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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
upload text file

Hi Tom

Thank you VERY much for taking time out to explain that.

This is a feature I had not found in gc.com OR GCz, but I think it is a better solution than what I have been doing.

It means I can write my logs as I go along, but don't have to worry about wireless connections and getting them uploaded.

Nor do I have to upload them one by one when I get home.

If this works it's going to be a good solution.

Thanks, and thanks also for the latest version of GCz which has restored the overview feature. Excellent.

Paul
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Hi Paul,

It works :) I always use this feature because it's very easy to use. Just do everything offline and upload it later when you're at home. Then you can check if everything is all right on gc.com ... and after that: it's done!

+ it doesn't cost anything :)

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Excellent, thanks I can't wait to try it.

Cost is not really an issue as the amount of data to upload a log is minimal and I have a full data plan anyway - I use much more data looking at Google maps and sattelite view when I'm out and about anyway :)

The pain is waiting for each log to upload and sometimes dropping a connection and sometimes having the log swap problem to deal with at home.

I never saw the benefit in waiting till I got home to upload as I thought I would still have to go through my lists to identify my finds (and they're not always on the list if I do one which I wasn't planning to do) and upload one by one.

If they can all be uploaded in one hit then that solves all the problems.

I presume if you drop off trackables then you go back to the cache online and post a note to drop them? The txt file can't do that I assume.

Cheers

Paul
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] realhuette:
Some time ago I exported a cachelist with GCz to gpx and imported that file to GSAK. Everything went fine.

Today I wanted to do that again and GSAK complains: Invalid argument to date encode.

Does anyone know if GCz changed the gpx import? Or how can I import GCz gpx to GSAK?

Thanx in advance,

Juergen
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mundoceleste:
Hi Tom

Thank you!

Ups. Selected Cache from the cache list not open.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] desmopan:
Load Cache list does not work

Hello World!

I got a prolblem with my HTCS620 smartphone running wm5.0 and gczii.

Gczii itself works fine, but managing the cache list does not work properly.

I can only work with "load Favorites" and "Last Cache list".

I can save cachelists but cannot load them again...

Can anybody help???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cjhatz:
GCzii on HTC HD2

Hallo,

I have a HTC HD2 and use GCzII. The ROM version is:

1.66.404.1 (76641) NLD.

My problem is that i can not use Google Map.

The error:

File not fount. [\Program Files\GoogleMaps\GoogleMaps.exe]

How can i fix this problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
As you seem to be German ("Hallo").

Change the Path to "\Programme\GoogleMaps\GoogleMaps.exe" in the settings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ricke 59:
Hello

Ref questio above about Google Mapps, pls check question and answer on May 4:th
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Hmmmm, not quite as easy as I thought. Did a test last night on one cache. Uploaded the txt file and waited...and waited. Some time later a message appeared that I had field notes waiting to process.

It then seems you have to click on each one and log the notes one by one.

This is no different to getting home and running through the caches with red ticks in GCz and logging them one by one over wifi. Except you don't have to wait for gc.com to process the field notes file.

I thought the txt file would upload and log the finds all in one go without further intervention.

Not a fault of GCz of course, just the way the GC system works.

Ah well, i'll stick with the old method.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] S.Bartfast:
Stoo!d question.

This is probably really obvious, but what is the yellow dot on the 'radar' screen? I just can't work it out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
You have the solar azimuth set, so it is showing you the current position of the sun.

Very useful if you are stood still and want to know which direction to walk (providing the sun is out)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] S.Bartfast:
Arrr!

Very clever :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] riowong:
Hi there, my gps uses NMEA. I couldn't get Geocaching to work. Could anyone pls help?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
It's a superb extra function. When you've found a cache and are about to head off to the next, because you've been standing still, the little read arrow is not pointing in the right direction, and the blue arrow probably isn't showing the direction you're walking because you're not walking.

So while my mates go stomping off in any direction just to get their Garmin devices to recognise their movement I just line up the yellow dot with the sun and head off in the direction of the red arrow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
You'll have to explain what problem you're having first..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cjhatz:
Thanks for the answer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phil82de:
Hi Tom, I tested the GCzII_20100512_43 RC Professional Edition and found no Bugs (except of the download-limit-problem. perhaps an option "skip caches downloaded last 4 days" could help to load all caches in a list with breaks)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TWiG420:
Been using this app for awhile now on my iPaq hw6945 .. LOVE IT!! Thanks for the awesome work! I used to use GeoScout, but GCzII + G Maps blows it away.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phil82de:
Hmm, I found one verry little bug in GCzII_20100512_43 RC Pro after all:

