Cherokeecacher
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Maybe its Jeremy in drag.
Dang Brian, now I just spit Dr Pepper all over my keyboard, and that carbonation burns like heck in your nose too.
My side hurts
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YUP, what he said.
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Thanks all.
Well I have an old copy of MS Streets & Trips(2000) that came bundled with MS Works Suite and you MUST HAVE THE CD in the drive for the stupid thing to run. <snip>.....
I have been running S&T 2004 from my HD for 6 months without any problems. This must be something Billy boy changed after your 2000 version
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The Selector has been wildly popular. Feel free to use these attributes on the web site.
Good gosh folks...this is not a new concept, just a "new addition" to gc.com. Why all the excitement all of a sudden? It has been around for a while.
Thanks for your vision 9key
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In the example you give, the cache owner has decided to make it an offset, which should be listed as a Multi.
Now I completely understand “why” the cache owner has set it up this way, no signal requires it in this case, but it should still be listed as a multi so people will understand that there is more to it than loading to cords and finding it.
“My understanding” of a traditional cache.
Absolutely no additional navigating, projecting, measuring, puzzle or riddle solving, is involved. To over simplify it, no additional thinking required. Just load the posted coordinates into the GPS, follow the GPS, look for a perfect pile of twigs and sign the log
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So, what if a cache is hidden under heavy tree cover where GPS signal sucks, and so the posted location is given for a stump in a clearing nearby and simple directions are provided from the stump to the cache as "go 50 meters bearing 128 degrees true from the stump"? Yes, this is an offset. Frankly, it is an offset that is easier to locate than many caches without an offset, but lousy GPS signal. Would this get listed as a multi, a puzzle, or a regular cache?
It is clearly NOT a Traditional cache, the cache will not be found at posted coords. I understand your question, and reasoning, and am not sure what the correct "label” should be, but I can tell that it is not a traditional.
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This is an example of what Geek is talking about. The description is from an actual cache that is listed as a Traditional.
The above coordinates are not the cache location. No boat is required as cache is on dry land. Look for a coffee jar. All calculations are spherical. Hints gives coordinatesThe skipper of the Schooner 5 sets sail from the above coordinates on a course of 60 degrees true making 10 knots. The crew informed the skipper that a ship bearing the Jolly Roger had been spotted in the distance astern. After 15 minutes of sailing the skipper marks his DR position on his chart as well as a LOP of Everbright lighthouse (N30° 01.017 W95° 22.694), bearing 3 degrees true from his current position. The skipper is confident that the Schooner 5 will not be overtaken. However, he decides to throw his cache overboard to be retrieved at a later time. After the Schooner 5 had sailed an additional 30 minutes, the skipper signals his crew to throw the cache overboard. The skipper marked his second DR position on his chart as well as a second LOP of Everbright lighthouse, bearing 261 degrees true from his current position.
Did the captain ever return for this watery cache? Does it await the FTF that plots the correct course and drags it up from the shallows?
The point of geeks post, I think, is to raise the cache owner’s awareness of how they classify their caches. If the cache is not at the listed coordinates, for ANY reason, it is not, and should not be listed as, a traditional cache.
This topic really is that cut and dry.
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It is all great, as always, but I especially enjoyed reading the story on GEMA. It reminded me again why Michelle and I think this is an awesome community
EDITED for spelling
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A GPX file imported into GSAK will give you all the information you need, and this program will allow you to upload/download waypoints to/from your GPS, it will also allow you to export a waypoint list into many other type of file formats for use/plotting in MS Streets and Trips.
You do not nee to worry about the mobipocket stuff
GSAK, one program, will do the job. You will be able to use almost any mapping program on your laptop, but MS S&T is what I use on my laptop, and for about $25.00 at Sam's Club, it is one of the most economical options too.
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You may get a faster reply by joining this e-mail group and (or) posting your question onthe Central Texas area of Texas Geocaching, which can be found by clicking on the link in my signature of this post.
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I suggest GSAK and a Premium Membership. The "membership" to GC.com will allow you to download "Pocket Quwries", which will give you all the information you need(cache coordinates, cache description, and the last 5 logs on the cache page.
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Anyone gonna buy the professional version?
If they do, I want to be their friend.
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so then, when I unzip the file and add it to GSAK, the logs and things all get updated? then when I sync my palm those get updated too?
