Geocaching Australia

Well that was unexpectedly easy. Thanks

Could caches be put up for adoption before they are archived? eg. 2 months after a needs maintenance log with no response from the owner, email the owner that their cache will be put up for adoption in a month's time if they do not post a note on the cache. If that email bounces, or after another mo...

The old icons that used to be used are still there (on Google's servers.) eg. http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal4/icon11.png --- I had a bit of a mess around with the package icon from Tango. Unfortunately I couldn't get SVG happening for me, so they're on 32x32 at the moment. http://img505.ima...

Not great, but in case I want to try anyway, what are the requirements?

ie. dimensions, number of icons, for what cache types, filesize, fie type, can we just use the icons from the old feed? or from geocaching.com?

What's the progress on this?

When I updated Google Earth to 4.2 (not sure what from) I now no longer get the nice icons for tradition, multi and puzzle caches.

Currently I have something that looks like a shopping bag for all caches except puzzles, which are thunder and lightning I think

I was unable to find a reference to the torrent on your website, I had to google for it. I'll seed it at least until I reach 1:1, but only at 5kb/s unfortunately. Perhaps you should consider making torrent downloads a more permanent option - any self-respecting geek will be happy to use the torrent ...

Mapnik is generally updated weekly, usually around thursday-friday I think. Osmarender is updated more often and you can request tiles to be rendered using informationfreeway.org, zooming to level 12 and ctrl clicking (or shift clicking, can't remember) on a tile. This took a few hours last time I d...

I called my mapsets OSM and OSM-QLD...

The .img files are only updated once a week too. If you go to http://informationfreeway.org/, go to your area, zoom to zoom level 12, then ctrl+click on an outlined square, you can manually request re-renders of tiles in your area. There's a system called tiles@home - ditributed computing, similar t...

• Download file (I've done it with both SA and Qld)
• Unzip
• Rename with name from gpsaustralia thread.
• Open M3. Click new, Select map file, click create mapset.
• Open Mapsource, select new mapset from dropdown list.

Dooghan: Which .img file/s are you using, which version of mapsource, what operating sytem? You might pass on your troubles on to Stevez.

By the way, if you just want to see what the map looks like in your area, you can just use the website instead - much easier!

just wanted to browse the img file using mapsource, as I don't have a mapping GPSr ...yet. So I have just attempted to open img file with mapsource so far. Mapsource doesn't recognise .img files, you have to twiddle it a bit. Read this bit again carefully: I was able to use a program called M3 to l...

What did you try, and can you further describe the problems you had?

In layman's terms, OpenStreetMap is like Wikipedia for maps. Anyone can edit it, and the data is free . There's tools to convert the OSM data to .img (the file format used by Garmin GPS units and Mapsource) but it's complicated and not within the realms of most users. Fortunately for us, there's a g...