GSAK Version 8 Beta Posted … Supports Geocaching.com API

Not for the feint of heart, but GSAK – the Geocaching Swiss Army Knife has posted a beta of the next major version. Version 8 is going to be a chargeable upgrade, but in the mean time you can play with the beta version using your version 7 registration key.

The big update here is that you can interact with the Geocaching.com public API using GSAK 8. This is an extremely useful bit of functionality – just think about the potential for this in the macro section for example

Clyde calls out three main changes over V7:

Version 8 includes many changes since Version 7, but probably the 3 biggest of note are:

1. Increased functionality by leveraging the new Groundspeak api
2. Support for custom data (virtually unlimited number of fields)
3. A newer, more modern look and feel

The rest of the changes are located here.

If you are a macro developer, or a GSAK power user who wants to try the new program before it’s complete go on over and download it. If you are not ready to use potentially broken software, or put up with bugs wait until the final release.

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Garmin Updates POI Loader for Windows


Thousands of Geocaches as POI on Nuvi 265

Garmin has released an update to their POI loader software for Windows. This software lets you take locations and add them as “Points of Interest” to compatible GPS units. Most modern Garmin devices support this feature. While these “Custom POI’s” are not editable on your device, it does allow you to load many, many more locations on the device than the Waypoints or Geocaches feature does. For example, in the image above I used POI loader to put 21,000 geocaches on my Nuvi 265. With this latest update, Garmin addresses a couple sore spots like file names and large GPX file loading problems.

[ Garmin POI Loader 2.60 ]

Changes made from version 2.5.4 to 2.6.0:

  • Added ability to specify a custom POI file’s name
  • Added ability to handle swapped lat and lon values in CSV files
  • Fixed issue with multi-line CSV files not being read correctly
  • Fixed issue with extended ASCII characters in CSV files
  • Fixed issue with reading large gpx and csv files making the application unresponsive

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