Tharagleb

I am wondering if anyone has other minor annoyances (not bugs) that they would like to add to my list.

Thanks to all for the comments. Very helpful.

Thank you Eartha!

I remember cancelling my AOL account many years ago. You could not do it online, they claimed that was a security feature (my butt). Then when you called they just argued with you about cancelling but if you persisted it worked. Probably best to tell them you are going to prison and will have no income.

We had a rest area in our area that was developing quite a reputation for this. Then one day, the State Patrol decided that they needed a new place to put their new local headquarters. Rather than finding or building an expensive office downtown, they built an office in an unused corner of the rest area in question. Solved that problem immediatly. Funny, I just heard on the radio a day or two ago that the Vermont State Police were putting offices in two rest areas on I-89.

Coins routinely cut the envelopes they are in and get lost. It happens from the coins jostling around in the envelopes. The good money is that this is what happened, not somebody stealing it.

Now you can find McDonald's restaraunts on both coasts at once!

Umm because you said........ I could have meant it was already easy but I wanted it to be easier. I did not use the word "hard". The fact is I just don't like the way it works although I am not sure how I would change it.

I find road maps useless in the woods. It is not for the map data itself (although Topo maps are usefull), it is to see where you have gone to plan the best route to your destination (not just a straight line). You can see the contour of the trail you are on to see if it looks like it will go to the cache. I will keep that in mind. I do use the map page to back-track to the trail and/or my car. So far my experience with topo maps has been that they never have the trail I am on. I guess when I am more experienced with them the contours will be helpful. (I can read the contours but I don't get that much out of them.) I use the compass in the woods to try and determine the correct trail to take, it works about 30% of the time so I guess flipping a coin would be better.

How could you possibly know it was stolen? You can know that it was mailed and didn't arrive, but that is about it.

Mine usually reroutes automatically fine. I have had to force it once or twice. I have mine set up to not do U-turns. If you have it on U-turns it just keeps asking you to U-turn and go back the way it wants you to go. Once when I missed a turn (with U-turns off) it had me go into a sub-division, go around the block and come back out then head back the way I came. (A fake u-turn).

I use the Delete By Symbol option to delete the Geocaches and Geocaches Found from my GPSr. Anything I want to keep on the GPSr, like my Home or the final waypoint to a Multi-cache I didn't get to finish, get a different icon. That way they stay on the GPSr all the time. Okay I will have to play with changing the symbols. Thanks. [is there a Heart symbol?]

Gee, thanks for that. Any more obvious observations? My Etrex Legend (which fits in the same mount) does NOT have this problem. It is a hand-held also. I find road maps useless in the woods. Not sure why you think I think that is hard.

Thanks. I do have it set up to prompt. That is not the problem. The main problem is forgetting and leaving it doing on-road routing.

Great, thanks. I was hoping I was wrong on at least one of these. So i can mark this one as "very, very minor" now.

Norman?

There a just a couple of things that annoy me: The dashboard mount: You have to put the clip on the GPS, plug in the power, attach the whole thing to the mount. You need to reverse the process to get the GPS out. You can't just mount the GPS to the dash and then add the power because the cord goes on top of the clip. When you route "off road" it goes to the map. I think it should go to the compass page, at least as an option. Need an easier way to switch to "off road". It would be nice if it tried to figure this out by itself. Lots of times I have searched for caches with it still doing road routing. This doesn't work There is no way to mark a geocache as "unfound" once you find it. It is easy to push the wrong button and mark a cache as found. The calendar does not include the time you found the cache. This would be useful for reconstructing a day's worth of caching. If you have topo and CN loaded then when you find nearest cities they are all listed twice. Even if you have the topo maps turned off. Not an annoyance but I wish it had a "Favorites" waypoint feature so that I could always have my home coords, work coords etc. They could have then have an option to delete all waypoints except favorites.

All you would have to do is log an SBA. That would get the owner's and reviewer's attention. Even a needs maintenance log might have worked. I agree that the problem is not the cache, are we supposed to stop placing caches in rest areas because somebody decides to use it for illegal activities. How about a cache attribute for pickle parks?

THAT'S why this is all so familiar.. and disjointed.

You could still use AOL's dial-up to access a gmail account via your web browser.

Somebody probably already said this but AOL just messed this up. Gmail has all the "spam" going to a spam folder. Then I have the option of whitelisting a sender by choosing "not spam" on the message. With AOL's implementation you never have any options because the blacklist they whole domain. BTW, email me for gmail invites if needed. [Edit: I am totally incapable of doing a single post, no matter how short, without a typo.]

It takes about 10 seconds to do this and another 10 to double check your numbers. For a touch-typist, perhaps. Takes us mortals considerably longer. I usually have the coordinates in a text file somewhere, and copy-and-paste the pieces into the 4 input boxes. I've timed it, and it takes about 30 seconds, which is about 25 seconds longer than it would for a good user interface. <sacrcasm> You can upload coordinates to the site using a GPX file? I was not aware of that! </sarcasm> I have offered the very flexible coordinate-parsing code from Geocalc to TPTB a couple of times, but have never received a response. Reading free-form coordinates is really not that hard. Unfortunately, nobody else seems to care that coordinate entry is so awkward and error-prone, so it's unlikely that the input pages will ever be fixed. It's one reason that I don't use the "additional waypoints" feature of the site very much; and it's one of the reasons I find the various coordinate-checking sites all but useless. I was referring to this, keep your sarcasm to yourself The *real* problem is people won't even take the time to map their new caches and see if they put them in the ocean or on top of a house.

The 60CSx does indeed come with a belt clip. It works very well.

Why bother, it is only going to fire off once.

Here is a link Seems kinda hard to do without a calculator.