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I've been looking at a few aps for both products. They both appear to interface well but I’m wondering if anyone has had experience with both. I've seen many discussions about the iPhone but none about the relatively new G1, it has all the GPS, Compass, Google maps loaded and because it's open sourced I imagine it will have some pretty cool programs. What do you all think? I’m thinking about picking up one or the other and while its not the main thing I’m interested in, geocaching would be a fun thing to play with. Team-Cox

Ooops, forgot we decided on a family name for our account. Thats our Australian Sheppard.

Well yesterday my son and I went for our first day of hunting. We found two, didn’t find three, I was hoping for a little more success to keep my 11 year old interested but we had fun none the less. I know we did a few things wrong and was looking for a little advice for our next venture out. Things I did wrong: Four of the five we looked for were micros, and I know from reading the boards that you shouldn’t start with those but they are so prevalent in our area and due to limited day light we tried for them. I haven't fully learned the capacity of our GPS. We bought a Nuvi 200W (we needed one for the car and decided that we would get a hand held if we decided we like this activity). I loaded it with pilotsnipes macro and use GSAK and understand that pretty well. What I’m not sure about is the accuracy. At one of the locations the GPS pointed us to and area and there was nothing we could find so we walked back to the car, turned it off and on again and then went back. This time it took us to a location about 40 feet from the previous spot it said were the coordinates. The satellite screen on the GPS says that its 54 feet accuracy. I assume that means there is is a 54 foot radius that it could be in. Is that normal for most GPS, would I get better accuracy from a hand held? When I got home we googles the coordinates and the spot was a bout 25 feet from either of the places the GPS pointed us to. We know that well get better with experience and are just looking for a little advice on what is normal and what we should attempt to correct before going out again next weekend, and yes we well be out again. The two finds were enough to keep us coming back for more. Thanks for the advice

First of all thanks to pilotsnipes and all who have added to this forum. I am a noob who just purchased a Nuvi 200W. I loaded the macro and have had it working beautifully. I have three questions though ... 1) I drive a wide verity of areas throughout the day and do not always know where I’m going. Using the maximum 500 pocket queries I only get about a 10 X 10 square mile radius from my house (I live in a heavily populated area). If I use multiple starting spots or route planners and have each pull 500 queries I can get a much larger area to explore no matter where I wind up during the day. With that said when I transfer the zip file to GSAK will some of the caches overlap, and does that cause a problem? Does GSAK filter these to make a large cache bank that I then can transfer to my Nuvi? How many POI's can the average Nuvi hold? Ideally I would like to have a 60 mile North - South by 20 mile E – W block of caches that can be updated weekly. I believe that would be many, many, many caches. 2) I finally (thanks to you) have found the satellite screen. I was up to that point using the "where am I" screen. Are there any major benefits to using the satellite screen (All those symbols and things are way above my head)? 3) According to the users guide my Nuvi can store up to 500 waypoints. I thought that POI's were waypoints but I have already over 500 POI's plus numerous favorites that I programmed in (I believe those are waypoints). Is there a difference? Thanks for you tutelage and patience.

Thanks to you all, I contacted them and am fully upgraded, now the family is ready to get our first cache ... away we go! Thanks Team-Cox

I've been trying to upgrade my membership for the previous two days using my debit card and then two different credit cards. All of them result in an error. Does anyone know if there is a problem with the site or how I can get a hold of someone to upgrade over the phone? Thanks Team-Cox