1) I downloaded my 500-caches list again to see whats new (just the list, the old caches are loaded berfore 7 days). I noticed gc1yj6x, wich Is disabled thince long time, had no deactive-Icon (had one before load the new overview list!). Than i reload the cache and the Icon was there again - seems that the old status don't get used and no new read out with the list

2) half an hour later I pressed "downlowd all caches" to update so much cache-listings as posible with the download-limit. After this I noticed gc1yj6x again - it got downloaded but again no icon. In the comments I saw that I got archived a minute before! but it looked like active: no Icon and no crossed name

Edit: seems that NO icons get shown until a cache gets reloaded alone without others. new-Archived get not marked even than.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Major Bug Report

I am using the version 0.2.35.42. There appears to be an error in the scaling of the Static Maps. When I am near the edge of the Static map, my location is way off (sometimes as much as a city block). As I approch the center of the map (the cache location),it gets more and more accuriate. This seems to me to be the result of an incorect scale.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbacon19:
Anyone else having a failure trying to display the cache overview? When I go to cache overview it reports that it doesn't exist.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] desmopan:
doesn't work anymore on my htcs620 with wm5.0 either:(......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Yeah, I reported that about a week ago.. :rolleyes:

And AFAIK it's fixed in the files Tom posted a few days ago, I haven't had a chance to download them and check yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdafuzzi:
Yes, it works with the new version:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

I did upload cab file.

Ver 0.2.35.43

====

1) "Cache overview does not exist" issue fixed.

2) "Hint" button is always active issue fixed. (Cache Detail)

3) "OldWarning Strike" issue in the title of Cache List fixed.

====

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

thanks

tom

PS)

I have not tested AppToDate this time.

Please let me know if it does not work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
AppToDate worked fine, thanks for the update Tom!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RH18:
Hello, I used apptodate for the first time, and as I use a HTC snap (non touch) i had to copy and paste the exe file, which is ok. However this afternoon the app (v42)has stopped loading up my previous cache finds (ie cache list with a tick) in the area I am in? I have checked the search setting to make sure the 'exclude your owned or found items from result' is unticked? Anyone else lost this? also same with v43?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] m0j0j0j0123:
Gonna give this a try next weekend. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Tom, have you had a chance to look at the static map scaling issue I had mentioned here
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] riowong:
My mistake, I didn't set the device properly. Now it's working. Thx.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Drybonz:
Well, I just got back from finding my first cache. I had some trouble finding it, and hope that maybe some of you experienced guys can give me some tips.

1) I drove to the general vicinity of the cache, and found it very difficult to follow google maps while driving. I usually use TomTom. Is there a better way?

2) Once I got close to the cache I found that using the directional compass was not very helpful. The arrows were constantly changing directions in ways that did not make sense (would be pointing away from the cache sometimes) and the direction did not seem to update very often. The distance did not seem accurate at all. The cache itself was 2 giant fallen trees, so it was obvious where it was at, however, if it would have been a small item, I don't think I would have found it.

So... can you guys give me any pointers?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Were you using GCz or GCzII? The first release (the one that can search) the arrow... well, I was never quite sure what it was doing. I think it was pointing the direction from North that you should go, not from your current heading.

I always navigate to caches via TomTom, but it does beg the question on how to approach the cache if you don't have it in TomTom. Generally I am hunting from PQ's but GCz's power is that you can, as the program says, start from 'here'. As in anywhere. I've never tried to use Google Maps to navigate, but I know it does do a road overlay to show you how to drive to point, not sure if it gives you any other indications of how to get there though. It's really outside of GCz's scope, but it is a valid thing to ponder when using GCz as the primary data gathering device.

I wonder if GCz could copy a coordinate and one could paste it into TomTom? I'll have to experiment with that. If so, that might be a method. Search for caches, pick one, copy the info, launch/open TomTom, paste in coordinate, follow TT to the cache site.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Drybonz:
I was using GCz, as everyone had recommended previously. I set the compass to keep my heading at the top, so that the arrow should have been pointing in the direction that I was supposed to go, but it did not work out that way.

Yes, if GCz could interface with TomTom somehow, like Footprints does... it would make the approach drive a lot easier. I had a really hard time driving and checking Google Maps as I was going.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abumaia:
I use Google Maps to drive to the general area of the cache (hit Map, then when GM loads the cache location, turn on "Use GPS" and then "Find Directions" "from current location," then follow the line on the map), then I switch to the GPS page. On the GPS page, the only info I use to find the cache is the distance reading. I ignore the arrow entirely. I just walk around, and watch the distance reading. If it goes up, I turn around and go the other way, changing my direction as needed to keep that number going down.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Drybonz:
That makes sense... but it doesn't seem very practical... it seems like a working direction pointer would be most helpful... but then, I am brand new to this.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
That is the aim of GCzII :) The radar+trail approach is far more practical than the old arrow ! :cool:

So what I'd advise you as GCz and GCzII can be both installed and even run simultaneously on your PDA : choose your cache with GCz or geocaching.com, then copy the coordinates of the cache in GCZII -> GPS Monitor -> Set Target Location. Then Enjoy ! :D

Avoid to use GCz or google maps while driving ! it can be dangerous :eek:

If you want to do approach with car enter cache coordinates or a point nearby in your GPS Navigation soft, then when near the cache and out of your car switch to GCz/GCzII :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Drybonz:
OK, thanks for the tips. I will give it a try. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi all,

I modified some UI.

