SergeantMajor

I have had my 60cs since they first shipped. Can say that the turn by turn symbols overlayed on the main map view are the only way I would go. As to the color, can only ditto the positive remarks I have read alreadfy. Bottom line, I recommend the 60cs to all my friends. The Geocache function is especially important to me. SergeantMajor

A lot of good discussion on this very important point. So, here is my two cents worth. 1. Driving the "game" underground because of a bad reputation on the score of permission is not what you want. It might seem fun for awhile, flaunting the Powers That Be and all but it will kill this activity eventually. 2. Ignoring the concept of permission whether explicit or generalized will in time lead to the out right banning of geocashing on all public lands. So, what is so really tough about this requirement to have or to obtain permission? Layziness, not wanting to deal with authorities, confusion in the correct procedures to follow? What is it exactly? A combination of all of the above I would guess, altruism aside. Most unfortunately, from the tally I have informally made of these posts, we are headed for a certain demise of this game/sport/hobby and that is a real shame. Might not be this year or the next, but it will happen. Want to research some of the entities pulling out, try the Federal Park Service as well as Fish and Game elsewhere in these posts. By the way, don't forget to check out wheresgeorge.com. They have modified their site due to geocaching activities pertaining to their activity. Why? What has this to do with these posts. Simply that the informal union between geocaching.com and wheresgeorge.com never reached the permission stage. No working arrangement was ever established. The result? What is always the result when you take others for granted. You receive their cold shoulder eventually. Extract from http://www.wheresgeorge.com/wrapper.php3?page=top10bills_dgc ******************************************************** Greetings Where's George?/Geocache User. The "Top 10 Geocache Bills" report has been permanently removed from this site. Due to recent events, it has come to our attention that there is a conflict between the rules of Where's George? and Geocaching.com. Apparently, Geocaching.com allows (and even encourages) friends and family to place and remove Travel Bugs from Geocaches and log each as a separate event along the way for the Travel Bug. When a family is involved, this can cause multiple events or logs of the Travel Bug in a very short period of time. While this is fine for most Travel Bugs, it presents a serious problem for Where's George? bills placed in Geocaches as Travel Bugs. The general rules of this site (available here) specifically prohibit trading or exchanging bills with friends, family or anyone known to the bill distributor. This rule is to encourage "natural circulation" of the currency, and to prevent multiple "fake hits" from happening on any bill. Afterall, the purpose of Where's George? is to track the manner in which currency naturally circulates throughout the country and the world. Allowing people to arbitrarily enter multiple hits to track that a bill was traded among a circle of friends and family defeats the entire purpose of this site. In reality, nobody really needs Where's George? to track that they traded some bills with friends/family. When it comes to Where's George? bills being used as Travel Bugs, this rule conflicts with the Geocache site which allows such exchanging and logging of Travel Bugs. Therefore, if you are going to use Where's George? bills as Travel Bugs or in any Geocache, the rules posted below now apply. In addition, it is apparent that the existence of the "Top 10 Geocache Bills" report had created competition to get the top bill listed. As it is trivial to log entries of a bill and make any bill the "Top #1 Bill", the existence of this report was causing several bills to be hit repeatedly in violation of the general rules of the site. This is not the purpose of this site, and the report has been removed to prevent the site from being abused in this manner. In the future, if this site continues to be abused for this or similar purposes, all Geocache bills will removed from this site. I do not want this to happen as there is great synergy between the sites, so please follow the rules and keep this site "Geocache Friendly". Thank you. If you have any questions or comments concerning this policy, please see the Contact Us page. **************************************** End of Excerpt Sergeant Major Mike

The electrical distribution system you mention will produce magnetic fields that could easily affect a magnetic-based compass. As to the GPS accuracy, I would surmise that the efect would be minimal. Good to always have a second source to compare to such as a 1:25000 scale geo survey map when there are doubts

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