"send To Phone"

[H to the Bizzle!]

Looks like a new feature was just added, I'm guessing making it possible to send cache info. to cell-phones.

[+ChileHead]

Looks like a new feature was just added, I'm guessing making it possible to send cache info. to cell-phones.

 

Cool! I'll definitely be using that!

[+ChileHead]

... or not. Not sure what a Trimble phone is.

[Pto]

... or not. Not sure what a Trimble phone is.

 

OK, I thought I saw it earlier from work, but now at home Im not seeing it.....

Some reference points, please?

Sorry to look like a fool- but i have to upgrade this machine to match my work one- this is just getting too confusing!

 

Edit to include I am using Newest Firefix, and even looked at it in ie( )

Edited March 29, 2006 by Pto

[+cache_test_dummies]

... or not. Not sure what a Trimble phone is.

 

OK, I thought I saw it earlier from work, but now at home Im not seeing it.....

Some reference points, please?

Are you asking for a reference to the "send to phone" link? Look on a cache page, under the bookmark listing link.

 

A "Trimble phone" is a GPS-enabled cellphone available from Trimble Outdoors.

[Pto]

OK, I thought I saw it earlier from work, but now at home Im not seeing it.....

Some reference points, please?

Are you asking for a reference to the "send to phone" link? Look on a cache page, under the bookmark listing link.

Trimble Outdoors.

 

I was looking for the link, Sorry that was so incredibly vague

 

Ah..... Thaaaaaaaats where it was. Not a software issue- Definately user error....

Thanks!

 

Man, Its really time to go eat!

[+darus67]

Trimble doesn't sell phones.

 

They sell an application for nextel, Sprint, & Boost Mobile phones that allows you to use the phone as a GPSr.

 

I've played with the Silver version of their software on a Boost Mobile pre-paid phone. I even got my first FTF with it.

[+cache_test_dummies]

Ah.

 

Thanks for the clarification, darus67.

[Jeremy]

You can get a Boost GPS enabled cell phone for $45 at Best Buy. I expect that the more GPS is integrated in the bigger services like Verizon and Cingular you'll see more people geocaching with them.

[+darus67]

Too bad you can't send waypoints to the phone via text message and have the GPS application read 'em in.

 

Incoming text messages are free on Boost Mobile

[Jeremy]

Too bad you can't send waypoints to the phone via text message and have the GPS application read 'em in.

 

Incoming text messages are free on Boost Mobile

 

I think I need to play with phones more. Of course the whole deal with cell phone carriers is a different animal entirely.

[+spyder8]

Just discovered the new "send to phone" capability.

I have a Nextel i860 camera phone, with the Trimble Outdoors GPS application,

along with the Trimble Outdoors PC software - called Planner.

 

yup - just tried it -

click on the "send to phone" icon,

enter my Trimble ID & password,

and the cache coords get sent to my phone and entered as a "trip".

 

Then, on my phone, using the phone's Trimble GPS application,

I download the "trip", which is a single cache location,

and then I have a nice list of the cache name & coords.

 

FYI - here is an example of a normal "trip" on the Trimble website -

 

http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/ViewTrip.as...ode=TripDetails

 

There is also a PC application (prior to the "send to phone" option)

where you can layout a trip or waypoints, and then upload/download to your GPS,

or upload/download to your Nextel GPS phone (running Trimble software).

 

That is how I usually handle these elements... photos, text, audio, etc.

[superstition]

Spyder8 - nice way to document a cache trip!

[+spyder8]

hmmm -

After picking a couple of newly listed local area caches,

I just tried the "send to phone" while running some errands.

It does nicely download each cache to the phone as a trip,

with the GCxxxx type name and the text description.

So, that's all fine and good.

BUT - as soon as I went to the GPS phone nav screen

where it shows all the waypoints near you,

BAM - it dawned on me... there is a serious logic flaw !!

 

EACH cache (waypoint) is downloaded as a single waypoint in a unique TRIP.

Therefore, if you download several caches within an area,

you can only see ONE at a time on the screen.

 

Normally, you would use the Trimble Planner to collect all the info,

and then download everything to your phone as a single trip.

However, when attemtping to perform the same task from GC.com,

there is really no way to collect all the caches/waypoints you want,

and then download or somehow "merge" them into a new or existing Trip.

(This may not be technically possible by Trimble,

as everything on the phone is geared to having all the info inside the "Trip").

It's the difference between downloading a single cache entry vs pocket query.

 

So, it seems like a great idea,

but having to go to the GPS Settings page

and swap Trips by selecting a different Trip to see each cache

made it impossible to navigate to the closest cache location....

Unless I'm missing some technique on my GPS i860 phone,

I can't see (literally) any way to display the "send to phone" caches all at once.

 

But it's great for quickly collecting the coords

for a single major cache that you want to find !

Edited March 30, 2006 by spyder8

[+darus67]

Is the "send to phone" feature available in the WAP interface?

[+Marky]

Hmm, I was kinda hoping that the cache description and the first 5 logs would be part of the trip that was downloaded. I guess this isn't quite as neat as I thought it was.

[Jeremy]

Hmm, I was kinda hoping that the cache description and the first 5 logs would be part of the trip that was downloaded. I guess this isn't quite as neat as I thought it was.

 

I send all that information. The capacity of the current version of Trimble Outdoors doesn't support the extra data. They are, however, working on it.

[+Marky]

Hmm, I was kinda hoping that the cache description and the first 5 logs would be part of the trip that was downloaded. I guess this isn't quite as neat as I thought it was.

 

I send all that information. The capacity of the current version of Trimble Outdoors doesn't support the extra data. They are, however, working on it.

That will be hecka cool when that works. That's a lot of cool tech in one little device.

 

--Marky

[+howeler]

hmmm -

After picking a couple of newly listed local area caches,

I just tried the "send to phone" while running some errands.

It does nicely download each cache to the phone as a trip,

with the GCxxxx type name and the text description.

So, that's all fine and good.

BUT - as soon as I went to the GPS phone nav screen

where it shows all the waypoints near you,

BAM - it dawned on me... there is a serious logic flaw !!

 

EACH cache (waypoint) is downloaded as a single waypoint in a unique TRIP.

Therefore, if you download several caches within an area,

you can only see ONE at a time on the screen.

 

Normally, you would use the Trimble Planner to collect all the info,

and then download everything to your phone as a single trip.

However, when attemtping to perform the same task from GC.com,

there is really no way to collect all the caches/waypoints you want,

and then download or somehow "merge" them into a new or existing Trip.

(This may not be technically possible by Trimble,

as everything on the phone is geared to having all the info inside the "Trip").

It's the difference between downloading a single cache entry vs pocket query.

 

So, it seems like a great idea,

but having to go to the GPS Settings page

and swap Trips by selecting a different Trip to see each cache

made it impossible to navigate to the closest cache location....

Unless I'm missing some technique on my GPS i860 phone,

I can't see (literally) any way to display the "send to phone" caches all at once.

 

But it's great for quickly collecting the coords

for a single major cache that you want to find !

 

I agree. A new trip for each cache is alot of trips... But if you could make this a feature of the pocket q's.... Humm that would be cool to have an updated PQ sent to your phone every week..

[+spyder8]

BTW - I just went out with my i860 after doing a few "send to phone" actions.

Yeah, they all appear as separate trips,

BUT what I didn't realize, is that on the phone,

you can do a GO TO and then LIST ALL

which will show you ALL the waypoints that are currently available on the phone.

SO - even though they appear in different trips,

it is easy to see them all at once, and pick the one you want...

[Jeremy]

it is easy to see them all at once, and pick the one you want...

 

That's right. It works pretty well that way