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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schiefersoft:
i can build in a TXT to GPX conversion in version 2.0

if Tom this not have on his to do list...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
I also use Geosetter to geotag my photos. It's a perfect tool for it. To convert the .txt to .gpx I use the freeware RouteConverter. There you can chose which data you want to use and so on. GCzII e.g. adds a line to the log every second? When I go caching, it's great, but if I want to log a route with my car, I only need every fifth second or something like that. You can easily edit this within RouteConverter.

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pahejl:
RouteConverter works only partially for me. Yesterday, I recorded 2 routes, one of them was by RouteConverter converted correctly (20091028_161237.txt), second is odd - RouteConverter don't recognize NMEA format (20091028_123408.txt).

Another trouble: When I'm caching and moving between caches, I use google mobile maps for navigation. GCzII can't log in this period of time. Is GCzII able to log the route when it is running on background?

Thx for answers

pahejl
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schiefersoft:
its working fine! i use google maps AND GCzII, GCzII runs in background and loggs my route GM shows me the way!

thats one of the advantage against the iphone which can only run ONE App

DEAR Community,

is it a good idea that i build in an GPX Export into GCzII-Tools?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
That doesn't work on my computer neither :confused:. I converted your file on http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert_input?convert_format=gpx and the output was correct. Strange.

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CouchPotato:
My greatest wish is an automatic removal of orphanised cache folders.

Which means: Delete any cache folder which is not in any cache-list.

So the program has to read every cache-list and add the GCcodes to a database.

Afterwards search for cache folders with GCcodes which are not in this database and delete them with all in it.

Thank you in advance!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
But this feature should be disableable, because i for myself don't save the list very often.

Instead i enter a center-cache code, do a search around it, add a few pages to widen the stored area, download the most attractive caches and then go out. In the wild i just sort the list.

As i tend to do this often in nearly the same area(s), it's useless for me to save the list, because the list is generated every time i do the "search for nearest" from scratch.

But i prefer to have the maps and logs stored for a lot of caches, saves time and costs in the wild. What else is a 16GB Card good for??? ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I agree with P5x5-User. If this was implemented, it would definitely have to offer an option to delete or not to delete folders. The reason (for me at least) as I pointed out in my previous feature request post is that I often want to remove caches from the list, such as temporarily disabled ones, but not remove all the data, static maps etc, that I have downloaded for them.

Personally I think this feature should be left as is, but deleting cache folders should remove the cache from all lists it appears in.

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CouchPotato:
I meant "automatic" as a menu entry, which should be asked "Do you really want...". Not totally automatic without asking the user first.

I always make a new list, when i go to a different zone.

But when i leave the zone again and will not come there in the near future i delete the list. But then the caches remain on my storage card. That is my problem, and i have hundrets and hundrets of these orphanised caches, so manual deletion is no way for me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Ah yes, I see your predicament. However, I do a similar thing but often have lists that overlap, so again I would not want to delete all data from one list as some caches may appear in others. If they don't then it would effectively delete them all. Perhaps Tom could add an additional option under Remove Caches, something like "Check unique caches by list". Selecting this would bring up the list page (or perhaps work with the currently list in use), select the list and all caches unique to that list would be selected or maybe even deleted automatically.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
I would like to see an option "Delete Caches I have found and posted logs for" or the very least an option to not display them in the cache list. I know there is a download option not to download caches you have already found but after they are found they still display in the cache list.

Still hoping for an option in the cache display to "Show Coordinates in other Conventions" so that I can key them into my car PNA that only supports coordinate entry via decimal (DD.XXXXXXXX) or Degree-minutes-seconds (DD MM SS.XXXX) formats. Right now I have to write them down, start another GPS Coordinate Conversion program, manually enter them (copy&paste doesn't work) then key them into the PNA...

Thanks again for this great program!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
You can do this from the Cache list > Remove Caches menu. Once in the cache list, you can either sort by found caches and then check them manually, or select the check option and chose found it. Then delete all checked.

Admitedly this does not remove the caches from the list(s), which is a feature I've requested in a previous post, so removeing them from the list has to be done manually, however if there are quite a few then I find it easier to just do a new search (which will now exclude all the recent finds) and then save it over the old list.

As for the other issue, my turn by turn accepts decimal so I've never had an issue, however I do wish I could paste into it which would make it easier than having it enter the coords manually, but thats an issue with Garmin mobile, not GCzII.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
export ALL logs in gpx file

I've just tried to export a list of caches along with ALL the logs I have download, however it only seems to export 5 logs for each cache. Is there a way to get the exported file to contain all the logs?

