yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kocir:
Hi Tom

I found mistake in my translation to Czech language. It is on Page 8/9 on main page of program.

The current part of the text is "který se kládá se z" but correct one is "který se skládá z". It is made by my mistyping.

See also picture here:

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7889/gczchyba.gif
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zephxiii:
thank you so much for fixing the cache list bug!!! ima gonna be installing the latest version on my q9h and kaiser!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Thanks Tom, for the update and bug fixes, nice to see you back. I know how it goes, sometimes life/work just get so hectic that weeks just fly by.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mickiexena:
Hi Tom !

Thanks for the update !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Thanks for the quick fix Tom, seems that things like this are really all that GCzII really needs these days, it's an excellent caching program!

I must admit that I've only really used it here and there, and mainly continued to use GeoNiche within StyleTap but the last 30 or so caches I've exclusively used GCzII and have had no problem at all. The interface is just dandy, the marking of caches found/not found is easy, and it's great to be able to preload caches or load them on the fly around you.

I still wish that the "night caching" theme could extend beyond just the GPS Monitor, but even that's not a big deal.. I found 11 tonight and didn't have too much trouble with night vision, particularly coupled with using Lumos which uses my ambient light sensor and sets the backlight to minimum when it's dark out automatically.

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Orbitter2:
set path of fieldnotes.txt

As I mentioned before (#2251), is it possibe to set the path of the fieldnotes.txt in the registry, in the ini or inside the app?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kocir:
U r right. It is perfect program. I can not imagine to do GC w/o this SW. In 99% I use Static map to found cache. Btw, there will be very good to have small compas in corner when static map is showen. But I have to accept that Tom has also own private life.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
Hi.

I have a problem with this cache:

GCJ2JN

The formulas are so bad reformatted on the pocketpc, that I thought it is one formula.

Can someone explain ?

Regards Thorsten
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zephxiii:
well everything went great with GCzII this weekend. i was using it on my TILT and Q9H.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
So you watch your little dot approach the cache dot in the static map or such? I've never looked at it close enough to see if it's dynamic in that manner. Regardless... odd way of doing it IMO. ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jake Bullit:
Thanks for the update Tom.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dulyen:
works great

been looking for somthing like this since i dumped my iphone loving it thanks much
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tk-germany:
Hi @ all, this is a real great piece of software.

Been using it since months, and keep on, as you wont find any better solution, especially under Windows Mobile!

But one thing:

in January i want to go to Australia.

As Data-Roaming is extreme expensive, i'd like to predownload the potential list of caches.

I just know, that i want to chache in "West Australia"

When you search for it in gczII you will find one result, thats the state of west australia and absolutely what i want.

But now i want to download, all caches, that are inside of this area of "west australia" is that in any way possible to do a search/download INSIDE of an AREA and not just in DISTANCE to one single POINT?

Many thanks, with regards,

greetz from Berlin

TK
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rsheff:
One quick way I can see would be to run a PQ (assuming you are a premium member on GC) from the centerpoint of your selected area. Then just load the GPX file into GCZii and you should be ready to go.

Rich
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
The way I see it you have three basic options. The first is to by a cheap prepaid databundle/sim card when you get there just for doing your caching and then use the Search for Nearest feature as you travel. The second would be a PQ as mentioned above and the third, which would be my personal choice, would be to do a "Search by Postal Code/Address" or "Search by Coordinates" from GCzII while you are still at home. Save it as a cache list and at the same time, download all the images and static maps so you have them with you. You could do this for serveral areas that you are going to visit. When you get to the area, open the cache list and then use "Menu > Sort by > Distance From > Current Location" to give you the nearest caches whithout having to go online at all.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
For the second option, he should remember to set the number of downloaded caches a lot higher and he should download them all.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] The Whistler:
Hi,

would it be possible to implement the following features?

- on the "front page" of a cache (where you can choose between description, hint, logs, google maps etc.), it would be good to have another button "log visit", so that we could log our visit immediately and directly from the software.

