JPD252

Help me out here. I thought paperless caching is not available yet for the PN-40. I thought it is a firmware upgrade due out in the very near future? As of right now I use my windows smartphone and an iPod for paperless caching.

After reading numerous (seemingly heated) arguments within the forums I think I'm leading towards the Delorme. Topo 7 and preinstalled maps are what is swaying me. The satellite imagery would be suited for me for fishing. I'm going to drop the oregon because of display issues that I didn't know about.

If your phone has a data plan and you can go on the internet use http://wap.geocaching.com That's what I use most of the time. I also use my ipod.

Which one would you buy and why? Garmin Oregon, Delorme PN-40 or Garmin 60CSx. I can't seem to decide between these three. Uses are mostly caching, but I will use it from time to time to hike, hunt and fish.

I searched the forums and didn't find anything like what I'm looking for. Is any of the paperless software programs out there compatible on a smart phone running Windows Mobile? I already use my iPod for PCing but I don't always have that with me. Now that I have this smart phone with a lot of memory I would like to store cache info in the phone. Has anybody tried any software on a windows phone?

Like mentioned above by somebody, if a person calls from a phase 2 cell phone our 911 center is provided with the callers coords. This will not work on most of your older cell phones. As for the police having GPS, that would depend on that department. Some have GPS built into their computers in their cars. Unless, your like my local department that still doesn't have in car computers you have to rely on hand helds. My local department does have numerous cachers within the dept. but most of them don't take a GPSr with them to work. As for the accuracy of the coords provided by cell phone carries. I am well aware of an instance where a suspect ran from police in a wooded area and lost his shoe during the chase. On this night it was in the 20's and the ground was still snow covered. The police didn't bother to chase him into the woods. About 45 mins. later he called 911 wanting to turn himself in because he was cold and his foot was getting frost bite. The problem was he didn't know where he was. 911 provided the coords to police and one of them did have a GPS and it took them right to him. Another thing, I have a Magellan Crossover. If you are in veh. nav. mode if you press the direction indicator it takes you to the compass screen. From that screen it not only tells you what street your on, it also provides the two closest cross streets and how far you are from them. It even on occasion tells you the municipality you're in, although I found this to be inaccurate at times.

Like mentioned above by somebody, if a person calls from a phase 2 cell phone our 911 center is provided with the callers coords. This will not work on most of your older cell phones. As for the police having GPS, that would depend on that department. Some have GPS built into their computers in their cars. Unless, your like my local department that still doesn't have in car computers you have to rely on hand helds. My local department does have numerous cachers within the dept. but most of them don't take a GPSr with them to work. As for the accuracy of the coords provided by cell phone carries. I am well aware of an instance where a suspect ran from police in a wooded area and lost his shoe during the chase. On this night it was in the 20's and the ground was still snow covered. The police didn't bother to chase him into the woods. About 45 mins. later he called 911 wanting to turn himself in because he was cold and his foot was getting frost bite. The problem was he didn't know where he was. 911 provided the coords to police and one of them did have a GPS and it took them right to him.

Actually what I use is a program called cachemagnet. I get a pocket query from Geocaching.com once a week. I load this file into Cachemagnet. This program has a button to "create report" I first gives you all the cache names and waypoints Then it provides the description of the cache on following pages. When I print out the report, in my print options I set the printer to print 2 to 1. So 2 pages are on one sheets. Also this program will load the same info into an iPod. which I also do. I leave the paper in my vehicle to read between caches and use the iPod while bushwacking. I just upgraded to a smartphone. I have been looking for software for it but can't seem to find any. It runs on Windows Mobile. But I also just found the site wap.geocaching.com. So I really don't need anything else.

Couldn't have said it better. As for the bear spray. Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe bear spray and OC spray (that law enforcement carries) are two different things? I know there is some OC in the "bear spray" but I do believe that Oleorsesin capsicum doesn't effect animals the same way and in some ways is totally ineffective. From what I have read and I don't rememer where but isn't sprays produced for animals targeted to rapidly dilate the capillaries in their eyes causing temporary blindness and to disrupt respiration? As for effectiveness, I personally was ceritified on OC spray in a class with 32 other people. We were told that OC spray does not effect 5% of the population. There were two people in my class, myself included that OC had no effect what so ever on. While others were coughing and gagging and had snot running everywhere the two of us just sat there. I also have seen people after being sprayed still continue what ever they were doing before except they did complain about burning or their nose running but it didn't stop them. In short carry what ever floats your boat......as long as it is legal. Why not carry a stick, spray and a gun? Personally, I never leave the house without the latter.

I am a LEO, and geocacher, in a rural county in Ohio. Copper theft is not a "bonehead excuse." We have a large amount of that around here, and yes, they will take it off a live pole!! I'm sure copper theft is a real problem in your area. It may be in the Dallas area but how much copper can one get out of live 50KV 4 ton transformer before it knocks a thief into orbit? The other laughable thought was the notion I was going to get a transformer that weighed twice as much as my Honda into my Honda. My point is the police in this area use the copper theft excuse and you looked suspicious for stops even if you are standing a parking lot or driving down the road not even in a park. Really how much copper can one get in a Honda for petes sake? I'm sure I'd rather talk with the Ohio police rather than the rude police I've met in my area. My favorite police quote was from the Coppell police explaining a resident had seen us standing under a lamp post a night in a dark park. Cracked me up. Maybe he meant the rest of the park was dark not under the lamp post? Just be truthful when approached by police. Most have heard of Geocaching, know somebody that does cache or does it themselves. If not, enlighten them. And as stated above copper theft is a nationwide problem. People will remove copper wire not a 50KV 4 ton transformer while live. A few of the more intelligence lacking thieves have even died while climbing the pole with their saws. And you say about being suspicious standing by a lamp post. The theft of actual light poles are a problem also. Just read this acrticle for instance. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/national/25metal.html Just to show how bad copper theft is, read this article. I'm from a city no where near the size of Dallas and look how much value of the copper these people took. http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/loca..._275214858.html As for looking for any reason to stop you...maybe you're in a high crime area, maybe the parking lot you hang in has a lot of vehicles broken into. I'm sure there are various reasons for the police in you specific area to be aggressive but that's their job.

Nevermind. I created my .GPX file again. It started to work. It was loading and then stopped. Cachemagnet then told me that I exceeded the maximum number of note files for iPod-1000 files. It warns me then to use fewer caches and that each cache uses multiple lines.

Ok here is a problem I didn't see mentioned before. When I click on send to iPod, it started to load. But then it suddenly stops. The Send Waypoints windows reads: Gathering Waypoints Could not send waypoints to iPod An entry with the same key already exists. Done. Suggestions? Note I did have a previous pocket query on the iPod. There was 100 entries and I did another query with 300. This is when the problem started. Did I run out of allocated space?