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Have you tried the Google Map V3 macro? It will take the caches you have in your filter and put them in a map for you and let you interact with them either pulling up the GSAK entry for the cache or pull up the cache on the GC.com site.
I second this!
I use branded versions of the forum runner client on my Ipod touch for both DBSTalk and AVSForums. It makes using the forums on a portable device much more user friendly, and it should be a fairly painless addition for a phpBB site like this one.
The FindStats3 macro will tell you the top finders of your caches, however you do need a complete list of finders loaded in for your caches.
Since a PQ will only give you the last 5 finds, and the GPX download only gives the last 20, you really need to keep the stats of your caches updated frequently.
Not sure if version 8 will help with this at all as I’ve not taken the leap yet.
June 2005 for me. Started caching after getting a GPS (Explorist 100) for my birthday.
Planning on getting out of work early Friday to get one of our favorite water sites at the Park for Friday and Saturday nights.
I’ve had reasonable success using a laser printer that has a duplexer. I’ve even used my own HP4000 here at home and used the manual bypass to manually duplex the prints.
By far though it’s easier to run larger quantities of prints on the printer at work with the built in duplexer.
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@conductorBrian wrote:
I just ened up replacing a cache today http://coord.info/GC127XB. I had done this cache a year ago and replaced the log and posted a “Needs Maintenance” on it as the film canister had holes chewed in it and I knew the replacement log wouldn’t last long. I didn’t replace it back then as I didn’t have any replacements with me at the time.
Now I go back again this year with my cousin and find that the contents are once again water loged and the same busted film canister is still there. I would have just given up and posted a “Needs Archived” but this is one of the caches the DNR has published in the paper that they hand out to all of the campers.
Without even looking it up I’m going to guess that the cache was “Frog Bog”. In the 4 years that we have been camping at Point Beach this one is in poor condition more often than not.
Yes you would be correct. Too bad the CO has been so unresponsive giving that the DNR is publishing this one in their paper, while other quality caches in the park/forest are not included.
Understandably they probably only print those campground papers every few years so it would be difficult to keep the cache list current.
I just ened up replacing a cache today http://coord.info/GC127XB. I had done this cache a year ago and replaced the log and posted a “Needs Maintenance” on it as the film canister had holes chewed in it and I knew the replacement log wouldn’t last long. I didn’t replace it back then as I didn’t have any replacements with me at the time.
Now I go back again this year with my cousin and find that the contents are once again water loged and the same busted film canister is still there. I would have just given up and posted a “Needs Archived” but this is one of the caches the DNR has published in the paper that they hand out to all of the campers.
I recently got a Magellan Explorist GC. It’s a nice basic unit that Built specifically for geocaching. It will handle just about everything you can throw at it cache wise with exeption of WhereIGo and chirp caches.
It holds up to 10,000 caches in it’s database and supports paperless caching with it’s field notes capability.
The only drawback is you must plug it into your computer to load new caches and to upload your logs. I use GSAK to load my caches to the GPS.
It’s got a very attractive price point as you can usually find it online for about $150. I picked mine up at the local Gander Mountain store. The had it for $150 also and since they were out of stock I got the display model for an additional 20% off.
I’ve thought about doing a multi with the waypoints set up as QR codes. Should be able to do it with a standard QR reader app. No Munzee required.
I use FindStatsGen3 in GSAK for maps and stats.
I’ve used a phone in the past for getting coordinates for hides, because at the time my GPS (Explorist 100) didn’t do averaging. But on the same note I would then turn around and put the coordinates into the GPS and then validate how sane they were.
If you let a smart phone average for a long enough period of time it will give you reasonably decent results. I beleive most of the bad coordinates are from people that take a single GPS reading and don’t do any averaging at all.
Grrrrr. I just remembered I won’t be able to do this trip after all.
The infrastructure group is doing a OS and MQ upgrade on the production servers for my application at work and since I’m the on-call person this weekend I have to sit by the computer and baby sit the upgrade and make sure the application comes back up and works correctly afterwards.
I highly doubt the the upgrade is done and signed off by the business sponsors before 7:00. [:(]
Hey I’m interested in tagging along on this one!
I’ll be brimming a kayak for the hunt.
I was originally planning to finally Finnish the Three Bad Ribs for my #500 but I think this will be better.
Chances are your smart phone won’t work at all over there. If your phone operates on a GSM style network (AT&T uses GSM) it may work and if it does you will probably wish it didn’t as internation roaming charges can quickly add up to a small forechange.
You may be able to buy a pre-paid phone SIM card for your phone once overseas to make it affordable but chances are that your phone from home purchased through your cell provider is locked down to prevent you from doing this.
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