Geocaching Australia

embi wrote:its as accurate as I can get it

Someone has made some 15 point calibration files at http://www.gpsaustralia.net/forums/

they are available for download from each state thread

they seem pretty accurate to me (only tried the tassie one so far), I can email it to ya if you like.

embi wrote:Works like a dream

ditto

I just tried word pad....I opened it and clicked save.....nothing else.... then it worked fine....so wordpad obviously removes the carriage return symbols LOL, i just tried your solution, that works too for me. i think you're right, wordpad must of recognised the squares & resaved them as a carraig...

The spaces are fine energizer....its the carriage returns.... I got it working and I just removed those symbols. I left the spaces as is It's funny you say that, I was about to tell you the carriage returns are fine, lol. I opened it in Wordpad, which must recognise the squares as a carriage return...

here's the waypoint I downloaded from the site; OziExplorer Waypoint File Version 1.1 WGS 84 Reserved 2 garmin 1,GA0238, -41.7309, 145.625783, 38645.9371821, 46, 0, 3, 0, 65535,, 0, 0, 0, -777, 6, 0,17,0,10.0,2,,, here's the working version. OziExplorer Waypoint File Version 1.1 WGS 84 Reserved 2 ga...

OK, I opened the waypoint with a text editor, & you have a few spaces between the fields. I got rid of the spaces, saved it & it worked fine. you just need to remove the spaces between the fields & it should work.

we've added an .OZI option to each cache we don't have Ozi Explorer so we can't test it can someone please give it a go and let us know how it goes? thanks! Didn't work for me i'm afraid, it downloads as a .ozi file, which didn't do anything. I tried renaming it to an .wpt file, but didn't have muc...

Think I've done it. It's a little confusing, even for me. Holiday Caches Found by State (excluding Locationless) by Cacher Home State: TAS (as an example) This one shows the finds in any state by a Tasmanian on holidays. Looks like the most commonly raided state is Victoria. Holiday Caches Found by...

gday C@W, just noticed the new graph showing most interstate finds in a day.... great work :) as an add on to that, how easy would it be to show say; most popular holiday destination for each states cachers using the total number of interstate finds & in reverse the most common home state of visitin...

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Cheesy pigs wrote:There is probably something obvious that I am missing

'Fraid so...

Near the bottom of the form, there's a box marked "In the form" where you select GPX or LOC.

there's also a lot of info on GPX files & how to obtain them here

Cached wrote:That some black thing in Hobart was most likely a Tiger Snake. Somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, but the only snakes down there are Tigers and Copperheads. Both are pretty nasty.

Actually 3, there's the white lipped as well

more info on Tasmania's snakes can be found Here

GIN51E wrote:What does it mean when you have dreams about Geocaching a couple of times a week?

You've got 5 other night's where your dreaming ability is Broken

When I try to download gpx files, (for South Oz) all I get is 10 caches when I open GSAK & open the file. Is it possible to D/L all or even just ones close to home or near a particular town? I am only a newbie with one find so far. Waky53, firstly congratulations on your first find. There are some ...

Cached wrote:or maybe the GA meeting could be an event?

Bwahaha, thats the way to get em in,
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Notice - Come to Cacher's Anon, Free Smiley on entry.

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CraigRat wrote:A problem cacher is someone who has found more caches than you......

Gday Craig

Hey, this cap fit's, So I must be wearing it .... yeah i'm a problem cacher, they all sound too familiar i'm afraid

Reading that list was like looking in a mirror, damn SCARY!!