+4America Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 The rtr.ca/geo site is working for me now. . Not sure who runs the rtr.ca site, but I get different results if I am logged in vs not loged in for zip code 67220... anyone else see this? Link to comment
+bblhed Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 For all those that keep asking for a different form of coordinates other than decimal format it already can be done. Simply input a space where the degree symbol should be. i.e. 78 64.523 -34 12.619 Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally a solution to this! Thank you! Now if only the wap page said that. Can someone get that onto the wap page so that people stop coming here and asking for it? Link to comment
thewachs Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 "For all those that keep asking for a different form of coordinates other than decimal format it already can be done. Simply input a space where the degree symbol should be. i.e. 78 64.523 -34 12.619" Hmmm...I still get that I have entered incorrect data...I typed in exactly this 78 64.523 -34 12.619...what am I doing wrong? Link to comment
+thedeadpirate Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 "For all those that keep asking for a different form of coordinates other than decimal format it already can be done. Simply input a space where the degree symbol should be. i.e. 78 64.523 -34 12.619" Hmmm...I still get that I have entered incorrect data...I typed in exactly this 78 64.523 -34 12.619...what am I doing wrong? You can input the coordinates that way. I asked this same question a while back and got the same advice. The problem with the above coordinates is you cannot have 64.523. Link to comment
thewachs Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Perhaps I'm being dense...from the WAP site if I enter... 40.16305 -105.10765 Presto, I get a set of nearby caches. If instead I follow the above instructions (simply input a space where the degree symbol should be) and input this... 40 09.783 105 06.459 I get "You entered an incorrect value, please try again." Am I doing something wrong? If so, WHAT am I doing wrong? Link to comment
+thedeadpirate Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Perhaps I'm being dense...from the WAP site if I enter... 40.16305 -105.10765 Presto, I get a set of nearby caches. If instead I follow the above instructions (simply input a space where the degree symbol should be) and input this... 40 09.783 105 06.459 I get "You entered an incorrect value, please try again." Am I doing something wrong? If so, WHAT am I doing wrong? You're leaving off the - sign. I made same mistake. It does matter though as leaving it off puts you somewhere in Northern China and I'm guessing there just aren't any caches there. If you put in the - sign, you get the following caches: 0mi | Hidden park | 1/1 | OTHER 0mi | Around the greenway | 2/1 | TRAD 1mi | Malty MICRO #2 | 1/1 | TRAD 1mi | Boston Rock | 2/1.5 | TRAD 1mi | Is george in longmon... | 1.5/1 | MULTI 1mi | Trashy Cachey | 2/1 | TRAD 1mi | A Main View | 1.5/1 | TRAD 1mi | Longs Peak Vista | 1/2 | TRAD 1mi | **DISABLED** The stairs | 2.5/1.5 | TRAD 1mi | Hyde-A-Tech | 2/2 | TRAD Link to comment
thewachs Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Ah ha!!! I never saw this on the geocaching.com because they are always positive values (when in DDD MM.MMM) but specify N, S, E and W?? Is that why? North and East are positive, South and West are negative? Now its all coming together...thanks for being patient with my questions! Link to comment
+Ashmai Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 amazing... worked great on my new blackberry. This is now my new home page for my phone. So awesome, I love you.... Link to comment
+Genoist Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Some features I'd LOVE to see: 1) Filter out finds. 2) Search by waypoint (instead of only zip code or coordinates). 3) Maybe a high-end mobile site for those of us with PDA or high end phones. Not exactly related to the mobile site, but to phones: 4) Log via SMS/txt message. IE, register your mobile number on the site and compose a txt with the waypoint and your log to a special e-mail address. Link to comment
+AtwellFamily Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 How about cache size, that would be a good addition to the wap site. Link to comment
+Fan4 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Works well on the Samsung Blackjack. Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 I tested this on my own cell phone and was able to enter a log. check it out at http://wap.geocaching.com This will be the permanent location for the WAP interface. You can also log caches with a web browser if you want to bypass all the web pages on geocaching.com Let me know if your phone doesn't work with it. We tried it with a multitude of mobile phone simulators, but I'm sure we missed a couple. "Let me know if your phone doesn't work with it." Ya, that's what I thought that he said. Link to comment
+Brianslost Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 That site won't work for me on my Samsung x427m. It used to work but now just gives me "internal error" when I submit my lat/lon or zip. The rtr.ca/geo site is working for me now. I was getting nowhere with the wap.geocaching.com site on my Razr V3C so I tried the rtr.ca/geo site. It didn't work either. After a couple of emails back and forth with the site owner it works perfectly for me now. I also downloaded operamini from operamini.com directly to my Razr and only the High memory version would work for me. Its a much nicer browser then the built-in one. Link to comment
+thegoldminer Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I feel WAP interface should also show cache container, difficulty, and terrain ratings, along with a link to retrive more than the last 5 logs. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment
+Equis Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Instead of spending more time on the wap interface, why not create a mobile-friendly stylesheet for the regular Geocaching.com site? Unfortunately, the regular homepage is pretty hefty at over 200k, but perhaps that can be pared down using simple styles? May be a very quick way to give the mobiles every bit of function the desktop browsers have. Am I missing something? Link to comment