YUP. It is a good idea to do just that, bacause it can, eventualy, keep you for looking for a cache that may have been "closed" since you ran the PQ a few weeks ago. ( search this forum for "stale data")
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I tried really hard to find something I could jerry rig. No luck :-(
Im probably going to just purchase the one that I can suction cup to the windshield. I have a Ford Ranger and Ive just been wedging it between the windshield and the dash :-). Its great until you take a turn or hit a good bump LOL!
make sure your windows are rolled up
do not ask why I am saying this 
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You might try posting a plea in the regional forums, also check for a local Geocaching organization website. Some kind soul(s) may offer to loan their units for the day. The down side of this is the possibility of 10 different units, 10 different instructions, and 10 different owners to return them to.
Just an idea...I did not claim it was a good one
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Thanks for the great recap. Michelle and I were just up that way this past summer. Cades Cove was absolutely gorgeous. I have a very dear friend that lives in Knoxville and she took us there. We did stop and hike into the falls. Man it was great and we were lucky enough to get some great photos too. We plan on returning early summer 2005
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I just got the meridian gold as well, and I am very pleased with it. Anyone have any idea why they include a wrist strap in the box with the gps, considering there is no place to attach it to on the gps? Also which of the different map sofwares that you can buy for it seem to be the most useful? (I too live in Texas and would love to have more detailed maps)
Thanks!
Once again I have the pleasure of welcoming a new Texas cacher to the madness.
Twice in one day, and in the same thread even. Wow, with all these new cachers, we are going to need a bigger state to handle all the caches. 1) The wrist strap is designed (poorly) to attach to the back of the unit. You should find a small screw that will fit the threads on the back. Yup, that is really the place they want you to attach the wrist strap...I did say poorly didn't I?
2) Mapping software is a personal preference. Kind of like cars and sports teams. LOL
Look at my first post in this thread and you will find some cool resources and add
yahoo Group - CentralTexasGeocachers · Central Texas Geocachers
And click on over to Texas Geocaching and join us for some fun
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<snip>......If you know the way around it, I'd love to share that secret with you.
Go to the Yahoo - Magellan_Meridian · Magellan Meridian GPS group, and download the FAQ, look near the bottom of page 9, and this should help
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Cool, we will be looking for it
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I did not like Topo from the screen shots I've seen and read from people who use it that it is not that great. I use a 256 MB SD (with reader/writer) card with mine but you can indeed only load a map of 64Mb, which is already a pretty large area. For a large region (like Texas) you just need to design the zones on your software, slightly overlap them and download them one after the other. It works fine except that it takes for ever to compute the map and load it, but that's maybe because of my old P3 500Mhz computer. The only bad point is that you can't travel though the different maps you have loaded. Once you arrive at the border of a map, you need to select the next one to continue (in the database menu of the GPSr), but we are talking several hundreds of miles zones so it is not that bad.
The 64mb restriction is not accurate, you can read the FAQ and see how to blow it away.
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Welcome to the wacky worlds of Caching in Texas.
Because of the way that the mapping software is set up, you will not be able to load just Texas. There will be some “bleed over” into neighboring states.
The Magellan FAQ covers the “how to” of downloading larger map regions by using a SD card reader/writer and renaming the files as you download. One negative of loading a LARGE region of any map, is slower refresh rates on the GPSr.
Here are a couple resources for you.
Robert Lipe's collection of GPS-related technology pages.
Yahoo Magellan-Meridian user group
Yahoo Group; SATXgeocachers · San Antonio, TX Geocaching
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Welcome to the addiction
Click on the link in my sig line, and post this again in the Centex Forum. The Austin area cachers are a great group of folks, and are always more than happy to help out a "new cacher".
do not ask why I am saying this 
Click on the link in my sig line, and post this again in the Centex Forum. The Austin area cachers are a great group of folks, and are always more than happy to help out a "new cacher".
Where Have All The Yjtb's Gone?
in Trackables
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I cannot speak for everyone but some cachers may be holding these “virgin” YJTB’s to be used as FTF prizes after they have been forgotten. I do not know for sure that this is happening, but it is possible.
Michelle and I were shipped 20 YJTB’s to circulate around Southeast Texas and I can assure you we handed all of them out at an event specifically for this purpose, well except for the one we held for Snoogans because he was playing around in California when we had the event, but the other 19 were all passed out as “virgin” YJTB’s and it was up to the “winner” of them to “grab” them from the “owner” and start them on their way. The reason we decided to do it this was simple, we did not FIND the 20 YJTB’s, they were mailed to us from GS, had we “grabbed” them from the “owner” our stats would show that we found 20 of them.