- on the "GPS monitor" it would be good to have a zoom available (perhaps with + and - buttons), so that if you approach the cache, you can fine tune the size of the "radar screen".

Thanks from The Whistler
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] m_s_ifland:
Thanks a lot for this great program.

The Whistler. On the radar screen there is a setting to auto adjust as you get closer, that is what I use and it works really well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
On the main page - Menu > Post Log/Field Notes. From here you have the options to Quick Mark, Post Log or add a Field Note (which can be Posted later). This option is also available in the list screen

Not sure why you would want to zoom it manually, it zooms automatically, and very well. But if you must, then goto Menu > Auto Scaling and turn it off. Now the up/down on the nav key will zoom in and out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
A buddy of mine checked it on an IPhone an the Formulas were devided by some space.

So I wonder, why it is formatted wrong in GCZ?

Regards Thorsten
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tk-germany:
a searchfunction, that does, what i'd like does allready exist on [gc].com (see pic)

It returns 2006 Results, isn't it possible, to also integrate this search-option into gczii, like allready for all the options it's done?

Any way to get the list of cachecodes off the page, without have to get a pro-account or click through all the 101 result-pages?

Even if, is there a way to get a list, of just gc[xxxx]-codes into gczii to get it load em all? (like a self-created cache-list)

thanks a lot, for your tips, work and help!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
I found another solution for the scrolling.

I remapped the volume keys to scroll up and down with this tool (for Topaz/Diamond II in this thread only:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=555821

)

I defined it, so that it will only replace the buttons inside the GCZ window (exactly only the details window)

Regards Fly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
@TheWhistler and Psyberdude:

Activate 'touch function' in Radar screen.

You then can use the radar itself as 4 buttons.

Top right will toggle Sat Info

Bottom right will switch Autozoom on and off

Top left and Bottom left decrease/increase zoom in Manual mode.

Actually works like a charm.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Thanks useful to know for the future and for others with touch screens. I currently have a non-touch myself.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Ok, then this function wouldn't work....

Maybe a mapping to number keys would suffice? *hint for Tom*:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
It seems you can not do such a broad search from inside GCzII. I suspect it returns too many result. But what you could do is several searches based on the places you plan to visit (either by place name or coordinates). The screen shots below demonstrate a search of Perth, Australia and returns a list of about 500 caches, which is the maximum you would get from a PQ anyway.

>>

The only way to get a PQ is to have a Premium Membership and as mentioned above, it would still only contain 500 caches, so you would still need to do a few of them to get all the caches. I guess if you had a friend with a membership, you could ask them to run the PQ's for you and forward them on to you so that you can load them into GSAK and from there into your phone, but I suspect it is technically a contravention of GC's terms and conditions to do that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I finally today figured out why sometimes I get REALLY STRANGE distances to caches... Every so often I'd find that I'm around like 9200 MILES from a cache with no reason.. I thought I was having GPS weirdness or something...

I figured it out. Tap the satelites at the top of the screen in the GPS monitor. It used to toggle between Tracking view and Satelite view, now there's a third view...

Geck, what is this third view which is really far off? Is it some test mode that got left in? :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Babba067:
Hallo alle mit einander,

auch ich muss hier mal meine Meinung loswerden.

Ich gehe viel cachen und nutze dabei dieses Programm, nach dem letzten Update läuft es auch wieder richtig gut. Bis ich heute wieder einmal unterwegs war, wo ich feststellen musste das bis auf die Google Maps Verknüpfung alles problemlos lief.

Wo die Fehlermeldung kam „Datei nicht gefunden. [\ProgramFiles\GoogleMaps\GoogleMaps.exe] „.

Zurzeit nutze ich diese Version vom GCzII_20091114_1900_0235_35.cab und das Skin vom GCzII_20091022_1800_0235_33_SKIN_DE.cab auf meinem Handy Xperia X1.

