to alter the selection if needed.

 

If this is a macro you would like to use often, then just add it to your tool bar..

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Flyfishermanbob

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Is there a loophole in how GSAK handles PQ's...?

 

If this has been covered before ,I apologise, cant see anything similar....

 

I'm using version 6.0.2, and found that one of the newer caches I had on the database had the wrong co-ordinates , it seems that the co-ordinates had been updated 2 days after the cache had been originally published but despite at least 7 PQs successfully running ( they updated the logs in GSAK ) the co-ords remained with the originals .....

 

I downloaded the GPX file from the cache page, and imported it , and lo and behold the co-ords were corrected ...

 

(ps I have the update "always" option selected )....

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ClydeE

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Is there a loophole in how GSAK handles PQ's...?

 

If this has been covered before ,I apologise, cant see anything similar....

 

I'm using version 6.0.2, and found that one of the newer caches I had on the database had the wrong co-ordinates , it seems that the co-ordinates had been updated 2 days after the cache had been originally published but despite at least 7 PQs successfully running ( they updated the logs in GSAK ) the co-ords remained with the originals .....

 

I downloaded the GPX file from the cache page, and imported it , and lo and behold the co-ords were corrected ...

 

(ps I have the update "always" option selected )....

No, I am not aware of any such issue.

 

I suspect the cache in question was not in your PQ's any more (pushed beyond the 500 limit).

 

Please open up one of the Later PQ's you loaded and interrogate it to see if the cache is actually there (if it is, check the coordinates)

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Flyfishermanbob

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No, I am not aware of any such issue.

 

I suspect the cache in question was not in your PQ's any more (pushed beyond the 500 limit).

 

Please open up one of the Later PQ's you loaded and interrogate it to see if the cache is actually there (if it is, check the coordinates)

Thanks for the prompt reply Clyde,

 

I've checked this, and the point is in the PQ and it has the corrected co-ords....

 

Curiouser and curiouser

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ClydeE

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No, I am not aware of any such issue.

 

I suspect the cache in question was not in your PQ's any more (pushed beyond the 500 limit).

 

Please open up one of the Later PQ's you loaded and interrogate it to see if the cache is actually there (if it is, check the coordinates)

Thanks for the prompt reply Clyde,

 

I've checked this, and the point is in the PQ and it has the corrected co-ords....

 

Curiouser and curiouser

Ok, see if you can duplicate the problem.

 

Start GSAK and edit the cache back to the original coordinates (or just something different).

 

Now load this PQ (select update always) - do the coordinates change to the correct ones?

 

If they don't then please take a backup of just this one database (File=>Backup) and make sure you tick the settings box. Now email me the generated zip file together with the GPX file you are loading and I will see if I can get to the bottom of it.

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GrandpaKim

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Is there any way to download a .gpx file for a waypoint from within a macro? What I'm doing is setting a filter, Last GPX > 7, which displays all waypoints that haven't been updated in the last 7 days. Then I click on Online waypoint URL and see if the waypoint has been archived. If it has, then I download the gpx file and click on the user flag. If it hasn't, then I download the gpx file and load it, thus removing it from the display. After I have done this for all waypoints in the display, I run a macro that moves all of the user ticked waypoints (archived) out of my database and into my Archived database and loads all of the archived waypoints' gpx files.

 

If there was a way to download the gpx files from within the macro, it would sure cut out a lot of manual intervention on my part.

 

Thanks.

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ClydeE

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Is there any way to download a .gpx file for a waypoint from within a macro? What I'm doing is setting a filter, Last GPX > 7, which displays all waypoints that haven't been updated in the last 7 days. Then I click on Online waypoint URL and see if the waypoint has been archived. If it has, then I download the gpx file and click on the user flag. If it hasn't, then I download the gpx file and load it, thus removing it from the display. After I have done this for all waypoints in the display, I run a macro that moves all of the user ticked waypoints (archived) out of my database and into my Archived database and loads all of the archived waypoints' gpx files.

 

If there was a way to download the gpx files from within the macro, it would sure cut out a lot of manual intervention on my part.

 

Thanks.

Sadly this issue would not arise if Groundspeak would send archived caches in a PQ (or at the very least, give us some way to automatically shoot them down). Unfortunately this has been asked many times and they won't budge on it.

 

As for downloading the GPX file from the cache page, there is no way of automating this process (without violating the TOU) that I am aware of.

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robertlipe

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Sadly this issue would not arise if Groundspeak would send archived caches in a PQ (or at the very least, give us some way to automatically shoot them down). Unfortunately this has been asked many times and they won't budge on it.

Now that GSAK knows how to fetch and, at least to some degree, parse email, there's another possibility...

 

Is there enough text in an insta-notify message that if an insta-notify were set for an area that overlapped the PQ that GSAK could read the IN message and update archive/disable status?

