Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Geocaching - would be nice
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From: Robert L. <rob...@us...> - 2003-08-28 16:45:04
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steve rodriquez wrote: > I have a suggestion on the S/W to help on taking info from Geocaching.com and uploaded to the GPS. > > To upload the Geocaches in my area I did the following: > - I did individual searches on traditional, multi, unknown, .. geocahces in my area on Geocache.com, selected "check all" and downloaded the .loc file using the following naming convention: The key problem is that the geocaching.loc files that are hocked up for free simply don't contain this information. The good news is that GPSBabel can actually do better than that already and it's fully automated. The bad news is that it works best with GPX files with the groundspeak extensions, which means you have to be a charter member at geocahing to get this. When faced with an input GPX file that has the needed information, such as: <name>robertlipe-MiddleTN</name> <wpt lat="35.743950" lon="-86.758067"> <name>GCGNGG</name> <url>86229.html</url> <desc><![CDATA[Left Turn Clyde]]></desc> <time>2003-08-16T00:00:00</time> <groundspeak:type>Traditional cache</groundspeak:type> <groundspeak:difficulty>1</groundspeak:difficulty> <groundspeak:terrain>1.5</groundspeak:terrain> <groundspeak:container>Micro</groundspeak:container> </wpt> and you output that either straight to your receiver (garmin or magellan) or to one of their mapping programs (mapsend or mapsource) you will get a waypoint that has an icon that indicates it's a Micro. For Magellans, it's one that looks like a film canister and the waypoint name will contain the difficulty, the terrain, as much of the full name as will fit which is the whole thing in this case. Add the -s flag and the GC name itself gets replaced with "LeftTrnC". The specifics do vary between receivers and file formats, but you get the idea. GPXSpinner (available only for Windows) will do similar tricks and has more knobs you can control on the naming. But it, too, wants to see GPX input as the cache types is simply not in the .loc data. > What would be "really" nice is if all these steps could be automated, > so the only tedious thing becomes downloading all the individual pages > from Geocache.com. Become a charter member. It's really worth it. :-) RJL |