[GeoStL] it never fails
- From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: SLAGA <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:54:32 -0500
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Geocaching on a trip. Seems something goes wrong every time I leave
town.
Any time I get ready to go out of town all my stuff quits working.
Today Cachemate has successfully updated itself with all the gpx files
for the state EXCEPT the one for Mark Twain Lake. Recheck, resent...
it crashes cachemate every time. Hmm.
I can work around that. Fire up gsak on the laptop, update and spin
out a new gpx file. The laptop was working fine last night when I
updated gsak. Today it is caught in some sort of endless boot, fail,
reboot cycle. sigh. I guess i could reinstall XP reload gsak and
rebuild Streets& trips and everything else I have to operate the
mobile groundspeak office. I dont have That much time. (note try boot
into safe mode and work from there) No problem, I can work around
that. I will get several more PQ's of the lake area between now and
leaving time. Maybe one of those will work in cachemate.
Once I get cacemate right i can push the cache locations out to Garmin
Mobile XT (Nuvi software for the Windows Mobile platform) so the
phone can navigate just fine. If everything else blows up I guess I
could use the GPS to navigate (new concept) and just skip reading any
cahce descriptions. I dont read them much anyway.
My Backup to everything is GCz http://www.nicque.com/PQz/GCz.htm
that is installed on the phone (At&T Tilt) . GCz it the Windows
Mobile equal of the Iphone geocaching app. It even looks the same. I
could get to a general area, have GCz search for the nearest 20
caches and go from there. That may be the easiest way to go. No
messing with broken gpx files, the cache pages are current as GCz
polls the groundspeak database real time for info. That sounds like a
better plan all the time.
I think I will still try to fix cachemate, Garmin Mobile XT and the
laptop just in case. I am sure that half way there the phone will
catch on fire and I will loose my regular GPS. I have done more with
less in the past. I better buy a map and print some cache sheets
before anything else goes wrong.
It never fails.
Glenn
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