[Can I Put This In A Cache?]

An empty flask! Now thats just one cruel joke.

 

It must be empty, otherwise the ants and other bugs that find it first might not find their nest again.......

[Gps On The Road]

There is an interesting topic in one of the other forums going on about having a GPS in a vehicle's window when travelling.

 

This is mostly regarding laws etc in the USA.

 

I often travel with my Venture on the car's dashboard and have long been wondering what the traffic laws stipulate here in sunny Soth Africa. Luckily the GPS is mounted on a bean bag type of mount from Garmin so it is easy to simply put it on the passenger seat. Use of a GPS per se should not be a problem as there are vehicles with GPS built in.

 

My concern is rather about having something on the dashboard. Any one out there that can shed a bit of light on this one?

 

PS: The Garmin Dashmount, although VERY expensive, is surprisingly stable when put on the dashboard. You will really need to be in an accident to move it. It stays put!

[Profile Photo]

You need to select one of them and also don't forget to enter your password before submitting your changes. Then log out of Geocaching.com and the forums, then log back it to both and it should show up.

 

And don't forget to click on the Submit Button. As I did...........

 

Once I did that everything was in place.

[City Locations?]

In towns, it's either the town square, courthouse, or post office.

 

Hi

I probably hail from the other side of the globe, but here it was always understood, in the pre-GPS days, that milestones started counting from the post office or such.

 

The question raised here led me to check the City Database of my Garmin eTrex Venture for my town's co-ords.

 

Result: It is OUTSIDE the town borders with no building or street in sight!

 

So, I checked two adjacent towns. Same result with one of them. The other one is in town, but not near any of the accepted landmarks.

 

So, back to square one......

 

Metro

[Virtual Cache Disallowed]

I like virtuals. I prefer the gps part of caching more than the crawling around sifting through leaves part. I like history, I like interesting places. I'm satisfied when I get to some odd place I've never seen before more than I am trading a toy car for a whistle.

 

I'm new to this and unfortunately came into this game too late. I wish new virtuals were allowed. Then the seeker would still have the option to not look for the virtuals if they didn't want too.

 

Hi

During June 2003 I had a lenghty battle to get two out three Virts approved. After explaining my reasons to the (dis)approver in detail it was promptly approved and to this day I am grateful to him as I get only positive feedback from cachers. Local as well as overseas visitors.

 

With reference to the above quote I wholeheartedly agree. Pardon me if I perhaps repeat myself, as I might have mentioned it in another post, but not everybody is physcially able to "crawl around sifting through leaves....." . Denying virts will also deny these people access to the game.

 

That said, I agree that there should be proper/reasonable "rules" in place to prevent a horde of virts placed indiscriminately.

 

Due to various reasons I've been unable to actively participate in geocaching lately, but hope to be able to rectify this in the months to come.

 

Thanks for the views in these forums - it does tend to give a (sort of) balanced perspective to a topic.

[Gentlemen Prefer Virts. Or Do They?]

Virtual at Scheduled Ancient Monuments / World Heritage Areas / Sites of Special Scientific Interest

 

It doesn't matter if the location is urban or rural but physicals have to be in quiet locations.

 

Virtuals definitely have a place as it will take visitors to places that they otherwise might have missed. Should be worthwhile though and not simply put on the site to get a virt listed.

 

One should also bear in mind that not all geocachers are physcillay able to crawl around in the bush to find something. Denying the creation of virts will deny a lot of people the enjoyment of geocaching.

 

That said, to answer the original question: Yes I prefer the Virt if it is worthwhile and pointing out some interesting history/whatever that might have been by-passed because it is not normally listed in a brochure of the area.

[New GPS Satellite]

Thanks mtn-man, I read the article quickly and you could be right. The transmission power of the sats were a bit weak and perhaps they're upgrading it.

 

Metro Nomad

[New GPS Satellite]

Dave

 

I agree with you, hence the question raised above. The first line of the above-mentioned article reads:

 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A rocket lifted off early Sunday, carrying into orbit a satellite designed to increase the accuracy of Global Positioning System signals for both military and civilian users.

 

If this satellite isn't in my GPS' line of sight, I fail to see how it can improve my accuracy at that particular point in time.

 

Metro Nomad

[New GPS Satellite]

Thanks for pointing the way to this site, but a question does arise.

At one stage I know that there were at least 21 sats in orbit and to get a fairly accurate fix you needed at least 4 of them lined up properly.

 

How will one new sat improve accuracy? Or am I missing something somewhere?

Anyone out there care to comment?

 

Thanks

 

Metro Nomad

[City Select South Africa]

Another 2c worth of comment!

 

I recently acquired version two of the Garmap product which now boasts with more than 160 detailed towns/cities. Accuracy of the maps are claimed to very good and this is borne out by my own experiments.

I use an eTrex Venture and found that the recorded tracks correspondes extremely well with the actual streets, rural roads, highways etc.

 

Map detail for towns/cities also seems to very extensive.

 

At R990-00 it is still under R1000-00, but only just.

 

Metro Nomad