Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

I agree with what you say. When I had my data issue the first the unit was by the windshield on a non slip pad.

I have used my 810 on the seat for hours with maemo mapper and don't remember seeing a time where it did not maintain a 3d lock. For me the seat next to me does not seem to be too bad a location for the gps.

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

WOW.. nice ap..

I have been geocaching with maemomapper and geopoi and they work great.. but to have access to the descriptions and hints .. WOW


one "bug" maybe it's something with my 810.. but I can't get it to go into full screen mode..

and a feature request.. to either sort or search the list of caches..
I have a .gpx with 500 caches and finding the right one is hard..

and ultimate feature request...
would be awsome if tapping a POI in maemomapper could bring up that cache in GPXView

thanks.... cant wait to get out and try it to actually find caches

Louis

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

what element in the GPX file does it group by on the first screen? I've converted some .loc to .gpx, and on the first screen it's a blank line with a "1" at the end. Clicking on this line opens the second screen with just the single cache in it.

Thanks

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

Any proper app should list the direction to the destination. I don't know if this one can. Every other app I've used does, though, and the direction is pretty consistent, as long as there is a good satellite lock. The reason the arrow spins is because there is no way for the app to know which direction you're facing, even though the direction to the cache stays basically the same even though the GPS thinks you moved a few feet one way or the other. You just read the direction and use your compass to move that way, ignoring the spinning arrow. I don't even use the arrow, I display the bearing to the cache and my heading, and try to more or less match the two, depending on the terrain and obstacles. I only use the compass occasionally, to figure out a course to a landmark I can see in the right direction.

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

Sure, it does tell you in the caches "Overview" tab the exact direction relative to the current gps position in degrees (the screenshot on my web page is a little outdated and doesn't show the exact degrees).

I've just also spent some work on the gps routines and things may have improved (i say "may" because the built-in gps worked quite well for me even when just walking slowly).

This tool is currently mainly for maintaining a gpx database and the current extensions i am working on are mainly related to this. The next release will e.g. read opencaching.de gpx files and be able to download and store the related images from the cache descriptions. Loc files will likely be also in the next release, even though this will start to make the name "gpxview" a little misleading.

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

The geocaching.com gpx file has a name itself. This is displayed in the first screen. Your file does not contain such an entry, so you see blank followed by a 1 for "this file contains one cache". And this single cache is what you see on the next page. The current development version already copes with files wihtout name inside and sets the filename then.

Don't put too much effort into this. Adding support for loc files is most likely the easier solution. Also the current development version can handle entire directories. So you can put all your loc files there and they are loaded all at once.

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

Sounds great! Thank you very much.

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

I'm glad to see this develop, even though I haven't been very active in geocaching for a few months, due to other more important events going on. I've always used my Palm for this, and likely still will, rather than risk my N800 in the briars and mud, but it would be useful for urban caches which I intermittently do. This is a much more straightforward way to get the cache information, rather than the conversions necessary for Palms. I think I'll download it soon and try it out, at least for practicing getting the info on my Nokia. Thanks for the work.

BTW, Cachemate for Palm and WM is pretty much the standard for this type app. I don't know if you've looked at it, but it's a very complete, very usable program.

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

Uhm, yes, but it's Palm and WM only. And it's imho shareware and not OSS and thus cannot easily be ported. Or what's your point?

Re: More geocaching with Maemo
 

I think he was just suggesting you look at the feature set and UI for hints on what the geo community might want. Personally I wouldn't mind some integration with maemo mapper, but that's about it.