Sue and Bernie
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My Palm IIIxe cost 17 Euros via eBay (about £11).
I originally bought it to use with the excellent GSAK/Cachemate combo to provide a great paperless solution for geocaching. With it, we are always "armed" with an up-to-date list for whatever area we are visiting.
Now the thing taken over the organisation of my life! It has relieved me of having to remember all the time / phone no / address / birthday / MOT / insurance / meetings / whatever functions. It has become an extremely useful and valued gadget that just slips into your pocket. I wish I'd had one years ago.
...Oh! and you can play games like Scrabble on it, beaming the game back and forth between a pair of you. Brilliant on your holiday flights, no loose bits falling irretrievably to the floor.
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Nah!
The "yellow" etrex does not show maps of any sort - it has not got any internal memory into which to load Mapsource data. The yellow (base model) will show relative position and a "snail-trail" track as you move towards a displayed waypoint but there will be no detail on its low resolution, monochrome screen. It also has a compass pointer screen to indicate range and bearing to the waypoint. See the range here.
To get mapping, you have to get a unit with internal memory to accomodate the data. I know that the Legend (8 MB) and Vista (24 MB) do, I believe some of the others in the range have lesser internal memory. You will also need Garmin's Mapsource disc and a data transfer cable to go between the unit and a PC with the Mapsource program installed.
Further up the scale, there are other units with colour screens, autorouting and other facilities.
Note: Garmin hardware will only run Garmin software - No TomTom, MM or other stuff.
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You have been assimilated by the Borg!
Your resistance was futile!
...or are you a Cyberman?
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Ah!
Having read the "Help" in MM, you have to design the icons then "add" them to MM.
Then you can get GSAK to point to the appropriate custom icon....still reading up on this.
Any chance of posting up or sending me a copy of the icons you have already drawn up to save me having to repeat your fine efforts...
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Neat!
Now spill the beans and explain how. I've looked at GSAK "Help" file and found it didn't.
...Listening, Out!
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Lacto,
I *knew* which cache it was as soon as I read the post. Sue & I were FTF back in May last year. Then the box still had the explosive hazard warning label on the outside, (a similar thing to the signs you see on road tankers).
I removed the sign, email the owner and made an appropriate comment on the web and cache log. Obviously, the owner did not act upon it.
If it helps, I can take a trip down to the cache and zap it...
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...but meant to say that I think there is enough food for though on it before I hit the button.
No doubt by this time tomorrow, these threads, and all the thoughts, ideas and opinions upon them will be pushed way down to Page 3... to make way for much more interesting input.
Thanks for all the interest.
B
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Ease Springs FFB!
It is clear that people either love 'em or hate 'em (second one for me obviously).
It is also unfortunate that the lovers are clearly not content to do their thing in private, either out-of-site (geddit?) or in a quiet corner on their own.
I am not much bothered by the contents of these threads - I never read them. It is the fact that they bump everyone else and everything else off into the distance that gets my gander. It's a bit like having bullies constantly pushing into the school dinner queue! Yes! you could ignore them too...but in this case they just keep going around and around and around...
I have a similar disinterest in the CoTM thread - but that is a nice single thread that is easily avoided. Brilliant! - everyone is happy. So there is a solution out there somewhere.
The suggestion by Lordelph would seem to be a happy medium but I fear that it would not, like the doomed pinned thread, satisfy the need to display.
DomHeKnow has unwittingly put his finger right on what irks with the incessant, unending circular rolls of honour swamping the forum. It does very much remind me of when my children were collecting their graduation scrolls from university, the first few were fresh, interesting and had novelty value.....
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McD
I found out the hard way, could not find the caches, spent hours looking and, when I logged the DNF, found them archeived.
Now, before we set off to each cache (particularly when biking to them), we look it up the in the Palm check the log.
... and our "proper" contract mobile phone is usually in Sue's steel-like grip. When I am away on my trips, I only have the use of a PAYG phone. This phone is only ever used to receive calls.
Mind you, we are getting a nice collection of paper maps together...
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...except when you go away on a trip with a pile of printouts for caching - and find that in the week after you left home, 2 were archieved!
It was sitting in a vehicle with paper all of the place and the failed hunts that set me on the path to paperless caching. I would never go back to that.
PQ, GSAK, a cheap and cheerful Palm IIIxe and Cachemate. Brilliant!
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Guys and Gals,
Here goes, inserting the cat into the bag of pidgeons....
I know that congratulatory threads are all meant as a postive things but don't y'all think the congrats threads are effectively becoming just spam? The forum, and the other more conventional threads sink under the weight of these as everyone in the circle adds their bit. The forum is being swamped!
Everyone interested in these threads seems to ignore the pinned one that I thought the moderators put up for this exact purpose. This appears to have become a seemingly futile attempt to collect them all in one neat corner for those who enjoy them. Like spammers (or graffitte artists) the "congratulators" are insistant in putting their "markers" out for us all to see.
I note today that Longfram Kev had to place a posting on a thread to bring it up out of the mire for a newbie. "Bumping" has become the norm because of the spam! Does that say it all?
