Posted: 05 May 09 11:34 am
Cool (and a little weird!) graph!
I will have to become a premium member to import my finds from OS.
I will have to become a premium member to import my finds from OS.
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Posted: 05 May 09 11:47 am
Only half way! But then I only have just over 200 finds!
Posted: 10 May 09 4:08 pm
Social Bookmarking
Send your favourite GCA caches to:
Facebook, reddit, stumbleupon, digg and twitter.
e.g.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0620
Look for the image under the stats banners.
One click and you can nerdify your friends.
Send your favourite GCA caches to:
Facebook, reddit, stumbleupon, digg and twitter.
e.g.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0620
Look for the image under the stats banners.
One click and you can nerdify your friends.
Posted: 10 May 09 4:40 pm
Can you shove ins a line break after the stats banners? I'm getting 2 icons on the same line as the stat banner then the other icons underneath (FF 3.10)caughtatwork wrote:Social Bookmarking
Send your favourite GCA caches to:
Facebook, reddit, stumbleupon, digg and twitter.
e.g.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0620
Look for the image under the stats banners.
One click and you can nerdify your friends.
Posted: 10 May 09 4:56 pm
Ahh, you're widescreen or higher than XGA.
Will do.
Will do.
Send To GPS
Posted: 10 May 09 6:43 pm
Send To GPS
The Send to GPS feature should now work correctly for most Garmin devices
Cache, Descriptions, Logs etc should now appear in the 'Geocaches' function rather than just in your waypoints.
The Send to GPS feature should now work correctly for most Garmin devices
Cache, Descriptions, Logs etc should now appear in the 'Geocaches' function rather than just in your waypoints.
Posted: 14 May 09 9:42 pm
Google Maps Proximity Circle
The Google Maps from GCA now sport a new tick box (top left) to turn on and off a 161 light blue proximity circle.
If you move the map to a new area and you get new caches showing up, you will need to tick and untick the box to get the proximity circle to show up again (javascript is not my forte).
The circle has 60 points so at some zoom levels, it's a bit flat in spots. This is to try and get a balance between decent circle and the suckage that is IE.
Now, for those of you who use Internet Explorer, don't blame me for it's massive javascript suckage. I've been experimenting for hours to get it to run faster. Reducing the number of points in the circle (from a very nice 100 to a decent 60) has helped. I Googled the heck trying to work out what I can do and the end result appears to be the render engine and the javascript engine suck much
Switch to Firefox. It's many, many times faster.
I am still to do the code for Google Earth.
The Google Maps from GCA now sport a new tick box (top left) to turn on and off a 161 light blue proximity circle.
If you move the map to a new area and you get new caches showing up, you will need to tick and untick the box to get the proximity circle to show up again (javascript is not my forte).
The circle has 60 points so at some zoom levels, it's a bit flat in spots. This is to try and get a balance between decent circle and the suckage that is IE.
Now, for those of you who use Internet Explorer, don't blame me for it's massive javascript suckage. I've been experimenting for hours to get it to run faster. Reducing the number of points in the circle (from a very nice 100 to a decent 60) has helped. I Googled the heck trying to work out what I can do and the end result appears to be the render engine and the javascript engine suck much
Switch to Firefox. It's many, many times faster.
I am still to do the code for Google Earth.
Posted: 14 May 09 10:41 pm
That is SO cool! (Works great in Google Chrome browser!)
Posted: 15 May 09 6:13 pm
What a great tool, just be aware when looking for hiding places that you still can't see final locations or waypoints for multis and puzzles.
Posted: 15 May 09 9:22 pm
Google EARTH Proximity Circle
The Google Earth KML link from GCA now sport a new tick box to turn on and off a 161m red proximity circle.
By default the proximity markers are turned off. You can expand the All Caches link (tick the box) and you will see the proximity checkbox.
If you move the map to a new area and you get new caches showing up, the proximity markers will turn off and you will need to tick the box to get the proximity circle to show up again. This is expected behaviour as by default they're off.
The circle has 360 points so should be nice and round. If you notice that it's not round you probably have terrain turned on and the line is following the terrain. It's still actually round, but looks wrong as it's following the terrain.
Enjoy.
The Google Earth KML link from GCA now sport a new tick box to turn on and off a 161m red proximity circle.
By default the proximity markers are turned off. You can expand the All Caches link (tick the box) and you will see the proximity checkbox.
If you move the map to a new area and you get new caches showing up, the proximity markers will turn off and you will need to tick the box to get the proximity circle to show up again. This is expected behaviour as by default they're off.
The circle has 360 points so should be nice and round. If you notice that it's not round you probably have terrain turned on and the line is following the terrain. It's still actually round, but looks wrong as it's following the terrain.
Enjoy.
Posted: 16 May 09 4:26 am
That is neat!
It shows much better than my line I have on my own google map for measuring when I am setting up a new cache.
I have a new cache I am about to release and I was able to see that my final location is just outside the proximity whereas if I had placed it on the other side of the small park I would have been inside the 161
Thank you.
It shows much better than my line I have on my own google map for measuring when I am setting up a new cache.
I have a new cache I am about to release and I was able to see that my final location is just outside the proximity whereas if I had placed it on the other side of the small park I would have been inside the 161
Thank you.
Posted: 01 June 09 6:05 pm
Scrolling Zoom on Google Maps
Nothing spectacular, but if you go to a Google Map rather than having to use the zoom widget on the left hand side to zoom in and out you can now use your scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out.
Nothing spectacular, but if you go to a Google Map rather than having to use the zoom widget on the left hand side to zoom in and out you can now use your scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out.
Posted: 01 June 09 8:01 pm
That's handy. Now can you make google maps less of a bandwidth glutton too! 
Posted: 01 June 09 8:13 pm
We can't (or won't) but you can.
The Google Maps are fixed in a div that is 100% of your browser window.
The bigger your window the bigger the div, the more map tiles come down the pipe.
If you reduce the size of your browser window (make it say only half your screen size) you get faster downloading as there aren't as many map tiles being called by the Google Maps API.
For those on dialup this may alleviate some of the bandwidth requirements.
The data from GCA is pretty small with only half a dozen small fields coming don the pipe.
It's the map tiles that are the killer.
Unfortunately Google Maps don't offer lighter map tiles via the standard API.
The Google Maps are fixed in a div that is 100% of your browser window.
The bigger your window the bigger the div, the more map tiles come down the pipe.
If you reduce the size of your browser window (make it say only half your screen size) you get faster downloading as there aren't as many map tiles being called by the Google Maps API.
For those on dialup this may alleviate some of the bandwidth requirements.
The data from GCA is pretty small with only half a dozen small fields coming don the pipe.
It's the map tiles that are the killer.
Unfortunately Google Maps don't offer lighter map tiles via the standard API.
Posted: 02 June 09 8:49 am
Thanks for the tip.