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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dogpack:
Thanks Tom!

I was on a 3 state weekend 100 cache adventure, and it was a blessing when half way through, an update was available.

BTW, I ran this by importing GPX file ofr half the weekend and it was still better than anything else for WM5. I took a backup program for live searches and went back to GCzII and GPX files since the interface is much easier to use.

So even without the live search feature, this is the best software available.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dogpack:
In offline mode, is there away to save a found log and then post to GS when back online? I couldn't figure this out this weekend, so just did a quick mark as found, updated the notes and then reposted to GS when back online.

It would be excellent if there were an easier way to automatically post cache logs that are saved when offline.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dogpack:
Hey Tom.

One small enhancement request: When data is being posted or retrieved from GS, can there be an option to cancel? Maybe after 15 second bring up a box to abort or continue while letting the software continue processing. If pressing continue to clear the screen, pop up the windows in 15 more seconds again. Frequently when I'm in low reception locations or switch to a network that doesn't allow data, the software hangs, and I sometimes need to reboot the phone. Sometimes I can let it sit for a long time and it will come back, but not always.

Typical places it hangs...searching for caches, opening the post log screen, posting the log and retrieving a cache page.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toonjamie:
Tom, many thanks for your hard work.

There's a pint waiting for you when you're next in Isle of Man. (Yes I know, but it's the thought that counts.)

Gura mie ayd

Jamie.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I've done a similar experiment and can confirm the same thing.

There is a way to change this. It requires a registry edit. If you search through the earlier posts you should find it.

Use the field notes, in the same menu as the Quick Mark. You can write your complete log (less trackables) and then when you are back online, you can post them to GC.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dogpack:
Thanks, I'll give that a try. Field notes always brought up the same screen a the log, so I didn't understand the functionality.....then I saw that GS has field notes functionality that posts to your profile for a few of the devices out there and thought GCzII may post to this area. I'm happy to know that this is for offline use.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Yeah, it can be a bit confusing, but GCzII fieldnotes have no connection to the GC fieldnotes on the site, to which some devices upload your text.

GCzII fieldnotes look at work exactly like the Post Log, except they are offline. Unfortunately you can't add trackables until you are ready to post, but I usually make a note in my log of which ones I picked up and left anyway, so its no problem later to see which ones I need to attach to the log.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Tom,

If you have a little time to spare over the next few days, I and probably most others here, would be interested to hear your comments and thoughts on suggestions made here over the last few weeks with regard to making parts of the code/templates accessible to other users (perhaps a select few) to update, thereby taking some pressure of you. Or if there is any news with regard to rumoured talks with GC about getting GCzII approved by them to use their API... etc etc etc...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pierce_j:
TOM!

You are the man, thank you! :D I won't go caching unless I have this app ;) Makes life SO much easier, especially with all of the info that is provided on just one page! I wish I could give you money, but you won't take it :(

Thanks for the update, I wish us as users could do more to help facilitate a quicker update period so you don't have to worry about it as much...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gotgrip_com:
I think a lot of us would love to help out in any way we can, Tom. If there is anything we can do for you, just say the word!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbacon19:
Tom,

Thanks for the update, your work on the is greatly appreciated
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomec83:
hello guys.

i had x2, but i sold her. Now i buy HTC Desire and im looking for same app like GCzII. can enybody say me,if will this app for android? thnx

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

Thank you for the words and feedbacks.

I will check it on weekend and fix it.

regards,

tom

by the way...

>> lohtse

Did I say, I lived in Plymouth Grove (near Longsight) Manchester UK?

Also, my friends live in Sheffield too (They are British family). :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mistm:
I guess c:geo. Happy caching!! :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomec83:
I using c:geo, but what if a will go to outland? In outland is GPRS data more expensive like slovakia :D. Can i use offline cache database in c:geo?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
There must be a c:geo forum. You should probably ask there. Also, try GeoBeagle. A lot of people like that one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Boyo:
I also noticed the issue with caches that are on the watchlist not showing. It was extremely annoying today, I was trying to pull up a cache, by GC code and it kept coming back with 19 results, I didn't understand it. I did some digging through the 03_CacheList.html file and realized the problem.

If you remove the cache from the watch list, it shows up just fine. Not a major issue, hey, at least it works again, which I am so grateful for..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
I just found a bug(ish) thing. It appears that images in the short description are not downloaded, even when "skip descriptoin images." is unchecked.

Then, not realy a bug, but when I clickes on the image to download it, it was a hyperlink, and opened my web browser, and never downloaded the image.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
@Titus_Andronicus:

Maybe it was a link to a counter or coordinate-checker-service or the like.

