Moaguten

The Garmin Nüvi 350 works fine for downloaded caches! The only sad part is that the resolution on the Nüvi just goes down to 1cm = 30m. That makes it a little bit difficult to find the exact spot.

Most people know their home environment quite good, but when you travel to a new place where you have not been before, you need a map in order to get aquainted with the new place. Groundspeak/Waytrack are providing a lot of interesting places, but to download several of these and show them on the map on your PC represent quite a lot of work. I suggest that the Groundspeak/Waymarks websites give the oportunity to download kmz-files of caches and waymarks at will from a certain defined area. This would be the fastest way to see what kinds of caches and waymarks are available on the place to which you are travelling. I also suggest that Groundspeak/Waymark opens up to the possibility of creating kmz network links.

I totally agree with Andy Fowler. The use of a network link in Google Earth is a great idea, and saves a lot of time. I can not understand why geocaching.com tries to stop this service. After all you can access the same data from geocaching.com without beeing a member! The cache data is read in excactly the same way as before, it is only the search prosess that is altered. I could understand it if the network link was fetching a lot of caches, but that was not the case. Only seven caches in the neighbourhood was fetched! Please let Andy's server access the data again!

Yes, I understand that I can sort the data in many ways, and get the result I want, but it is time consuming. Let's say your driving 500 miles along a road going aproximately north/south. Would it not be great to get a latitude slice filled with caches along that road in one download?

Well, it is not the amount of caches (2500) I am most disappointed with, but the thinking in circles, or rather radius range from a point. It would be much easier to be able to get slices of longitude and latitude within a country or state. In this way you could be assured that you get all caches in an area and no duplicates. If you for instance are driving close to big cities, you get too much caches with the circular approach!

I have recently upgraded to a premium membership, and was looking forward to be able to set up pocket queries. I must say that I was a little bit disappointed. Why is it impossible to download all caches for one country/state in one file? Than they could be sorted afterwards in MapSource. If the files get too big for this feature, it should be possible to download all caches in a country say between N59 and N60. In this way you could build files with all caches in the country without overlaps and drop outs.