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Geocaching Log Feed Added
Since I am limited to Blogger for publishing our “My Finds” PQ, I’ve used a WordPress widget to add a link to the latest posts here. You can find them on the Geocaching page. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blogs, Geocaching, WaFiTz!
Blog Your Geocaching Found Logs with Blogger
You may or may not be aware that Google have recently released a command line tool called Google CL which allows limited updating of some of it’s primary services from the command line – including Blogger. I have been working on a script and looking for a utility to parse the “My Finds” pocket query for uploading to a blog for a while now so on hearing this news I set to work to see if I could create an automated script. You can see the results on my old blogger account, which I have now renamed _TeamFitz_ and repurposed for publishing our Geocaching adventures. It’s a little bit clunky and could be improved, but the script is now complete and ready for ‘beta’. I’m publishing it here and releasing it under … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blogs, Geocaching, Linux, WaFiTz!
Curious Problem with Cork City Locale Geocaching Pocket Query
If you’re a premium member with Groundspeak’s geocaching.com then you will be aware of the ability to create pocket queries. These are really useful for throwing up to 1000 waypoints onto your GPSr for a days, or even a holidays caching. As some of you know we were in Ireland recently (the reason for lack of posts) and I decided to take advantage of Stena Ferries free satellite wifi on the boat. I set a PQ for Cork and waited for it to build. When the query was ready I saved as usual to my shared Dropbox folder and then attached my Garmin 60CSx but despite loading fine onto my CacheBerry – the PQ just wouldn’y upload to the Garmin. Puzzled, I tried an older PQ and verified that my script was working, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, Technik, Troubleshooting
Just GPSBabel
A while ago I posted my frustrations with running GSAK on Linux, and how I’d found a way of getting the function to send to my Garmin 60CSx to work. I thought I owed an update to anyone who read that to say I gave up on GSAK and now just use GPSBabel from the command line. Here’s the script I run: #!/bin/bash GPXZIP=$1 NAME=`echo $GPXZIP | cut -f1 -d.` unzip $GPXZIP GPXFILE=`ls *.gpx` for FILE in `echo $GPXFILE`; do gpsbabel -i gpx -f $FILE -o garmin -F usb:0 done I called the script ‘sendtogarmin.sh’. I saved it in the directory where I save all my pocket queries are stored as zip files. When it comes to load them, I just hook up the Garmin and then run: sudo ./sendtogarmin.sh pquery.zip Works for me, but I never bothered … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, Troubleshooting
Welcome to wafitz.net
Well that was quick. My main blog has now been moved over to this domain, soon I’ll be picking up the other blogs and attempting to do some interesting things on this website. I’m working out a way to publish my previous Geocaching logs on a blog, which for now will be utilised through the xml-based pocket queries. But hopefully this can be a base for listing puzzles and multi caches too. … Read entire article »
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