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by **JeremyR** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:22 pm

Just spotted this on the GSP forum. It takes the UK based caches in your My Finds pocket query and plots them 'radar style' onto a weather map, complete with Michael Fish :mrgreen:

. Here's mine:

Of course, if you could get a speech bubble which reads "One woman called the BBC and said she'd heard there's a hurricane coming. Well don't worry, because there's not" then that would be even better :lol:

by **Mark** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:32 pm

Here's ours:

Looks like something from a petri dish in a biology lesson! :shock:

I tried the European one as well and it's a nice picture but not as detailed - and missed load of finds :roll:

by **nandad** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:03 am

I like this. Here's ours

by **Jungle Goddess** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:20 pm

Here's the one for The Cache Hoppers - I wonder who might have similar hot spots to ours :lol:

(Edited: I used a really old gpx file!! It looks much more colourful now)

by **HazelS** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:36 pm

I've had this on my profile for about 6 weeks... I love it - just a bit of tongue in cheek fun!
It needs updating tbh, not had chance yet!

by **Foinavon** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:50 pm

nice!

by **The Bolas Heathens** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:55 pm

Just tried it for our finds and it times out and comes up with an error

by **Jungle Goddess** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:59 pm

The Bolas Heathens wrote:Just tried it for our finds and it times out and comes up with an error

Probably can't cope with all the different areas you have visited

by **The Bolas Heathens** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:11 pm

LOL - I've just reported it to the author to see if it's something they can fix

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Jungle Goddess wrote:Probably can't cope with all the different areas you have visited

by **The Jones'** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:47 pm

Here's ours

The Jones'

by **Carlos McTavish** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:09 pm

I wanna world one next

by **Carlos McTavish** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:11 pm

Is there an easier way of putting the pic up?
Any help ????

Also !!

Is Mr Fish suggesting we all go cache in a certain Scottish region ?

A proper North West Camp Event coming up then ?

We all need a blob where his finger is.....

by **nandad** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:34 pm

Carlos McTavish wrote:
We all need a blob where his finger is.....

There's not many caches where his finger is, shame because there is some lovely looking countryside up there. I've been golfing around that area from Penrith right round to PortPatrick and I've never been able to find a cache close enough to the golf course or our diggs to bag a cache. I don't think you would get a red blob up there, unless someone fancies going up and setting a power trail

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by **PopUpPirate** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:58 pm

He's pointing at the final for Little Quest

by **Carlos McTavish** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:08 pm

LIAR

by **nandad** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:13 pm

PopUpPirate wrote:He's pointing at the final for Little Quest

If Michael Fish is pointing it out it is probably hide at Lands End

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by **The Syllogiser** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:32 pm

by **Bargee** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:36 am

Heres ours

I have done a few in dumfreissshire but they were after this PQ which was in April and only shows the ones we did in Gretna in March 07

by **grue666** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:05 pm

Here's ours FWIW, must try harder, we need some red on there.

by **QPootle5** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:09 pm

Not nearly as impressive as some others I've just seen, but 'its not about the heat map...'

by **The Bolas Heathens** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:03 pm

I've been in discussions with the author of the site about our GPX file not working and he's tried a few things and ended up re-writing some of the site so it now works

. Here's our map:

by **Foinavon** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:35 pm

QPootle5 wrote:
Not nearly as impressive as some others I've just seen, but 'its not about the heat map...'

Its a very impressive spiral shape in the middle of it though Matt, that must have taken some planning.

by **gingerbreadmen** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:44 am

I think I need to get out of the NW for a while.

by **Bargee** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:43 am

Wonder if you could get it to write a word, maybe across devon?
thats some cache along a route to plan

by **muttoneer** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:01 am

Oooh! I like that!

