GeoToad 3.9.0 by Thomas Stromberg (c) 2003
$Id: FAQ.txt 589 2006-03-11 12:57:52Z thomas $
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Frequently Asked Questions

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1. How do you make GeoToad display the original waypoint id's, like GC2034
   instead of BrnCntyTour?
2. Geocaching Swiss Army Knife complains about the GPX format. How do I
   make them compatible?
3. What software can you use the GPX files in?
4. Why is there no GUI for GeoToad?
5. What are the "Fun Factor" ratings?        
6. geotoad.exe gets relative paths wrong in Windows

Questions and Answers:
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1. How do you enable friendly waypoint id names?

    The synthesized waypoint id's are a feature named EasyName. Set
    your maximum EasyName waypoint length (16 for Garmin), and it will
    use them.


2. Geocaching Swiss Army Knife complains about the GPX format. How do I
   make them compatible?

    Don't use EasyName waypoints.


3. What software can you use the GPX files in?

    Here are a few software products I have found that make use of GPX 
    files. If you have any to add, please e-mail thomas%stromberg.org

    Windows:
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    Geocaching Swiss Army Knife http://gsak.net/
    GPX Spinner     (Free)    http://www.gpxspinner.com/
    EasyGPS         (Free)    http://www.easygps.com/
    Utopia          (Free)    http://home.earthlink.net/~msargent2/ch/
    G7ToWin         (Free)    http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/
    GPSbabel        (Free)    http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/

    Mac OS X:
    - - - - -
    Mac SimpleGPS   (Free)    http://www.macsimplegps.com/
    GPS Connect     (Free)    http://www.chimoosoft.com/gpsconnect.html
    FlightTrack     (Free)    http://flighttrack.sourceforge.net/
    GPSbabel        (Free)    http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/

    Linux/UNIX:
    - - - - - -
    GPSbabel        (Free)    http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/
    GPSMan          (Free)    http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/

    PalmOS:
    - - - -
    CacheMate       ($8)      http://www.smittyware.com/palm/cachemate/

    Symbian UIQ (Sony Ericsson, Motorola)
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    GPS-Navigator   ($16)     http://www.wohlfahrt-edv.de/
    PowerNavigation ($20)     http://www.symbianware.com/product.php?id=powernavigation_uiq

    Symbian Series 60 & 80 (Nokia)
    - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    AFTrack         (Free)    http://afischer-online.de/sos/AFTrack/
    PowerNavigation ($23)     http://www.symbianware.com/product.php?id=powernavigation80

    Windows Mobile/CE/Pocket PC
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
    CacheMate       ($8)      http://www.smittyware.com/palm/cachemate/
    GPXView         (Free)    http://strandberg.org/gpxview/


4. Why is there no GUI for GeoToad?

    Because we haven't gotten to it yet. There have been some
    failed projects by 3rd party users to produce one, and we are
    looking for developers to give us this capability in 4.0.

    The only requirement is that the GUI be fairly similar between
    Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users. We're considering using
    ruby/wxWindows or Java/Swing (maybe Java/SWT) to do this.


5. What are the "Fun Factor" ratings?

    Fun Factor is a 'synthesized' rating that is generated by 
    parsing the geocache comments with a spam filtering engine that
    has been taught what an exciting geocache is or a dull geocache.
    
    This feature is pretty experimental. If you have any caches that
    you find particularly exciting, e-mail them to geotoad@toadstool.se
    
    Otherwise, you can look at the files in tools/ to add new caches to
    your preference database (data/). No documentation is available
    for these tools at this time.
    
6. geotoad.exe gets relative paths wrong in Windows

This only affects users of the command-line, rather than the text user
interface.

GeoToad for Windows is packaged by tar2rubyscript and rubyscript2exe,
which seems to forget the current working directory. Because of this,
if you are using a relative path, it will default to the directory
that GeoToad is installed to, rather than the working directory it
was launched from.

