Australian Waypoints and Summaries back up
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Australian Waypoints and Summaries back up
Hi. Just thought I'd let you know that I've finally updated
my Geocaching Waypoints page at
http://www.roblisa.com/geocache/
for the geocaching.com format change and will be again regularly updating the data files. If you don't know what it is, it lets you download waypoint files in a number of formats (Garmin MapSource, OziExplorer, Waypoint+, EasyGPS, CVS) containing the cache waypoints for all of Australia or on a state by state basis. It can also differentiate or remove caches that you have found already.
A complimentary function is also available which summarizes cache pages for printing, on a slow connection, or for handhelds.
Let me know if you have any problems or if you would like another format added.
Cheers,
Rob.
my Geocaching Waypoints page at
http://www.roblisa.com/geocache/
for the geocaching.com format change and will be again regularly updating the data files. If you don't know what it is, it lets you download waypoint files in a number of formats (Garmin MapSource, OziExplorer, Waypoint+, EasyGPS, CVS) containing the cache waypoints for all of Australia or on a state by state basis. It can also differentiate or remove caches that you have found already.
A complimentary function is also available which summarizes cache pages for printing, on a slow connection, or for handhelds.
Let me know if you have any problems or if you would like another format added.
Cheers,
Rob.
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Just what I needed!!
Thanks Rob, I had a look at the results last night and the html summaries look really useful.<br>
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One thing I did notice was the summaries didn't indicate when a cache was temporarily offline, might lead to a few wild goose chases <br>
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Also, is it possible to add an option to decode the hints automatically? Including the decode key on individual pages is handy, but I'm getting lazy these days
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One thing I did notice was the summaries didn't indicate when a cache was temporarily offline, might lead to a few wild goose chases <br>
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Also, is it possible to add an option to decode the hints automatically? Including the decode key on individual pages is handy, but I'm getting lazy these days
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Yay!!
Thanks Rob!!
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Ideology: Yes, I'm fine with that. I'm assuming you're after the cache lists. If it was the summaries you are after, it probably wouldn't be a good idea as it passes the requests straight on to geocaching.com and they seem to have some sort of filters in place to block IPs that access too much. I still have to play with it a bit as It seems to be messing some queries up now.
Alex: Not sure if this is what you are getting but the design at the moment is Found Caches are caches you have found and caches you have hidden and unfound caches are everything else. Is this what you are seeing? I could add another option of Hidden caches but I haven't found anyone else who wants it.
Cheers,
Rob.
Alex: Not sure if this is what you are getting but the design at the moment is Found Caches are caches you have found and caches you have hidden and unfound caches are everything else. Is this what you are seeing? I could add another option of Hidden caches but I haven't found anyone else who wants it.
Cheers,
Rob.
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Any chance of a possible enhancement to the waypoint downloads?
<p>It would be great to have the option of using the cache name (e.g. "The Pulpit") as the waypoint name in the download, rather than the cache's waypoint name (e.g. "GCGAWD").
<p>Also, any chance of having the option of using different colours for different types of caches (for file formats that support that)? e.g. One colour for multi-caches, one for normal, one for event caches etc.
<p>It would be great to have the option of using the cache name (e.g. "The Pulpit") as the waypoint name in the download, rather than the cache's waypoint name (e.g. "GCGAWD").
<p>Also, any chance of having the option of using different colours for different types of caches (for file formats that support that)? e.g. One colour for multi-caches, one for normal, one for event caches etc.
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<p>Ebenezer wrote: <p>It would be great to have the option of using the cache name (e.g. "The Pulpit") as the waypoint name in the download, rather than the cache's waypoint name (e.g. "GCGAWD").
Problem with that is when you get two caches called "the pulpit 1" and "the pulpit 2" in your gpsr it saves them as "the pu" the second cache then overides the first and you only get one of them.
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It would be better if identical cache names were re written as "the p1" and "the p2"
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Cache name as waypoint
Hi. Sorry for the delay. Ok, I've had a go at renaming the waypoints with the cache name. Some of the names end up a bit ugly (especially if you only have 6 chars) but you should be able to work it out if you have the full name to compare with.
For your example, the two caches should appear as 'thepu1' and 'thepu2'.
Let me know if you have any problems.
Alex: Yes, it wasn't getting the whole list but I didn't catch it because it worked for my username. Probably because you have more than 20 hidden. Anyway, should work now.
Cheers,
Rob.
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For your example, the two caches should appear as 'thepu1' and 'thepu2'.
Let me know if you have any problems.
Alex: Yes, it wasn't getting the whole list but I didn't catch it because it worked for my username. Probably because you have more than 20 hidden. Anyway, should work now.
Cheers,
Rob.
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