I’ve been doing a lot of work on my Geocaching tools recently. <\/p>\n
First, I rewrote most of the JavaScript for my GPS Coordinate Converter<\/a>. It’s not a nasty mess anymore and it works for more funky ways that people type these things. Most obvious is that Firefox now works when you use negative signs. I actually took the code from the PHP version of the coordinate parsing code I wrote. It’s amazing how similar these languages are. I wrote a dozen or so regular expressions and the port was 90% was done.<\/p>\n Second, I’ve been working a lot on my Geocaching Quick Search<\/a>. Alex de Vries has created a Firefox plugin<\/a> for it and also collected a lot of good ideas for adding more functionality. I even updated the documentation<\/a>. This is definitely the tool I use the most for myself as I use it to quickly look up stuff on my Treo from the field.<\/p>\n Third, Geocaching.com<\/a> has redesigned their site and added some heavy-handed frame-busting code to just about every page. The result is that my Geocaching Express Logger<\/a> doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to because it uses frames. I’ve retargeted the links to use a new window (which is pretty annoying) while I await a response on the forums<\/a>. Meanwhile I added support for uploading MapSource files and a DHTML smilies menu.<\/p>\n I made some minor changes to Geocaching Leaderboard<\/a> as well. I added another digit beyond the decimal point to the stats, changed the N\/A indicator to ‘–‘ from ‘-‘ since some people thought they were negative signs, fixed some x-axis problems with the graphs and changed them to use PNG images because somehow GIF stopped working.<\/p>\n Recently I uploaded a bunch of new maps to my ExpertGPS Calibrated Maps page<\/a>. Pretty soon I think I’ll have the whole Bay Area covered.<\/p>\n Lastly, I convinced BeachBuddies<\/a> to add links to his Locationless Cache Checklist<\/a> for every cache so you can click right into my Coordinate Distance Calculator<\/a> to check if your LC has already been found. Very handy.<\/p>\n Wow, that’s a lot of stuff. Now I know where all my free time goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been doing a lot of work on my Geocaching tools recently. First, I rewrote most of the JavaScript for my GPS Coordinate Converter. It’s not a nasty mess anymore and it works for more funky ways that people type these things. Most obvious is that Firefox now works when you use negative signs. I …<\/p>\n