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"Hip high" — luxury The NZ native nettle is not called U. Ferox for nothing. Plants (trees) can grow up to 5 metres tall.

From the HC manual: 1) Press Find/Waypoints 2) Select the waypoint you want to project (your cache) 3) Press Menu/Project waypoints to open the project page 4) Enter distance and bearing, press Quit Having said that, the compass rose on the Venture (I own one) is only accurate when you are moving. I always carry a Silva compass (a real one) in my kit. So in in the cache you mention while I'd use the Venture to pace off the distance, I'd tend to use the compass for my bearing.

My reading of the above is that the USA has a law that states that if GPS equipment does not have the OP's listed limitation then it is considered to be a munition and you are in peril if you try to export from the USA. Takes me back a decade or so when the USA gubbermint decided the PGP encryption was a munition and that anyone who "exported" the PGP algorithm was guilty of a crime. Of course, people outside of the USA can build GPS receivers however they like, although I can't think of a good reason why they would want to have such a spec.

Invest a bit more money in GSAK. This database program will load a PQ you have downloaded. It will then allow you to filter on all sorts of things, cache name among them. GSAK now has the Geocaching API integrated. You can then either load the filter directly into your GPS or backload it up to the Geocacing site into an empty Bookmark list you have previously created.

There is a new Geocaching API application Geocache Companion that concentrates on FTF. I can't quite make out whether it will scan logs but it may be worth a look?

As described above in post #2.

"Ran into" an old collegue and tramping (hiking)friend at a combined letterbox/cache. Thumbing through the logbook I recognised the stamp that he had used. It had beeen used as the logo for a project I had worked on before I moved on to a new job.

I suspect you may need to expand on this a little. What map? On what device, your computer, your GPS? What is the make and model of your GPS or operating system of your computer? Etc. etc.

If you jump your GPS any distance it will take a while for it to find itself again. A move half way around the world may take quite some time for it to find the satellites and update its almanac. The idea would be before you set out caching, to reserve a half hour or so to fire up your GPS and to leave it sitting with a clear view of the sky. Or if possible leave it on while you are traveling. My Garmin Venture HC can't get a signal on an aircraft. Some airlines might not allow it in any case.

If you jump your GPS any distance it will take a while for it to find itself again. A move half way around the world may take quite some time for it to find the satellites and update its almanac. The idea would be before you set out caching, to reserve a half hour or so to fire up your GPS and to leave it sitting with a clear view of the sky.

You're right, that is annoying... ...snip... In a long, drawn-out thread, it's only polite to quote the post that you are replying to, for the sake of clarity. I wish more people would get in the habit of using the quotation function. B. I agree I find it annoying when someone posts a pithy reply such as "I agree" without quoting on what they are commenting on and it ends up two or three posts down because other posters have got in before them. You then end up not knowing what the heck they are talking about. It is also not that hard to edit quotes down so long as you acknowledge it with a ..snip.. and don't selectively edit to change the poster's meaning.

Mind you, if it is a multi, it may pay, once you have the co-ords of the stages, to actually tick the ENABLE but leave a clear Reviewer note stating it is not ready for publication yet but that you want the reviewer to check the locations and any other aspects. The reviewer will give you an OK and then you can disable it again until you have finished polishing all the knobs and waxing the floors, etc.

The first value is in degrees (46); minutes (41) and seconds (21.876). There are sixty seconds in a minute so to convert seconds to minutes you take the seconds and divide them by sixty (i.e. 21.876/60 = 0.3646) which gives you an answer in decimal minutes (41.3646). Likewise to change degrees and decimal minutes to decimal degrees —> 41.3646/60 = 0.68941 which ends up as 46.68941 Cheers

I suspect that Navitel use a proprietary map format. See For creating maps for Navitel Navigator from OpenStreetMap data You could also try Googling free navitel australian maps

Thanks. It is already in WGS84... should i try another? Not unless you know that the map has been created with another datum. How far off the road are you? Could be the map was just badly drawn. I know that's true for OSM imports for parts of the USA. The road in front of my house is drawn maybe 50 feet further from my house than it should be. (Hate having that imaginary extra yard to mow. ) I'd suspect the map might be bad too (remember it's "crowd-sourced" and there may not be many in the OSM crowd in Costa Rica). Did the original Garmin base map come with anything for Costa Rica? A major road intersection say? You could load your Venture with both maps, stand on the intersection and swap between maps. You can change the maps by selecting Setup/Map; scroll across to the Info(!) icon; then scroll down to select/deselect the map(s). Give it a go.

