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Re: Open Caching

Post by Zalgariath » 15 November 10 7:59 pm

It just seems odd, particularly on the back of the recent arrival in the US of the Open Caching Project, that Garmin, who would have to be aware of such things, would try to start up ANOTHER open, free, community driven cache listing site??? :-k

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Re: Open Caching

Post by Cached » 15 November 10 8:11 pm

There's a US open caching project (not the garmin one)? Link please!

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Re: Open Caching

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Re: Open Caching

Post by CraigRat » 15 November 10 8:55 pm

caughtatwork wrote:http://www.opencaching.us

Hey, they're referring to our xml layout \:D/ \:D/
Open format for all.

http://geocaching.com.au/geocache/1
http://geocaching.com.au/geocache/1/geocache.xsd
I was talking with the .pl guys about the possibility of unifying our formats... seems they did, without us needing to do anything :lol:

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Re: Open Caching

Post by caughtatwork » 15 November 10 9:42 pm

That's extremely sweet.
With more and more sites adopting the open format, we're all in with a better chance of getting the GPS manufacturers to adopt the same open format.

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Re: Open Caching

Post by CraigRat » 15 November 10 9:46 pm

caughtatwork wrote:That's extremely sweet.
With more and more sites adopting the open format, we're all in with a better chance of getting the GPS manufacturers to adopt the same open format.
It's now clear why Garmin haven't replied to my many emails RE: Adding GCA support to their units....... maybe they've already planned to adopt it :lol: (says he in jest)

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Re: Open Caching

Post by Richary » 15 November 10 9:49 pm

In looking at someone's now deleted hides I saw some ones from shutterspot. There's another I wasn't aware of that can be imported into here. Something I will have to look into to add to the different find options.

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Re: Open Caching

Post by caughtatwork » 15 November 10 9:53 pm

CraigRat wrote:
caughtatwork wrote:That's extremely sweet.
With more and more sites adopting the open format, we're all in with a better chance of getting the GPS manufacturers to adopt the same open format.
It's now clear why Garmin haven't replied to my many emails RE: Adding GCA support to their units....... maybe they've already planned to adopt it :lol: (says he in jest)
If the choice is between the open format and the Groundspeak namespaces, I would hope (expect) they go with the open format. Of course, they may also choose a Garmin specific namespace.

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Re: Open Caching

Post by Zalgariath » 15 November 10 10:26 pm

CraigRat wrote:
caughtatwork wrote:That's extremely sweet.
With more and more sites adopting the open format, we're all in with a better chance of getting the GPS manufacturers to adopt the same open format.
It's now clear why Garmin haven't replied to my many emails RE: Adding GCA support to their units....... maybe they've already planned to adopt it :lol: (says he in jest)
\:D/

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Re: Open Caching

Post by roundcircle » 17 November 10 10:35 am

Text on the Opencaching site's changed:

your caches, your devices, your community

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Re: Open Caching

Post by caughtatwork » 17 November 10 10:40 am

Your kidding :lol: :lol: :lol: Oh, I kill me.

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Re: Open Caching

Post by Papa Bear_Left » 17 November 10 12:49 pm

caughtatwork wrote: :lol: :lol: :lol: Oh, I kill me.
No need to DIY... :stabby

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Re: Open Caching

Post by The Spindoctors » 01 December 10 9:41 pm

In case you haven't seen the Opencaching.com website - http://www.cachemania.com/opencaching-c ... g/2010/11/

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Re: Open Caching

Post by MtnLioness » 01 December 10 10:37 pm

Sooooo, why then was it only up for just 3 hours and what the heck is going on?
Why would you create a site, have it up for only 3 hours then make it unusable and closed off if it doesn't work? #-o

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Re: Open Caching

Post by CraigRat » 01 December 10 10:55 pm

MtnLioness wrote:Sooooo, why then was it only up for just 3 hours and what the heck is going on?
Why would you create a site, have it up for only 3 hours then make it unusable and closed off if it doesn't work? #-o
I think someone 'accidentally' hit the publish button a bit too early!!

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