I know your problem only from this occasions.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CouchPotato:
As far as i know images in short description are used in very rare cases, as the Groundspeak parser didn't allow these some time ago. Short description should be text only in past times.

Can you give us an example (gc code) of one of these caches?

Greetings from the Couch

Potato
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
You can now use html in both the short and long descriptions. This includes images.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
I just added my logo to the end of the short description on most of my caches, with a link to my profile. Eg. GC1W1VP http://coord.info/GC1W1VP

Also, my local caching group is puting out 100 caches for the 100th aniversery of our city's park system. They will all have a pic at the begining of the short description. These won't be links though, so shouldn't have the same issue.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] damikey:
New to this and it looks and sounds great. can't wait to try it out after my finals
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lohtse:
Apologies for late reply Tom.Been away... Excellent about where you live drop me a pm sometime will meet up if you wish.

regards

Lohtse
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

I am now checking "Watchlist not showing" issue.

I will release new version when it fix.

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RRRick:
Troubleshooting

Hi Tom,

Just in case it might help you ... I am still not getting caches that I own or have found when searching for caches 'near my location'. They do show up in other types of searches. It's strange that no one else has reported this. I do not have the filtering turned on for these caches.

It's not a major issue for me - but it might be part of the 'missing watchlist cache' problem and I mention this in case it might help you pinpoint the problem.

Thanks for a great geoaching program!

RRRick
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ZzetT:
I cannot agree, for me this works.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RRRick:
Further to my Post

In regards to not getting "owned or found" caches - I guess I was confused on the Search Options page. Although I did not have the box checked to "Exclude your owned or found items from result" I did have the box checked for "Current Location" in the box underneath. I had interpreted the "Exclude ..." check box as being a master control which would override the search methods in the box below. Apparently this is not the case as checking the "Current Location" box excluded the results without the box above being checked. Maybe I misinterpreted the control logic on the options page??? Comments ... Tom ... others?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Went out caching today and the dreaded "Cache not found" message was back again every time I tried to submit a log.

Is it just me? I see no one else has posted a problem.

Also, very oddly, even though the 'found' logs did go through (despite the cache not found message), the field notes were all transposed.

I have checked my field notes in GCz and the correct notes are with the correct caches. But when they uploaded, the field notes got swapped around so the wrong notes were on the wrong caches.

Anyone else ever had this problem???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Not me. I used it today and everything worked brilliantly :-/

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Oh dear, just me then. Maybe i'll clear all my caches and reload the software and start again.

The swapped field notes happened a couple of weeks ago too, when the program was not working correctly after the GC update.

Fortunately I had all my caches loaded as GPX files today so managed without the 'live' function.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
I too have had no problems logging. Are you sure you have the latest .41 update Tom released last week?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pingu-net:
Hi All, i had same problem. All Caches with a grey folder brought all the messages twice. After a re-download of concerned caches, everything appeared then OK.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
You seem to have found the problem.

I checked the version on my HTC but it doesn't report the final _40 or _41 bit.

So I downloaded the software from the website again into the same destination folder on my laptop but it didn't overwrite the one I downloaded last week after Tom made the changes.

My last week's download is dated 11th April but is version 0235_40. It was definately the updated version as last week when I downloaded it the date on Tom's page for the latest version was 2010-04-11.

I wonder if there was a brief moment when Tom changed the date on his download page before putting the new version online and I happened to download the file in that moment.

Anyway I am taking up space here and the problem now seems to be sorted. Thanks for pointing me to the blindingly obvious :)

I will have to watch the logs next week when I get chance to go out again and see if the transposed field notes happens again.

Finally, am thinking of upgrading my HTC TYTN to a HTC HD2 - are there any issues loading and using GCz on the HD2 or is it a straight forward and smooth transition?

There's only 2 bits of software I desperately want to transfer onto the new phone: GCz and Tomtom & am hoping they will both work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djstern:
Nearly as I can figure if you have the "Exclude your owned or found items from result" unchecked then the boxes below that allow you to specify items to exclude, but I haven't had the chance to experiment with it and figure out how it really works. Maybe some one else can chime in and explain how the options page really works.

The older versions of TomTom don't work on WinMo 6.x, but I see no reason that the newer versions wouldn't work just fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carbolineum:
Specific cache not shown on GCzII

Problem fixed with new release .42 Many Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Thanks. Don't want to hijack this thread into a tomtom discussion so this will be the last on the subject.

I have Navigator 6 on my TYTN, which I assume wont work?

