Team DeLorme

Waypoints can have 32 characters for names and 256 characters for comments as of today. We'll be rolling a firmware update out soon to expand comments to 800 characters. To answer Evshro & son, we chose 800 characters as a first pass at extended support for the geocaching details. We'll be making further improvements with each new release and hope to challenge all those multi-device cachers who carry a PDA with them when they are hiking. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks... Chip Noble Team DeLorme

Check out our XMap software. This product will allow you to register any scanned map or downloaded digital image and view it in the desktop software as well as save it for use with the Earthmate GPS PN-20. While Topo USA is just for... well, the USA... XMap will allow you to use the GPS with raster data anywhere in the world. Fire me an e-mail if you'd like more information. Here's the link to XMap. It's a professional product and has a lot of advanced features but there is a very nice upgrade price for people who have purchased the Earthmate with Topo USA... $99 for the professional version! So check out the Earthmate and PN-20 at our geocaching page: www.delorme.com/geocaching Then consider the XMap product at our professional site: www.delorme.com/xmap/pn20 The geocaching.com step could save you $250! NOTE: This low price is based on the Geocaching.com holiday special and won't last forever! So $399.95 will get you two point image registration and ability to load all the free imagery that's available through most stage GIS agencies. Send me an e-mail if you have any questions... Chip Noble Team DeLorme

The DeLorme Earthmate GPS PN-20 can do this... hold the coordinates AND the cache description. We currently support 256 characters in the waypoint comment field and will be releasing a firmware update to increase to 800 characters very soon. The info from a GPX cache description will be transferred to the device automatically when you use Topo USA 7.0. For more information visit our geocaching landing page... www.delorme.com/geocaching or send me an e-mail... Chip Noble Team DeLorme