Hi Jon, it's a detecting trip, but there's them that get to detect and find good stuff and them that try to detect and take piccies of those who find good stuff with their finds for the Cubs Newsletter, so I end up chasing about all over the place

How do you get it to download the historical images, the date changes when I move the slider but the image doesn't change and there's no sign of downloading?

I know

I think I am going mad ;

Does sound good Barry

It's very handy to be able to upload direct to Google Earth without having to make a kml file first using another programme.

Cheers Andy and thanks everyone for your kind comments and our contributors

Free GPS Uploads now with Google 5.0

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... 5-0-516638

To get an 8 figure BNG NGR, zoom right in to your find spot, switch to the satellite mode, and click on your find spot on the link below; http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://www.nearby.org.uk/google/gridref_mapplet.xml Also if you type in a 4,6 or 8 figure BNG NGR the map will jump to...

Some video on this link;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7838892.stm

Looks to be some Iceni - Spink 428 on this link;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... queen.html

Awesome find

More info;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 18237.html

Thinking of going along to a few of these, the artefact handling and illustrating appeal to me (page 5). Need to book for these and charges apply. 28th Jan - Prehistoric and Roman artefacts. 25th Feb - Viking and Medieval artefacts. 22nd April - Illustrating artefacts. York is a great place for a da...

I have just downloaded GPS trackmaker which lets you upload tracks and waypoints to Google Earth with just a click if the button. I have uploaded the waypoints and routes for 2 seperate sites which when viewed individually all the tracks and waypoints are shown. However, if the boxes for both sites ...

Not a recording tool but handy for planning the best route if you have lots of places to visit or checking the routes you use are the best;

http://www.localsearchmaps.com/routeplanner/

I've been experimenting with a TomTom One to see how it can be used to record find spots as follows; To see the location of a findspot Tap Help Me/ Where am I, this shows the GPS Co ordinates which can be written down. To add a find spot as a Point Of Interest (POI) First add a POI Category - Tap Ch...

It was a she Dave, find of a lifetime

There's some video on this link Pete;

http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=95858