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The main difference between regular waypoints and geocaches on modern Garmin units is that geocaches have extra information associated with them, such as ratings, full description and hint. Since you'd have to enter all that manually, and it makes no sense to do that because you have that info on your phone already, you're not losing anything. Another difference is that you can log field notes on geocaches (e.g. mark them as found etc). Again, since you can do that on your phone, it makes no sense to do it on the Garmin. I don't see what the big deal is.

You do it the same as you do now, except that instead of selecting "dropped off" for the TB, you select "visited" in the dropdown menu. This saves you from doing the "retrieve" step afterwards.

I'm mostly saying that the built-in basemap doesn't come with any POIs (or any other details for that matter). Yeah, the Garmin $ maps do come with a lot of good POIs, but so do other maps. I've had good experience with free maps, both OSM-based and from other sources, such as http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/ .

Yes.

You can use my cache GC2BA4D for testing purposes if you wish. Just remember not to load it up in your browser if you want to

Metadata is optional. If you want your pictures to be oriented the right way universally, use the metadata to modify the picture data to reflect the correct orientation before using them anywhere else. Or, in other words, use "jhead -autorot" or similar before uploading!

I guess the cache thief (if there is indeed one) is not the only one who's determined to see this one go

Yes! POIs come from the map. If there's no preloaded map, there's also no preloaded POIs. Install a map with POIs and you will have POIs. Alternatively, it's possible to install additional POIs via dedicated POI files.

Oh, and I thought toz's repeated ramblings had made it clear by now that there is in fact no such rule that one has to sign the log book for a smiliey. Edit to add: I do agree however that if a container being frozen stuck in ice is considered as "needing maintenance", then it wasn't a find.

Good one!

How come the "forum schedule" hasn't been mentioned here yet?

But it's nice and clean and dry

You show as a premium member. Why can't you look at them? Because they aren't

That Is great! I would love for our local community to have their own facebook page. Probably be a lot easier to see when events are coming up. I was thinking since facebook requires a full name everyone could agree to put something like "geocaching" as their first of last name, the other name being their geocaching name. Once again it would make it easy to identify fellow geocachers. You do realize that Facebook doesn't allow this, and the accounts are likely to get locked if they find out (or someone tells on them)?

The GPX button is unavailable for basic members. "Send to GPS" still works though (and in fact also produces a GPX file), but it doesn't contain all the info.

Hey, I get that on my phone even without GPS enabled! You wanna know why? Because it sees our wifi here at home, and the Borg collective knows quite well where this wifi and its associated IP address is...

Not quite, it's the other way around. If something isn't "commonly" in most people's minds, then it's not common sense. Those things might just be your opinions.

Huh. Who says that all caches should be family friendly? Who says that all caches should be safe for everybody?

I'm sure that was because it was off topic. :P

That's two things. Actually, the one thing that DNF means is: did not find. It has no notion of having set out to look for, or having looked for the cache. That also means that a simple literal interpretation of "did not find" is insufficient. Or otherwise, I could log a DNF on over 1.5 million caches, because I didn't find those (yet).

The only regional models are those with a "t" in their model number, i.e the 450t. Those come with regional maps preinstalled. Non-T models are uniform across the continents.

Go to the TB's profile page and use the "grab" option from the dropdown menu. You will need the TB's tracking number to do that. You can also use that number to find the TB's profile page.

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There never was any real support for that. What some people did (through GSAK macros most commonly) was download the pictures off the website, geotag them and load them as regular photos to the units. With the geotag, they would then show up on the same location as the cache itself. With that new feature, the photos can now be directly linked to the cache listing. Of course, there's still no support for that on gc.com.