Where Are The Wise Men?

I discovered GeoToad this weekend.  I haven’t messed with too much, but I already like it.

It’s written in Ruby, so it will run everywhere natively (i.e without Cygwin or a Unix environment).  I’ve been having problems with the geo-* tools that I have raved about before.  They assume that you are using GNU tools and [...]

I had hoped to be past 100 now, but things got busy.  But this weekend I finally got my 75th cache!  So it’s not quite the 100 milestone, but it’s one I’m proud of.  Especially since I was at 50 in mid-September (Gina reminded me of that).

Park Tour #1 was one that I had tried [...]

If you’ve been following my geocaching posts, you have probably realized that I keep everything in a GPX (read: XML ) file and go lookups on that.  The reason is simple: with a GPX file you can keep everything together in one place and use GPSBabel to do “queries”  on that.  An important query for [...]

I found cache number 66 yesterday.  That number isn’t a milestone in the geocaching world, but it also coincides with my one anniversary of finding my first geocache. 

It almost seems longer than that, but in a good way.  I’ve seen so many neat parks and places around Omaha and, well, just around than I ever [...]

I tend search out my geocaches when I get a chance and keep them in a huge GPX file. When I want to get some caches in an area, etc., I use GPSBabel to query that GPX file. Groundspeak keeps tons of useful data and metadata in it’s GPX extensions that I like [...]

A great thread at the Geocaching.com forums:

I’ve been geocaching for over a year now, and wanted to share my impressions with those just starting, or thinking about giving it a try. I have been involved with many hobbies and sports for 40 years, and have always enjoyed pondering the advantages and disadvantages of each [...]

Yes, I did some geocaching on our trip and I thought I would make a separate post on that.

I got #50 on the way home. It was a much longer walk and more bushwaking than I wanted to do (especially at a rest stop!) but, hey, it was for #50. My favorite find [...]

We finally nailed it.

Okay, Josh did all the heavy work, I was just there for the end.

Here is a problem that I have been having and I have just solved it via Ruby and REXML:

I have two GPX files that I use for geocaching — one contains all the caches that I want to find and another contains the ones I have already found. Keep track of your finds [...]

I noticed that my “all caches I may hope to find” file has grown tremendously since I starting putting Groundspeak’s info in (i.e. their tags in their namespace). I knew what was doing it — they put in all the logs in, which I don’t really care about. This morning, I was grabbing [...]