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I’d suggest something running the PALM operating system, and out of those, the Handsprings are about the most affordable.

One caution, get yourself a good durable case for out in the woods. We are a strictly ‘paperless cacher’, we have all the cache pages we are hunting on the PDA, use a PDA decrypter if we have to resort to the hint, and have a PDA database where we log who on our team found each cache, what each person took and left, the date and time etc.

The downside is that I have now had to send my PDA in for repair twice due to their inability to take much field abuse (we use a Handera 330).

Its also handy to be able to use the PDA with our cell phone to email in virtual find answers, and to pull down geocaching.com pages in the field.

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Got a call from one of my staff who geocaches, just minutes from when it aired. A good story, showed a rural and an urban hunt, and discussed regular, micros, and virtuals.

And miracle of miracles, they never mentioned the ‘buried’ word, yeah!

I did not recognize any of the teams they showed. The story seemed to use some network elements, for example, they had a short interview out in the woods with Jeremy Irishe’s dad.

I didn’t see any negative aspects, seemed quite positive.

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Thanks for the note, I’ll check into it and get it fixed asap.

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Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
The membership registration page still doesn’t work. Once I have entered the data and pressed the register button, it clears all the fields and returns to the top of the page. There are no error messages and my name does not appear on the membership list. ~Trudy

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Could you please email me at [email protected] a copy of all the entries you made on the form when this happened?

I just tried making an entry, and it worked fine. SO there must be a specific problem related to one or more of the entries you made that the website is having a problem with.

Frankly, I can’t yet see anything in the code that would clear the fields. There is specific coding written to keep all but the password fields intact if an error occurs.

Also, if anyone else has problems registering, I would appreciate your posting so here.

Thanks!

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The WGA store is back online!

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Still working out a few aftershocks, its back

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Originally posted by cacheseekers:
So lets hope they just stay a fear

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Actually, the reason I posted the official position and sites above was to prevent any fears of SA being re-enabled.

IMHO, there is no grounds whatsoever to have any concerns over this matter.

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A MAJOR thanks T&B!

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How was the exhibition?

And are you going to be in any races/competitions this year like last that we can come cheer you on?

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Does it happen if you turn it on and its sitting quietly not moving in anyway, like on a table?

My Lowrance GM100 has an inherent battery compartment problem in that sharp jarrings will shut it down.

Does it shut off if the MMC card is not installed?

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What do you use easygps for then

EasyGPS is a waypoint management tool. Its sole purpose is for organizing waypoints to upload and download to your GPS receiver.

Is this another example of the differences between Netscape and IE?

Yep, that’s what it is. I just tried it on Netscape. When I click on the download icon, I get a netscape box that asks if I want to save or open the .asp. If I use the ‘Open’ option, Netscape reports there is no application to open it with. So I have to use ‘Save’. In my case though, I don’t have to drop the ‘.asp’ part… the save name is ‘geocaching.loc’.

So just do that part the way you have been. But skip the step where you use easygps, it has no purpose, as I mentioned earlier, gpsbabel can read the loc file as is and export the CSV.

Only use easygps to upload or download waypoints to your gpsr.

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First, when prompted to ‘save’ the asp file, don’ save it, but rather click on ‘open’ and click okay. you will then be prompted again to ‘save’ or ‘open’, but this time you will see that its a .loc file, so go ahead and save it.

Second, if you want to have multiple caches in a .loc file, and not just one, you need to get the caches displayed on one of the geocaching.com search pges. For example, find a cache you want, and on its cache page click on ‘nearby caches’. Or, enter a zipcode on the main geocaching.com which will display all the caches near that zipcode. Once you have all the caches listed on the search results page, put a checkmark in each of the ‘download’ boxes for each cache you want included in the .loc file. Last, scroll down to the bottom of the search list and click on ‘download’ which will give you a .loc file with all the caches included.

Third, you do not need to load the .loc into EasyGPS and convert it to a .gpx. Gpsbable reads .loc files directly. Just open the .loc file you downloaded with gpsbable and convert it to a csv for S&T.

Hope that helps!

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The .loc file is not owned by geocaching.com, but rather by Topografix. There would be no problem in offering .loc files.

The cache data in that .loc file however is the property of geocaching.com. Jeremy has come out and stated that while the caches belong to their owners, all the data to be found in his database is his property.

In all likelyhood he would have no problem with it since you are not selling it, and since he himself makes the same data available at no cost you are not cutting into his sales. You might just want to run it past him though.

Note: DO NOT include any Member Only caches in the waypoints.

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When you use gpsbabel, you basically select an input file and type (.loc) and then select an output filename and type.

It took me a bit to figure out that when yoy pick an output filename, you have to include a file extention of .csv

The output file type should be set to S&T 2002/2003. What this does is create a .csv file exactly lined up for what S&T wants to see without having to manually line up the columns.

Just use the S&T import wizard, and you will see the columns already line up.

As to your file… I can’t see how gc.com could possibly mind your .est file. The only problem I can see is that it will start to become out of date (acrhived, disabled, new) caches from when you create it.

Thanks for your help, I’m enjoying the new S&T

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I’ve learned a little…

For example, I’ve downloaded the excellent freeware GPSBabel program which can take a geocaching.com .loc file (even with multiple geocaches in it) and convert it to a Streets and Trips specific .csv file.

Using the S&T import wizard does a beautiful job of importing and displaying all the waypoints on the map.

It took me a few minutes to figure out hos to take all those imported waypoints and stick them into a route (as opposed to clicking on each one individually and adding it to a route).

Then I just add my starting location to the route list, click on ‘optimze route waypoints’ and get my driving directions from home to each cache in the most efficient route!

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