pprass

Is there a connection problem between Vantage Point and Geocaching.com? When I click on the Geocaching icon (in the Partners section of the tool bar) and then click on "Pocket Queries", or "Create Filter" or "Geocaching Live" or "My Account" - I get this message "An error occurred during connecting to the Geocaching.com server" I can click on the first item - "Publish logs from my GPS.." and that works fine. I am using Windows 7. Thanks for any advice Peter

I can spit about 1.5 metres - is it that how far you mean?

No - I am using eneloop recharchables and the way I am going through a charge, I don'tthink they stop discharging when I am connected to the PC!

I am pretty sure that it is a standard mini-usb. Looks like the same cable that I plug into my TomTom.

No not really. I can download caches direct from the GC site using "Send to My GPS" and it works ok - pictures are there. Others who are having a similar problem can download a pocket query direct into VantagePoint and then onto the GPS and can see the pictures (most of the time - some just don't appear?) We just can't download a Pocket Query through GSAK and then onto the GPS or onto VP and then onto the GPS. I have set out the problem on the GSAK Forum and have had a few suggestions, but nothing so far is working. I use GSAK for all of my cache management, so don't really want to use VP as well. In the meantime - if I need the image for my caching, I just need to plan for that and download the individual cache from the GC site. Unfortunately what happens in that instance is that it appears twice on my list of Geocaches and I have to decide which one has the image - no big deal I guess - just something else to remember. Gosh - with 3 maps to load and about 95mb of geocaching details, my 610 takes about 1 min and 15 sec to boot up. But when it does it immediately has a satellite lock - even indoors!

The Lowrance Endura Safari for as low as USD250 would be a good unit to look at.

No it doesn't. The only new series eXplorist units that have an electronic 3 axis compass are the 610 and 710. I find it an invaluable tool and "can't" cache without it!

Same here! I used Internet Explorer this time and the plug-in was listed (couldn't see it before) and easily downloaded. The caches then downloaded straight away. I then went back to Mozilla Firefox and it works fine? So now that that little glitch is out of the way (don't think we really fixed any thing there though) and I am onto the next one! I can no longer read the GPX files that I create out of GSAK. Originally I created a GPX file of around 4,500 caches. Loaded it up and there on the GPS screen were all of the caches listed - just marvelous. However the next time I switched the machine on they had gone. I could see the Top 1,000 USA caches that came with the unit, but not my caches. I also could see the GPX file in the "Geocaching" folder of the unit. I created another file - downloaded it a few times - worked once, but then gone again. The distributor here suggested that I try creating a GPX file from VantagePoint to see if that works - and guess what it does! So creating a GPX file from GSAK, loading it onto VantagePoint and then loading it from VantagePoint onto the GPS works. However from GSAK direct to he GPS doesn't? I have left a message on the GSAK forum to see if anyone else has the same issue or if Clyde can help. Anyone here have the same problem?

G'day Edison.Starfire - interesting that you can't download using Magellan Communicator either. I am using Mozilla Firefox V 3.6.12. I'll try with Internet Explorer tonight and see if there is any difference. Thanks

Changed post to can't load caches from Geocaching.com. I downloaded Magellan Communicator, but I get a message that I need to download a Plug-in? Don't know which one though? any ideas? Also the manual states that if the "Download" and "Check Device" buttons are greyed in the "Send to GPS" box (which they are), then I need to run Active X. However I know what that is?