 

For this to work, there has to be a common key between the INs and the PQs. If, for example, the IN contains only the GUID (don't know) and the PQ contains only the GCID (it does - GUID isn't there) there's not a practical way to connect them.

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ClydeE

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Sadly this issue would not arise if Groundspeak would send archived caches in a PQ (or at the very least, give us some way to automatically shoot them down). Unfortunately this has been asked many times and they won't budge on it.

Now that GSAK knows how to fetch and, at least to some degree, parse email, there's another possibility...

 

Is there enough text in an insta-notify message that if an insta-notify were set for an area that overlapped the PQ that GSAK could read the IN message and update archive/disable status?

 

Good question - I honestly don't know.

 

Perhaps if someone could email me a copy of an "insta notify" message of an archived cache so I can iterrogate and see if this is possilble.

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ClydeE

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Hey Clyde,

 

Is there a place to add your Username and Password in GSAK so when you load the online waypoint URL in your GSAK window, it will log you on instead of giving you the "This cache is for premium members only" message?

 

Thx

No, you must do this manually (but check the box to remember you and you shouldn't have to do it again)

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ProsperoDK

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Hey Clyde,

 

Is there a place to add your Username and Password in GSAK so when you load the online waypoint URL in your GSAK window, it will log you on instead of giving you the "This cache is for premium members only" message?

 

Thx

I don't think you can do it in GSAK but when you log on to geocaching.com you can place at tick-mark in the "remember me (requires cookies)" box, then when you open an online waypoint URL you are already logged in.

 

I know it works in IE but I think it should work in firefox and netscape too.

 

ProsperoDK/René

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Vater und Sohn

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@all

sorry for my bad english.

 

i use gsak and gpxsonar (on ppc)

in gpxsonar i setting a corrected coordinates (field notes - actual coords) for a cache.

at finished my cachetour, i export field notes

then i import this export file in gsak

the coordinates was not updated in gsak

 

why??????

 

thx for help

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ClydeE

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i use gsak and gpxsonar (on ppc)

in gpxsonar i setting a corrected coordinates (field notes - actual coords) for a cache.

at finished my cachetour, i export field notes

then i import this export file in gsak

the coordinates was not updated in gsak

 

why??????

 

Corrected coordinates from GPXSonar are not supported at this time.

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CompuCash

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Clyde - this is an IN I got today -

 

This is an automated message from Geocaching

 

Location: California, United States

8.9mi SE (14.3km SE)

Krypton published Model Mariners (Traditional Cache) at 10/3/2005

 

Log Date: 10/3/2005

Published

 

Visit this log entry at the below address:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...31-c345177ec663

 

Visit Traditional Cache

Model Mariners

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...89-c1777eb5ef65

 

Profile for Krypton:

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=51...a9-cd5f764da754

 

Notification: New Notification

http://www.geocaching.com/notify/edit.aspx?NID=11789

 

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ClydeE

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Yes, it is a real bummer. No where is the GCXXXX code. They use that horrible GUID, but they don't provide it in the GPX file.

 

I could get around this via a "Kludge" using the URL but I am not happy about this as it could be broken at any time.

 

I won't give up hope, but as the "Insta notify" feature is still in beta I will wait until it is stable before I commit to anything on this.

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ClydeE

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Is it possible for GSAK to delete the gpx-files that I automaticly download via mail to GSAK after they have been installed?

Yes.

 

When you run the your automatic mail download there is a settings option for the load:

 

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Just make sure these settings have been saved with this load option ticked:

 

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Vater und Sohn

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i use gsak and gpxsonar (on ppc)

in gpxsonar i setting a corrected coordinates (field notes - actual coords) for a cache.

at finished my cachetour, i export field notes

then i import this export file in gsak

the coordinates was not updated in gsak

 

why??????

 

Corrected coordinates from GPXSonar are not supported at this time.

kindly let me know when you can deliver the goods :)

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g-o-cashers

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I have a question about user notes vs user data in GSAK. I would like to do this:

 

1) Tag the caches in my master GSAK database with some user "tags".

2) I would like to easily include these tags in a csv export file so I can use them in Excel

3) In GSAK I would like to be able to sort, filter, etc on these tags. It would be nice if I could see them in the summary view.

4) Since I have multiple computers each with a database I would like to easily be able to export the caches which have tags and import the tags to my other databases.

 

Seems like using the "user data" field gets me 1), 2) and 3).

 

Using "user notes" gets me 1) and 4). It doesn't seem like you can export the notes in the csv format and it doesn't appear to be a field in the database that you can filter and search on.

 

So my question is there an easy way to export just my user data into my other GSAK databases? If I exported to a GPX file and imported it into my other databases would that do the trick?

 

What I really need is a networked database synchronization feature!!! Any plans for that Clyde?!

 

Thanks,

GO$Rs.

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