heliosnorf Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Nifty little program which lets you enter a lat/lon for a geocache and see it pinpointed on a satellite map. Nice to see where a cache is before bothering to go look for it. Of course, it could be considered cheating by some. ;-) <http://www.chimoosoft.com/terrabrowser.html> Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Or you can just go to LostOutdoors.com, and do it with any browser. "Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body." Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Prime Suspect:Or you can just go to LostOutdoors.com, and do it with any browser. Where "any" is presumably defined as "at least one version of Internet Explorer". From their own site: Sorry, but the LostOutdoors.com Waypoint Exchange is currently limited to Windows PCs. Further, you must be using either Netscape's Navigator (version 4 or higher) or Microsoft's Internet Explorer (version 4 or higher) as your browser. You must also have scripting enabled on your browser. We will try to add Linux and Macintosh support sometime in the future. But, well, don't hold your breath... If you need more help, check out our tips page, or email us at help@lostoutdoors.com . Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 If someone has a web server with some actual bandwidth and a bit of available CPU horsepower, I'd be willing to contribute some Perl scripts that do what LostOutdoors does without any client-side scripting. They do require halfway-decent CSS support, but that shouldn't be a big hurdle. Quote Link to comment
+Metaphor Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I use Mac (OS 9) with Explorer 5 and have plotted caches on LostOutdoors.com without any problem... "All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde Quote Link to comment
jfitzpat Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 I think that there must be some confusion. The MapMaker on LostOutdoors does not use any client side scripting and works with just about any browser. On the other hand, the WayPoint exchange, which sucks waypoints directly from your GPS, does use client side components. That is because it directly accesses hardware (RS-232) on your machine. As far as I know, there are no server only ways to accomplish this. And, semi-generic solutions, like Java, are typically closed off from hardware for portability and security reasons. -jjf Quote Link to comment
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