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by riblit
09 April 03 10:52 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: What type of GPSr do you use for Geocaching?
Replies: 45
Views: 13581

Currently a Garmin Emap with additional 64Mb memory and all Aust Street level maps.
by riblit
09 April 03 10:36 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Which mapping software do you use for geocaching planning?
Replies: 20
Views: 10751

Usually Oziexplorer as I have a lot of maps of various scales of the area known as the County of Cumberland and adjoining parishes. Mapsource if I want street level outside that area.
by riblit
08 April 03 8:38 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: NASA Map downloads
Replies: 7
Views: 4611

If you don't have a version of OZI that reads MrSID files, I can send you a MrSID viewer that will convert the files to uncompressed TIFF
by riblit
08 April 03 8:32 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: NASA Map downloads
Replies: 7
Views: 4611

Pesky and others, From the URL I posted, click the 'select image' radio button and the click on a square on the map. Another window will open with options to view the map with Plug-in, No Plug-in and with Java. Under that is a link titled "Download MrSID Image" Click that and save the image to your ...
by riblit
08 April 03 7:10 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: NASA Map downloads
Replies: 7
Views: 4611

I downloaded all the maps they have on line for Australia and some of New Zealand and other places of interest to me. I haven't ordered any of their Cds.

I can cut a CD or DVD for anyone who doesn't have the download time available.
by riblit
05 April 03 11:43 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Caches placed while on holiday a no-no?
Replies: 22
Views: 9787

I wonder what a yank terms a vacation? Is it outside a certain radius from their home? Does it involve being away from home more than a week. In short, unless the word 'vacation' appears in the description, how would they know? I agree with Swampy etc on this, being told what to do by someone half a...
by riblit
04 April 03 7:45 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: NASA Map downloads
Replies: 7
Views: 4611

NASA Map downloads

NASA have satellite images of all the land mass of the earth available for downloading at <a href="https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/">zulu</a>. For anyone with a late version of Oziexplorer they make an interesting map to display waypoints on. I have all the map files if anyone is interested. They ar...
by riblit
04 April 03 7:17 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Maps - Beta testing [closed]
Replies: 9
Views: 4969

Hi, I just had a quick look - impressive, although I agree with Slider and Smurf regarding a variable size map window. I do have some issues with the search function on the map page. Every time I tried it crashed after inputting the first letter of a search string. The offending code is: <td></td> <...