Ich hätte da auch mal einen Vorschlag zur Verbesserung des Programms was man vielleicht auch noch mit einarbeiten könnte. Da ich viel mit meiner Frau unterwegs bin uns sie ein iPhone nutzt zum cachen. Im iPhone gibt es eine Funktion die mir hier bei diesem Programm fehlt was wir aber bei Ihr sehr viel nutzen. Das ist die Funktion, alle Caches von der Liste auf einer Karte anzeigen zu lassen. Ist ganz gut wenn man eine Tour macht und man schauen möchte wo die Caches aus der Liste alle liegen.

Damit man sich schon im vorab informieren kann welche man noch alle anfahren könnte. Dies wäre eine Funktion welche das Programm noch mal richtig aufwerten würde.

Danke für Eure Aufmerksamkeit

Babba067
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I've been wondering the same thing, but I've just been ignoring it :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Hallo Baba,

einige hier können zwar Deutsch, die meisten aber wohl nicht. Wenn du kein Englisch beherrschst, ist das ok, wenn doch, dann wäre es schön für die anderen, wenn du Englisch schreiben würdest :) Aber macht ja nix, denn ich glaube, dass ich dir auch so helfen kann!

So wie es aussieht, ist der Pfad innerhalb von GCzII zu GoogleMaps falsch gesetzt. Gehe nach dem Starten von GCzII ins 'Menü', da auf 'Einstellungen' und dort wiederrum auf 'Google Maps Einstellungen'.

Bei meinem Handy ist der richtige Pfad zu Google Maps \Programme\GoogleMaps\GoogleMaps.exe (liegt bei mir im Hauptspeicher). Der könnte bei dir ähnlich sein, muss aber nicht. Um den Pfad anzugeben, kannst du einfach auf 'Datei' klicken und dich dann durch das System des Handys kämpfen, bis du die richtige Datei gefunden hast. Wähle sie dann einfach an und schon ist der richtige Pfad gesetzt. Ein Bestätigen mit 'OK' speichert das ganze.

Für die Funktion mit den Caches auf den Karten:

Sobald du in GCzII eine Liste mit den Caches geöffnet hast, klicke auf 'Menü' und dort auf 'Google Maps' und schon werden alle Caches in der Liste in Google Maps auf einer Karte angezeigt. Wenn du noch unten links auf 'Kartenansicht' drückst (in Google Maps), dann verschwindet die Ergebnisliste und du hast freie Sicht auf die Karte.

Hoffe dir damit geholfen zu haben.

Happy caching!

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Look at the last quote of tom to see the attached pictures that explain the function :)

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Babba067:
Hallo derlbear,

ja wie Du schon vermutet hast, liegst richtig, ich kann kein englisch und ob es so gut kommt das alles was ich schreibe per Google zu übersetzen glaube ich auch nicht. :)

Aber ich möchte mich bei Dir bedanken für die schnelle und aber sehr hilfreiche Auskunft.

Man lernt halt nie aus.

Dankeschön :) :) :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tampaboy1984:
Hi everyone! I'm brand new to GeoCaching and just downloaded GCZii today. I'm getting the Check Login ID and Password pop up, was wondering how do I create a l ogin? I have the latest version of GCZii 2.35.18 installed and I use Google Maps. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx in Advance!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Hi, and welcome to both Geocaching and GCzII.

Under the Options > Login ID/Password enter your GC username and password.

If memory server, the first time you try to retrieve any waypoints you will be presented with a terms and conditions acceptance screen. Accept the terms and conditions. All should now work fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rsheff:
Check again for the latest version. I think it's 2.35.35. There were problems with some earlier versions where you couldn't log on to GC.

Rich
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
tampaboy: BTW first you have to create an account on www.geocaching.com. I have to mention this since you are saying you're brand new to GC...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Okay.. but still don't get why the distance to the cache is like 9200 miles.... If this isn't intended for finding the cache in this mode, perhaps it shouldn't show a distance etc? It's confusing. At least I know what it is now!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeppe188:
I think I found a problem with gcz, gpx import and easyGPS

If I do a pocket query, the result will be a gpx file but if I want to change that gpx file with easyGPS and then import it in gcz, it doesn't work.