Alternativly, does anyone know how I can get all the logs for a cache off GC. The most I seem to be able to get by download the GPX file is betweem 15 and 20 ?!?

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
I believe that 20 is the max you can get in a PQ. There are some GSAK scripts that will get all of them. You could try looking them up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
This is a little off topic, but I am having a hard time finding an application that will do this, preferably freeware, it would be nice to have this in GCzII, but if I could find another application to do this that would be fine...

I need to calculate distance traveled in feet and the area in square feet, for example, a puzzle Earth Cache (see Geocache GC1T557 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=722c0b20-26fe-43dc-9d38-9f0b045259e3) where I can click start, then walk a circle (or any to another point) and then click stop and it will tell me the distance traveled in feet and if the start and end point are pretty close, tell me the area inside that "circle" traveled.

I have tried some various cycle computer software and it works OK for the distance but its in miles and its not accurate enough. I also tried a program called Marathon but its not free and failed to run on my WM6.1 Dell Axim (I think it required .NET 3.5 and I am using 2.0) so I don't know if it would work for what I need anyway.

The distance from click START to STOP would be nice be in GCzII, but if someone knows another application that would do this I would appreciate some guidance or recommendations.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
Hi.

First of all, thxs for the app. it is great!

Some remarks I have:

- When I did a new search and then do a save or download of the caches, it would be great to have a dropdown or a save-as dialog, which shows the already saved lists, as this could be used to refresh a list around a coordinate.

- It would be great to save the search criteria in the saved list and then have a "rerun" search, so it will include new caches, that appeared since the last load (I am now doing it through "search" with saved entry and then download and type the same name then I did before.

- a very nice feature would be to include a symbol in the list, when the cache has inventory (some of us like to help TB's on their way ;-)

- it would be great if my own trackables (the ones I have in my inventory) could be displayed somewhere, so I can read the goals when I am on the road.

- mhh, and one wish (dont slap me for this one *fg*) would be to have a batch downloading of predefinded searches :-)

Kind Regards

Thorsten
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Good idea - in todays state one has always type the list name.

I would second this - saving the search criteria within the list would be real useful for list refreshing and sometimes I miss it.

Good idea as well, I guess someone has already mentioned this before and maybe Tom already has this on his to-do list.

You probably meant "logs", right? :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
Nope. I try to preserve the goals for Travelbugs, so they can reach them. Makes no sense to take a TB from an airport cache, if it wants to fly :-)

So I look at the goals of the TB's I have in my pocket, some want pictures, some just want specific caches, so if I can I try to do it :-)

Regards Thorsten
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Calculating the area of a shape is basic geometry and so you should make this part of the cache puzzle in my opinion. There are a few like that in our area.

As to measuring the distance... I will assume you don't have a hand held GPS (which tell you how far you have travelled) and are only using GCzII on your phone. In which case the simplest thing to do it, stand at the start point and save a waypoint. Then walk to the other spot and select the waypoint you have just created. You will then have bearing and distance to the waypoint from your current location. Alternatively, if you want to walk a specified distance as part of the the cache, then mark the waypoint, select it and then walk away until the distance gives you the reading you want.

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
Actually, the geometry part is pretty easy, although it would be nice to "have an app for that" it is not necessary. I hadn't thought of the waypoint thing though for measuring distance, makes sense and will probably work in this case.

I do not use GCzII on a phone though, it is an old school Dell Axim X50v PDA with a WM6.1 ROM, a CF GPS reciever, and use BT dialup connection through my cell phone for internet access. Most WM apps work well, and I just figured there had to be an app out there for measuring distance traveled that someone could recommend. I am sure there has to be an app to do that, even plot it out (I have seen very similar ones, just can't find one), seems like it should be a pretty common activity.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Master Darko:
I vote for the TB feature. It would be really nice to see in the cache description if the cache has a TB or not. TB info/goals should be viewable from the cache description page so we know whether to take it or not.

If that above feature gets implemented, I have a proposal for further development of it.

Feature Im referring to is the travel bug (TB) database. With TB database we can track/view own TBs but also have an option of adding TBs we pick up during the hunt. Just like we tick "Found It" for any cache, we should have an option of noting that we picked up a TB from a cache too. This gets reflected in the TB database so at the end of the day, we can view the TB database, seperate from cache one, and click on any of the TBs to read/view what cache we got it from, where we dropped it off or if we still have it in our possession. I hope that makes sense...

Keep up the great work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Alyosha24:
Spontaneous Reboots on my Touch Pro

I really want to love this program. I'm getting frustrated, though, because for some reason it's just not working smoothly on my phone (HTC Touch Pro (Sprint), everything onboard up to date and factory only).

