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Lab2Gpx Settings

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Language

Lab2Gpx tries to detect your browser language. Use this to manually switch the language.

General

Limit

Limits the Download to this number of Adventure Labs. Even if there are more in the search result. Set this to 0 for no limit.

⚠️ Large/No Limit in combination with large radius can result in very long download times or even in time outs. You may get error 500 you try to fetch too many Adventure Labs in one download.

Cache Type

Select the Geocache Type for the GPX File. Garmin GPS devices do not support Adventure Labs. You probably want to export them as virtual or event caches.

Linear Adventure Labs

Mark Linear Adventure Labs.

Default

do not mark them at all

Include only first/next stage

If you haven't started the adventure lab yet, only the first stage will be included in the GPX file. If you've already completed one or more stages, only the next stage to be completed will be included in the download.

Mark using [L] in title

this will add "[L]" in front of the title, so you can see it's linear without opening the description

As corrected coordinates

some geocaching apps mark Geocaches with corrected coordinates. (this is actually intended for mysteries) Cachly, for example, adds a small red triangle to the icon. This is usefull to directly see linears on the map or filter them inside the app

Code

There are two ways to generate the code. You can either specify the prefix and decide whether you want a separator between code and stage, or you can specify a custom code template, which gives you more control over how the code is generated. You can find a detailed discussion on this in #181

Personalization

if you don't care about your completed labs and just want to download all in the area you can completely ignore this section. But if you want to include/exclude your (partially) completed labs you have to provide your Calling user's public GUID Go to https://www.geocaching.com/find/default.aspx and look up your own username to find this. The GUID is included at the end of the URL of the resulting page. (...?guid=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx)

The 3 Filters are the same as in the official Adventure Lab App

Description

This should be self-explanatory. Select what should appear in the description.

Exclude

Exclude by Owner name

Exclude Adventure Lab by Owner name. Separate them by new line, comma or semicolon. This is an exact match

Exclude by Adventure Lab name

Exclude Adventure Lab by it's name. Separate them by new line, comma or semicolon. This is a partial match. If you use "geo", this will also match "Geocache".

UUIDs to exclude

Exclude by Adventure Labs UUID (Id). See #44 for details

Quirks & Fixes

this is a special section for single programs having special needs or bugs

Geocache Type Fix for L4C

Looking4Cache iOS App requires "Geocache|Lab Cache" as type in "groundspeak:type" see #157

Add BOM to cachetur.no CSV file

MS Excel still seems to be unable to properly handle UTF-8 encoded CSV files if they don't have a BOM. If you're having problems with umlauts or special characters in Excel, try enabling this option.

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