G'day all, Just received my eXplorist 610 yesterday and I was told by our distributor (Next Destination) that I was the very first to be issued with a 610 in Australia! Not sure if that is a good or bad thing Time will tell I suppose. After playing with it for a few minutes I was getting more and more confused as to how it worked (I had a 600 which was pretty simple compared to this unit). I couldn't even get it to stay on the street zoom level that I wanted - kept zooming out to the whole of the Asia/Pacific region, just in case I wanted to know where we live in relation to Africa I switched off "Auto Zoom" and I think that fixed that. I was then confounded with the most simple of functions. After selecting a cache or a WPT, how the heck do you cancel it? In the 600 there was a simple selection in the "GoTo" screen called "Cancel GOTO" After a lot of screen tapping (the manual doesn't mention a word about it) I discovered that you have to "Cancel the Route" Now I ignored that for a while because I didn't set up a "Route", but I guess if I had the Routing map installed (an extra $149) then when you select any WPT - you automatically create a route. After getting over some simple hurdles like that (which look pretty big at the time - let me tell you!) I started to really enjoy this unit. Loved how I can select a geocache and quickly zoom in onthe map to seewhere it is and tap on the surrounding features to quickly pick up names of roads, mountains, facilities etc. However not so pleased that when you select a geocache after looking at it on the map, unless you zoom right in - the zoom remains at the high level that you originally looked at it. Another issue I am dealing with is how to cancel a "geocache route" without accidentally tapping the "Found It" button. When you tap on the bottom RHS Menu button the Options screen comes up. Then to scroll down to "Cancel Route" you put your thumb on the bottom of the screen to drag it up - and guess where the "Found" it button is I suddenly realised that I had found half a dozen caches and I hadn't even moved from my desk I need to practice that "window drag " maneuver before I don't have any more caches to do. I love how I can load up all of my state's caches - however I originally loaded all of my unfound caches - about 5,500 and just was amazed at the detail - although I wish the Child WPTS wereon the same file and that we could import the images as well - makes some multis and puzzles a little easier to do when you can see the instructions if they are in image form. I then loaded "all" of the state's caches and thought that I could filter out all of my found caches on the unit - but I am not sure what is going on there - there maybe a distance parameter for "nearest to" because I can't see any caches "unfound" on the screen. Anyway - this is just my first impressions and I am loving other aspects of the unit and will get the hang of it in a few days or so. For instance it is so cool to have the compass superimposed on the map screen. But the compass is different from the 600 which had a large indicator highlighted in red showing the direction of the cache. Again I guess I will get used to the tiny red arrow head on the 610. One other issue - I wish I could alter the size of the position indicator arrow. It is way too big and hides too much detail at certain zoom levels - like the cache! However - because of the very quick ability to zoom in and out I am getting used to it. I now need to work out how to add WPT's for multis and one last thing - actually go and find a cache! Hope to visit this thread regularly to see what others are thinking and if there are any tips that may improve my enjoyment of this unit. Thanks all.

I have loaded Vantagepoint 1.52 onto my new Azuz Eee PC 901 running Windows XP and was hoping that I could then connect my eXplorist 600 and run moving map. However when I select "NMEA" on the Communication screen of the GPS & then select Data Comm, V2.1 GSA - nothing happens. With my previous laptop running MapSend Lite I would get a communication straight away - or at least it would say that it was looking for a Com Port. Am I using the correct Data Comm or maybe the Azuz needs some configuring to recognise the GPS? Anyone have any ideas please? Peter

Thanks Ricstone and vagabond - I looked there and didn't notice a "Delete All" button. Do you have to highlight the geocaches before that button appears? SkellyCA - looks like you can delete the file (or the contents ofthe file in any case)

I have been using Mapsend Lite upto now and could very easily create a file from GSAK to upload into MS Lite - an automatic process as there is a button on GSAK to create a MapSend .wpt (I think) file. After viewing the caches in Mapsend Lite I could then remove them all by using the "Clear All" button, or just by shutting down the program - the geocaching files would disappear when I re-opened the program. I could then go back to GSAK and create a new file after receiving my new Pocket Query and load that up and view the new file - and so on. With VantagePoint, I have learnt to create a gpx file from GSAK and import that into VantagePoint. But then the wheels fall off! How do I delete the file so that when I want to update it with a new file it doesn't just add to the old file? When I close down the program and reopen it all of the geocaches from the previous gpx file are still there (not a bad thing in some cases as it saves you having to reload the file- as long as that is the file you want to view) and then when I try to import an updated gpx file it goes through this edit routine to ask you what do you want to do with file names that are already there - to which I say "Skip". So I end up with a file of caches that include the new ones, but also include the ones that I have found - which I don't want to see. So my question is - How do you easily delete the gpx file in VantagePoint - or is it set up so that you just continually add to what you have already loaded in the VP? (must get to a huge file after a while!) What I tried doing was to highlight all of the caches in the Geocaching list and deleted them and then imported the new file of unfound caches - a very cumbersome method. Hope someone can understand this and give me some ideas. Thanks for any assistance. Peter (pprass)