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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Hi Tom,

yesterday I found my 245th cache, but the first one using GCzII. It was traditional and the only manual work was to type the coords of parking lot to GPS monitor (since the waypoint UI is not done yet). But everything else was perfect. I let Google Maps to navigate me close to the cache (using satellite view), then switched to GPS monitor and in a short time I found the box. Then I logged it from within GCz - beautiful. :-)

Two ideas for improvement:

- add "Find nearby caches" to the right softbutton menu of the page with cache details(where "Post log", "Download cache" etc. reside ) - it could call the same function as search page 2/8 does, "All geocaches" would be preset. This could be a quick one.

- add (one day :) support of convenient input of smileys to the log screen :-) There is not much room, maybe as some kind of drop-down.

Thank you for this comfortable application
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
And one bug: :)

The "For the Love of Caching Geocoin" definitely is not in "B-17 going down..." cache. See the two subsequent images. There is no trackable in B-17 currently and the "Inventory" button should be greyed out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

Updated.

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

GCzII_20090528_1730_0233_03.cab

Change) 0.2.33.3

1) Change Waypoint UI.

2) Some bug fix.

!!!! Need to re-download caches again to activate [Waypoint] if already stored!!!

(no compatibility previous cache files.)

thank you

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi khaytsus

I see your meaning.

Currently, that is design limitation. not 5-way works.

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Hi xhozt

Ok

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Hi audax67

I know what you mean. ;D

Will be added the feature later.

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Hi Jack_Brody

I got your ideas.

and I checked the B-17 (GC1GP8M).

Please find attach pic. no inventory activated.

You might need to re-download the cache. >> "Reload Cache" menu on the Cache Detail windown.

thanks.

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Hi Tom, a few more ideas (maybe for GCzIII :p) and a little bug.

Sometimes the "title of the cache / owner" is too long and doesn't fit a single line. Could you please add the title and the owner of the cache in front of the cache description as you added the short description ?

It would be great to add sorting ability to the cache list :

- sort by distance from current position (*)

- sort by cache size

- sort by owner

- sort by cache difficulty

- sort by title

- sort by inventory (display caches with TB and GC first)

(*) When sorting by distance from current position, you could replace the distance and the direction displayed in front of the cache by the values calculated from the current position instead of those given by geocaching.com query request.

Of course some of these criteria need to get cache details and would work only if the cache was previously saved. But for caches that were not saved you could ignore them and let them at the end of the sorted list.

I would love if the sorting criteria could keep memory and cumulate themselves : like if you first sort by distance then you sort by size, as a result you will get all the biggest container sorted by distance, then all the medium ones sorted by distance, then all the small ones :rolleyes:

As for the UI it would be really great to have a finger friendly scroll for the cache list (like scrolling pages in opera, not using the scroll bars but directly sliding the finger on the screen :D)

And finally maybe a little bug : as my gps was disabled my phone went to suspend mode while downloading caches. When I restored GCz I got an error like "directory creation SDMMC\Program Files\GCzII\Caches failed" and GCz closed itself. Maybe even if the GPS is disabled, you could prevent GCz to go to suspend mode while downloading caches ?

Thank you so much !

Cheers,

Nibbler.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] medwyn:
Thank you for assuring that GPX support will be. I probably won't sleep peacefully until this is done ;-)

Anyway, just setting-up a PayPal account because your effort on all of this is enormous. ;-)

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I am sorry that i am SO greedy, but i cant help myself

- I found out that you are saving the direction and distance to the cache into the XML files. I dont think it is a good idea, you should definitely count the distance and direction from the current coordinates from GPS. But I know that on search page you cant find out the coordinates of the cache. :(

Anyway, when GPX support is done, there will be no other way to determine the cache location and direction than count it.

- would it be possible to keep the tracklog from GPS monitor between two starts of GCz?

- would it be possible to keep the last GPS position between two starts of GCz? (You wouldnt have to wait for GPS fix when indoors on WiFi; When you open the Radar you'd bee on the exact spot where you ended last time - even with the last tracklog)

- could you please add support for special types of log on Photo caches? I know that there are not many of these, but still. Currently I can see no way to log "Picture taken" from GCz.

- In cache list, could you add icon that a TB or GC is present in the cache? I can see the information is available on the html search web page. This one is just for fun but would be nice

- Earthcache icon is broken in cache details. It shows a red questionmark instead of a globe.

