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    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by pilotsnipes

    Seeing as it has been decided for us that we are no longer to stay with Groundspeak, Clyde England (owner of GSAK) has kindly offered to allow this support thread to continue on his forum.

     

    Please refrain from posting any further items here (so that new people can see this last post and know where to head to)

     

    The new site for support questions is:

     

    Pilotsnipes Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching Support: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=12382

     

    Also for reference:

    jjreds Advanced Nuvi Macro support: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=12382

    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by pilotsnipes

    As a public note, I would like the say the following.

     

    I regret Groundspeak's decision as described by Robert Lipes's post above. I think it is wrong, short-sighted and not in the spirit of geocaching that most of us would *assume* should be the norm.

     

    I shall not fight the decision, I have better things to do with my life, but I would formally - and respectively - ask that Groundspeak reconsider their position and allow this very well behaved, well contained thread continue.

     

    I would suggest any supporters of my stance should email Groundspeak directly, not post in this thread as that would probably only weaken my argument about a well behaved thread.

     

    Thank you. (Especially to the all the users of the script).

     

    Happy hunting.

    Advanced Nuvi Macro

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Robert, would it be a fair comment to make, that the existence of these programs has added to your (Groundspeak) coffers far more than any infrastructure costs in maintaining the people who visit here?

     

    It would seem more harm than good would be the outcome to Groundspeak's bottom line (lets face it you are a business and money counts) if people didn't find these threads and explore geocaching.

     

    The fact that people can now manage thousands of caches easily, drives them instantly towards premium membership and pocket queries...

     

    $$$

     

    I'm just a little shocked at this stance, that's all.

    Advanced Nuvi Macro

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Alerts icon that would allow me to turn off the alerts. Any ideas why Tourguide (Radius) won't cause the Nuvi to create that icon in the settings screen?

     

    I actually don't have any idea sorry. Is there a chance perhaps this is in fact a small firmware bug with the unit? Perhaps a quick email to Garmin might shed some light on it? (Although it'll take a week for them to reply) :D

    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I have a nuvi 255W. How do I delete all or some of these cudstom POIs stored under extras from my nuvi?

     

    You just need to run POILOADER again and select the remove poi option during it's option screens.

     

    My question is, how many satellites does a Nuvi typically look for? I will assume that, regardless of this making paperless caching possible with a Nuvi, wouldn't you still have serious issues with canyon-effect and tree cover that hand-helds seem to address (according to my research)?

    (Sorry if this has already been covered, I have not read all 900+ logs in this thread.)

     

    I've found the Nuvi holds it's own when searching in tough areas. It is NOT the best one out there under heavy tree cover, between very high builds (eg newyork) but it does a fair job at it. My handhelds gps's (vista hcx etc) to be honest are not that much better.

     

    only question now is about the satellite access. Sitting at home, where I generally can NOT get a signal on this unit, I can see that it might not work, but shouldn't I at least see a different screen, one that might say "hey, dummy - no sats!" :D

     

    On all of my Nuvi's if it can't detect any satellites after about 4-7 mins, it pops up with a question "Are you indoors?" which I can then tell it to either keep searching or go into GPS simulation mode. Does this not occur for you?

     

    One quick addition, with a 250 nuvi I have been able to access the satellite page by holding down on the signal strength indicator bars for 3 seconds.

     

    That must be a wide screen 250? AFAIK that feature has not been added to the normal small screen 250, unless I'm getting confused with the Nuvi's 205?

    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Can this macro do that?

    Does the "Advanced Macro" do it?

    Any suggestions?

    I have a Nuvi 300.

    Thanks so much for a great macro! (That must be a least the third or fourth time I am thanking you...LOL!)

     

    Actually I'm not sure if the Advanced does this directly, however, if you open up my macro and look at line 320, you can tweak how the child caches are named there.

     

    Hello, i've a Colorado, but when i use the custom option, i receive a message from POI Loader that said that only support 32 symbols.

    Anyone more has the same problem?

    Thanks.

     

    You must be using jjreds macro, try his thread for support: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=195389

     

    Noob here. Just got a Nuvi 760 for mother's day. I sure would like to pimp it up.

    Pilotsnipes, your tutorial looks great but I can't seem to use the like to the POI loader, version 252. I already uploaded 253 from the garmin site.

    The link on the tutorial says that I need a password to download 252?

    Help?

     

    Not sure what link leads you to a password as I've just checked it myself and it seems fine. Here's the link to POILOADER 2.5.2

    http://www.mediafire.com/?imz1fgijutm

    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I have to honestly say I have no idea Storm Chasers, I've never had those conditions myself....

     

    Perhaps if you were to forgo having the beep (ie just get onscreen warnings WITHOUT the ding) that might stop the tracks skipping.

     

    The easiest way to do this is to use jjreds macro with the option to have no sounds.....hope that helps.

    Advanced Nuvi Macro

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I'm thinking they could be user specified on the slice/dice form......displayed without the alert info.

     

    Small = con_small.gif or ?????

    j

     

    Ahh yes, of course I had forgotten about those icons. Although perhaps they are a little big to put on the nuvi display...especially if there are a lot of caches close together.

     

     

    I built my own, by using Paint, moving the 'box' ivcon to the top left and adding an 'M/S/R/L/U' letter below. That visually tells me the size on the map. It woudl be nice to be able to do that also for Multis etc, though I guess for those the icons would get very overloaded.

     

    Could you post them so we can see them?

    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by pilotsnipes

    Leaving your macro for jjred’s would make me feel like a traitor abandoning a lifelong friend. Your macro has VASTLY increased the usefulness of our nuvi. In fact, if it was not for your macro we would not have bought the nuvi. We can’t thank you enough for the enjoyable hours and hours of time we have spent searching for benchmarks and caches with the help of the pilotsnipes macro.

     

    --The TillaMurphs

     

    Thank you very much for the kind words, but don't stress about "leaving me" - I use jjreds myself! So if it's good enough for me to leave my own project then I think it's absolutely fine for you too!

     

    Really glad people enjoy using it. :sad:

    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I'm afraid not, although writing the gpx file is relatively simple and it's easy to give you a template for that (just open any gpx file with 2 or more caches and you'll see it's just an XML file with certain special tags that the garmin reads) unless you have some sort of database program to hold all the caches, I just can't see how you would manage this.

     

    Sorry.

    Garmin Nuvi - True Paperless Geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    WOW. WOW. WOW. Bought my wife a NUVI 200 (pink!) for Christmas. She loves it because she always gets lost in new places. Happened upon this thread last week and have been having so much fun testing out the MACROS - Pilotsnipes - THANKS!!!!

     

    Delighted it helped :(

     

    And, I DID spend a considerable amount of time working through ALL posts in this forum thread. For those of you shying away, it's WELL worth the time!

     

    There's a lesson in there somewhere alright! People who read the thread (yes I know there are a lot of pages) don't seem to have any problems when it comes to doing the whole process! :huh:

    Advanced Nuvi Macro

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    normal.jpg

    sliceanddice.jpg

     

    The first thing I notice here is the missing "Tourguide" on the second picture. Looks like there could be a filename problem when slice and dice is enable. Seeing as I personally don't use that option, I haven't had a chance to look at the code though....

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