Threefoot

I use iPhone 4. But that is no option to use it in caching. It flattens the battery quite quickly. I make SD memory cards with about 10 000 caches and a OSM map covering that area. Just change as the trip goes along. Its easy and works fine. I just want a simple way to gather the caches. And to me a MegaPQ is the answer.

True, but I want to do something else than computing while abroad. Geocaching is is icing on the cake and can´t take all the time. My party is not too excited about it.

Maybe a better answer is a smartphone with an app. Then you can get the info on the fly. Out of question. Here we have to turn off data roaming when abroad. Otherwise we can look forward to bills of several thousands of dollars. Yes its crazy but this is the way free enterprise works over here among telephone companies. At home in Sweden I have a flat rate for surfing on the net by my cell phone.

I´m planning holidays in central europe and have to cover large areas. I have to make numerous PQs. Five a day takes some time to cover a whole country even if I only stick to traditionals. And yes, they are out of date when I use them, some cache data can be more than two months old. But that is still better than no caches at all. A Mega PQ would solve this problem.

The number of geocaches constantly grows and so do GPSr ability too hold them. Gpsmap 64 can hold 250 000 of them! Takes a while with 5 PQ a day to fill it. I suggest MegaPQ´s. A ready made file containing all caches in a defined area. Could be up to a whole country. Maybe up to 50 000 caches. Just click from a map which area you like and the file downloads. Files updated twice a day. You get a raw file to process on your own computer in a program like GSAK. Or Groundspeak could develop a simple sifter like the PQ form. This would ease the strain on creating ordinary PQ´s.

Thank you! No use to reinvent the wheel.

With regular irregularity I visit different areas scattered all over the country. In some cases I have chance to log one or two caches. These areas are not large enough and to many in number to justify several PQ:s. But I want to have them automatically updated. I would like a kind of PQ with handpicked caches. Instead of “send to GPS” I would like a button “add to basket” where my requested caches are collected. They are then processed like an ordinary PQ and mailed as usual. Is this idea something for other fellows cachers?