+eagsc7 Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 YEAH!!! I've been thinking of something like this for a couple months... Today, I find it! Awesome job! Is there a way to look at the Owner Posted Pictures? I was thinking a simple link to the pic if you want to look at it. Will this be expanded so that I can look at a cache, click on the publisher, and then find out what caches that I've found if theirs? I came into a situation a few weeks ago that that'd be a good thing for me to have access to. Thanks for the work! The Steaks Link to comment
+relapse98 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Using the WAP Site, enter the coordinates N29 36.137 W98 16.580. It lists the closests caches starting at miles away and steadily getting farther. Using the regular geocaching website, the closest cache is 0.3miles, then 0.4, then 0.6. Why does the wap not list All caches? It would be Very useful for paperless caching if it did. Link to comment
+supernial Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Works fine on N80. But functionality is very poor. Link to comment
+AtwellFamily Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I feel WAP interface should also show cache container, difficulty, and terrain ratings, along with a link to retrive more than the last 5 logs. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah what he/she said. Link to comment
+MakoKidd Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Using the WAP Site, enter the coordinates N29 36.137 W98 16.580. It lists the closests caches starting at miles away and steadily getting farther. Using the regular geocaching website, the closest cache is 0.3miles, then 0.4, then 0.6. Why does the wap not list All caches? It would be Very useful for paperless caching if it did. Please correct me if I am wrong, but if I understand the Search By Coordinates interface correctly... The Find Caches Search apparently only takes Decimal Degrees (which is a pain because most listings have Degrees and Decimal Minutes). In order to calculate Decimal Degrees, I take the minutes and divide by 60. Also need to use negative (-) for W latitude. For the example above: N29 36.137 would be 29.602283333 and W98 16.580 would be -98.276333333 I wish the WAP interface would accept Degrees and Decimal Minutes, My phone is such an inconvenient interface to begin with without having to open my calculator every time I want to punch in coordinates. BTW: WAP works fine with my T-Mobile MDA MakoKidd Link to comment
+thedeadpirate Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Go up about 17 posts and you will find your answer. Link to comment
+MakoKidd Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Go up about 17 posts and you will find your answer. It didn't work the first time I tried it. I guess I must've forgot the sign. Thanks, I got it now... MakoKidd Link to comment
+aclays Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 working great for my samsung a920 Link to comment
+Team CB_Indy Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 I get an error on my Verizon Motorola V710. "System.formatException Invalid Length for a Base-64 char array Method: FromBase64String" That's what I get....any hints? I get the same error on my Verizon, Motorola V3m on every link exept for the "Travel Bug Lookup" link which works O.K. PLEASE HELP! I would love to be able to use this feature. Link to comment
+Team CB_Indy Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 I get an error on my Verizon Motorola V710. "System.formatException Invalid Length for a Base-64 char array Method: FromBase64String" That's what I get....any hints? I get the same error on my Verizon, Motorola V3m on every link exept for the "Travel Bug Lookup" link which works O.K. PLEASE HELP! I would love to be able to use this feature. Link to comment
+NevadaWolf Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 I've also noticed lately when my boyfriend logs in on WAP (using his Moto Q) that I no longer get the emails from his logs, regardless if I'm watching the cache, its in my Insta-Notify circle, or I own the cache. This was working when WAP was updated to the 7-digit waypoint, what happened? Link to comment
+oppned Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 it works fine on my sony ericsson W810i. it was mutch easyer then loging on to www.geocaching.com and searching up and down many pages just to be abel to log a cache when out and away form my computer best whishes fro Norway Link to comment
+kris&an Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 It works on my HTC P3300, but I'm missing a keyword search for caches, The main reason for not using it is the limitation of it. Kris Link to comment
+small oaks Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Thank you very much of this Wap service. We have used this quite often now and we like the simple use of it. Well done. Link to comment
+jmmhooper Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Thank you very much of this Wap service. We have used this quite often now and we like the simple use of it. Well done. Maybe I missed it somewhere but, is there a service you provide where I can text a number and send the waypoint to then get back the clue and description and maybe 5 of the last logs? If you don't have this I think it would be a great service to provide. Would help out in the field when you don't have a web enabled phone. I text all the time. Link to comment
+tommiB Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Since a few days I'm using the wap-site because of the GC-Site is too big to load to my mobile. The WAP-Site is FAST and great for searching information when I'm on the road. The only thing I'm missing, is DIFFICULTY, TERRAIN and SIZE in the cache description. Thanks! Link to comment
MrMonk Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Also, it would be nice to have a link to a list of "the closest caches to this cache" (essentially copying and pasting the co-ords of this cache into the "Find Caches > Search By: Coordinates"). A link to the actual cache page from the WAP cache page would be useful too for the times when the cache page has pictures, or the lost 5 logs aren't helpful, etc. And if I log in from the button on a cache description page, I need to look-up the cache again. I'm kind of nitpicking.. but yeah, the WAP interface is awesome! Link to comment
