July 21, 2007
Ohio Delorme Challenge
The Ohio Delorme geocache requires a visit to each cache in the Delorme atlas for Ohio but only visits after the cache was placed will count towards the cache find. Once a cache has been found on each page you then get the co-ordinates for the final cache hidden somewhere in Ohio.
With the aid of a KML file, the recent finds pocket query, GSAK and Google earth it is quite easy to work out which pages you need to do.
First download the Ohio Delorme KML file from the main cache page, GCZ554. Next download Google Earth (if you don't already have it already. Finally you want a .loc file of all your finds since the 2nd of December 2006 when the cache was placed. The easiest way to do this is to download your latest finds into GSAK, then using the filters set State=Ohio, Found=Yes, Date=On or After 12/2/2006. I saved the filter as Delorme so I can run this whenever I need to check my status.
In Google earth open the KML file and then open the loc file to see the caches appear in gridlines for each page. You may want to turn off extra options and layers such as road names, community uploaded content etc. This will give you a cleaner picture. 
The picture above shows the gridlines and the picture below shows my found caches so far. I've actually found quite a few other pages but unfortunately they were before the cache was placed so they don't count.
So far I've found pages 45-48,55-59,65 and 67-69
Meanwhile TeamJNLe4 completed all the pages yesterday and now just has to go for the final cache - congrats Jonathan!
June 17, 2007
Geocaching greasemonkey scripts
If you have firefox and greasemonkey installed (and if not why not?) then check out the greasemonkey scripts at Locusprime that enhance some of the website pages. There are some really nice enhancements here - I'll leave you to go search the site and start enhancing your cache viewing.
LilDevil also has a couple of greasemonkey scripts for caching too (some of the scripts overlap each other)
June 30, 2006
Caching update
I won a Legend C with North america maps on ebay last night which is great - the autorouting should come in very handy for work too - and if the route just so happens to go past a cache - well "I am only following directions gov" ;-)
On a slightly similar note, the weekly notification of caches arrived today (the uk cache notification!) but it had the interesting news that you can now get a query of caches along a route. If this works, it's going to be great news for geocaching. Firstly there will be great rejoicing from the caching community and secondly this seriously reduces the need to horde cache information in gsak. Now I can get live cache data from a route online rather than having to download all of ohio into gsak, export all the caches as streetmaps pushpins, import them into streets and trips, create the route and then show caches within .2 miles.
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August 1, 2005
Notification of new caches
At long last, as long as you are a premium member, you can now get notifications of a new cache in your area by signing up at Geocaching - Subscriptions
May 19, 2005
Geocaching alternative?
An alternative is ecoscavenging - basically virtual geocaches with no physical box/log book etc - you sign them online. Not many caches to be found at the moment though.
More geocaching greasemonkey scripts
More greasemonkey scripts at the script list now give the ability to show nearby caches from maps.google.com. Works great
February 16, 2005
Multi Bonus caches
Geocaching.com have had a site redesign and one of the new features is lists of caches. I've created a list called End of UK Multi Caches which gives you the cache at the end of a series. Useful to see what other cache series are out there and just see how many you have done.
February 13, 2005
More cachepage searching
Geocaching Quick Search has a useful query engine to find cache pages and also some bookmarklets to drag into the links bar to quickly search,log or print a cache. Another set of bookmarks added to my browser.
There is also Geocaching Smart Search plugin to install into firefox's search bar in the top right corner of the browser. Worth a download too.
September 29, 2004
geocaching.com down
The site which hosts geocaching.com and the forums has been down all day today which is a pain as there are at least three new caches that I know of awaiting approval. I guess this will stop those people complaining about people wanting the database offline as this is precisely the reason why they want offline copies.
September 23, 2004
rss feeds back again.
Managed to get half an hour at lunch today to fix my broken rss feeds of found caches from local cachers. The main problem was that the page used to contain http://www.geocaching.com/seek/ and this has been replaced with ../ in the source code of the web page. To be honest I'm suprised they had this code in there originally as its more data that needs to get sent down to the client each time.
September 8, 2004
Wap interface for cache logging.
http://wap.geocaching.com can now be used to log a cache from the field apparently.
August 20, 2004
New UK pocket query
I've had to run another query for pocket queries now to capture the uk's caches as of August 17th the last cache was returning 500 results. So I've set up another one to return from August 17th to Dec 31st.
July 30, 2004
Geocache Midlet
The applet that you can download to your phone has been updated so might be worth downloading if you use it.
April 24, 2004
New Caches in the uk
New UK Caches can be found at this listing and my new cache in Congleton has been placed - just waiting for it to be approved
April 3, 2004
Editing Cache Pages
Trippy976 has developed the Cache Page Editor which helps you create better pages for listing your cache without needing to know html
March 13, 2004
OrdanceSurvey Maps
After doing all that work on generating a bookmarklet for OS maps, I've realised that GeocacheUK already has those links built in. Like mine, they don't have the topographical map (which I thought mine did) so theres one more click needed to get last step.
It wasn't much use though when I was doing The Other Wedgewood cache as this was showing a footpath that wasn't on the ground.
March 9, 2004
Bookmarklet generated
By dragging the Topo link to your links bar, then you can get an OS topographical map of a certain location from one click. Very handy when it comes to getting maps from geocache web pages.
January 30, 2004
ie toolbar for cache searches
There's a neat toolbar for Internet explorer that sits at the bottom of your browser screen and allows you to easily search geocaching.com. For Mozilla i've had to settle with using address bar's and the autosearch functionality. Slightly harder to use as you have to remember that "postcode cw12" will search for caches in this postcode and not give the address from Royal Mail's website :-)
January 28, 2004
Pocket Query generator
The pocket query generator for premium geocaching members has been tarted up and looks a lot better now. There's also the ability to click the query and to have it run now. You also get the time the query was last run. A nice improvement.