Is Navigator 7 the newest version that will work on 6.5?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

Update ver 0.2.35.42

1) Watchlist caches not listing issue fixed.

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

PS) not tested much. :<

Please feedback if find issue.

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Thanks Tom, for everything.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SecretAgentMan:
I had this problem on Saturday. I selected a single cache after displaying caches near me. Turns out the log posted to another cache.

Just posted another today, and it worked perfectly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phil82de:
All in one it works fine for me, thank you verry much!

- Archived Caches (I see them when I search by owner) get "<span class="OldWarning Strike">" in its name

- One big problem that exist is the new "cache-spider-stopper" from groundspeak. Its not possible to download more than 200 Caches anymore. But I guess thats nothing You can change.

Perhaps GCzII should not try to download more Caches by its own so that nobody NOTICE the users Account to spider. (Not that the Acount get probably banned.)

Or perhaps its possible to avoid this stopper somehow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Hello, Tom,

thanks for the update.

Regarding the issue Phil82de posted:

According to the text on the throttling page we are downloading too fast.

I noticed that i can download without throttling when i am on slow connection like GPRS.

Maybe you can find out when throttling starts and stop downloading caches or let the user select to download slower, with delays inbetween...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
The watch list issue seems to be fixed!

Many thanks Tom! Without GCzII, I think my find count would be about 1/4 what it is. Without my phone it would be 0.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djstern:
Groundspeak member survey.

I just got a email from Groundspeak today. It was a member survey. It had a number of "check the box" questions, but also allowed some comments along the way. I used every opportunity to demand software developers to have access to the API. I quite often want to cache in areas beyond the reach of a GPX file and API access is critical to that. I repeated that statement more than once.

Please everyone, when you get that email, take the time to fill it out and explain your need for software developers to have API access. You paid for your membership, you should have access to the database.

One other thing I noticed. When they asked what device you have, they listed all the major GPS receivers and phones, but "neglected" to list Windows Mobile phones. When they asked about the software you use, GCzII was conspicuously missing as well. Needless to say, I listed it under other.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
Try loading an application called "AppToDate", it will check installed and available versions for GCzII (and possibly others depending on what you have installed) and allow you to install/upgrade to the latest version.

It is free, easy to find, and simple to use and eliminates things like this...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulloft:
Thanks I might try that, as when I tried to download Tom's latest update I downloaded the previous version instead. Had to refresh my browser to get to the latest version.

Thanks for the tip.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CouchPotato:
Another spider program that i use, uses delays between the download of individual caches.

The delay is user adjustable starting with 1 second. I normaly use 30 seconds to not be banned by groundspeak.

If i want to prepare a greater set of caches (for instance to travel abroad, where i have no flatrate internet access e.g. no data plan) i use 60 seconds or more and run the task overnight.

@Tom

I would recommend to insert a user selectable delay in the preferences of "Download all caches" between each cache. (User selectable to give the responsibility to the user)

Also i would recommend a short delay between the pages of a search selection (e.g. get page with 20 caches - short delay - get next page with 20 caches and so on).

So the load on the servers would be less and will be more comparable to a user acting manually.

Another thing is to interleave the download of log images with the download of map images when possible.

e.g. get image of log-nr "x" from geocaching.com, get static map 1 from google, get image of log-nr "y" from geocaching.com, get static map 2 from google and so on.

Greetings from the couch

Potato
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
If Tom were to impliment this, I certainly hope it will be done in a manner that can be completely turned off, like the download owned and found caches. Personally I've had no problem with the GC trotteling. Probably because even with 3G my connection is not particularly lightning speed and also because I generally never download more than about 40 caches at a time. So to start putting in deliberate delays, would spoil my personal experience.

I think a lot of the throtteling, from what I've read in the forums, is based on quantity, not so much speed. I agree with you, that the responsibility should lay with the cacher, yet I often see posts of people wanting to download 100's of caches. Why? You can't possibly do them all in one go, so why not stagger your searches/downloads and save them as cache lists.

End of my 2c worth :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
@Psyberdude:

As i mentioned, i would like to see the feature being automatic, fast on a few caches, then switching gears on a lot of.

So you and Psyberdude get what you want...;)

I noticed the throttling being a compromise between downloading speed and number of caches requested.

So to change the behaviour of GCz to be more "human" and thus keeping it "under the radar" would be a helper, i think.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
I was just thinking. Wouldn't it be cool for GCz to average the coordinates from multiple GPSrs. Maybe the internal GPSr, and a bluetooth GPSr.