Please see it and try new CAB file.

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Gzh/20090425#1240643431

GCzII_20090425_1545_0233L.cab

thank you ;D

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
It's perfect! History in landscape, the history functionality on the top page, the 5-way usage (left/right/up/down/button), everything!

One question, I lost what history I'd put into the previous version, was that expected? I just put in a few sample things, but just wanted to make sure you expected that to happen in case it's a bug.

Now... .that pesky Go button. *begs*
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Hi Tom :)

personally I find that the new UI is a little too overcrowded, I would rather suggest you the below layout :

View attachment 180183

(1) & (6) : the space above the combo box could be reserved too display the name of the cache as saved in the history.

(2) : you could modify the edit field to an editable combobox. You can enter text here as previously but you also can select an item in the drop down list.

(3) : A single button is enough.

- The "set" button you added in your UI is superfluous : when you select an item in the drop down list you can automatically set it.

- The [+] button could be replaced by the [Save] button if the text in the editable field of the combo box doesn't exist in history.

- Yet if the text of the combo box exists in the history then the [Save] button changes its caption to [History] to manage the history (7).

(4) In the drop down list you could display the name as entered when saving the cache (not the name of the edit field).

Then, when you select the name in the drop down list, the name is displayed above the combo box (6) and the edit field of the combo box is filled with the relevant data.

(5) the first item of the drop down list could be a "special item" that allows to clear the edit field of the combo box and clear the label (6) and reset it to the (1) text.

Of course this is a lot of work :o but it would be really handy I think :rolleyes:

BTW I noticed you also added the position points to the trail ! Thank you :D

Cheers,

Nibbler.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Ah by the way, for the current location screen, I would propose to add a button "Save Current Location to History" :)

View attachment 180188

Then you could reload these saved locations from the "Search by coordinates" screen :cool:

Ok that's all for now :p

Thank you so much,

Nibbler.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
>> khaytsus

>>One question, I lost what history I'd put into the previous version, was that expected? I just put in a few sample things, but just wanted to make sure you expected that to happen in case it's a bug.

Yes, I changed registry place.

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>> Lord.Nibbler

Thank you for the ideas.

I changed the Top Screen UI.

I hope it much better than before.

-----------------

Please check below.

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Gzh/20090427#1240806255

GCzII_20090427_1330_0233m.cab

thank you

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] realhuette:
Hi!

I have a problem with GCz when connecting via GPRS. Download of nearby caches produces the error message: Not Found [VIEWSTATE]. When connecting via WLAN everything is ok. Other applications work with GPRS.

Any idea what's the problem there?

greetings!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carbolineum:
Do you use T-Mobile Speed manager or other proxies?

That could be the cause.

Greetings Michael
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alx6ths:
Hi Tom,

good work on the new test versions ;)

But on the two last releases, i found a weird bug. Iam not sure if ti was present before, but now i found it out. The problem is following:

If i insert a coordinates into "Set Target Location" window in the format of lat/lon N/E and then i press OK, i get a huge distance and i fugured out, that lat/lon letters N/E change to the lat/lon S and W itself.

If i change both back to N and E and press OK, it changes again. If i change only latitude from S to N the longitude change from W to the E and latitude remains S. And if i change longitude from W to E the latitude changes to N.

Pretty weird, is it :D It looks like the logic of the changes is exchanged... swaped or something ;) I managed to put it right way after few minutes of switching lat/lon around, but this should not be the way :D

Btw, what about AppToDate support? :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Tom,

Aha, makes sense on the new registry location. I had not yet looked to see where you put stuff there.

I'll check out the release today, including a report of oddness with lat/lon input, I hadn't noticed that myself yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Wow, me too. I put in a N/W and now have S/E.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pingu-net:
Hi Guys, had the same problem here in Switzerland. Difference to my target location: 10384 kilometers instead of 78 meters where it was.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] realhuette:
No proxies. But today with stronger signal it worked. Maybe there's a problem with timeouts on bad connections or something like that?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Talk about geosense taking over. I'd have been on a flight ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pierce_j:
Once again Tom, amazing, and quick! Thanks for your continued support of us WM Geocachers! At least somebody :cough: notgroundspeak :cough: cares about this section of the geocache community!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] icqripper:
Another Map than "Google Maps"

Hello,

is it possible to link another software to view maps? OpenStreet-Maps or better outdooractive.com?