Somebody a solution for this problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I would suggest using GSAK to load your PQ's and then export them. I've done this and it works fine, but you'll still need to download the static maps.

I'm not too familiar with EasyGPS, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that there are issues with the gpx file it creates. Also, if memory servers, its only used to manage waypoints, so it will strip out all the other information like the description, logs, images etc. which will not be in the resulting gpx file.

You could also try loading the PQ gpx directly into GCzII? I've not tried it, but it should work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeppe188:
I'm gonna use GSAK then.

Btw, importing the gpx file directly from geocaching.com to gcz works.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
I sometimes have the problem, that somehow the downloading of data does not succeed.

Isnt there a chance, that GCZ could show some kind of dialog while downloading or using the internet with a cancel-button, where I can stop the download ? Or maybe a timeout setting somewhere ?

It takes GCZ a long while until it stops to try :-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Can't say I've had a problems myself, with the exception of the static maps not being downloaded if I try to load too many caches in one go, but that is a google restriction based on IP address, and not an issue with GCzII.

Are you connecting through your home DSL or Broadband, or are you talking about your phones data connection? How many caches are you trying to download information for at one time?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
I am usually using it on the road.

In wireless mode (WLAN) it works perfect, as the reception is always excelent.

But on the road you have to deal with slow transfer and maybe lost package.

It is sometimes not even dependent on the settings.

I usually use 20 caches and 10 logs on the road. But I also had problem with the log-posting being stuck or reloads of a single cache (to get the latest inventory).

So it would be great to have some form of feedback-window with a cancel button. The timeout seems to be very high for the connection (maybe >60 seconds??)

Regards Fly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Helius61:
Solver in GCzII - would be appreciated

I really like GCzII, the only thing I'm missing is such kind of solver. I really would appreciate such a tool.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr-Fly:
Maybe you want to check on GCEdit.

Found it recently and it does solve a couple of things like ascii, morse etc.

http://geocaching-hamburg.de/software/gcedit/

There is an english description on the site, too, I dont know if the program is english or german-only.

Regards Fly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I looked quite a fool last weekend walking around in a back-woods road with my arm up in the air peering at the screen hoping to scrape enough cell signal to download some cache details I didn't realize I didn't already have. I eventually got it.

No fault of GCzII, and in reality if I hadn't gotten it downloaded in another minute I would have just loaded my gpx I sync over to the SD card (but generally don't use.. but it's there if I need it).

I had actually pre-loaded most of the caches, but the great strength of GCzII of caching on-the-fly I kept going farther and farther out of my original route, eventually getting to caches I hadn't preloaded. I'll just have to keep in mind next time that as I load more caches near me to also load their data while I have a signal. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Master Darko:
Recently I downloaded 250 caches from the scratch and realised that vast majority of the google static maps are those bandwidth exceeded icons. Does anyone know the easy way of replacing those icon with proper static images?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I personally reduced the Google Maps to 2, one of the highest detail for my area and one about 3 steps out from that, perhaps a mile radius give or take. Perhaps in the future if you reduce the number of maps you're downloading you'll reduce the chances of it.

As for fixing it, I guess GCzII doesn't know it any differently than a real map, so might just have to refresh all of them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I've reduced mine to 3 static maps, a largish one, meduim size and a pinpoint. I find that google starts to complain after about 40-50 caches, so I try to save groups of caches by area in different cache lists (then merge them if necessary) and then wait between download.

If I do get one or two that are not download, I just "reload" on the main cache page and it will just download the details and maps for that cache.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
>> I personally reduced the Google Maps to 2, one of the highest detail for my area and one

>> about 3 steps out from that, perhaps a mile radius give or take. Perhaps in the future if

>> you reduce the number of maps you're downloading you'll reduce the chances of it.

me too, I reduced to 2 or 3 static maps.

>> As for fixing it, I guess GCzII doesn't know it any differently than

>> a real map, so might just have to refresh all of them.

