Lance Ambu

Hurrah Garmin have returned my venture in full working order, screen replaced, fault fixed. No charge. I believe Garmin is a major contribution to road safety and urge everyone to run out and buy one (Shameless plug for good customer service)

What a wonderously wholesome tale, buts if ye repeat it.. well I'll av no choice but to run ye thru like a swordfish Courtesy of international "talk like a pirate day" Pirate talk, made easy

(edit) And not a moment too soon Lance Ambu speeds to the rescue arriving "out of the nick of time"(/edit) Don't know your area but try these sites to find the one best suited to you sites more sites or even here for Autoroute push pins of site locations

Good to hear of good service. I have just posted my venture away for repair, it is 2 years old and was displaying horizontal lines and the thumb click was getting tempermental. They have promised a turnaround of 10 days. Incidentally the return address postcode has changed, see below. Same address, just a different postcode. Garmin (Europe) ltd Unit 5, The Quadrangle Abbey Park Industrial Estate ROMSEY SO51 9DL I'll let you know how I get on

But seriously Most electronic maps are in adequate, except in the main city areas. Most roads have two numbers, depending on the age of your maps and the age of the sign you find. Some signs refer to miles and others to kilometers. You cannot smoke in the pubs The maximum speed limit is viewed as a minimum speed limit Seat belts must be worn in pubs If you get to any of my caches, please leave a hundred dollar bill Please feel free to remove any cache item that says I love Ireland, looks like a leprechaun or is remotely green in colour. Caps must be worn in pubs. Please try and wear bright coloured clothes, yellow trousers (pants), red shirt, that type of thing. Do not expect everything to be open on wednesday afternoon. Do not engage the elderly man at the end of the bar, with a guinness and whiskey chaser, in a conversation about his dog. Nor should you buy him a drink, unless you have no plans for tomorrow. Food can be bought in restaurants, drinking should not be confused with life giving sustenance - it is more important than that. No, we do not remember the Goldbergs from Kilarney Yes, it is very green. John Wayne, Irish accent, I don't think so. </rant>

Even more off topic Ray Mears and his survival programme tells a cautionary tale of a couple stuck in an australian desert (or is it dessert?) who didn't deflate the tyres enough and tried to walk out without sufficient water and had left their name and route details at a pub rather than with police or responsible relative. In this example the police found the jeep, deflated the tyres and drove it out, no problem. The moral was - simple when you know how. IIRC on this occassion it cost at least one life. PS Most ambulance service software is not set up to use lat long as a primary input for location, it prefers street/road name, postcodes etc The GIS can use vehicle location data from a satellite system and link from a cursor on a map to a geocoded location - it really depends on how the user screen is setup and for most 999 calls lat/long are not used. In my neck of the woods we would defer to our maritime colleagues who also co-ordinate air assets for mountain rescue.

Yep pure normality. I think the magellans do more of the averaging thing, see "boomerang effect" in GPS forum, than the etrex series. My venture can suddenly jump around as you slow down, it is good advice to lift your eyes of the little yellow fella when you get to about 3o feet and look for the cache rather than expect the GPS to be inch perfect. It all adds to lifes rich tapestry, Enjoy!

Consider it done! I have archived my own - "I can see clearly now" PS Trip booked for Galway in October, family in tow, get the easy caches topped up in preparation. And give us a bit of warning for the dates in November, I'll get the Bushmills ready

I tried it and it worked eventually. for braun, click on most wanted and then cruzer cards Check you don't have a pop up blocker enabled somewhere?

My garmin venture is having a bad day - horizontal lines fade in and out randomly on the screen. I note that other users have had vertical lines appearing. And Worse the little thumb stick, clicky thing refuses to co-operate with my thumb. Sometimes it moves the cursor and sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it clicks to accept a command and sometimes it just clicks. Is it terminal? should I bury it at the young age of 2 years?

I didn't really know you, But felt that I did. Now that you are gone, I feel the loss. Heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. Bryan

Well done on solving the Irish Question Wrong end of Ireland for me too. BUT I can't understand the swinging arrow theory . Surely the arrow will point to the incorrect co-ords. It has no way to tell which way is the intended correct way so what do swings of 90, 180, 270 mean? Please don't leave me dangling

There is too much changing of lightbulbs!! We should not change them, just accept them for what they are. Lightbulbs Against Manipulative People

I'm willing to give it go - but I can't do it this weekend, and I'm a little bit closer than Galway. email on its way to the short one

I kinda think you weren't asking about buried treasure but about who makes the decisions. You described an interpretation of buried I would submit that buried requires to be dug up - not by hand - I don't dig my garden with my hands. Brushing off soil, twigs, grass etc is uncovering not digging up. So who makes the decision? The reviewer is in a position to get information and ask for more - to enter into a dialogue with the setter and ensure they can apply relevant guidelines. So far so good. If I, as a setter, say I have buried the cache then don't approve the cache and ask for it to be unburied. If I don't mention whether it is buried or not - What do you do? Ask me to swear an affadavit that it isn't buried, I am not on holiday, that I have permission of the landowner ....? In short that I have adhered to all guidelines. I think we have had this question before, Are the jobs of cache approval and guideline (however defined) enforcer the same thing? I certainly don't want to restart that argument and I have no problem with you making an interpretation. In any contentious case I'm sure the opinions of other cachers and reviewers will inevitably be expressed.

Mid April, you say. Sure the rain will be getting warmer by then. You could do worse than ask the locals who inhabit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/geocaching_ireland/ I'm slightly biased because I live further North, but the craic will be mighty and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. I notice from the other group that an american visiter is also planning to bring/take travel bugs - make sure you don't cancel each other out.

Just noticed this in the current issue of Computer active www.geosnapper.com somewhere you could put all those co-ordinated photos that are clogging up the hard drive? The only UK input I can see was from the Merkins

"o'er land, o'er sea, o'er foam, far have I wandered" Nowhere is safe from this man!! Well done Mr BT wigger

Would that be every 29 Feb or just the Leap frogs?

Buxleys maps also shows new caches and in some cases I think it gets them before they are approved, certainley before the weekly notification. Look for the blue dots

OR If travelling north, keep the sea on your left

Ho Hum details here

Lance steps out of the shower, Oh I felt funny then, it must have been a dream. "Why don't you try photoresizer" Hmmm that seems strangely familiar

THis one seems to work well Photoresizer http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/snodspot/new_page_1.htm It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.

THis one seems to work well Photoresizer http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/snodspot/new_page_1.htm It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.