TFTC
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Now, I told you that story so I could tell you this one. 80% of motorcycle fatalities occur under 25 mph. Be careful and ride safe.
And fast, I guess!
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I am looking for a site such as mapquest where I can punch in my lat and long and bring up a map that I can zoom in and out and print. Any suggestions?
What I do is just go to mapblast.com, search for a nearby city (just to get started) and then change the lat/long in the URL to the one I want.
(I knew that mapquest has a lat/long search too - I wasn't able to find it directly from their home page - even looking in their help - but am glad to see it still exists)
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Well that is all we need some one planting a stupid cache and we all get a black eye.
The future of this game is virtuals. I don't know why TPTB seem out of step with this.
I defend a cache owenrs right to place virtuals but to think of a world with only virtuals? Gack! I'd rather drop the entire catagory than have that happen!
I haven't really thought this through but maybe virtuals should be split out from physical caches sort of like benchmarks are. And to log a virtual, you post a picture of the gps in front of the "target". Also, re physical caches, maybe we should start recommending clear plastic cache boxes rather than metal or camo-painted ones so that any suspicious passerby (or police, ranger, etc) can see what's in it without having to open it.
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At present the 60c/s is does not have the capibilites to go paperless caching.
While waiting for the firmware changes, I believe you can use most cell phones these days to do rudimentary web browsing - if you have a pretty decent phone, maybe the geocaching.com/wap site will work for you. It doesn't for me, because I have a cheap phone
but this one does: http://rtr.ca/geo -
It switches to night/day mode based on sunset/sunrise. I was going down the road glanced at the GPSr in day mode - then noticed the beautiful sunset - glanced back down at the GPSr in night mode. Pretty Cool!
The new firmware apparently lets you pick different color schemes for night and day mode now!
You could choose color schemes with the old firmware, too...
Oh, that's odd - I only mentioned that because of this at the garmin firmware download page:
Change History
Changes made from version 3.00 to 3.10:
* Added Marine Colors option to the map setup for displaying BlueCharts similar to MapSource.
* Moved the Day/Night display mode from the map setup to the display setup. It still modifies map colors, but separate color-scheme selections have been added for day and night modes.
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Compass Page
• On the compass page display the name of the Waypoint on the top of the screen while navigating.
• Use In/Out to scroll through data fields
• Add display of coordinates
I wouldn't mind if the compass arrow showed during "follow-road" navigation, even if it pointed to the "next" "waypoint" in the route. Then we wouldn't even need to switch to "off-road", would we?
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Not tried it, but I thought MOB started navigation.
Yup, you are right - that would complicate things!
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What I want to be able to do is keep that waypoint and whenever I am at another location and I want to mark my truck, just edit it and pick current location instead of having to either type in the new location or create a new waypoint and type in truck and pick my icon and stuff.
Why not use the Man Overboard waypoint for that? I can't think of a better use for it if you spend most of your time on dry land! Just hold down the Find button and it'll create a unique waypoint called MOB for the current location.
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Or maybe a better choice would be to have separate backlight timeout settings for daylight/evening. Then you could set the backlight to "always off" during daylight hours and x minutes during evening hours.
Wow, they are real close to doing that with the 3.10 firmware. All they need to do is change "Backlight Timeout" to "Daytime Backlight Timeout" and add "Nighttime Backlight Timeout" and add a "Stay Off" option to each.
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It switches to night/day mode based on sunset/sunrise. I was going down the road glanced at the GPSr in day mode - then noticed the beautiful sunset - glanced back down at the GPSr in night mode. Pretty Cool!
The new firmware apparently lets you pick different color schemes for night and day mode now!
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I'd like to be able to interface the CS with an audio output source, so that I could have voice prompts in a car. [it's too dangerous to be reading the GPSr when alone, navigating in a car.]
I'd settle in the short term for separate beep tones for left and right turns.
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• Backlight automatically enabled after sunset (ahimsa)
I think I'd rephrase that to "Backlight automatically disabled during daylight hours"
Or maybe a better choice would be to have separate backlight timeout settings for daylight/evening. Then you could set the backlight to "always off" during daylight hours and x minutes during evening hours.
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I cannot recommend Strong Engineering. I've ordered a pack, that should suite to Garmin 60C, but it really didn't, I have to cut it, and after pasting on the display it was not readable (I've tried several times). Not worth the money....
I had the exact same experience. I couldn't imagine people actually using them.
After reading FlashMaster's post, maybe I'll give them another try.
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It's cool how the display switches to night view at night - I haven't checked yet to see if it happens at 6pm every night (that's what time it switched today) or sunset.
But one setting that would be nice would be a toggle to set the backlight to only go on automatically at night. (you could tap the power button if you need it in a dark spot during the day).
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On the Map Setup screen, you can set the Orientation to always be North Up, or you can set it to Track Up below a certain zoom level. I set mine to 8 miles. Below that, it shows in Track Up mode.
Another great suggestion! Playing around a little, I settled (for now) on the following settings:
Setup/Map/General/Orientation: Track Up
Setup/Map/General/Below: 3mi
Setup/Map/Points/User Waypoints: 1.2mi
This setup works great because the map was getting a little cluttered with geocaches when I'd zoom out (in San Diego which is a bit crowded -- even with geocaches!). <-- ok, i know! i just need to FIND them all!
It would be nice to have a simple way to filter out waypoints on the map by icon (e.g don't show geocaches when not geocaching).
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I used the same method five_user described.
Oh, thanks! That's quite a few clicks less than what I've been doing!
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I have a 60cs, MapSource w/NACS v5, USB and a WAP-capable cell phone. I use pocket queries to get nearby caches, GSAK to put them in MapSource to transfer via USB. The cache data is a bit limited, but with the cell phone I can get all that anyway. So far, so good and they all do the trick for paperless caching. There seem to be enough 60c(s)'s out now that I was wondering if there is a 60c(s) Geocaching FAQ on someone's site yet?
If not, here's my first question: Is there a smooth way to transition from "on-road" to "off-road"? I've set my Setup/Routing/Guidance method to "Prompted" so that when I do my initial "Find/Geocache", select the one I want and click "Go To", it prompts me for "Follow Road" or "Off Road" - I pick "Follow Road" to get me to the cache location. Then I do another "Find/Find", pick the cache again, select "Go To" and this time choose "Off Road" at the prompt. Is there a better way? It's too bad the compass arrow doesn't show up in "Follow Road" mode.
Thanks for any useful hints!
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Same thing with the other checkboxes to the right - it would be nice if I could just list the 20 nearest Travel Bugs.
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After you get to the resulting list of caches (nearest.aspx), then click on the Map It icon (getmaps.aspx), then click Identify and click on the map, you get 20 cache listings (or less, if any have been disabled or archived, which may be more often than not). It would be nice to have 20 caches listed after the filter is applied (disabled, archived, found).
Thanks for listening!
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We are expecting about 15 units on January 30th, and you are the 13th order on the waiting list.
Doh! I'm #11! I sure hope they do get 15!
but this one does: 
Which To Buy? 60c Or 76c?
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I notice that:
* it floats
* has dual-posiition display mode
I don't really see any disadvantages - it's a bit bigger. But for $50, you double the memory.