Check the co-ordinates

mundoo · Post by **mundoo** » 21 May 09 9:18 am

I have seen on some cache pages (usually multi's) an option to put in a final co-ordinate and it will check if it is correct.

And of course when I go looking for it I can't find a cachepage with it on.

Can anyone tell me what that program/weblink is please?

Thanks

team waldron · Post by **team waldron** » 21 May 09 9:32 am

Evince

http://evince.locusprime.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi

Jardry · Post by **Jardry** » 21 May 09 9:35 am

Geochecker and Evince are the two most popular.

calumphing_four · Post by **calumphing_four** » 21 May 09 10:12 pm

GeoCheck is quite nifty. It enables you to provide extra info when the right final coords are entered, plus you can revisit the coords you entered and update them (rather than having to generate a new URL).
Cheers

murf · Post by **murf** » 21 May 09 11:27 pm

Before Craigrat or C@W get to point it out... you can even use this very site

As an example:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC1D9CF
can be checked:
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc1d9cf/check

To add the checker, you will need to make sure the cache is listed on GCA. If its a GCA cache, that's obviously a given... but if it is published on GC, either wait till the faeries have worked their magic, or import a GPX file.
Once the cache is on GCA, go to the cache page and click "Edit this cache" ( or go to the url: http://geocaching.com.au/my/cache/<waypointcode> eg: http://geocaching.com.au/my/cache/gc1d9cf )

For GC caches, there is no point in editing anything else on this page, but down the bottom there is a "Co-ord Checker" section where you can enable the coordchecker and add the coords. Once this is setup and saved, just add the link to your cache page. The url is in the format:
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/<waypointcode>/check
for example:
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc1d9cf/check

Hope this is useful.
Cheers, Murf.

marhleet · Post by **marhleet** » 23 May 09 2:43 pm

for those who don't like too many hints
but didn't realise you are hetting them any way, the extra added waypoints on a cache listing also get sent to your GPS when sending the orig co-ords.

so if you don't want to look, remember not to.
but if the extra waypoint is the final GZ WP then remember to solve the puzzle your self first, and use that as a check.

(gosh I hope that makes sense)