[Girl Scouts Go Geocaching!]

There are quite a few BSA Geocachers in my neck of the woods (SE Wisconsin) and we've placed a number of caches. OK, some of us have placed A LOT of geocaches. Not that many Girl Scout placed geocaches and that's a shame. I go out of my way to find them when I do run across them.

 

I didn't realize you were so involved in Girl Scouts AuntieNae, perhaps there should be a GS/BS Event brewing in the future?

 

I proposed (along with others) a geocaching merit badge. No action will be taken yet. Although, as I get more and more involved, I already see that many changes would have to be made to my proposal. I will continue to push for a Merit Badge.

 

In my experience, your chance of success will be higher if it isn't called a "geocaching" merit badge. The implied scope needs to be greater than simply going out and finding caches. They should be competent in all aspects of GPS usage, understand the basics of how the satellite system is used for navigation.. know how GPS units are used in various industries i.e. forestry, transportation, engineering, mapping, land management, etc. Also, having a true understanding of longitude and latitude, and be able to function in degrees and minutes or in UTM. Application of the skill to everyday life will grab more interest in BSA than simply presenting it as a tool for finding caches. The process can take years. It may be the next generation that is offered the merit badge, but in the meantime take your kids out caching.

 

PS.. the push must be in Dallas. Your local guys may nod and agree, but the decisions are made down there.

 

BSA has already added GPS to the camping MB ....I also think it would be a cool MB to do but scouts need to learn their way through the woods with a compass as you don't get a good signal in the woods to a gps.

[Magellan Explorist 500LE waypoint downlads]

but when you do this you can only click the ones on that page and then when you load them you get one folder and you can't get others into it when you go to the next page. Or do you know away around this? I have the 400.

[Magellan eXplorist 400 .gpx issues]

You're not trolling now are you?

 

From what I hear of Magellan's support yours would be a totally wasted call.

I am having some of the same troubles you had. Please help me. I have the explorist 400. I have tried using magellan geocache manager but when I go to geocaching site and select some of the cahes on one page and then download I can only load those and can't add to that file.

I have tried vantagepoint and it loks like it is transfering a file but when I look at GPS there is nothing.

Mapsend will not work for me nor will geobuddy.

I want this to be easy but I have sent the last 3 days tring to get them on.

HELP