2010/04/05, 01:08
“gpsturbo“ seems to be a potential open-source rival for GSAK that a friend of us suggested (he knows the author in person), so I decided to give it a try. Currently, no Linux-binaries are available, so here are my notes what is required to build it on Ubuntu from scratch:
sudo aptitude install subversion libasound2-dev libcups2-dev libfreetype6-dev |
Compilation has been done in a clean karmic chroot, which already contained my default package selection for compilation-chroots:
apt-get install wget devscripts gnupg aptitude sudo vim bash-completion libxext-dev |
2009/09/02, 23:47
more useful greasemonkey-scripts for geocaching.com are linked on cachews.de
hopefully, groundspeak will have a look at their functionality and pimp geocaching.com…
2009/06/01, 12:09
some tools that make cacher’s life easier:
firefox search plugin
geocaching with your iphone blog entry (german)
iphone online-app (this one is useful for every browser, since it provides an extremely fast frontend to the groundspeak-database, not only on mobile devices like the iphone…)
2009/02/18, 13:29
apparently, libgdal in ubuntu 8.10 has a bug which causes QLandkarte GT to crash with a segfault. fortunately, there is a fixed lib available on launchpad, simply add this to your sources.list:
# libgdal for qlandkarte-gt
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qgis/ubuntu intrepid main
2009/02/05, 16:03
and keep your valuable adressbook…
the nüvi lacks a possibility to delete a specific type of waypoints, e.g. all geocaches. this is particularly annoying when you have uploaded a collection of geocaches and want to remove them again, becaus they mess up your addressbook… this command keeps your adresses and builds a new GPX file from them:
cat Current.gpx | sed 's,<wpt[^>]*><name>[^<]*</name><desc>[^<]*</desc><sym>[^<]*</sym></wpt>,,g ; s,<trk>.*</trk>,,g' > cleaned.gpx
then delete favorites on the device and copy the new gpx-file to /Garmin/GPX/Current.gpx
2008/11/24, 22:51
Caches along a Route ist ein nettes Feature (zumindest von der Idee), mit dem man sich Geocaches entlang einer Strecke heraussuchen lassen kann.
Normalerweise soll man dazu Google Earth verwenden, allerdings lässt sich dort die Route nicht so schön “zurechtziehen”, wie das in Google Maps möglich ist. Mit etwas zusätzlichem Aufwand kann man aber auch eine Maps-Route dazu verwenden Continue reading ‘“Caches along a Route” mit Google Maps’ »