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I did look at that Wellcat.com site. I think these guys might be smoking some those herbs that they sell.

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Unless the caches are nearly invisible, I don’t see how these could last long. Sooner or later, a consciencious public works employee will think the cache was thrown in the garbage and somehow missed the bag. Like magic, the caches will disappear.

There are many trash can hides around SE Wisconsin (although USUALLY they are on the outside of the trash can.) I agree that these don’t shine a real positive light on geocaching and are might discourage first time finders from pursuing the sport. Our first find was a trash can hide, but fortunately we soldiered on to find much better hides in the area. The strange thing is that for everyone of these that we have found, there were other, less obnoxious, hiding places close by.

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Also, there are approximately 70 caches within 15 miles of the campout, so those who don’t like temps should have lots of other hunting to do.

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I know what you are talking about Ed. Sometimes the GC.com notification program gets ahead of the approval program. Unless the owner “disables” it at the last minute, these will go into approved status shortly. You can obviously go find it if you have the coordinates; you just have to wait for the approval to log it. (And of course, you risk getting to the wrong coordinates when someone makes a last minute correction (which never happens in SE Wisconsin, right?))

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Thanks for the input, Donna. Actually, that is not what I had in mind. Many people who would use the list are much closer to some of the border caches than caches at the opposite end of the state. When cleaning up the database, I was surprised to find that I am actually closer to the caches recommended in Missouri than the caches in Bayfield county. My thoughts were to maybe delete the caches in California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and Ohio (and probably Missouri, distance notwithstanding).

That said, once I got the file in GSAK, the distant caches were not much of a bother, so I’m tempted just to leave them there. Its easy enough to filter for only the Wisconsin caches if someone wants to do that.

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Woohoo! Nice work!

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Thanks for the kind word, folks. Glad to help out.

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I’m hiring the Fu as my new assistant to answer questions regarding the bookmark list.

And yes, we can start another list. I will be surprised if it is necessary, as I am not keeping archived caches on the list.

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In GSAK, you can set up an unlimited number of databases. To create a new database, just select Database|New from the menu (Go figure!). If you are using v6, the only option you have is the name. If you are using v7, just specify the name and take the default options until you work with it for a while. You can choose to either upload different queries to each database or use Waypoint Move/Copy to move existing WPs around between the DBs. If you choose to move waypoints, be sure to read the help file on this, as you have a lot of control on how it behaves.

Once you get them set up in GSAK, you can send separate extracts to your palm and load them into different categories. This is much easier than trying to move them around in Cachemate. Until you get onto the process, just do one at a time, that is extract one DB/filter, hotsync it to the Palm, and load it to a particular category, then begin again for the next filter/DB. You can do more than one at a time, but the process gets a little confusing.

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That will certainly work, OR, if you want to save it as a picture.

1. Right click on the map and select “Save Picture as…” Save it as a JPEG.
2. Go to your GC.com profile page and upload it as a picture.
3. Select it as your profile picture.

Thats all there is to it, but you cannot “cut and paste” it into the profile.

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It was also great to see Jay at the “Freeze your Rumpus Off” event in Greenfield. (Don’t worry about learning all the names, that will happen eventually.) Meeting other likeminded people at these events and on the trail is always helpful.

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Oops, I slipped a digit there. Mike is correct about the M500. The unit I had was an M100, which only had a serial cradle available. (It also ran on AAA batteries, so your car charger comment tipped me off.) M100s can be had for around $10. I would expect to pay more like $25 for an M500.

By the way, I don’t know anyone who tried paperless who went back to printing out cache sheets. I bought the M100 because I wasn’t sure if I would use a Palm. Once I determined that I was “paperless to stay”, the $ commitment for a new Palm (around $100 with a hardshell case, including shipping) was easy to make when my M100 gave up the ghost.

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@djwini wrote:

speaking of macros—-it would be great if we had some type of macro class at one of our events. i know there are a lot of features in gsak that i have never tried.

This is something that I could do. Maybe we could schedule this in conjunction with the next Paperless class, sort of like Advanced Paperless? Would people be interested in attending something like this? We could maybe take a half hour to cover basics (downloading and using macros, creating buttons to run macros, simple one line macros), then maybe an hour covering some of the basic techniques (database variables, looping through the database, on the fly filtering and sorting, html exports, etc.) I’m thinking this would have to be BYOL (Bring your own laptop).

And Tammy is right that there are a lot of public macros out there that you can use. (I have a couple out there myself for handling child waypoints in GSAK version 6, which I still support since many have chosen to not pay the upgrade fee.) The best one out there (written by markp99), is one called MyGME (Google Maps Export), which plots any number of waypoints onto a Google Maps interface. The features of this are too numerous to list, but this has the potential to replace all the other mapping software you use for planning caching expeditions. If you are a GSAK user, this one is a must have. To get it, go to:

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=3781

Be sure to go all the way to the bottom as some of the older versions are still on the site. You want myGMEv02f.txt. Save the file to C:Program FilesGSAKMacros and it is good to run.

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@rush-2112 wrote:

We are looking for a cheapie also…The only real requirement is that it still loads from my PC via usb cable… other then that if it works all the better…lol

The REALLY cheap ones (under $20) are usually serial, rather than USB. The M-500 that I had was a serial unit. If you have to have USB, you are probably looking at something produced in the last 5 years.

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Congrats to all the newly elected board members. Looks like we have a great slate of directors coming on board.

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