Learned Gerbil

It is 29th on this list - 100 First Geocaches All predate GC.com IIRC. As for replacing it, it is is an open space. The original cache was buried I think. It is overlooked by nearby houses so would have limited survivability. There is a nearby cache on the same land but currently disabled.

It was a genuine cache that predated GC.com which is why the record looks incomplete.

My solution has been to give up on Cachemate (I rarely need to log 180 caches). Child Waypoints were created to make things easier, not harder. I think the function of child waypoints needs to be clarified. Either they are intended to supplement the description and are part of it, in which case GC.com should allow this info to be included in the pocket query export in the description field, or are they intended only to duplicate or clarify info in the description, in which case people should ensure the description stands alone. At the moment there appears to be a bit of a free for all, although I have chosen to do the latter as it ensures the user can choose how to use the info. The easiest and most straightforward non-techie way I have found is to follow the advice in the GSAK help files and incorporate the child waypoints as a table in the HTML export which I now use instead of Cachemate. I log caches as notes.

I thought that was probably the case. It seems completly unneceesary to me, and presumably for the programmer who ensured thre had to be a difference in the coordinates! BTW, presumably the bar needs lowering not raising!

IIRC, when I looked at your new cache page I did wonder what the extra waypoint info was for. Especially as it differs from the published coordinates, but not by enough to make much sense. If it is meant to be the same as the published position, what is the additional waypoint given for?

TomTom v6 will allow the Lat/Long input but only in WGS84 Datum. I doubt you will ever get a car SatNav that will accept OSGB as the makers will not want ot regionalise them like that and the user base for such a feature is incredbly small. Also, if the OSGB point is not on a road the SatNav won;t get yo uthere anyway. It will only navigat to the nearest road. If you really need to have OSGB navigation then TT5 or later running on a PPC using OSGPS Converter to create a TT POI for any OSGB coordinate you input. What you originaly asked for was a SatNAv that wil lget you to a coordinate given in a cache description. TTv6 will do that. TT ONE which can be upgraded free to TT6 if it is not already running it can be obtained for about £180 all in.

BTW - I am talking about TomTom v6 running on a TomTom Go. V5, the version currently available on Pocket PC does not have this ability which is where OSGPS Converter mentioned above comes in handy. TomTom are meant to be releasing TT v6 for PPC this month and it should have the same features as the GO versin, but you can be sure it will be buggy as TT initial releases always are.

You choose.

Some of us have real lives! I also was thinking of maybe next weekend, however parking there has proved impossible the last two times I have tried to bag the nearby Richmond Park caches with quese forming for parkign places. Sunny dry weekends atthis time of yearare not the best time by any means! Notwithstanding the large free car park it is a very popular area.

If you have the full address for anywhere you are staying or visiting in the UK you can type the postcode (looks something like this - W2 4RT) into the search box at www.geocaching.com to search. UK Postcodes are very specific and large buildings, or collections for 20 or so small buildings will usually have their own code.

You should specify a sub-channel or you could be drowned out by anyone else using PMR on channel 1. BTW, Channel 1 is traditionally the childrens's channel as they tend to use the first available channel and drown out anythign else. I assume the Tesco PMRs support the 37 sub channels each channel has or they will be very limited in use. I believe the designated geocaching channel is 2 according to GC.COM FAQ. The main channels 1 to 8 are for listening to all the sub channels in that channel, actual use should be done on a sub-channel.

The clostest to where I work is 348 feet, but that is one of mine. The next closest which I don't own is 0.2m, as is the one after that, the one after that and the next two after that! After five at 0.2 there are three at 0.3 etc etc - total, 37 within one mile.

Bought my GPS320 in a battered box with manual and lead for £50 at a jumble sale.

I am waiting for Geocaching+. You watch live football in the pub whilst it finds caches for you!

Last Friday I was looking for one of DP's new Number 6 caches when I found myself outside a building in the Parliamentary Estate and being overlooked by two security cameras. Working for the Government, and having seen what goes on on the other side of those cameras, I decided to beat a retreat rather than risk a one way trip to a small seaside village where everyone dresses in pastel shades!

Currently the top six threads include four games unrelated to caching and one trying to keep this forum on topic. I think that says enough about how much they clutter up the forum. BTW, this is not the only place UK cachers can discuss whatever they want to.

I live very close by, but have not been there for over 15 years - it has not improved!

MM will only work on PPCs so will not run on a dedicated GPSr. I use my PPC with MM to refer to and it lasts all day as I only use it a few minutes at a time.

I don't so much as look at the cache listing, but look at the cache in the plastic bag by my front door! My Last Find

I doubt anyone will really miss the removed feature. Oh! Now I can't close this thread!

It has been done, but as a locationless cache, it has been archived - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=14548

Having spent some time on Tuesday trying stuff all the bloody calling cards back into a regular cache, I was with Gerbil Queen today when she found a local micro - which was stuffed with specially made laminated micro calling cards! People! Why???????????

As motorway speed limits in roadworks are now frequently enforced using SPECS it is very helpful to have the most up-to-date database that is available as it is very easy to not spot the SPECS cameras on entry, and as they measure average speed, it is too late to spot the SPECS cameras on exit if you have let your speed creep up.

Pocketgps was free until the beginning of this year, but the person who keeps the database up-to-date was finding the 1000 or so amendments to the database necessary every month to keep it up-to-date had become a full-time job. The site found they needed to raise an income to fund the work or abandon the free database. I regret them having to charge, but as I reported many cameras in South London as they went up I got a free lifetime subscription from the outset.

I have an ancient Magellan 320 I bought at a jumble sale. It is very good and does the job - but having seen the SIRF III chipset at work on my TomTom One I would love to buy a device like my 320, but with the more sensative chip so I could get better fixes with no sky in view. For some reason, SIRF III appears in the cheapest sat nav devices, but only the most expensive handhelds. Before somone says "buy a PDA with SIRF III" I would like my SIRF III handheld to be as durable as my 320 - impact proof, waterproof, floating, and powered from easily obtainable AA batteries.