Caching on the Go
Posted: 25 May 03 2:54 pm
Remember the days when a caching trip involved printing cache notes from geo.com - somehow getting the waypoint into ozi to print a map. etc etc.
The setup i have now is almost seamless, I just click on the waypoints I want (after a search or browse on geo.com), choose the download option and voila - thats it.
Behind the scenes, the gpxml file is downloaded, gpsbabel accepts the download, does the conversion to Ozi and uploads the waypoints to my eMap automatically.
I have the MobiBook cache list for S.A emailed to me 3 days a week , a script in Entourage decodes the attachment and puts it in the HotSync
queue automatically.
Next Hotsync, I have a searchable and browsable list of all the caches, available 24/7 on my PDA.
The only manual thing I have to do is open Ozi, load the waypoint file and print a map. Although, I tend not to do this much these days as the eMap mapping isn't that bad.
The workflow is easy to setup and other than Hardware costs, it free. Let me know if you want more info.
kevin
The setup i have now is almost seamless, I just click on the waypoints I want (after a search or browse on geo.com), choose the download option and voila - thats it.
Behind the scenes, the gpxml file is downloaded, gpsbabel accepts the download, does the conversion to Ozi and uploads the waypoints to my eMap automatically.
I have the MobiBook cache list for S.A emailed to me 3 days a week , a script in Entourage decodes the attachment and puts it in the HotSync
queue automatically.
Next Hotsync, I have a searchable and browsable list of all the caches, available 24/7 on my PDA.
The only manual thing I have to do is open Ozi, load the waypoint file and print a map. Although, I tend not to do this much these days as the eMap mapping isn't that bad.
The workflow is easy to setup and other than Hardware costs, it free. Let me know if you want more info.
kevin