Here's mine. It shows up very nicely my route to see family in northeast Scotland, which I try to liven up a bit with drivebys every time I go up there!

by **The_Botherers** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:26 pm

I think we need to get some more caching done :shock:

Grrr can't get the map to show. :roll:

by **QPootle5** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:54 pm

Foinavon wrote:
QPootle5 wrote:
Not nearly as impressive as some others I've just seen, but 'its not about the heat map...'

Its a very impressive spiral shape in the middle of it though Matt, that must have taken some planning.

I'm planning on turning into the world's first caching hurricane...

by **Skyfox1884** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:00 am

Obviously, need to be trying harder ... :mrgreen:

by **mikeswalks** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:17 pm

Does anybody know if this is still working ?
I've tried to use it today for the first time in a few months and get no response on clicking the 'generate' button - I don't know if it's a poieditor issue or some new fangled security issue in IE8 !

by **muttoneer** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:43 pm

I'd love to see Pete Numbers fill one of these in :lol:

EDIT: It seems to be working for me...

by **JeremyR** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:26 pm

Working for me too:

by **MandL** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:32 pm

markandlynn's there are few hidden under his arm as well from Ireland note the IOM under his pointing fingers

by **MBFace** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:35 pm

I dispensed with Mr Fish's services in order to show our IOM hotspot. With the old rules allowing false coordinates to be some distance from the actual location of a mystery cache we appear to have found one in the Irish Sea (All About the UK) 8-)

by **MandL** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:19 pm

MBFace wrote:

MandL wrote:

Those are fairly close distribution wise (if you use an active immagination

by **jhewitt15** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:59 pm

Certainly shows I stick local

The funny thing is I don't remember doing one in South Wales.

by **gushoneybun** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:10 pm

You would not believe how hard it was to get a cluster at the end of his finger

updated with no Michael to show my smaller IOM hotspot; fingers crossed should have one in the sea soon as well

And a nice warm glow in Florida:

by **gse1986** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:11 pm

jhewitt15 wrote:Certainly shows I stick local

The funny thing is I don't remember doing one in South Wales.

YOSM

by **Dan1980** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:22 pm

jhewitt15 wrote:Certainly shows I stick local

Me too...

by **ChannelFadge** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:43 pm

by **alicephilippa** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:04 pm

by **The Syllogiser** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:12 pm

hhmmm .....

by **mikeswalks** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:36 pm

silly boy

tried to upload found.csv, not .gpx

by **The Bolas Heathens** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:21 pm

I just tried to do our one again as it failed last time I tried. It still times out as the My Finds PQ is too big for it to cope with, even when zipped up

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by **Dan1980** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:33 pm

The Bolas Heathens wrote:It still times out as the My Finds PQ is too big for it to cope with, even when zipped up .

Show off!

by **The Bolas Heathens** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:37 pm

LOL - moi??

Dan1980 wrote:Show off!

by **JeremyR** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:16 pm

Maybe your 8763-cache MyFinds PQ is bigger than the site's file upload limit. A (very!) rough calculation based on the size of a 500 cache PQ suggests your MyFinds PQ is probably hovering around the region of 10MB or so :shock:

. 8MB is a typical value for max file upload size in shared hosting environments...

by **Team SLuG** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:53 pm

MyFinds is a .gpx isn't it? Is there a way to get it in .loc, or convert it to .loc with GSAK or equivalent (which is what I do)? The POI Editor site takes .loc files, and they're going to be a fair bit smaller that a .gpx.

by **The Bolas Heathens** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:57 pm

That's a good idea - I'd not thought of that

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Team SLuG wrote:MyFinds is a .gpx isn't it? Is there a way to get it in .loc, or convert it to .loc with GSAK or equivalent (which is what I do)? The POI Editor site takes .loc files, and they're going to be a fair bit smaller that a .gpx.

by **PopUpPirate** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:09 pm

A bit of .BAT (batch) file trickery could do the biz automatically with GPSBABEL (which is what GSAK uses under t'hood)

by **JeremyR** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:45 am

Didn't realise there was a USA map

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