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The Happy Hodag! 6 years, 4 months ago.
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It is nice that you can now correct coordinates right on gc.com now and keep them forever on there. Helps for when you have a paf looking for verification on a cache that you did years ago. Now that I’ve done some power trails and power rivers, the dipping of all trackables and being able to write one log and apply it to all finds on GSAK is a real time saver! I’ve only used it a couple of times, but after 9 hours on a river, I sure appreciate it. You can still modify a log here and there as you like, but that function really takes the bull work. I’m going to Finland in August and will have limited internet, if any. So utilizing GSAK with the different databases of where I am traveling and being able to log my finds on GSAK to transmit once I do have internet will be great. For those of you interested, I’ve been coordinating GSAK classes on Thursday nights at 7 pm in Cloquet. We only have 3 classes left: tools, geocaching.com access, and publishing logs. https://coord.info/GC6XZG4
Once I get comfortable with the Publish Logs feature on GSAK, I will use it the next time I’m out on a power trail.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
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Two weeks ago and again last week, the Podcacher Podcast had someone on talking about GSAK. While he started out with the same old worn out arguments (at least in this thread) about corrected coords. After that and a couple other things that had my head going in circles asking what he was talking about, the guest finally got to some useful things like publishing logs and several other things.
GSAK Part 1: http://www.podcacher.com/show-583-0-gsak-chris-hache/
GSAK Part 2: http://www.podcacher.com/show-584-0-round-world/
Then I emailed in some feedback, which can be heard in the most recent podcast here: http://www.podcacher.com/show-585-0-unfortunate-ftf-stories/
Folks, why the h— would you not tell me about publishing logs? Seriously! This is a very useful tool on GSAK, especially for when I go on a power run.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
Actually, I mentioned it in my last response. Yes, publishing logs is also great for power trails, which is what I have used it for so far… in addition, it is great for road trips when you sporadically have internet service and need to get your logs on GSAK now, so you can reload your gps for the next state or country… Our last GSAK class on Thursday in Cloquet will focus on publishing logs (and all the assorted items to go with it, like awarding favorite points, logging TBs and so forth)… not that I am an expert by any means, but it seems like cachers who have attended so far have learned a thing or two. https://coord.info/GC6XZGP
I finally decided to pay up and send off a payment of $30. This should make things go faster as I learn the various aspects of GSAK. Even if I only ever do the logging thing with GSAK, I still won’t have to deal with that arduous nag screen. . .I was up to 3 1/2 minutes on that thing.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
I finally decided to pay up and send off a payment of $30. This should make things go faster as I learn the various aspects of GSAK. Even if I only ever do the logging thing with GSAK, I still won’t have to deal with that arduous nag screen. . .I was up to 3 1/2 minutes on that thing.
I personally find GSAK a great program. The $30 fee is a small price to pay. Logging caches with it is great, especially when you have done a power trail. You can make all logs the same or edit each one or as many as you choose-your choice. You can even log travel bugs and post pics. Hope you like it as you explore it.
Well, the main thing I’ll be using GSAK for other than file association (which I’ll gladly talk about if anyone wants to know more) is logging power trails. The thing that makes this feature useful is being able to fetch the info from my GPS. It’s also useful that you can dip your travel bugs as you go if you wish to. Believe it or not, I have 6 personal trackables I dip in every cache I find. Unlike what was mentioned in the Podcacher Podcast, you can still dip/drop multiple trackables with one log if you’d like when logging manually. Logging manually is what I’ll still do when I’m just logging a few caches at a time.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
What I started playing with lately, is adding pictures when I publish logs via GSAK. I had gotten away from posting pictures, because it is such a hassle to do it on gc.com. Having to go back to a log, edit it, and upload a picture. If I had a lot of pictures, and/or a lot of caches, it was very time consuming. Using GSAK to do it is so slick! I take the pics right off my ipod and attach to the log as I go along. Now, I can work on increasing the level of the pictures posted gemstone on project-GC!
