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I think pic 2 is Subarite and I am pic 11. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I think pic 2 is Subarite and I am pic 11. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

First of all, I completely agree with the previous two replies. The reward for the hunt is finding the cache, not the goodies in the box. Having said that, it is a mystery to me as to why caches degrade in this way. In the early days when I still used to swap stuff, I was always careful to make sure the value of what I put in exceeded the value of what I took out. I came across many caches which were so full of stuff it was almost impossible to put the lid back on, so I assumed that everybody else took the same attitude. In fact when I met Mookey, on a hunt I saw him put some batteries and money in a cache and take nothing out. I have never met a cache hunter with the attitude "I found the cache, I deserve a prize out of it". Are there any people like that out there? I suppose there must be because cache contents do seem to degrade. Or maybe there are people who go round stealing stuff from caches but are clever enough not to trash them completely so that they get restocked and can then be "harvested" again. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

OK I admit it, the A4 is a piece of paper. The download device is a printer. Ignoring the fact that a piece of paper (or several) is not a techno-gadget, for the function of providing details of cache pages when out in the field it does stack up pretty well against an electronic device (pun intended). - It does not require batteries - The display quality is several orders of magnitude better than any current palm type device. - It's extremely cheap in comparison to most palm style devices ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

The A4 is about as portable as you can get apart from the A5 which has a display area exactly half the size. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I have been known to use a Palm when caching, but the most convenient I've used is the A4. It has by far the best battery life, fantastic display resolution and there is a wide variety of devices available to download cache pages from you PC. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Just a small reminder, copying Mapsource is technically illegal and could get you in trouble if anybody from Garmin happens to read these forums. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I enter the coordinates of the caches I want to do into Autoroute to get a route, then because I have a Vista I use Mapsource to get the routes into my GPS. When I'm actually doing the caches, I'll take an OS map with me (or a print out from Streetmap.co.uk) so that I know where the public footpaths in the area are. With the aid of a road atlas to get to the general area, you could do it with just the Streetmap printout. If you're working from an OS map, don't forget that you need to change your datum to OSGB36 as well as the coordinate format to OS grid ref. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

My parents live in Suffolk so when I started caching I thought I'd do some caches in that area but was disappointed to find that there were only three (at the time) and the nearest was 40 miles away. El10t and I decided to try and do something about it but so far we have had time only to plant two caches (we both live some distance away is my excuse). We intend to plant some more to get a "critical mass" in the area. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

There is a European system under construction called EGNOS http://www.esa.int/export/esaSA/ESAZABOED2D_navigation_0.html which, it is claimed will be able to interoperate with WAAS so once it's up and running properly, your WAAS feature should work in Europe. WAAS incidentally is not just ground stations, it is a system of ground stations and geostationary satellites. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

This whole thread is just a bear faced attempt to post lots of gratuitous bear puns isn't it? I can't bear it any more. Bearly a day goes by without more bear posts which I think should be dead and bearied. On a serious note, I think each of your bears should be provided with a little gold ring so that I can write in the log "took a bear-ring from the cache location". ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

This whole thread is just a bear faced attempt to post lots of gratuitous bear puns isn't it? I can't bear it any more. Bearly a day goes by without more bear posts which I think should be dead and bearied. On a serious note, I think each of your bears should be provided with a little gold ring so that I can write in the log "took a bear-ring from the cache location". ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I'd never put watching tennis ahead of caching. I used to love playing tennis, but any passive activity (if that's not an oxymoron) rates worse than caching for me except in very exceptional circumstances. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I'd never put watching tennis ahead of caching. I used to love playing tennis, but any passive activity (if that's not an oxymoron) rates worse than caching for me except in very exceptional circumstances. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I once had an error of 2 km on a waypoint due to poor reception, but regular errors of that magnitude are unheard of. Of course, I have a Garmin, so I can't really assume that the Magellan will behave in the same way. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

