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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
I havent used spinner yet, but plan to give it a try. From what I understand, spinner lets you break up the data to more customizable forms.Is there something I’m missing here? Is there a way to do these searches?
The reason I use Spinner is that it parses the XML that makes up the GPX file and converts it all into mini HTML pages (don’t you love all those acronyms!) as well as creating various searchable index pages, one of which lists all caches by their GCxxxx number.
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Originally posted by Geotrippers:
They say it’s a bare bones type pda which is what I want. Is it possible to be to bare boned?
I’m guessing that by “Bare-Boned” they mean that you get a working PDA without extra foo-foos like a color screen, camera, MP3 player, memory expansion, Bluetooth, cellphone, etc.
As long as it runs the PalmOS (which it does) you will be able to run any of the Geocaching-related apps.
The Zire only has 2MB of memory, so you won’t be able to load up 1000s of waypoints at one time, but you should be able to get enough in there to cover a good-sized radius around wherever you go to cache.
Picked up my copy yesterday! It looks pretty cool so far, but like most mapping programs, it puts my home address about a mile away from where it really is. No amount of prodding can convince it otherwise.
What I’m looking to do now is use the instructions in Markwell’s FAQ to plan a route when I go out to PA in July.
Never thought I’d ever buy this program, but for $6.47 I couldn’t pass it up. BTW, has anyone noticed that this seems to be a special “Sam’s Club Edition”? You didn’t need to enter a serial number when you installed it, and when I looked up the $10 rebate that Microsoft is offering on its site, it has a slightly different part number.
Is this for the 2003 version?
I thought I had read that Geocaching.com 2.0 was supposed to be up and running somewhere around April-May. Obviously we’re into June now, so I wonder what’s going on with that? (And if it will help quell the weekend slowdowns…)
Eww… read Marky’s logs here starting with May 3rd and moving up for a um… lovely tick story.
There’s also some interesting tick info here and how they go about latching on in the first place.
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Originally posted by Buy_The_Tie:
Waypoint Project?? Huh? Please explain.
I think it refers to “what are the coordinates of a point xxx feet from where I am at yy degrees direction.”
I think my Legend does that, but I don’t have it on me at the moment to check.
Loved the satellite idea! My suggestions would be:
More satellites in the mother cache, but not necessarily multiple batons per cache.
Instead of having the mother cache be a real findable cache, just base it in the pavilion area where there are picnic tables for people to sit.
If the mother caches stay as hidden caches, how about multiple mother caches in different “zones” of the park?
Not sure about preventing people from passing the batons in the field, though. Perhaps put the coordinates on the batons in some sort of code that can only be deciphered at the mother cache? Make sure the code key is different for each baton so in case someone cracks the code, they wouldn’t be able to use it with a different baton.
I had some great news upon returning to the campout! My Picnic Crashers TB which has been MIA since last fall was logged over the weekend!
The bugs live again to torment another picnic!
I didn’t meet up with GnS until afterwards, so belated congrats to you!
I did, however, bear witness to another team who collected their 200th at some point on Saturday!
I’ll leave it to T&TB to figure out who…
If I find them, I’ll give you a call on your cell phone…
I was surprised that the state patrol doesn’t use lon/lats..
Actually, I was in an accident on 94 in Illinois a few months ago. when I got a copy of the police report, I noticed a couple of numbers on it that looked like coordinates. I plugged them into ExpertGPS, and sure enough, it put me right where I was.
I’ve got a feeling that when you call, they really don’t expect many people to have GPSrs in their vehicle, but it would be nice to be able to have that option during a 911 call, especially if you were on a rural road and not exactly sure where you were.
Imagine the “Goosey” cache you could make with these!
Of course you’d need to use something like this as the “mama” cache…
Yes, I knew the answers to most of the questions which may be why I chose them. I’m debating switching out one particular question, but we’ll see.
That’s the reason I put the “help” in at the end, as I figured no one would want to have to leave to look up info and come back, because I’m sure nobody likes to make multiple trips out to a cache site, huh? :O
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