- In cache logs, waypoint descriptions, travel bug logs etc., could you somehow interpret or just not show the HTML code? Currently the text is shown in GC1QBXP as

U lekarny zjistete<br><b>A</b> = pocet kocek na sgrafitech<br><b>B</b>

And furthermore, I believe the text is not complete - because its so long it doesnt fit to the UI :/

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- I couldn't replicate the error with cache logs belonging to another cache. So I believe it's fixed now.

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Thank you for your effort.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Edi0177:
Dear khaytsus,

I still know how to handle with GCz :D

My Problem is that the V-900 has a great accuracy, like i wrote, but GCz does not calculate the distance correct. I got a PDOP from 1,1 to 1,6 and 9 to 11 satellites with full connection. But the distance-calculation works only if i got a speed input from the reciver...

I have noticed that the calculation only works when a speed signal is transmitted.

The problem is, that the reciver will not give speed signals to the ppc unless you are under a speed of 4-7 km/h .

I still know that i have to move in order to get a distance calculation.

On my test yesterday, I walked through the (deep) forest and get only sometimes a speed signal (although I had great connection) and the calculation of the distance was worse than my internal Sirf chipset.

I think the problem is that gcz only calculate distance and direction when it gets a speed signal from the gpsr. The Sirf-Chipset would do this even the signal strange is good enought.. The Atmel chip prefer a higher speed (more than 5 km/h) to give a speed signal.

My question is whether GCz the distance and direction only calculated when there is a speed signal, or at each change of coordinates ???

PS: If you are interested in the V-900 you should know that it has no electronic compass...;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lasterix:
Hello,

I just found GCz and that's what I was looking for !!

I just have a problem when I do a search by geocache code for example it says :

"HTTP buffer is empty [\Program Files\GCzII\HTTP_Log\01_LoginAuth.html]"

Do you know what this means ?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I'm still concerned that there's something "wrong" with that the V-900 is sending.. One should never have to move in order to get a bearing and distance. Even GPS with silly static navigation, the coordinates would remain fixed and the program using them could calculate distance and bearing.

I haven't seen GCzII need any sort of speed in order to calculate bearing and distance. I routinely will get somewhere close to a cache and just wait for a moment and let things settle down. After a few moments, I'll pull out my compass and estimate where I need to walk to. From there, if there's not an obvious place for a cache, I'll repeat. I've also done this with GCz, and haven't seen any problems with it, but I'll check again. Possibility some bug slipped in.

I was checking a waypoint I made in my backyard several years ago and GCz was giving me the exact same bearing and distance that my other geocaching program did, which were oddly 44 feet off from where the waypoint should be. I walked around the yard, watching both programs, and they both showed the same info. Pretty sure GCz is working well in this regard.

I hope the V-900 doesn't have some weird limitation or function which would make it bad for Geocaching. I think I'll do some googling. BTW, electronic compass would be sorta okay, but requires special support and constant calibration, so IMO not all that useful.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
This is a GPSr feature called "static navigation". It freezes the position if the speed is below a few km/h. This is done to avoid jittering in position while standing still. It is especially intended for car navigation but it is a nightmare for pedestrian / geocaching use :mad:

Unfortunately GCz can't fix this issue ! It can't create itself the coordinates if the GPSr doesn't provide them :rolleyes: :p

Some chips like sirf ones can be tweaked to enable/disable static navigation with tools like MMSirfSetup. I don't know if atmel chips have the equivalent tools but you can search google or contact your GPS support to ask for possibility to disable "static navigation".

Yet if your internal chip is a Sirf one, you can probably turn off the static navigation and have pretty decent results :cool:

If you use MMSirfSetup pay attention to select the correct COM and baudrate or else you can have some strange results and you may need to hard reset your GPS or your phone !

HTH,

Nibbler.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ep Woody:
Thank you for this great piece of freeware! Lovely to see this kind of software for free. It makes paperless geocaching a lot easier.

I just ran into a small bug. When I try to download all caches, and there is one Premium member only cache, it stops downloading all the other caches.

Keep up the good work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

I got a bug report.

"Cache Detail window (landscape mode) not work." and fix it.

please try new one.

http://www.nicque.com/pqz/GCz.htm

GCzII_20090528_2215_0233_04.cab

If you store cache files before ver 0.2.33.3.

Need to re-download caches. (no compatibility earlier than 0.2.33.2)

thank you

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ep Woody:
I've got a small question.

I don't have GPRS, but I find this piece of software ideal to take the descriptions ed with me. Is it possible to go in Offline mode, so the software can look for nearby caches, or caches with a specific name.

That way I can bring all the descriptions with me, while I'm geocaching. Also very usefull if your taking a tour to a foreign country. You're able to prepare your trip, bring the hints, descriptions, photo's, and when you return, you log your visit.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hi there :)

Just trying out this latest version; i've not visited the thread for a while...