"Misaligned"??? You'll need to expand.

Thanks for the heads up! I downloaded some roadmaps for Costa Rica from http://mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com/ I've tried it on the mac and using "virtual pc" but still nothing. I'll see what else I haven't done. Thanks for the help! I'm a Venture owner and I would endorse the Free routable maps for Garmin brand GPS devices site seldom mentions. Once you have found the map area you need, it will queue the job and you will eventually be emailed a link where you can download the file. If you have selected the executable it will automatically load it into Mapsource and from there you can select it and upload to your Venture. Although I'm not quite sure whether you're on a PC or a Mac. Not sure whether the above works on the latter.

There is a lot of information about trademark Non-commercial use. Geocaching Logo Usage and Trademark Information I didn't see where it specifically addressed your question. Bottom line: Send email to logo@Groundspeak.com including all details/questions and ask. There is also these Public Domain geocaching logos.

You don't have to use the Garmin geocaching website with Garmin GPS units—you can use them anywhere. I don't know what the Garmin geocaching website is like in your area but in my town you can count the number of geocaches on one hand. On the other hand (so to speak) if I generate a query to give me all the geocaching.com caches around my home it hits the 1000 limit around 40 kms from my home.

What are you using on the Kindle? I thought Kindles only read books.

I think you're asking two questions here: how to navigate to a cache and how to go paperless. I own a Venture HC too. As it appears you discovered you can load maps into the unit, both street and topo, but unless you can fly like a crow you can't use to navigate from home to the cache site. Until recently I've just used printed Google maps to drive to the cache site but recently forked out for a second hand Nuvi for car navigation. As for the cache's description etc, and going paperless, around my home town I'll just make do with prinouts. If I'm away on holiday I have an old HP iPaq PDA which will run CacheSense and I'll load a PQ for my holiday trip on that. The hazard here is if you or I drop our Venture in a creek it will survive but not the iPaq/Kindle. You've discovered GSAK, what you might not have found is you can get it to load the Hint into the "Note" section of the Venture's record of waypoint/cache. The note section is limited to (from memory) 30 characters so a long hint will get truncated. (On the Venture a cache is really just a waypoint with a treasure chest icon).

I don't believe changing the time zone in your account settings fixes this problem. I understand that the log edit screen will always open on Seattle time. But once you've changed it for your first log of the day it will remember the date.

I think the examples the PaddleCacher knows of don't explicitly mention that the puzzle is based on the resistor color code. Even that small hint could lead many potential solvers to the solution quickly. I do know a few variations of the old color code memory aid verses. They weren't all that bad, and I can't imagine ever forgetting them. I wonder which spicy ones others learned? How many of you techs remember "ELI the ICE man"? You're right there, one of the caches posted just has a string of colours in words. Resistor code would be a spolier for that. I can remember the periodic table; "Harry He Like Beer But Cup Not Overflowing. Neddy Naturally Megaphonic Always Sings Part-Songs Clearly After Kippers."

I'm familiar with resistor codes, but never saw a cache puzzle based on them. Interesting idea. Could you provide a GC#, or even better a link to it? I've done two puzzle caches based on resistor colors but am reluctant to post a GC# as that would effectively give away the solution to the puzzles. I think the cat's already out of the bag on this one. I wouldn't have thought these sort of puzzles would be particularly difficult in any case. Have trained in electronics I'd know the method as soon a I saw it (although I've forgotten the rude acrostic for remembering the code) but even without the foreknowledge I would have thought most people would be able to deduce that the pretty colurs on a resistor stood for something.

Sounds fabulous — can't wait to get home to have a play. I did look at your script earlier on and decided it wasn't to be that much use for me — the Ordanance Survey maps being the main selling point. Well done jri