Now I know that many will take umbrage because I do not share this aspect of the game but I have silently railed against them for ages - particularly the ones that word the title to conceal the contents - and today, on seeing the latest Easter rush, just felt the need to share with you.
Congratulators and fans, please, pretty please, pretty please with ribbons on - try to make more use the pinned thread like the nice moderators suggested....
....there! I feel better now. Steel helmet donned - Carry on!
B
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You have to keep an eye one the whole picture - you cannot simply blindly follow the box.
We have a Streetpilot 3 and a Vista C both running City Navigator V6 (that came with the SP3). While most of the map and routing instructions are very accurate, there are many junctions and turns where the priority has changed or bits where the road category is wrong.
This means that the box sometimes tells you to "turn left" when the road now majestically follows that already as the priority route.
If the original mapping data shows a change in road category, you can get an instruction to turn off a perfectly nice straight main road onto a smaller side road because the next part of the main road is listed somewhere as being at a lesser category! (Chalk Lane from Narborough, Norfolk Sout-East to the B1122 using Garmin Metroguide is a fine example).
As with all computers - garbage in.....
The answer, for me, is to keep an eye on the warning diagram of the next junction that comes up, check it with distance and time to go and, when it goes back to the normal larger scale display, I check that the directions are not too stupid!
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Ah!
Found it in the small print - recommend use of colour and larger fonts more prominently positioned for the hard of hearing!
Ta!
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We'd like to come too....
....what is the planned date? could spot it on the cache page - weakened sight?
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I'll also very often load MemoryMap screen dumps of 1:25000 OS maps of each cache location.
Pharisee,
I am interested in how you manage to use maps from Memory-Map with your Palm. How'd yer do that then?
I've got an old Palm and I've got Memory-Map, in the process of deciding whether to go upmarket Palm or Pocket PC. Prefer the Palm but want to be able to use MM! You seem to have the answer....
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We agree with Mark and Lynn.
The log is the way to communicate with the cache setter, prospective cache setters and prospective finders. It should, like an annual appraisal, give feedback to all interested parties.
When we visited GCH7MM:
Not Far from John O'Groats (not)
...we found a wing mirror in the final container. Not very impressed - until we read the previous logs and found out about its history. Laughed like a drain! The logs made it a most memorable find.
Most importantly, it rewards the setter...
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As a keen Palm user, an old IIIxe, your write-up here has, for me, put another nail in the Palm platform.
I had Memory Map before I got the Palm. I bought that as a cheap route to paperless caching using GSAK and Cachemate.
Naturally, I would love to have a single device that will do all the paperless bit, navigate the car AND display OS maps....so I've been looking around for ages trying to decide whether to go for the Pocket PC (and MM) route or stick with the Palm and it's excellent user friendliness.
The latter choice would neccessitate getting Fugawi as the only OS mapping program for the Palms. You have poured water on that option.
Drat! Pocket PC is now clearly the front runner for me...
...trouble is - which one of the thousands of options!!!!
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Took Nothing, Left Nothing....pass on the T for TC bit!
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...Ah! Do as we have - get one of the "make-it-up-yourself" self-inking stamps from Lidl/Aldi when they pop up as a regular feature. Cost around £2.99 (or of course you can go to a conventional stationary store and get one for considerably more eg Trodat Printy at £24 - we bought that one yonks back, BL - before Lidl).
You can set up your own message, up to 4 lines of text. The last one we bought had two sets of rubber type in different font sizes.
This stamp can spare you the formal, common bits of writing...
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Thanks people, cracked it now, my FTP client decided it would be a good idea to turn the name of the file "SnB.jpg" to all lower case "snb.jpg"
...love computer!
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Yippee!
....and thank you all.
The stamp is not that big in real life!!!! The stamp is based on the design of the stickers we used to leave in logbooks. The stamp is actually 50mm x 35mm.
Handsome chap - doesn't do him justice!
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We'll try this:
...my FTP client change the name to lower case!
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...I've tried to post the scanned image of our new rubber stamp so those interested can see the results.
I click on the "IMG" button and paste in the same URL I use to pull in images to eBay - but with a singular lack of success. This is the string (quotes added to stop it becoming a hyperlink):
"http://web.onetel.net.uk/~berniekennedy/Pictures/ebay1.jpg"
What am I doing wrong? Why does it not work for this site?
Frustrated of Norfolk!
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...Nah! Nor for us either. The same "http://..." string that successfully drags in images for eBay does not work here. I click on the image button and paste in:
"http://web.onetel.net.uk/~berniekennedy/Pictures/SnB.jpg"
Any HTML experts care to point the way to what is not working?...
Cemetaries And Caching.
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Sue & I are not too comfortable with such caches - we would not like people playing a game around about us should we be in a similar location for more serious intentions.
Along the same lines, we recently ditched a cache that required us to seek some answers inside a Church. Again, as secular types, we would simply squirm with embarassment if some-one who was seriously involved with the Church started to ask awkward question our passing interest in the place.
We avoided the situation by abandoning the cache ...after a 14 mile bike ride to get there!
We did treat ourselves to a bag of chips each on the way home.