I have a problem downloading caches near my home, as it says "Cache is not available (Member only)" - I guess this is because I haven't renewed my premium membership. It's ok, but then doesn't download any of the caches so that I end up with 0 downloaded... The second time I tried it just sat on "Initializing" forever...

Can it bypass member only caches so it continues without problem? Let me know if I can supply any more information
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Boyo:
Tom, I was wondering if you were using some kind of bug tracker instead of just keeping track of this thread and potentially missing things. I read this thread every day to see what is going on and still only remember some of the current issues.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Then I have no idea :o

GCz is doing some "smoothing" on the raw data from GPS. But I doubt that this smoothing could create your issue, yet try to enable the "Logging Start" option in GPS Menu in GCz.

It will create a raw NMEA log file in your GCz folder with all the NMEA messages received from the GPS receiver.

Tom could then analyze it to diagnose your problem :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Anyone else getting Cache not Found for all caches that aren't already downloaded? I think it might be that the links are being translated to "../seek" but no domain name? Dunno, I'm sending Tom my logs in a PM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bmielke:
cache not found

What's wrong?

I installed the new version ...33.4 and now I can search caches and I get the list but if you want to download one or all then pop up the error "cache not found"...:confused::(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gelugon:
cashe not found

I am also getting the "cashe not found error" I'm sure Tom is on it.

Gelugon
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] marcuswar:
Cache Not Found

Same here.. Cache Not Found.:(

This was all working fine until I installed version .4 tonight. Now I can search for caches and get the list but whenever I then click on one to see the cache details it says cache not found. Strange thing is that I've resinstalled the old version and that now doesn't work either. In fact I even tried running GCZ (instead of GCZII) and thats doing the same as well.:eek:

Looking in the HTTP_Logs folder I can see the downloaded cache details file so its definetly NOT not found:confused:

I've attached the logs incase Tom can make any sense of it.

Marcus
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gelugon:
cashe not found

I was also using CGZ at first today when it quit working. I then downloaded CGZ2 and was getting the errors on both apps. Love the app tho.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] audax67:
The same "cache not found"-problem on my Diamond.

AUDAX
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MrPloppy:
Getting the "cache not found" error too. Going camping / geocaching this weekend, so hope we get a fix soon!!

Congrats on a great app.

MrP.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Boyo:
Starting to sound like they finally got around to changing the cache page and not just the search pages like not to long ago.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fx17:
maybe it is a change on the gc.com side. i reverted back to 2.33.2, which worked fine yesterday, and i still get the cache not found error.

what are all the changes at geocaching.com, and why are they doing them? is it just a revamp of the system?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fx17:
a change on geocaching.com might also explain why geocahing live won't download caches like it did this morning.

you guys should try that windows mobile program out. its a beta of an Offical groundspeak windows mobile app. its map based and works fine on my touch pro. it lets you download caches on the fly, and see other active cachers too, so you can send them messages or meet up.

live.geocaching.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

update

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

GCzII_20090529_0900_0233_05.cab

I have not enough time to check all.

I just checked Cache Detail (Cache not Found.) issue.

Please let me know still other issue exist but I need to go out all day today and tomorrow.

Probably I will not have much time to maintain program.

thank you

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Tom,

You rock. It's a shame GC keeps causing you this churn in the program, hopefully they'll stop. I wonder what they are doing. Works good here, haven't checked exhaustively yet, but searching for a few common searches and I am able to pull up the caches.

Thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sbrown2680:
Tom is on it like Comet!

Thanks Tom...I, for one, really appreciate it how quickly you put your updates out there whenever groundspeak decides to screw things up. Keep up the good work buddy!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
tryed as expected same comport issue but .32 seems to still work so im fine untill you can reintegrate the gpsapi ,, just wish i could do more testing , but without gps function there is not much i can test out . though searches seem to work just dandy ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Manamana25:
Same "Cache not found" for me.....:(......

I'm using still GZ one......GZII still does not work for my Omnia, right?....(I tried it once, but it did not load anything....)

BR

Marcus

EDIT: GCzII in the last version works, !!!.....Thank you !! It's still the Best!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] marcuswar:
Excellent work Tom..

Just downloaded version .5 and its fixed the "no cache found" problem.:D

Would it not be possible to store the scraping filters in external resource files (like you've done with the skins in the skin folder ) or registry entries. This way if GC changes the pages again it would simply be a matter of changing the scraping filters rather than having to recompile and release a new version. This also means that people would have the chance to fix it themselves when it breaks again, rather than waiting for a new release.

