Forum: General Topics

Hello,
with interest I read the old posting concerning geocaching between shchenka and Stephen on
http://www.trackmyjourney.co.uk/index.php?page=forum&forum=2&thread=223.

So I tried to import gpx, loc and wpt files on the tmj website to get geocaches from geocaching.com into tmj via waypoint synchronisation.

GPX is not offered for waypoints, for tracks or route it gives errors because there is no tracksection tag in the geocaching gpx files (of cause the is only on coordinate pair in it). GPX is much more prefereable than loc or wpt, because the complete cache descrition is available in it, its an important information for geocaching!

Only loc and wpt was successful, but from the loc file even the URL to the complete cache description in the web is not imported.

So there seems to be no way to import geocaches including any information (text or URL) necessary for geocaching.
Did I miss any tricks concerning this topic?

Would it be possible to implement URL import from loc files into the web upload page of tmj?

Thanks again for your stunning tmj application!

Here one simple loc file from geocaching.com:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<loc version="1.0" src="Groundspeak">
<waypoint>
<name id="GC19EJ7"><![CDATA[Kieler Seilbahn by KBreker]]></name>
<coord lat="54.321917" lon="10.138017"/>
<type>Geocache</type>
<link text="Cache Details">http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC19EJ7</link>
</waypoint></loc>


P.S:
SmartGPX is an alternative for geocachers, with the addon
http://www.smartcaching.de/smartgpxaddon.html
(for Nokia / S60 only :-(
it even can direct me to the caches!

Thanks,
Meinalf

Hi Stephen,

I use well the TMJ for geocaching, but I also tasted this problem with the Groundspeak's gpx.

Can you solve the parsing of Groundspeak's general tags by a new upload wayponts function, please?
I'm not specialist of this, I think the most important special Groundspeak tags are:

<groundspeak:name> -- this value should be there between the <name></name> tags


I think these values should be there between the <desc></desc> tags with separated by tag-name + new paragraph in this order:

<groundspeak:type>
<groundspeak:container>
<groundspeak:encoded_hints>
<groundspeak:short_description>
<groundspeak:long_description>
<groundspeak:logs>

Two years passed already, I think the data traffic is not problem already.

Thanks in advance!
ZsoltP

Hi ZsoltP,

Apologies for the delay - thanks for sending the example files off-list...

I've now added the Groundspeak tag options into the Upload GPX Waypoints page as suggested. However I've currently left out the Groundspeak:logs tags since these look like they will significantly add to the length of the description field...

I've also added a Groundspeak:type option to the Waypoint Type list that will differentiate between Multi- and Traditional-caches.

Hope it helps!

Cheers,
Stephen