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Crikey ! not another one were being over run Welcome to the mad house and good luck

Ok Another question along the same lines Can you make the " Custom Map" folder on an SD card and if so will the unit read the info on it. Does it need a specific directory lay out or do you just call Custom Maps? on the 200 front apparently he tried an update 2 weeks ago and there weren't any available.

But will the unit use this file when displaying maps?

Hi All I have a garmin oregon 300 which i have added OS maps to via the "Custom Map" folder, now a friend has the 200 which does not appear to have the "custom map" folder. Do any of the 200 owners out there have the folder on there units, possibly via updates, it may be that he has not updated it recently, or is the unit software that different from the 300? Just trying to help a friend out. TIA

Is Mrs B ok with this hobby of yours or do you tell her to bug off

You can add 1:25,000 map sections in 2 different ways Garmin Birdseye £19.99 for 600km2, this is done with your choice of area and quite easy to do. Or Mobile Atlas Creator, Free, But takes a bit more work, suggest watching the utube video on how to use. Quite good but more hassle to upload and get good results with though. Have a look at both.

Good choices. But no, its not worth the difference, and because you are talking $ i assume you are over the pond from me. But GPSFILE depot over there has good free maps that are either equal to or better. Best bet is to save the $100 and put it towards better maps of your area, have a look at the BIRDSEYE maps from Garmin or if available over there the garmin DISCOVERER maps.

I do like geocheckers but they can be troublesome to use sometimes, the type in box which has the jumbled letters can be a pain. So i prefer a check sum. Besides it is easier to use google maps to narrow the search field down if you are only a couple of digits from the solution.

Where did you get that idea from

While i do enjoy caching, i also do a lot of Scouting, Stargazing for navigational training and if i get the time some Horology as well as all the usual fun things

There are loads of handsome cachers in the world but i am afraid all the good ones are taken, you could try my child hood friend, but just lately he has been a bit of a slime ball GC1Q62H

The idea of placing a cache is to take cachers to a new or exciting place and to show them something that may be of interest. But this location must be safe, cachers on the hunt tend to only concentrate on the hunt itself. Someone wondering around and distracted by the hunt, and if the GPS signal is not good they may end up hunting too close to the tracks and end up in a mess! Hence the ruling and the distance guide for railways and other dangerous locations. I have found that watching the logs is better than watching for cachers, although i do keep an eye out when i am passing my caches and have caught a few. Always better to find a nice location, you will then get thanks for bringing me here logs.

Which Forum? sounds interesting

I think should be said to all the reviewers as they are all helpful and do a good job. Thanks to all

I Have a TB on my car and for the most part it gets discovered, but i do log it into events when i attend them which does get it some mileage.

My goodness what were they on, is that an ammo box

Just to get the ball rolling. Here is one a grabbed last weekend, it was not animal related so i saved it til now. This is very close to GC26H8W Mad King George Edited to try and get it to work

Meant to say you can get some cheap PDA's which can work well the MIO's seem to be favoured by a lot of cachers. However these are still quite fragile compared to dedicated handhelds and a bit more techy to use and set up.

Well from little acorns grow geocache hiding spots

The Etrex Venture HC is a good unit for caching but very limited on map capabilities, you may be able to get local maps on it but it has only 22mb of memory so they will be small and probably not have routing capabilities. See GPSfile depot of free maps. The TomTom is predominantly a satnav and there for not ideally suited to the out door environment, although some do use them for caching. In order to get something that does both you need to be looking high end.

I totally agree, however check out the auction sites what ever you get can always go back on and apart from the commission you probably wont loose out. Just to add the more you spend the easier to use can apply, which seems to be wrong, but its right.

Hi Iwould think that it all part of the puzzle! although there is a useful other conversion link: http://www.geocaching.com/wpt/?lat=50.772915&lon=0.10141&detail=1 might be worth studying

30 minutes by car seems a long way away. Unless you are in central London in rush hour in whih case it's about 100 yards. And that would not help as the timing is by google maps at the speeds for the roads not the speeds on the road

Its easy to tell when your addicted. You start driving further and further form home to find them, because all the ones close to home have been found already

HI Welcome to the obsession! I know that the GPSr thing is a minefield, its taken me a few attempts to get it right! I dont know much about the 60CSX but it does have C colour screen S sensitive antenna X expandable memory (micro sd card). All of which are good The only downside from your point of view according to the Garmin website the unit will not take the Garmin Discoverer maps but will take the Garmin Topo maps. The Garmin Topo maps are good but not as good as the discoverer. Topo Maps: Usefull and show great detail on water features but often missing paths and trails. Discoverer maps:OS 1:50,000 exactly the same as the paper versions. However as a starter GPSr this will be far better than most of us started of with, and you can get free openstreet mapping (via Talkytoaster) on this forum, these maps are good but the coverage can be patchy depending on who has submitted info in your area, but are frequently updated and are free! I use a Garmin Oregon 300 with the discoverer maps OS 1:50k and extra sections of Birdseye maps OS:1:25k and currently playing with mobile atlas creator for free sections, and this works really well for all applications caching,scouting etc etc But at the end of the day it all comes down to the justification of funds, but what you have been offered is good stuff and always ebayable when you tire of it.