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Geocaching is a GPS game with a treasure hunt component.

Geocaching is a world wide GPS treasure hunt game, where any user can hide caches. The caches can be of different sizes, from a small film can to a large ammo box. Geocaching has an API which is available for current partners, but they are presently not accepting new requests.

The main site for geocaching is Geocaching.com

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GPG: How to delete bad session key and get asked for encryption password again?

I tried to solve this Geocache: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC67EXW_signaturbruch And it gave me a password prompt, when I tried to solve gpg message.asc, but I didn't know the correct password back then. Now I know it, but it just…
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How to associate waypoints with their geocache when loaded from a GPX file

I am writing an application that reads in pocket queries from Geocaching.com and displays them on a map. I already have it parsing the gpx and wpts.gpx files. I want to be able to list the associated waypoints under their geocache, but I am at a…
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Python itertools permutations running very slow

Running in SuSE linux, This is a quick and dirty script to solve a geocaching puzzle (GC9K63A). First attempt to do anything in python. I added the print "." to give proof of life, but dot doesn't appear. Previously left running for a week with out…
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Parsing GPX XML "any"-Element from XSD generated classes

I'm trying to parse Geocaching GPX files with java. Those GPX files are based on standard GPX XSD file with an additional XSD file. For class generation I'm using jaxb-maven-plugin. Except from pom.xml: …
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Pass string securely to JS

How do I receive a string in JS (maybe through an alert) without the user being able to see it beforehand (e.g. in the source code)? You probably know this from Geocaching Checkers, how do they secure the real Coordinates from being seen in the…
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Greasemonkey: take from ajaxrespond for later use

The site http://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopFavWilson views data depending on a set filter via ajax. I can see this data as bargraphs.(I'm logged in and authenticated) But I would like to save this data for import into e.g. a spreadsheet program. I…
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Extract some Elements with LinqToXML from GPX-File for Geocaching

i'm trying to get some Elements from a gpx-file (is a xml file). This is not the standard gpx-scheme. There are some changes from geocaching.com which is a website for geocaching. My sample XML-File lookslike this:
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google maps api allow non google users to edit map in iframe

I have a google map where I am getting users to log where certain events happen when they post them in a blog sort of setup. Not all of my users have google accounts and you cannot edit the map from an iframe so my question is there any way to…
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Can't get outer html of WebView in HTML when site is on cookiebot

when I load my web, it returns html corretly. But when I load any page of geocaching.com, I get source like that (you must be logined, otherwise it give other but still wrong content): `https://pastebin.com/QJLS1Py3` I'm logined and accepted all…
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Determining proper decoding technique

I am trying to figure out how to decode this string as part of a geocaching puzzle: 4vU8XHh8AQobJTyGY0dluvecMvMVHbf0JLfZTB8komg= I thought it might be MIME encoded but I cannot find a decoder that gives me any useful information.
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Missing file with geocaching API example PHP

I've been trying to replicate this Geocaching API example by Surfoo. I dropped the files on my server and now I'm getting: Warning: require(/geocaching/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /geocaching/index.php…
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PHP geocaching API curl issues

I'm trying to access user information using the Geocaching.com API service. Using the following script I get the errors mentioned below: If i use it 'straight out of the box' (on a live server) i get back the following message: Warning:…
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I cannot find the errorerror. Geocaching Mystery

I'm confused about this code. It's part of a geocaching puzzle. I read it as far as I could understand. But I never used java for my own. I hope someone can help me correcting it. use strict; $a = (32,69,34,46,5,19,4) my $a =…
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HTML only: Change text by clicking

I would like to have different versions of a HTML text displayed by clicking on a button (without using javascript). The idea is to select different languages with a button/hyperlink etc. that controls what HTML text to display. I know this works…
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