+ledaekim Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Anyone have any issues with the WAP page lately? It worked fine for me a while back, but recently I've been getting Page Read Errors. I think i'll reload my phone browser and see whats up... just curious. Katana II BTW Happy Hunting all. Link to comment
stilwes Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 This work fine with my Cingular 8525. It would be nice if there was a "my Account" with basic stats and menu links to my caches and trackables. It would also be nice if there were more filter options on the find cache. After entering the zipcode, a 2nd menu of: Hide my finds Mide my caches Hide my finds & Caches Would be helpful. Thanks! Link to comment
+djwhitey Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 looks great on my HTC Touch from Sprint using PIE and Opera Mini 4 loads faster in PIE would like to see cache SIZE returned searching by keyword would be nice too but definitely return the size Link to comment
+stlbarb Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I've already asked a question about logging on with my Nokia Tableteer and now see that I can use this Wap interface with it just fine. I haven't figured out how to save the page so I can access it when I'm out and about, but I'm working on that. Barb Link to comment
+tommiB Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I'm still using the WAP-Solution to log my founds and log my tb/gc. Further I use WAP for searching for coordinates and description of caches. It would be VERY HELPFUL if I can search for a cache by NAME instead onlx y GC-Number. Thanks, Thomas Link to comment
+jarras Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I feel WAP interface should also show cache container, difficulty, and terrain ratings, along with a link to retrive more than the last 5 logs. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah what he/she said. Me too! Link to comment
+bjoernthebear Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I tested this on my own cell phone and was able to enter a log. check it out at http://wap.geocaching.com It works fine in germany with Nokia 6233. How about the function "show nearby caches / that I haven't found". Would that be be a big effort? Thanks a lot for that great work! Link to comment
+PhilAun Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I feel WAP interface should also show cache container, difficulty, and terrain ratings, along with a link to retrive more than the last 5 logs. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah what he/she said. Me too! The WAP site is very helpful, but I have to agree with the above posts, if it had the cache SIZE, DIFFICULTY and TERRAIN, it would be SOOO much better! Any chance on getting this added to the site? Thanks for all the hard work! Phil Link to comment
+orome Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 This is *much* quicker on my Treo 650 than downloading the full pages. Thanks for this! Link to comment
+blb9556 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 You need a more advanced cache finder like having search by owner and keyword. Also make the log space bigger. Link to comment
+n5fwb Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I tested this on my own cell phone and was able to enter a log. check it out at http://wap.geocaching.com This will be the permanent location for the WAP interface. You can also log caches with a web browser if you want to bypass all the web pages on geocaching.com Let me know if your phone doesn't work with it. We tried it with a multitude of mobile phone simulators, but I'm sure we missed a couple. It works just fine on my Blackberry! Thanks for the link. This will make Caching a lot easier for me and paperless also! Link to comment
+trainlove Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I for one use the wap.geocaching.com from a computer when the other servers are down at geocaching as happened a few weeks ago. But I think it would be nice to have a date field on the log form so one does not have to go back later on and correct the log when the servers are in their right mind. Link to comment
+cashman2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 (edited) I tried this on my Blackberry 8830 and it worked just fine. I'm new (just ordered my gps today) but if I go paperless, can I download to my Blackberry ahead of time (like the Cachemate on a Palm) just in case I can't get a wireless signal where I am? I have an old Palm Treo 600, but I'm trying to avoid carrying my phone (blackberry), my gps, and another Palm. Edited February 21, 2008 by cashman2008 Link to comment
+red chicken Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I did'nt realise this was so new, I've actually been using the wap sight for a year or more with my sony ericsson. I use it to check on travel bug missions before removing the bug from the cache. Jeff Link to comment
Staddonites Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Brilliant! Discovered wap.geocaching.com by accident, but just the ticket when you're mobile (eg. on holiday) - especially for updating TB movements. Logged a 'find' and a TB drop for 18p on Orange PAYG (£4/MB). FYI (hardly critical) - noticed some considerable delay (several hours) in updating TB 'distance travelled' on WAP site. Link to comment
+Pairohlegal Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 (edited) My LG VX8300 seems to work just fine. Edited March 7, 2008 by Pair-O-Legal Link to comment
+Genoist Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I for one use the wap.geocaching.com from a computer when the other servers are down at geocaching as happened a few weeks ago. But I think it would be nice to have a date field on the log form so one does not have to go back later on and correct the log when the servers are in their right mind. I recently came across a program called CacheBerry (currently in Beta). It is the best BlackBerry paperless caching solution that I have found. Link Link to comment
+NeoAddict Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Works just fine on my LG V. Link to comment
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