Metro NY Geocaching Society

... August 23rd from 1pm until 5pm at the Le Pain Quotidien next to the Sheep Meadow in Central Park. Just look for the people tinkering with their GPS devices and notating little toys!

... stuff that came with the maps I loaded? If there isn't a way to eliminate them, does anyone know the right combination of settings to minimize their intrusion? Any other suggestions? Other than asking Garmin to hire an Apple engineer for a week to overhaul their software and UI.

... either currently or at one time could be downloaded in a bundle as part of the "Google Pack" (Trillian doesn't appear to be a part of their "pack" now, but it used to be). http://pack.google.com/ To that list I would add Google Earth (also available in the Google Pack) and ...

... me to be a hard butt about how other people want to score themselves. Especially when this cache relies so heavily on people protecting it with their judgment. But I was thinking if he actually wants my blessing, this might be an entertaining compromise. How would you respond, or what would ...

... class is doing a year-long unit studying Central Park, and I was discussing with the teachers some weeks ago about using GPS technology to enhance their experience. Not necessarily just for geocaching, but also to do things like (say) waymark points of interest (trees, bridges, statues, bodies ...

... cache. It is a drag when the admins assume at first that a challenging cache is a problem. But it's also fair to keep in mind that the admins have their own "admins" that they have to deal with, the kind that carry guns. And I think that as a caching community, as interesting and unthreatening ...

... and for that cache include a waypoint for each of the subway stops (etc.) in the system... Visitors could download that cache and its waypoints to their GPSrs if they want to have some help finding their way around.

... one. There was already a thread over there in the last few weeks about the Metro NYC group wondering if we were a "Friend or Foe" to their organization (fueled by some misunderstandings) - I don't want to prove the "Foe" camp right! I think a cross-post advertising approach ...

... other reason I haven't thought of - I'm not sure. But I thought it was interesting that folks are starting to get feedback from Groundspeak about their unpublished listings.

How did it go from $250 to $5500? What is it about what we need that jacks it up so much from the default day rate? I'm wondering if there is a misunderstanding on their part or something and they think we are planning something crazy.

As a follow-up, we did the GPS workshop today and I wanted to say thanks to both Tatanka49 and EastVillageFamily for their help. Tatanka was gracious enough to loan us a half dozen of his GPSr's for our use and several pages of educational materials, and EVF sent a great .kml file ...

... "see which of your friends is at the bar you just walked into!"). I don't know if it's for liability, or because they plan to roll out their own navigation software, or a reason I haven't been exposed to and am not smart enough to think of on my own. I do suspect that Apple does not ...

... bring up a good point, the listing on TC probably makes it less likely that groundspeak would unarchive this cache. Groundspeak's sensitivity to their competition seems to vary over time. As recently as a few weeks or months ago I recall reading a thread on the main forums where someone had discovered ...

... it looks like Apple doesn't want you using your iPhone to replace your Garmin. But it should still technically be feasible, and they demoed their Google Maps app doing geo-caching, so it's really a matter of intended use. Apple, apparently, doesn't want the device to be used that way -- ...

... I'd expect the next smiley to come along in about 2012 or thereabouts... But the view is nice! Zeto Point Weirdly, both logs only have one find to their credit. But they each emailed my brother with the secret pass phrase in the cache, so we're pretty confident they really did visit. ETA - you'll ...