Or another idea is to create osm maps offline ("Mobile Atlas Creator" from Trekbuddy)

Or stram directly the png files from a server:

*

OpenStreetMap (Developmental "Osmarender")

h**p://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/[/url][INVZ]/[X]/[Y].png

*

OutdoorActive.com (Germany only)

h**p://t0.outdooractive.com/portal/map/[/url][INVZ]/[X]/[Y].png

Thanks for response...

Best regards from Germany

ICQRIPPER
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dogpack:
Tom,

I found an issue with a feature not often used, so not a major priority.

For Webcam caches, there is no "Webcam Photo Taken" option when trying to log the cache, so there is no way to successfully log this type of cache in GCZII
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gmann1:
Nice program, thank u Tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sally04:
GPX Export with "empty" coordinates

Hello,

i found that the gpx export of some waypoints produces something like:

<wpt lat="" lon="">

<time>T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</time>

<name>GC1MC0E</name>

<desc>Conditio sine qua non by do1000, Unknown Cache (3.5/5)</desc>

... delete some lines ....

</wpt>

I'm no premium member, so i can't access the coordinates. But it would be nice if GCzII could set the lon and lat values to "0.0". Other Tools complains about the "empty" coordinates when importing the GPX.

By the way, i love GCzII on my HTC HD2

Greetings from germany
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I'm going to miss GCzII :( Tom seems interesting in Android looking at his blog, hopefully he'll port it. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hiawatha23:
Tom's blog...

Hi,

a couple of times, I saw mentioning Tom's blog, but I can't find it. Mind sharing the address of this blog-site ?

Thanks.

Kind regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tblaster:
Auto download static map files with cache

Is it possible to set a setting so that all static map files are auto downloaded together with the caches?

If not, then this is a feature that I would like to see implemented. I would also like the ability to see my position and the caches position on the static maps.

And how about the ability to see the caches in ones list on a map of ones current location. This map should be generated from static map files to save re-downloads. Otherwise it would be nice to have an integration of google maps into the program with map files saved after they have been downloaded so that they aren't re-downloaded.

An thanks for a nice program!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
You must get a lot of free data transfer with your phone :)

What I usually do is set up a cache list before I go out, and then use "Download all caches" while at home and still connected to my network. If I'm out and don't happen to have a map already, I just download the one I need.

You can already do this. Select the static map and it shows a line from your current position to the cache, or waypoint you select. You can cycle through the waypoints.

You can already do this by selecting Google Maps from the cache list. It will display all the caches in the list.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pingu-net:
No, that's not possible, because if you are out in the wild and have no dataplan for your Handy it could be very expensive.

If you have listest your searchresults open the menu | Google Maps. There you will see all the caches...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Just save the list and then download all files. I think that's what you want, isn't it? I always do it that way. I don't think that you want to download everything when you make a search :)

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tblaster:
I have no data plan for my phone which is why I wan't to download all map files while my phone is connected to my computer or a wifi network. In that way I always have all the map files with me when I'm on the go.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Then your best option is to download all the maps for a given cache list, as I mentioned in my previous post. GCz will also only download maps and images it does not already have, so were you have cache lists/searches which overlap, it will not re-download the maps it already has.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gustav8:
Bug found with "&" in owner's name ...

Hi all,

to my surprise when I came back from a very "dense" area I discovered that I was only able to find 50% of the caches simply because the GCz was not showing the others !!!!!

Try to donwload that one: GC1TGYW ....

The "pattern" that I believe I've found is that for somewhat reason all the caches containing a "&" in owner's name were not listed by the program.

I was like these kind of caches simply didn't exist!!!! :confused:

Anyway: you're great Tom! Excellent work...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I can not confirm this "problem". There are several caches in my immediate area that have an "&" in the owners name, and I have had no problem with those. In addition I have just search for, and downloaded, the specific cache you mentioned.

If memory serves I think there was a problem similar to this some time back, which was resolved after an update. Are you using the latest version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tblaster:
Psyberdude, thanks for the help. Nice to be able to download all pictures at once. And I can see that I simply have to click on the static maps to show them in big and have the cache and my position shown! Great feature.

New request feature:

It would be nice to be able to easily change from one static picture to the next by scrolling the picture (like the picture viewer feature on HTC devices).

Also, would it be possile to use the build in scroll feature of some devices (like the HTC Diamond 2) to zoom in the static maps instead of having to open the menu and selecting a zoom leve.