+Chris n Maria Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Ok, Maybe I'm missing something here but I download cache pages as GPX files then use GPX Spinner to turn them into web-pages I use plucker to push them on to my palmpilot. I can get any images embedded in the HTML description of the cache page but if the images are added to the page in the normal way (using the upload images button) I dont see them. This can be really irritating when you get a cache such as this one where upon decryption you discover you need a photo that has not been downloaded! Is there anyway the (url for) images can be added to the GPX file and/or that spinner can pick them up? Chris If only life had an undo button.... London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Link to comment
+leatherman Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 quote:Is there anyway the (url for) images can be added to the GPX file and/or that spinner can pick them up? The URL is there. That's why you get the little red X where the picture should be. The images will show up only if you are synced to your computer and on the internet. As soon as you disconnect from the internet they will be gone again. I usually go to the cache page and save the picture I need. Then load it to a separate folder in my PDA, to view in the field. The images you are getting in the spun GPX files are pre-loaded in the Sinner file. Part of the program, in a sense. POWDER!!!!!! Honored to provide inmate labor for Admin brick manufacture since 2002. Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 The images associated with a cache are not found in the GPX file; they only appear if the image is linked in the cache description. All you can do is request that hiders include any required pictures in the cache description. Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted October 7, 2003 Author Share Posted October 7, 2003 quote:Originally posted by fizzymagic:The images associated with a cache are not found in the GPX file; they only appear if the image is linked in the cache description. All you can do is request that hiders include any required pictures in the cache description. Hmmm, Thats what I thought! Hey Jeremy, any chance you could add the URLS for the images to the GPX files ?? If only life had an undo button.... London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted October 8, 2003 Author Share Posted October 8, 2003 i think I have worked out a way of getting the images using GPXSpinner. Its a bit of a cludge but it should save some decryption frustration!. Chris If only life had an undo button.... London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Link to comment
+YeOleImposter Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 quote: posted October 08, 2003 01:25 AM i think I have worked out a way of getting the images using GPXSpinner. Its a bit of a cludge but it should save some decryption frustration!. Always share your kludges - you are not alone. What did you do to get it to work? Link to comment
+Touchstone Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 Wow! Now I've got PDA envy . You guys have PDA's with enough memory to download pictures? I've got an old Palm Pro with 1 mb. How small are the images you're putting on your PDA? Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. The rest go geocaching. Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted October 8, 2003 Author Share Posted October 8, 2003 quote:Originally posted by YeOleImposter: quote: posted October 08, 2003 01:25 AM i think I have worked out a way of getting the images using GPXSpinner. Its a bit of a cludge but it should save some decryption frustration!. Always share your kludges - you are not alone. What did you do to get it to work? http://YeOleImposter.DoesntExist.com This seems to grab most images I Need (someone will post now to tell me that I have done this completly wrong). Add the foloowing to the cache or hint template in gpxSpinner: <a href="http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/%ID%_200.jpg">Image 1</A> <a href="http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/%ID%_300.jpg">Image 2</A> <a href="http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/%ID%_400.jpg">Image 3</A> You get a lot of 404s but you also get the images you want. HTH Chris If only life had an undo button.... London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Link to comment
+Man In The Wild Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Touchstone:Wow! Now I've got PDA envy . You guys have PDA's with enough memory to download pictures? I've got an old Palm Pro with 1 mb. How small are the images you're putting on your PDA? They're resized to fit the screen and number of colors, but Plucker can also grab the full sized picture (which geocaching limited to 100k) and display when you click on the thumbnail. To give you an idea of how this can work, I have an 8MB Visor with a 128MB Compact Flash card. I think a GPX spun with Spinner then run through Plucker will take about 1MB-2MB for 500 cache descriptions. (I have a few 1000 cache files on my card running 3-4 MB in size.) Some day I'll get a nice new PDA with a fast processor and a nice color hi-res display... what I have now is wonderful. The newer PDAs would still make a big difference (I bet XMap Handheld maps would be a lot more useful--they're too slow on my PDA.) Link to comment
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