It is not true. ;D

If you find "Google Overloaded icons (Speed-meter)" on Static map page.

You can try to download it via "Download All Caches" in another day.

(It will allow to download and replace "Overloaded icons" only.)

GCz distinguishes "Google Overloaded icon" and "Static Map" by the image height/width.

(Static Map size should be 640x640 but Overloaded icon is not.)

It is a bit tricky.

You need to check ON/OFF the "download all" parameter checkboxs.

I don't remember exactly what you need to set the checkboxs.

But it will try to download "Static Map images" if it is overloaded icon,

even if you check ON when "Skip downloaded image". (I think it is 2nd checkbox)

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Freeman81:
First, a big praise at the Developer! Good Job, very nice.

Best GC App i ever seen... :D

Baut, I have some proposals which one insert could:

Wehrigo Support

To revise the Compass ui (i find its very uncleary, how does ist works?)

HD2 Compass Support

To revise the UI (Stylish Ui :D)

What do you say?

PS: Sorry for my English! :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
My apologies, I should never assume you haven't done something that's even remotely possible Tom ;-) I've never ran into the overloaded problem myself, but I most often don't download those images. I usually just peep in Google Maps directly, also helps me set up a route of caches as I move along.

It's been a while since I asked, I know your time is limited recently but has there been any more thought into including more caches on the GPS Monitor screen, turning it into something of a radar. Zoom out and you can see other caches which are in the current list? I've gotten fairly used to the GPS Monitor tracking a single waypoint, but particularly in the case of where a cache has multiple waypoints itself it'd be handy to be able to see them all at once.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
This may help! :)

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] indigomontoya:
I am new to the geocaching world so I don't know if this is a geocaching question or a question GCzII. My wife, son, and I regularly go on walks. I have started pulling out my phone and using the awesome feature to get caches near my current location and then checking a few out that might be in the direction I am heading. I use the way point on google maps to get within a couple hundred feet and then use the GPS monitor to guide me from there. Then I run into the problem of being, say, 3 feet +/- 30 feet from the cache. My question is in regards to the +/- value: is that value so high because of the phone (Touch Pro 2) or just the limit of GPS accuracy. Assuming everything is normal, can someone give me tips on how to actually find the caches? It is fall in north carolina now, so the leaves are everyplace (which my wife thinks is the problem), but I have read someplace to "think like a cacher" and look at tree stumps etc. While I havent exhausted my interest (actually I may want to buy a standalone device if it is needed to find the cache), what are the tricks to narrowing down the location of these "matchbox sized" caches - especially the ones they dont even tell you what they look like.

sorry for the newb question!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Not a newb question.. First, the GPS in the Tilt 2/TP2 is better than some, but it still sucks. It doesn't register unless you're moving at a fairly fast pace, say >3mph, so you can't easily just walk up to a cache with it. Some people have better luck than others, I still say it blows for walking. There's a utility which is said to make this better, called GPSMod, but it just interpolates data, it doesn't make the GPS really work better.

As for finding the difficult ones, it's of course easiest if you can find "ground zero" so you start searching in the right spot, but often it's more about just getting close and putting down the GPS and getting out your eyeballs (and sometimes your hands ;-)

If you're serious about it, but don't want to put out a lot of cash, a bluetooth GPS can be had for $50ish and it will be MUCH more accurate, it'll give you an accurate reading no matter how fast/slow you're moving, accurate direction to the cache, etc.. And it'll use less battery on the phone as the built-in GPS uses around 200mAh of power running just for the GPS itself (8% battery/hr). This is how I cache with my phone, and it works out just fine. In a pinch I can cache without the bluetooth unit, but I'd prefer not to get frustrated over the stupid built-in GPS giving me silly information. :) Just in case you're not familiar with a bluetooth GPS, basically you'd pair the BT GPS to the phone and then use that COM port in apps like GCzII, so the GPS unit is just feeding data to the phone and the phone uses that data rather than the built-in GPS. Most often you don't even have to take the BT GPS out of your pocket. :)