I'm thinking that you could use regular expressions (maybe you already do internally to the code?) to describe the filtering. So each piece of information that needs to be scraped (e.g. Cache Name, Cache Description, etc) would have a regex describing how to find it in the html of the page.

Marcus
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nicky_86:
GCz WOW what great app.

> Hi together,

im new here and im from germany.

>

> I found the programm GCz2 in the internet. I think it is a really good programm but I have problems with the proxy server settings. i have to use a proxy server. My proxy server is 139.7.29.1 and my port no. is 80. But when I use this settings it doesnt work. Thank your for your help!

>

> Greets
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BooDaddy:
Tom, Good work!

but I installed the latest .5 version from your site, and I am getting "cache not found"

the app is reading my GPS fine as it is showing me at an accuracy of about 19 feet (NICE!!). and it pulls the location into google maps ok, but when I try to use the search nearby, I get cache not found.

I was however able to search by zip, but not GPS.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Maverick_TN:
I'm having a few accuracy problems with this as well. I have tried using MASPware's GPS Meter and have had much better results. Perhaps something could be learned from and adopted from this?

It seems to be able to either read or calculate HDOP and VDOP with some level of accuracy.

It has settings for a Threshold to filter less accurate readings.

I have had much better success using this to locate caches within 1 or 2 feet on my 6900 vs 8+ feet.

I don't know if anything can be adopted from this, but here is a link if anyone wants to try or study it.

http://www.maspware.com/products/gpsmeterpe
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Hi Tom,

I used GCzII (-.5) to log a Travel Bug. It still does not accept german Umlauts ( ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ) in the log message, rejecting them with the message

Unsupported character found in Comment (Alphabet/Numeric/Symbol only)

Also, using when using "tab" to switch from input field to input field, the order doesn't seem right, you go from the date fields to the comment field, and then to the log type selection. This might be less of a problem when using the stylus but I tend to use just the keyboard whenever possible :D

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] janvisser1982:
pictures in cache description

hey all.

i noticed that pics in cache description are not downloaded when using the 'offline' feature. Is it a setting or a program issue? anyone else having this issue?

jan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
You do realize that any "accuracy" calculations based VDOP and HDOP are just information, right? They don't directly effect the actual coordinates. Yes, VDOP and HDOP should be low, but that's a function of the GPS itself, not any software.

It could be that Tom is calculating the "accuracy" information differently, most people I think just basically do HDOP*10. But regardless, it doesn't affect the actual coordinates.

You're never going to get better than 3 meter accuracy with civilian handheld equipment. Do you zero out on top of a cache sometimes? Sure. But anything under 10 feet is just icing on the cake.

GPSMeter looks interesting, complicated... And it looks like it does a lot of averaging and such to interpolate increased accuracy. Honestly I'm not sure how useful that is, but at least it does avoid getting a reading where the GPS has twitched and gets a reading off from where you are. It's interesting to watch a program which will plot coordinates as they're read, offset from the original point. Sometimes you get large deviations from the original reading, sometimes here and there, sometimes it'll go off for quite a while, then slowly come back. Interesting to watch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] marcuswar:
Just tried it myself with version .5 , and it worked fine for me. :confused:

Just a thought... did you try clearing out your previous cache lists etc ?

Marcus
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BooDaddy:
marcuswar,

How do I clear the previous cache list? This is the first time I've used this awesome app :)

sorry for the n00b question..lol
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] marcuswar:
If its the first time you've used it then this probably isn't the problem.

The previous cache list is held in a directory called "Caches" under the GCzII directory. Just use the windows filemanager to delete any files in the directory.

Are you sure that GCzII is actually getting a GPS fix, have the satalite bars turned blue in the GPS monitor screen ?

Have you set the GCzII GPS settings to use COM4 at 4800 Baud Rate ?

Have a look in the HTTP_Log folder to see if GCzII is actually getting information back from the Geocaching server.

What device are you trying to run GCzII on ?

Marcus
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Hi Tom,

today I cached half a day using GCzII, so briefly two things:

- fix: GPS monitor pulls current coordinates instead of target coords into Google Maps (I remember you set this in the very first versions of GCzII so we could verify the accuracy of GPS monitor)

- add: could you add any way to quickly turn on/off the GPS in GPS monitor? You know, I realized I didn't need to have GPS on and drain my battery when searching, downloading and reading listings and when it actually came to navigating, I had to go back to search menus, and turn the GPS on there.

Thank you, this online caching is becoming a real fun! :)

Looking forward to the waypoints UI done and there won't be much I will ever wish. ;)