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The Cachemate/Srch/Nearest or Last Search is really only used when you want to find the nearest caches to a particular lat and long. If you select Nearest it will ask for parameters eg, n,s,e or w, distance, max records, whether found or not found etc from that particular Lat and Long. Otherwise you can select Last Search to use the earlier search parameters. To find a particular cache by ID use the Record List View (the first screen that lists all the caches). At the bottom of the screen there is an option to sort by Wpt or Name. Select Name to sort by Name. Select Wpt to sort by waypoint (Geocaching.com's ID code - always starts with "GC". Scroll up/down select your desired cache and tap it and the cache details will show. Beware caches with "additional waypoints" will not show that additional data - a defect currently with Cachemate - without an awkward workaround.

No. All Custom POIs are stored on the card. They are loaded onto the card using Garmin's POI Loader program. It is just that in gps's with v3.1 firmware (and earlier versions) they are treated differently than firmware v3.2 and v3.3. With v3.1 Custom POI can be set to display separately from all the Map POI (ATMs, schools, McDonalds, Pharmacies, Real Estate Agents and all those other POI that come loaded with the map products). With v3.2 and v3.3 you cannot display separately your Custom POI and Map POI - it is either both at the same time or nothing! With both showing the map screen is completely cluttered in builtup areas. I am only interested in seeing the Map POI when I either do a specific FIND for Map POI or I am at or below the distance I have set as the Max Zoom range for Map Points [Map > Map Setup > Points > Map Points = 50m]. I do though like to see my Custom POI at all times when I am at or under the max range I have set for Detail. [Map > Map Setup > General > Detail = MOST (MOST=200m, MORE=120m, NORMAL=80m, LESS=50m, LEAST=30m)] If the above sounds confusing it is probably best to explain the settings I have in my 76CSx with v3.1 firmware: Map Setup > General > Map Detail = Most (200m) Map Setup > Points > Map Points = 50m Map Setup > Points > User Waypoints = 8km With the above settings, without doing a specific FIND the following appear: I see all my geocache waypoints whenever the map range is 8km or less. I see all my Custom POI whenever the map range is 200m or less. I see all my Map POI whenever the map range is 50m or less. I usually operate when travelling by cycle/car at map ranges between 120m to 800m.

What I, and others, would like is for Garmin to establish a separate setting for Custom POIs in Map Setup > Points in addition to the present settings for Map POIs and User Waypoints. This would have the advantage in that one would be able to reduce all the clutter caused by all the McDonalds, Pharmacies, Real Estate Agents, Hardware stores, ATMs etc and therefore be able to see YOUR own Custom POIs. (V3.1 had the Custom POIs lumped in with User Waypoints - that's what Custom POIs really are - and then v3.2 moved them and lumped them in with Map POIs - a retrograde step.) The Beta version 2.4.0.1 of POI Loader works just fine. I've been using it since day 1. Recommend it to everyone.

Ditto for me. From advice I received on another forum topic Garmin didn't fix the POI clutter mess they created with v3.2 - Map POI and Custom POI all lumped together and not able to be viewed separately.

yes, it did. Eeerrrk. Thanks for that. Good reason not to update from v3.1.

Okay, I may still be in the dark (a little). I stepped back from the flawed v3.2 to v3.1 as I hated seeing all the Map POI's when I just wanted to see my Custom POIs on the map. With v3.1 they are separately viewable. I have a question. Does v3.3 lump all Map POI's and Custom POI's together as v3.2 did or can they be viewed separately?

Not a good idea. Waypoints can be selected to be visible at all ranges, whereas there is a maximum range limit for POIs. In Map Setup - General with Detail = "Most" the maximum distance a POI is visible is 200m!

Try using an html reader like Isilo ($20) for the Palm. It does require the companion program IsiloX (free) for the PC. IsiloX converts the html to a form that is readable on the Palm. For how to do it go here. There is a little more work involved in getting the cache details to the Palm but I find it is worth it. Cachemate has problems with the new additional waypoints that just don't affect html exports. The pages on the Palm look very like those in your Firefox/IE browser. The downside is that there is no integrated facility to send log reports back to GC via GSAK - something that has never bothered me as I have found it faster to make brief pencil notes rather than tap them out on the Palm.

Yes. Just create separate bmp icons for each type of custom poi. There should be one bmp icon for each gpx poi file; eg, if you have 2 collections of pois: 'benchmarks' and 'watering holes'. The database files that contain each of these pois will be 'benchmarks.gpx' and 'watering holes.gpx'. Now, create 2 different bmp icons (you can use MS Paint and your creativity here - but limit the icon size to 16x16) and name them 'benchmarks.bmp' and 'watering holes.bmp'. Place both of these files in the same folder as the gpx files. The next time after you run POI Loader your pois will show as different icons.

Have they separated Map POI from Custom PIO so you can see your Custom POI and not have the map cluttered up with all the Map POI?