Briefly, GCzII often freezes and I have to perform a soft reset. Other times it spontaneously restarts the phone when I press "Go" to search for caches or when I press almost anything. Once the phone has done one of those resets, and I've let it start all the way back up, it seems much more likely to restart again for no reason. Yesterday I sat through six or seven of these resets in a row and could not figure out what was going on.

Anyone have any ideas? I've already tried removing GCzII, deleting the registry folder for GCzII, doing a soft reset and reinstalling. That didn't help.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schiefersoft:
if have the same problem since i have installed 0.2.35.30 on my smartphone (HTC S740) with now touchscreen

maybe it is a good idea to downgrade to an older version?

on my XPERIA it seems that the curent version (0.2.35.34) running fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zephxiii:
I've seen resets on a USCC branded Touch Pro as well. And lately it seems i've had problems where it's taking a long time to search or load caches on both TILT and Q9h...though it might be data related (internet).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
I found a very good tool for Windows Mobile/PPC devices for working with GPS and various Earth caches like the one I talked about before, it is called Turbo GPS (http://www.turboirc.com/ppc). Not only does it do 2D and 3D tracking, recording of tracks and distance calculations it does area and volume caclulations based on those tracks. Very useful geocaching tool in conjunction with GCzII, and its free as well.

I am sorry to be so off topic, but I thought I would pass this on to others who may be looking for something like this. I had a tough time finding a WM/PPC application to do these kinds of things so I am just passing it on.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nsa_sailor:
Saving a Waypoint

I don't see how to save a waypoint or current position.

Is there one in the menus somewhere?

:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kinglee:
The "Search by Cache Code" only return 60 geocaches. It used to return 200 over caches and I had my download cache Max set to 300. Even tried 500 but only got 60 caches returned. I'm on ver .34 and I had not changed any settings these few days.

Anyone else having this happening?

I also noticed the version shown in the meny Option->About says ver .35
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zany:
Have the same problem with every search mode, the output is about 130 caches. Some of caches found are very far away from the center point, but most of closer caches are omitted (see attached gpx file)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I've just noticed the same problem, but I also noticed something else which may guide Tom in finding the cause.

When I did a search by Nearest Caches or by Address, the first 20 appear as expected. But when I scroll down and select the next 20, the wheel turns but no additional caches or loaded, but the bottom now says page 2. When I do this again, the next 20 caches are loaded and it says page 3, however there are still only 40 in the list and there is a 30km difference between cache 10 and 11, missing out a large number of caches.

Update:

I think this must somehow be an issue with GC or the way GCzII accesses it because I reverted back to an older version which I know was working fine, delete all cache data and lists, yet it did exactly the same thing.

Update 2:

On further testing, comparing the list to the same search on GC, it seems the problem is somehow related to the way GCzII is relating to the page results. On a search I did which resulted in 26 pages, GCzII loaded page 1, 11, 26 then back to page 2. I doubt this is a coincidence.

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Tom,

Is it possible to separate "Description Images" from "Hint Images". IE: I want to see any images they put in the description of the cache but I don't necessarily want to download the Google Map overviews when I preload some cache data. However there are times that loading the Google hint images are nice, so I want to still have them available for those times and I can manually have them downloaded.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
I can confirm this as well, I tested this with several versions, clean installs, and various options set, and pressing next the FIRST time does nothing but change the display at the bottom to say "20 Cache(s) Page [2/81]" with no change to the list... BUT pressing next a SECOND time will list 20 more caches (40 total on the page) and the display says "40 Cache(s) Page [3/81]" but these caches are actually from

PAGE 11

of an identical manual search on geocaching.com. I usually reload the cache list before I get to this point so I don't know how long it has been this way, but I am pretty sure it worked fine before.

Seems like a definate integration issue between GZcII and geocaching.com, perhaps Tom can look into this when he gets time...

I also have a suggestion/enhancement request, just a few changes to the cache list...

1) A menu option to Disable listing/displaying of caches by type, especially disabled ones, perhaps a context menu with display toggles for all cache types. I live in an area where many caches are temporarily disabled for the winter monthes or for other reasons such as flooding.

1a) An afterthought... a cache list (or perhaps global) option to disable displaying "Member Only Caches"

2) An icon in the cache list if the cache has trackables in its inventory

Thanks again for this great program!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
www.cachewolf.de has a new update since Nov. 11 because 'a change on gc.com'.

