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by ideology
14 August 03 8:37 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Geocaching Australia Newsletter - Issue #1
Replies: 14
Views: 5542

great stuff, ecodave! we love the player profiles and cache features!

we've republished it as you requested at http://geocaching.com.au/newsletter
by ideology
12 August 03 11:25 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Map, Editable landmarks and Search - Beta testing [closed]
Replies: 18
Views: 8573

you used to be able to type in direct coodinates in the search field on the front of geocaching.com.au but it seems to be broken. hmm... another thing for the list. the conversion is pages of code to translate coordinate datums from wgs84 to ans66. maccamob has a spreadsheet which explains it.
by ideology
11 August 03 9:12 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: How did you find this forum?
Replies: 8
Views: 3800

Ebenezer wrote:I found it from a link on geocaching.com.au.
so did we!
by ideology
05 August 03 8:01 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Sorting the members... [closed]
Replies: 4
Views: 2871

ok, done
by ideology
04 August 03 11:32 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Sorting the members... [closed]
Replies: 4
Views: 2871

sensitive mode = off
by ideology
01 August 03 11:49 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Australian Waypoints and Summaries back up
Replies: 17
Views: 8479

hey rob
that's excellent!
updating the database on this site has been a real hassle
are you open to allowing us to grab the data off your site rather than the secondary site?
by ideology
29 July 03 8:25 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: we think we have problems with positioning accuracy...
Replies: 2
Views: 2028

we think we have problems with positioning accuracy...

From the sydney morning herald : Satellite's gone, we're going to hit: skipper By Joel Gibson July 29 2003 A glitch in the global positioning system (GPS) has been blamed for the sinking of a yacht after it ran onto rocks north-east of Coffs Harbour early yesterday. ... "The boys woke me up at the r...
by ideology
28 July 03 8:55 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Weird Wild Web
Replies: 4
Views: 2853

ah, the elusive spotted loon!
by ideology
27 July 03 10:41 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: The final nail in the "moveables" coffin
Replies: 5
Views: 2897

well, it's his site and he can make whatever rules he wants one problem with rules is that they multiply to cover every instance in the end you get huge volumes which noone can understand (eg tax) being the capitalists that we are, we'd rather leave it to the invisible hand of market forces with pro...
by ideology
27 July 03 9:32 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Sharing of mobile phone numbers [closed]
Replies: 22
Views: 8729

great suggestion!
we've (finally) updated the membership list
you can get a list of mobiles by doing a descending sort on that field
by ideology
01 July 03 10:13 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Map, Editable landmarks and Search - Beta testing [closed]
Replies: 18
Views: 8573

it's semi-automatic - we just upload .loc files we just uploaded the latest files and those caches are now on here the conversions used are pretty standard datum conversions flax-en beuaty had the wrong coords because they were initially wrong on the secondary site (see the first log by muzza). we d...
by ideology
23 June 03 9:13 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: New Team Needs Name
Replies: 19
Views: 8764

hmm... not much of a brief

combining his car with the act of finding a cache, we suggest "geocovery"
by ideology
18 June 03 9:14 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: CacheMonkey 2.0 BETA Released
Replies: 14
Views: 6311

linking here is fine
by ideology
03 June 03 12:37 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Weird Wild Web
Replies: 4
Views: 2853

eric cartman

by ideology
15 May 03 10:53 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Geocaching gear...
Replies: 38
Views: 12944

we use a pair of trek 19 torches - they are insanely bright