Huntleigh

If it was me, and the cache owner misunderstood something I had wrote, then named me in his log, I would be upset. The poor old CO seems to get a hard time, he is even responsible for the weather! Check this DNF log from June:

Hi Keith If you look elsewhere on the Lil'Devil website you see the Google Map script is broken. Try this one, it's designed for the UK market and will give you access to Ordnance Survey maps

Are you talking about a Greasemonkey script? To run a Greasemonkey script on FF you must, of course, install the Greasemonkey plug-in first.

I don't think you can do anything with your current setup. Garmin make a combination GPS/walkie-talkie called the Rino that will show the location of other Rino units it is paired to. I don't know how good it is at Geocaching however and I suspect the radio would be line of sight and not have a great range.

For free, upload your .GPX (PQ) file to GPS Visualizer; select "Permanent labels" in the Waypoint labels field and hit the Draw the map button Or, if you don't suffer from the misfortune of owning a Mac, invest in GSAK (well worth it); download the "Google_Map_V3" macro from the GSAK website. This will load your PQ into Google maps and you can select to label the caches either by code or name (plus a whole lot of other stuff).

While I believe you can plug the Nuvi into your PC and delete a file using the PC's file manager I was wondering whther there was a setting on the unit itself?

All of this class of etrexs treat a cache as a waypoint. A geocache is represented by a closed treasure chest. If you go into the menu and select "Find" you will be presented with a submenu that includes "Waypoints" and "Geocaches". In the "Geocaches" selection you should see all your unfound geocaches. In the "waypoint" folder you should see both found and unfound geocaches (open treasure chest) and any other waypoints you have loaded. I'm at work and don't have my Venture with me but I recall there is something in settings where you can change the symbol for a geocache. Perhaps you've done that and that's why they are not showing in the "Geoaches" folder?

I've done a bit of Googling to check on my 20 metre memory. It looks like the general consensus is that most seeds only stray around 20 metres from the parent. From a Tasmanian website: I note that in my home town, Wellington, renowned for its wind, the boundary control is 50 metres!

Some bright spark brought ragwort to NZ but forgot about the moth. It had to be introduced along with a bug for biological control. I think the requirment here is you have to keep it clear 20 metres from your boundary.

That's funny cos I swore I saw one here. But is there a geocacher by the splashy handle?

I have both GPXSonar and Cachemate on my iPaq (PocketPC 2003 o/s). GPXSonar: Free—the developer no longer supports,but still available. I prefer it's interface but it doesn't have any navigation component. It's just a list of the caches in the GPX file. You can add field notes. Can add spolier pics as well. Cachemate—costs money. Much more sophisticated but I don't really like the interface. Has navigation but I couldn't comment on this as my iPaq doesn't have a GPS receiver.

Yes. But only if you are a Premium Member which the OP is not. Wood_Duck1 this sort of thing is only availble to Premium members. The $30 is well worth it in my opinion. Hush my mouth - Wood Duck is a Premium member - why does it show on the forum that he is not?

The recent reappearance of my missing TB

Orienteering?

The TB started life as a gift to one of my kids prior to a family holiday (trying to maintain/promote an interest in geocaching). My daughter chose to attach a stuffed toy and it was released into the wild on our South Island holiday. It cruised around South Island, NZ for a while then lost its stuffed toy (either pinched or fallen off). A kindly finder offered to send it back for refurbishment and it came with us for an Australian holiday with a metal toy this time. We dipped around various caches and then dropped it off in a cache. It was then picked up by a novice cacher (1 find) who then disappeared along with the TB in October 2010. Not an unusual occurrence. It then shows up in the UK ten months later—still probably not that unusual. The rub is how it was found. Picture this—two British cachers having bagged a FTF are wandering along a path in the Yorkshire moors and decide to investigate a place to place a cache. They part some heather growing around a fence post and hung on the fence post is the lost TB! What serendipity was involved here? Kruger the rhino/elephant

Hey that is cool. I put it on mine, too. (Hope you don't mind.) Just added a Union Flag to your counter MrsB And the NZ ensign

Try this site: Free maps for Garmin brand GPS devices Go to the Nth America pull-down list; Select Oregon (if that's what you want) Click on "download now" Select which file format you want (eg Windows installer for Basecamp/Mapsource) Download the file and load it on your GPS

Hi As a hiker you do realise, of course, that navigation in the bush with a GPS won't be like a car unit?—"At the round-about, second exit, take, you must" (I have a Yoda voice on my car unit). To use a map in the bush, you don't just need the information, you need to be able to understand what it means and how to apply it (see aside below). I may be a bit old-fashioned but the only advantage I can see in a GPS map over a paper map is that the GPS can tell you where you are with some certainty. But even that is compromised in deep gorges or under a dense canopy. The GPSMAP 62 will have autorouting which should navigate you on the forestry roads but if you're an experienced hiker and happy with using paper maps a cheaper unit that will ping you when you get close to target might suffice. (I’d always be carrying a paper map however high tech my GPS was). Aside: I don’t know whether you get “Man vs Wild” on TV where you are but that show always makes me grind my teeth. You see Bear waist deep in some creek telling the audience that the best way to get out of the bush is to follow a water course. Following a watercourse is actually the best way to get yourself trapped by terrain, (gorges, waterfalls, rapids, etc) while above you, to either side, are clear ridgelines that follow the same direction of the valley. In my younger, fitter, days I used to spend my weekends navigating off track in the bush. Following the ridge lines was always the best option. Where we used to run into trouble was where a ridge broadened out and it became difficult to follow the centreline. A GPS would have been handy in those cases, provided it could get a signal.

All the more reason to go for Garmin which has its "crowd sourced" free mapping fans. The New Zealand Garmin community put out weekly updates on the NZ maps.

Logging a cache on geocaching.com is a public event, a sort of blog. You can't really hide it from anyone. If you don't want someone to see your finds, don't log them. If you're one of those for who the numbers do matter, you may be able to log your finds on GSAK and generate stats that way?

My $30 per annum (more like $38 in NZ dollars) helps pay for the upkeep of what I imagine is a rather large server farm; the techs that run them; the developers who build the and improve the functionality; etc. Why in God's name should I help you steal what I pay for?

It sounds like you have selected the tickbox for "traditional" in your PQ. If you look up above the box that contains the cache types, I'm betting that the "Any Type" radio button is still selected. You need to click on the "selected types" radio button to disable the "Any type". A trap for young players that I still fall foul of occasionally. This quirk applies to other parameter below in the PQ as well.

Nuvis aren't really built for on-foot geocaching. They are there to navigate you by road to the site. (Once there it will try to jump back to the road as it thinks you're in car unless you tell it otherwise). However you can make it more suitable for geocaching with a bit more software. "and1969" has already told you how change the co-ordinate display to the degrees and decimal minutes format used in geocaches. This website Garmin gps - True Paperless Geocaching will show you how to use a Nuvi for paperless geocaching. But you will need to buy GSAK (and Premium membership) for this system to work.

I fail to see how this cache is "commercial". Yes, the airport website has reference to the cache but that is hardly something that is in Groundspeak's control.

You should also consider (in the same price range) the new eTrex 20. Compare the two. While the Dakota has a touch screen, the eTrex has twice as much internal memory, a micro-SD card slot, twice as many waypoints etc.