So it is definitely a problem on the Server side. Another quirk caused by not being officially approved by gc.com...;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
You mean Nov 6, because unless he knows the future, Nov 11 isn't yet here. :)

I haven't had any trouble offhand with GCzII in the last few days, I used it just last night in fact.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zephxiii:
I can confirm the weird search results as well. It was a sudden jump from 7 miles away to 49 miles with some closer results not shown.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Yay, right. German-2-English Date conversion failure on my side.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gotramaval:
Hello Tom:

I would like to use your app, but i keep on getting an error message, "Please check login ID/ Password [Menu]-... ". The wierd thing is that both my password and Login ID are ok, also tried with a friends one, and same problem. Any clue?

Thank you for your effort!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pingu-net:
Hi gotramaval,

Take a look at this link. It should help you to solve the problem (read the whole page): http://www.nicque.com/PQz/GCz.htm

Greetings Pingu-Net
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Double check you have accepted the terms and conditions on geocaching.com, I think the FAQ might have links directly to those. I've had at least one time, and not yet sure why, that I had to accept those again. If you look at the logs for the login, I bet you'll see that it's wanting you to accept the T&C's.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Orbitter2:
set path of fieldnotes.txt

Hello Tom,

is it possible to add a field that we can set the path of the fieldnotes.txt file. I transfer the file allways via BT in a special folder, so I could set this folder and didn't copy it twice.

Regards,

Orbitter2
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kocir:
Where is Tom? His last activity on web was on 31st October 2009 12:16 AM and last version has been released on 22nd October 2009. :-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Master Darko:
Is there much point in having decimal minutes throughout the app displayed to 5 decimal places as oppose to 3?

All geocaching.com caches utilise 3 decimal places so extra 2 digits in my opinion are redundant.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gotramaval:
Thankyou a lot for your answers Pingu-net and khaytsus. I tried to accept terms and conditions, somewhere there says that i had already accepted them, so...

My question now is, maybe do i need to be Premium member in order to log from Gcz??

Thanks for your answers in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
No, you do not need a premium membership to use the app. The only restriction will be the same as on GC, which as far as this app goes is pretty much limited to not being able to view members only cache details.

I'm sure you have checked this already, but have you double checked and carefully re-entered your username and password under Options > Login ID/Password?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fx17:
Android version of GCZ?

I would love an Android version of GCZ, and would gladly help Beta test it. I hear a rumor that Tom was thinking of this. Is it true??? What would the time-frame be?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Master Darko:
Im no longer a premium member and yesterday I logged a cache in the field from GcZ with no problems.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shaggyguitarist:
Im getting the same gap in the search results, and its concerning that there has been no word from Tom for a long time.

Has anyone heard from him at all?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
I have never been a premium member and I use GCzII almost every day, I don't think this is the issue.

It seems to me I had some issues when I first started using the software, and they had to do with accepting the terms and conditions. I had a lot of difficulty being able to log in at first, I don't know what I did finally to make it work, it just started working after using the software once or twice. Maybe I logged a cache from the PC first, then it started working but I just can't remember.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
Since 6.5 I think it changed that I cannot scroll inside the description window with the thumb.

Instead it will select the text.

I have to use the scrollbar, which is very small.

So it is a problem "in the wild".

Does anyone have a solution ?

Regards Fly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
This is a problem with a lot of apps.. Not sure about this particular piece of Tom's code, but in general using a "Browser" embedded in .net 3.5 on WM 6.5 does not scroll. There is a .net 3.5 which fixes this particular problem but nobody seems to be able to find the actual file, only the MS Support site reference to the fle.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
Mhhh, ok.

I mean, sometimes before I had a problem, because I could not select text (when I have to copy coords or calculations) but now I am missing the other stuff :-(

Maybe Tom can make some kind of scroll button which is thumb-size ?

it could be at the total lower end.

Regards Thorsten
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
You're exactly right, something has changed on GC.com, I'm seeing the same thing.. If I request another page of results I go from 5 miles away to 20 miles away for the next cache and miss all in between.

Even if you increase the number of caches, you still wind up with this odd gap.. I guess for now it's only the 20 closest caches, or loading GPX.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi all

Sorry for my late responce.

So, I had plenty of free time until last month.

But now, no chance to have enough time on weekday anymore.

Anyway, update GCz.

0.2.35.35

1) Download Cache List issue fix. (gap in the search results. more then 20 caches)

2) Geocoding [602] issue fix.

3) "Add from GPS" issue fix.

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

thank you for your feedback.

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
same here :-( This is really getting on my nerves. It was perfect that I could use GCzII completely without any stylus. Is there a fix somewhere?

Cheers,

derlbear