EdFromOhio

ScottCo, I just got started with this, too. I don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on a GPS device. NewEgg had a recertified TomTom 130 for $50 after rebate, so I got one. It is my first GPS device. Although it isn't designed for it, I do use it for geocaching and benchmarking. Since it is battery powered, I can take it out of the car and walk around with it. It is very accurate, too. Once I get close to the cache, I switch it over to the screen that shows the raw coordinates and walk around until I get them to match where the cache page says to look. It's much more difficult than a hand-held unit, but for poor folk like me, it works.

Which would make it a "hidden treasure", no?

If anyone is taking a tally to see whether anyone else would very much appreciate this feature, count me in. Finding benchmarks is quite difficult compared to finding geocaches. I really wish they were just treated as a different type of geocache, with the ability to check or uncheck it.

For anyone else using a TomTom 130 (many are, thanks to NewEgg's recertified one selling for 50 bucks after rebate), there is indeed a way to load up a bunch of Geocache points. Generate your GPX file using the Pocket Query utility here (membership required.) After it is e-mailed to you, save it somewhere to your hard drive. Download and install GSAK from http://gsak.net/ Delete all of the sample data if you want by going to Database, Delete all waypoints. Go to File, Open and open the GPX file that you saved earlier. You should now see all of your Geocache points. With all of that loaded, go to File, Export, TomTom POI file. On mine, I unchecked the defaults and added the "BMP Icon" value. I got the icon from http://martinp13.virtualave.net/geocache/Geocache.bmp It will create a file with an OV2 extension. It is important that the BMP and the OV2 have the same filename for the TomTom to recognize it. Connect your TomTom to your computer and use Windows Explorer to copy the OV2 and BMP file into your TomTom's USA_and_Canada folder. After restarting your TomTom, those new Geocache points should now be available as points of interest. It worked for me, but as always, YMMV.

You are absolutely correct. I didn't notice it was under "My Finds" and instead thought that it was going to run one of those scheduled jobs on demand. There isn't any way to run one of those jobs now and then let it run after that at its normally scheduled day?

When I created a pocket query, I selected Caches that I haven't found. The Preview shows a correct listing of caches, excluding the ones that I have found. However, after running the Pocket Query and receiving the GPX file, it included ONLY the Caches that I HAD found. That's the opposite of what it should have generated. Has anyone else noticed this?

For now, I'm using a TomTom 130. It has a walking mode that helps guide me near the cache, then I switch into the raw coordinates to get to the exact spot. It's not as easy as a handheld, but there is a certain element of challenge that makes it more interesting. I didn't see any to bulk load custom points with their software. Hopefully someone knows a way around that.

I'm new to Geocaching, so please forgive me if this already exists. After doing a search for caches near a certain point, does anyone else think it would be helpful to have the GPS coordinates shown on that results page? It could then be a nice way to have a summary of caches and locations without drilling down into each one. Maybe having a checkbox option at the top to enable or disable the GPS coordinates from being displayed, or maybe even set in the user's profile or something. The reason I'm asking is because my GPS unit does not handle loading up geocache points. So I find myself printing off the first page of every cache I want to go find. That obviously wastes a lot of paper. I was told by a support person that this is the place to ask to see if anyone else thinks it would be helpful or not. Thanks in advance, EdFromOhio