Or, by internal one is more accuriate in good conditions, but has static navigation. So maybe use it for the coordinates, but use the bluetooth one relativly, kind of like an inertial navigation, for when the internal one 'statics'.

Anyway, just thinking. Obviously, it is unlikely.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
To my knowledge the wobbling of the position is from the signal and not from the receiver circuit. So averaging between different receivers will do nothing else than using only one.

But: The ability to use a BTGPS if available and the internal if the BT is not available would be a definitely a winner, though.

But as Tom has almost no time to fix problems, a new feature will never be possible i think.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I agree; unlikely the internal GPS is better than the bluetooth one ;) My Holux 236 SirfIII bluetooth unit is dead-on with all benchmarks I've found, and does me very well finding and placing caches.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Maybe I will need to get one of those. My BT-821 (USGlobalSat) is good, but it is sometimes off by 10m when benchmarking (presumably no WAAS lock). It is super sensitive (thick trees/clouds), and no static navigation, but not always super accuriate (even though they advertise it as ±2.3m). My internal one is super accuriate, but not super sensitive, and has static navigation.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
What's funny is I also have a Columbus V900 which is an excellent low profile long-running bluetooth GPS/Data logger. I run it all the time when I'm mobile and put it in a pocket when I'm caching and the data goes into a database which I can view against Google Maps..

I love it, but it's similar to yours, about 10m off, and pretty RELIABLY 10m off.. I've measured it a few times and it's almost always 10m off at about 65 degrees iirc. MTK Chipset. It was to replace the Holux, but since I have accuracy problems with it, I continue to use the Holux for caching.

What I don't get is that my track logs seem to be pretty accurate, but in Geocaching it's 10m off. Although I suppose it's hard to tell against aerial maps, as they themselves are never exact.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Have you tested, holding it out in front of you? GPS signals are notoriously fussy. You say you stick it in your pocket, but the loss of signal from the satellites behind you may account for the decrease in accuracy. I know that with my handheld GPS, when I stick it in my pocket it almost always looses signal, let alone become less accurate. Just standing next to a large rock can easily be the difference between a 4m accuracy and a 9m accuracy.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
er, of course :P And this one has a plastic top and metal back, so rightside up, etc etc.. No, there's just something funky with it or MAYBE something wrong with the data it's giving.. I really think the track logger is more accurate than the data I get over bluetooth.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peter_fuchs1:
HELP!

Hi Tom!

I use the last version .42

When I try to search for a cache (by Address)

I always get [Form point] not found.

Want can I do?

Thx peter
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Psyberdude:
Bug Report

Hi Tom,

One thing I have just noticed, although not serious, the "Hint" button is always active, even when there is no hint.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acejavelin:
Yeah, I had noticed this too since version .40 I think, but as Psyberdude said, it is not major thing...

One nice thing would be to add a menu item in the main info screen of a cache to "Add this cache to Watchlist"...

Sometimes when I get a DNF I want to watch a cache and see if someone else finds its, owner checks on it, it gets disabled, etc... so I can either go back and try again or realize I did it right the first time.

Only problem is sometimes I don't get on GC.com for a couple days, especially if I am on the road, and forget sometimes to add it later.

- acejavelin
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djstern:
@Psyberdude I think that's a new bug. If I'm not mistaken it didn't do that with .40 but started doing that recently.

@acejavelin I agree that a watch list option would be nice. I'd also like to see a ignore option for caches that I really don't want to do and don't want to show up on future searches that wold use the GC ignore list.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DulinDuskhawk:
Export to KML

First of all: Tom, you made the most perfect Geocaching tool for Windows Mobile to date. Thank you!

As perfect as it is, I am missing one feature which seems easy to implement:

* Export the cachelist to KML files to a folder of your choice. *

I use IGO 8 for car navigation and this way I can send the cache list directly to IGO and navigate to the cache.

Is this possible?

Or is this feature already possible?

Cheers,

Dennis
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pingu-net:
Im not shure, but as far as i know iGO should be able to read TomTom-compatible POI files. Try it...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DulinDuskhawk:
I'm afraid not.

It supports KML, not OV2.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mhmobile:
Where have I been all this time?

Tom,

Just a note to say what a great program you've developed! It takes all the caching programs I use, rolls them into one and adds many many more.

Working great on my HD2.

Very well done,

Thanks very much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CouchPotato:
Afaik there is a converter from ov2 to kml.

But this would not be so handy.

Better ask Tomhiro for an export from GCzII to kml.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DulinDuskhawk:
What I do now is exporting the cache list to GPX; import this into GPSTuner and let it export to KML.

Well, Tomhino, if your up for it...

Cheers,

Dennis