Comments on: Announcing: v0.5.0 of MacCaching

By: Findus

Findus — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:13:34 +0000

Oh yeah! Finally I can stop using that Windows-Laptop which is collecting dust just to backup my Garmin 60CS from time to time. Now I need nothing else than my MacBook Pro. It is amazing how long it took until somebody finally got the OSX-USB-60CS connection established (Garmin announced it on their Web in Jan.06 for End.06 but still haven’t delivered)
- THANK YOU.

It would be nice if we could display longi-/latitude in DD:MM:SS as an option/preference setting.

findus

By: Josh Fields

Josh Fields — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:00:58 +0000

What about N/S latitude and E/W longitude, since there are some us who cache in different hemispheres? Thanks for the work. Looks GREAT!

By: robb

robb — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:05:05 +0000

Tried maccaching this morning, and was happy to see my 60CSx being recognized by my powerbook. Nice!! Previously I would have to use a PC notebook.

One thing though is that I would get an error loading a .loc file if it was named geocaching-1.loc, which happens when you download more than one file. So by taking off the -1 it worked.

Is there so way to make the program understand that a .loc file is one and just load it up regardless of what it is named?

Just wondering. I’ll be watching the evolution of this program.

Thanks.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:27:59 +0000

This build won’t recognize my eXplorist. I can’t find supposedly uploaded files, nor will it download from my GPSr.

Also, I prefer (along with many other eXplorist users) working with .upt files – waypoints – rather than .gpx files for many reasons (http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?s=9f2d70c821915a348baaf47e75d46198&showtopic=95859&st=0&p=1437480&#entry1437480)
Any way you can work that in? On GPSBabel+ just use “Magellan SD files (as for eXplorist)” and append the .upt file extension. Thanks! I look forward to testing the Magellan build.

Nick

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:11:42 +0000

Finally got the new version to wrok. For those using OS X 10.3.9, you can use iSync to sync to your iPod for paperless caching. The only bug I’ve found and am not sure if it’s because of our older OS version or not is that I can only download ALL caches to the address book. If I have a separate cache list, for example “Florida trip” which holds caches I’ve picked to look for on a trip to FL, it won’t export just the caches in that list. I need to do ALL of my caches then weed the ones I don’t want out of the address book.

Also wish there was a way to see on the iPod the difficulty and size of the cache. We are new to this so that is information that would help.

Loving the program and it’s working great with our 60CSx and my Nano!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:35:09 +0000

working good with garmin 60csx via usb, thanks!

By: DavidMac

DavidMac — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:56:30 +0000

Looks promising! Worked great for me using a 60CSx. Two things I would love to see are more export options (similar to the export menu in GSAK) and the ability to view cache data offline or online in a browser. I’ll drop you a line and see if there’s any way I can contribute.

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Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:05:23 +0000

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By: Marky

Marky — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:31:41 +0000

Looking good, but there’s not enough there yet for me to use it. If you had an option to specify raw gpsbabel commands (or just included some of the export options I need), I could probably use it.

By: Pierre (exit106)

Pierre (exit106) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:41:27 +0000

Great improvement since the last release. Very happy in seeing the metric radio button. The program is coming onto its own.

I still have problems with the program crashing while loading certain cache list to the GPS. Strangely when I go Send All the program uploads everything (including the problem Cache List) without crashing. So this is still a problem to me.

FYI
I find the behavior of the search filter a bit strange. Why do I need to delete the search field? Right know selecting another Cache List makes the search happen again. Not sure. Would like to see where the waypoints are in the Cache List.

How about a way of reorganizing the cache list (ie: would want to bring number 3 on the list down to number 8 and vice versa.

But all and all love the way your making this evolve. It looks better all the time.