I presume you have the v3.20 upgrade loaded. Like you, I found that having all the MAP POI display at the same time as my CUSTOM POI a nuisance. It was so confusing trying to sort out what setting controlled what that I stepped back to v3.10 so that I had control over what displayed. There are 3 settings that control when things, generally, display/disappear on the Garmin 60/76 running the v3.10 firmware, when you have not selected FIND (a waypoint or POI). 1. Map > Menu > Setup Map > General > Detail . This is the overall control of the maximum range to which things are visible. It controls both 'normal' waypoints and POI. MOST = 200m; MORE= 120m; NORMAL = 80m; LESS = 50m; LEAST = 30m. I set Detail = MOST. 2. Map > Menu > Setup Map > Points > Map Points. This controls the maximum zoom range to which all Map POI (restaurants, petrol stations, ATMs etc) appear. I set Map Points = 50m (they therefore don't appear when the range is greater than 50m). 3. Map > Menu > Setup Map > Points > User Waypoints. This controls the maximum zoom range to which all my CUSTOM POI (My Found caches, My Placed caches etc) appear. I set User Waypoints = 200m (they therefore don't appear when the range is greater than 200m). I load Unfound Geocaches as 'normal' waypoints direct from GSAK i.e. they come within the 1000 waypoint limit. I load My Placed caches, My Found caches, My Placed Multicache Final locations and My Placed/Multicache Additional Waypoints as CUSTOM POI. Each has it's own gpx and bmp files. With those above 3 settings the Unfound Caches and My CUSTOM POI show up when the range is 200m or less. The Map POI (restaurants, ATMs, petrol stations etc) only show up when the range is 50m or less. Note: If you use FIND (a waypoint or POI) the icon for that one waypoint or POI will display at greater ranges. If someone could confirm that my above settings also work with the v3.20 firmware I would appreciate that. I may then give v3.20 another go (even with it's Compass page bug). In the meantime I am happy that I stepped back to v3.10.

I just used MS Paint, that comes with Windows, to alter the Custom POI bmp icons I had. Created a custom color R,B,G of 255, 0, 255 to fill in the background and then saved the results using 'Saved As', 256 color, in the folder where I store my Custom POI gpx files. I like the new clean looking icons on my 76CSx.

I use a Sandisk TransFlash 1GB and have had no problems. When I purchased it Sandisk was the only microSD card available. Just make sure that you don't purchase a Sandisk Ultra card as they are not Garmin compatible. I can't comment on other makes but there have been comments on various other microSD cards on the forums.

I love cycle caching using either my touring hybrid or my MTB. Which bike I use depends on where I feel like caching. I also map MTB tracks using my handlebar/stem mounted gps. I have a simple, wooden, homemade, mounting base that holds the gps above the stem and handlebar. It fits either bike and straps on to the stem using a velcro strap. The gps fit's into a cradle (made of plexiglass that I moulded to fit the gps) attached to the mounting base. The gps is held in place in the cradle by both the friction from the ends and sides of the plexiglass cradle and by a thin velcro strap over the gps (to stop it from ever bouncing out of the cradle). I have used this one cradle for many thousands of kilometres on smooth sealed roads, rough gravel roads and off road using the MTB. The photo shows my old 12XL mounted but I now have a new plexiglass cradle for my 76CSx. The mounting has not failed me yet. Note that the gps's lanyard clipped to brake/gear cables for extra safety. The gps is easily detached from the cradle (just release the thin hold down velcro strap and remove the gps from the cradle) when you can't home those last few metres to the cache by bike and have to approach on foot.

12 feet. The cache contains silica gel supplies for other cachers.

Please check your gps setup. Geocaching uses WGS 84 datum and cache coordinates are shown as hddd mm.mmm ie degrees minutes and decimals of a minute NOT degree minutes and seconds.

Go check your System Tray (screen bottom right) and you will find a small "g" in a circle - this is "Garmin gStart". This is a small program that detects when your USB gps is plugged into your computer and then runs POI Loader in anticipation that you want to update your POI's in your gps. Simple to stop. Turn it off.

Go here for free NZ road maps. http://gwprojects.orcon.net.nz/gps/gps.htm

I use a TI internal reader in my laptop. I'd say any USB 2.0 reader will work - Get the cheapest one I bought my USB 2.0 card reader cheap at my local grocery supermarket. Was amazed to find a great bin full of them in the soap powder aisle! It came with a USB extension lead. Works just great.

I use GSAK. It will do all you require.

Clicking on the hint in Firefox now just decrypts the hint without refreshing the web page. My thanks to TPTB.

Noticed the same problem with the image in my cache page, GCH303, when I went to review it following a DNF report. Opened another Firefox page and there the image was!! Somethings amiss at GC.

NomadVW wrote: Reading the FAQ's on the Bluetooth Adapter for GPS it seems that the adapter may not work with GPS 60's. I'm sort of in a similar position to NomadVW and have been researching how I can connect my new Tungsten E2 to a Garmin GPSmap76CS so that I can upload/download waypoint and track data between the Palm and Garmin, using software like GPilotS. From what I have found out so far it seems like it can't be done. But..., I would like to be proved wrong! If anyone regularly does such transfers between these two hardware items I would appreciate learning how it is done.

GeoForse wrote. You are right. I had unknowingly deleted the MathLib.prc when uninstalling Cachemate a couple of days ago prior to installing a new version. I thought that seeing other programs also used MathLib that it wouldn't be removed. Reinstalled it and am happy to report that the Cachemate projection works just fine. Thanks. I know a cache where I may use this facility in conjunction with my old 12XL. I previously had to use Tally Dragons technique but always had an element of error as the 12XL only counts down in 10m jumps. My new 76CS happily does waypoint projections very easily, even down to decimals of a metre.

plook wrote Interesting. How do you do that in Cachemate? Do you need a special plugin program?