+The Blorenges Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 A facebook friend recently put up a link to GeoTribes. I think it's a very useful site for anyone who enjoys their trackables and has a few out travelling the world. I've joined up. You have to allow the site to download your trackable information from geocaching.com This took several minutes for my 162 items but it only has to do that once. Here are a couple of screen shots from my own page: If you click on any one of the individual pins, you get a red track line showing that item's movements: I hope some other cachers will enjoy the site too. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+Crowesfeat30 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 A friend of mine was mentioning this at lunch the other day. Sounds useful & fun. Thanks for reminding me. CF30 Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Here's the mapping for my bugs in Germany. Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Here's the mapping for my bugs in Germany. That looks like the map of my trackables in the US. The ones (of mine) that made it to Germany are actually doing better. Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 A facebook friend recently put up a link to GeoTribes. I think it's a very useful site for anyone who enjoys their trackables and has a few out travelling the world. I've joined up. You have to allow the site to download your trackable information from geocaching.com This took several minutes for my 162 items but it only has to do that once. I hope some other cachers will enjoy the site too. MrsB That's really cool. If you release additional trackables you'd have to redo the download, I'd imagine. Right? Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 A facebook friend recently put up a link to GeoTribes. I think it's a very useful site for anyone who enjoys their trackables and has a few out travelling the world. I've joined up. You have to allow the site to download your trackable information from geocaching.com This took several minutes for my 162 items but it only has to do that once. I hope some other cachers will enjoy the site too. MrsB That's really cool. If you release additional trackables you'd have to redo the download, I'd imagine. Right? Good question - I don't know, I hadn't thought about that... Maybe if it's just one or two added at a time perhaps it can cope with those few additions each time you log it. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+desmognathus Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) I'm liking this!! Wonder if it would be possible to track all bugs in a race? Edited January 20, 2013 by desmognathus Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'm liking this!! Wonder if it would be possible to track all bugs in a race? For a race set-up, this might be helpful: Help Center - Displaying several trackables on the same page. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+E_ZIG_A Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I just loaded it up and agree; it's really cool! Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 So far it's got 56 of our 222 bugs. Sorry in advance if I crashed the site. Looking forward to checking out the results once they're all in there. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 (edited) Whoops. Getting network errors. Think I killed it. If I had to guess, I'd say it was our tracker coin that did it. edit: it's back up, nifty! But the "countries visited" doesn't seem to work so well. Overall it says we've visited 0, yet it shows one of our coins visiting 35, another 32 (should be 35), etc. Still neat to see 'em all in one palce, though, even if it's not 100% accurate. Here's the saddest stat, though... Health Monitor Description % In a Cache 38 % On the Move 15 % Unknown 44 % At Home 3 % Edited January 23, 2013 by hzoi Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 A facebook friend recently put up a link to GeoTribes. I think it's a very useful site for anyone who enjoys their trackables and has a few out travelling the world. I've joined up. You have to allow the site to download your trackable information from geocaching.com This took several minutes for my 162 items but it only has to do that once. I hope some other cachers will enjoy the site too. MrsB That's really cool. If you release additional trackables you'd have to redo the download, I'd imagine. Right? Good question - I don't know, I hadn't thought about that... Maybe if it's just one or two added at a time perhaps it can cope with those few additions each time you log it. MrsB I remembered that I had 1 or 2 unactivated TBs, so I activated one to test this and it was picked up right away. No need to redo the dodwnload, at least for 1 new trackable. Quote Link to comment
+Maingray Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Nice site. Wish you could share (FB etc) the maps / stats with someone else. Quote Link to comment
+TheLegoFool&Missus Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 For me, it only finds 24... I have 65. I don't think it tracks those that are in your collection Quote Link to comment
+Crowesfeat30 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 For me, it only finds 24... I have 65. I don't think it tracks those that are in your collection Are all 65 activated? It only tracks the ones you have activated. ... I think... CF30 Quote Link to comment
+fuzziebear3 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Cool site, I enjoyed the maps and the stats. It also reminded me to review my trackables, and now I have a list of them that have gone silent and that I might want to rerelease as proxies. Quote Link to comment
+TheLegoFool&Missus Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 For me, it only finds 24... I have 65. I don't think it tracks those that are in your collection Are all 65 activated? It only tracks the ones you have activated. ... I think... CF30 Yes... all activated. Some in my possession... maybe that's why? Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 For me, it only finds 24... I have 65. I don't think it tracks those that are in your collection Are all 65 activated? It only tracks the ones you have activated. ... I think... CF30 Yes... all activated. Some in my possession... maybe that's why? They should all show up, if they're activated to your account. The ones I have activated which are here in my collection show up with a blue house symbol next to them. Quote Link to comment
+NanCycle Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 For me, it only finds 24... I have 65. I don't think it tracks those that are in your collection I put my "test TB" in my collection to see if it would still be tracked and it is. Quote Link to comment
+TheLegoFool&Missus Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I don't understand why I am having troubles. One time I load it... it finds 24, then I do check updates, downloads up to 55, then finally gets 65. Reload the page at a later time, and now I am back at 24. When I do get 65, none of them have any mileage either. I think I will pass on this for awhile. Looks quite promising though Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 They may still be working out some bugs. All 222 of our bugs ended up loading, but we're still seeing a problem with total countries visited. The countries each bug has visited will display just fine, but the total countries in the summary column at upper left still shows zero. I'm guessing it should be around 50 at this point, because our tracker geocoin has 35 countries by itself, and other bugs have gone many places we haven't. Quote Link to comment
+TeamTrunkMonkey Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Thanks for this, I will have to check it out! Quote Link to comment
+EXMAN Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Here's the mapping for my bugs in Germany. LOVE IT ! Quote Link to comment
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