I haven’t posted a picture on a log in so long, but I’ll have to try it on GSAK just to see how that works.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
Another nifty thing about uploading pictures through GSAK is that rather than uploading the full resolution picture (which could take a minute or two per picture), you can specify the size you want to upload. If you specify a smaller size image for viewing it goes much quicker.
I did a test upload tonight and it worked well, except that the picture I selected was just above the maximum file size that GSAK would take. Fortunately, there was an option where I could resize the picture to make it a go.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
I see you’ve already been sold on the purchase. But I didn’t see the best reason posted yet…”everyone’s doing it”.
The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.
The argument from popularity, ie “everyone’s doing it”, really isn’t a selling point to me. As discussed earlier in this thread, I think a couple of arguments are complete garbage. I was looking for something that GSAK is actually better at than simply going on the GC website. For me, that had to come from the Pod Cacher podcast, and not from here. If you’re wondering what arguments are complete garbage, that would be needing GSAK to correct coords for you and also filtering out cache types. Correcting coords on puzzles and multis has been available since at least 2008 when I first started, and for all other cache types since last October. Filtering out by cache type/found caches/etc is actually easier on the Pocket Query page. You simply take about 10 seconds to select the criteria you want to see and all others are automatically off your query. Pretty simple, eh? It’s a whole lot faster than going through GSAK and checking off the caches one by one and then deleting them from the list. I timed myself one day, and it took me over 10 minutes to remove a bunch of puzzles from that list. At least I stopped counting at 10 minutes. The one thing I had to hear from Pod Cacher to find out about was logging of caches. Of course, it’s easy as pie to log a handful of caches right on the website if that’s all you’re doing. But if you’re doing a power trail, you’re more likely better off using GSAK to do that. And you can get up and do other things if you have to without having to stop logging for that time.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
Filtering out by cache type/found caches/etc is actually easier on the Pocket Query page. You simply take about 10 seconds to select the criteria you want to see and all others are automatically off your query. Pretty simple, eh? It’s a whole lot faster than going through GSAK and checking off the caches one by one and then deleting them from the list. I timed myself one day, and it took me over 10 minutes to remove a bunch of puzzles from that list. At least I stopped counting at 10 minutes. The Happy Hodag!
This is quicker than 10 minutes for me on GSAK… under geocaching.com, click on get “get geocaches”. Select out what you want or don’t want, then run it. What I like about this vs geocaching.com, is that you can also select “google map” and put your center point right where you want it… but maybe gc.com allows this now? (been a while since I’ve done it through the website). Also, if you have puzzles you haven’t solved on a query, load all of them, filter down to puzzles, then delete the ones that you haven’t solved. A lot better than having all the puzzles loaded in, when you only have some that you have solved and want to load.
In the last class we did, I discovered a way to circumvent the 3 day wait on gc.com to run “my finds” and add them to my cache stats database in gsak. Refresh the cache data in the database in gsak that you used to do your cache run with after you send you publish your caches from your gps to gsak, select the found caches (mine are the yellow ones), then under “database”, move those caches to your cache stats database. No more needing to do a my finds pq!
This is quicker than 10 minutes for me on GSAK… under geocaching.com, click on get “get geocaches”. Select out what you want or don’t want, then run it. What I like about this vs geocaching.com, is that you can also select “google map” and put your center point right where you want it… but maybe gc.com allows this now? (been a while since I’ve done it through the website). Also, if you have puzzles you haven’t solved on a query, load all of them, filter down to puzzles, then delete the ones that you haven’t solved. A lot better than having all the puzzles loaded in, when you only have some that you have solved and want to load. In the last class we did, I discovered a way to circumvent the 3 day wait on gc.com to run “my finds” and add them to my cache stats database in gsak. Refresh the cache data in the database in gsak that you used to do your cache run with after you send you publish your caches from your gps to gsak, select the found caches (mine are the yellow ones), then under “database”, move those caches to your cache stats database. No more needing to do a my finds pq!
I guess I see your point there about filtering out by cache type. It’s just as easy, but not any easier than doing it right on the Pocket Query page. I’ll just continue to do the Pocket Query thing and filter everything there instead of creating the Pocket Query then filtering things out. Think of it as a one stop shop.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
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