On the account information page there is a real e-mail address and a display e-mail address. If you changed the real e-mail address, it's now broken. If you changed the display e-mail address, it's not broken but anybody who sends you mail will need to edit it to remove the "nospam" string from it. When I click on the link mailto:fnnospamforst@aol.com in your profile, I get a "compose e-mail" window with that address in it, which means that if I sent the mail without removing the "nospam" it would go to AOL and probably bounce because it is unlikely that they have a subscriber with a user name fnnospamforst. Personnally I prefer to replace the @ sign by something as in jeremypATeasynet.co.uk. This means it doesn't look like an e-mail address at all and address harvesters will hopefully pass over it. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

As the manual says, selective availability has been disabled, so that is not the problem. The only other thing I can think of that might produce a 5 mile error is poor reception. Does it happen when you are under trees or in built up areas? Another possiblity is that it might default to an Australian datum (you bought it in Oz), but that would give you a consistent error - it would never be right. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Lassitude: I would like to know what caches involve a short walk, long walk, could be cycled, are suitable for prams and wheelchairs etc. It is not possible to get such information without ploughing through cache descriptions. Even then you may not get the information. Perhaps some intelligently thought out thread subjects could enhance things. Any ideas? What makes you think that a thread / forum on caches would be any easier to "plough through" than the actual cache page? I see absolutely no value in creating a separate source of information on caches other than the actual cache page itself. In fact it makes things worse: people who place caches wil have to write things down twice and people who search for caches will have to look in two places. You make some good arguments that the information on cache pages could be improved, but the correct answer is to improve cache pages, not introduce yet another source of information. There is also an argument that people might not notice the placement of remote caches. Again, the correct answer is not to create a separate source of information, but to improve the way the information is presented on the geocaching pages. This problem could be solved easily by an option to display all caches in a particular region (such as the UK) or have an e-mail notification of new caches in a particular region. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Lost in Space: What I want to know is, what did you have to EDIT?? Neil Sorry to disappoint you, but all I did was put the word "them" in italics. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Slytherin formerly known as kimRobin: Remember, there are those of us who take children caching with us and it can be a bit of a bind to set out on a cache that is rated 1/1 - an easy stroll - only to find it's in a patch of nettles six feet high. I don't know why you're complaining about taking children to stinging nettle infested caches. You can send them in to find the cache, and if they can't, you can get them to lie down on the nettles while you walk across them to look for the cache yourself. Me, I have to wade through the nettles on my own. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching [This message was edited by jeremyp on June 28, 2002 at 03:28 AM.]

quote:Originally posted by Slytherin formerly known as kimRobin: Remember, there are those of us who take children caching with us and it can be a bit of a bind to set out on a cache that is rated 1/1 - an easy stroll - only to find it's in a patch of nettles six feet high. I don't know why you're complaining about taking children to stinging nettle infested caches. You can send them in to find the cache, and if they can't, you can get them to lie down on the nettles while you walk across them to look for the cache yourself. Me, I have to wade through the nettles on my own. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching [This message was edited by jeremyp on June 28, 2002 at 03:28 AM.]

The Mapsource software is distinct from the actual maps. Just download the current version of Mapsource (4.09 at time of writing) from Garmin's web site and it'll work with your existing maps. Before buying Mapsource for myself, I trialed a version kindly loaned to me by another geocacher. It came in the form of 3.something and an upgrade to 4.06 and I can tell you 4.06 is much better than any version 3 - definitely worth the upgrade. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Chris n Maria: If you are using Netscape - it's your own fault JOKE! Maybe if he tried Netscape it would be fine. Since writing the above I went and had a look at the cache page which displays fine (on Mozilla). The problem *might* actually be a browser setting. For instance the Mozilla browser installs by default with Javascript turned off on some platforms which can cause problems with some sites. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Chris n Maria: If you are using Netscape - it's your own fault JOKE! Maybe if he tried Netscape it would be fine. Since writing the above I went and had a look at the cache page which displays fine (on Mozilla). The problem *might* actually be a browser setting. For instance the Mozilla browser installs by default with Javascript turned off on some platforms which can cause problems with some sites. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Nah. It's all part of the fun Coping with stinging nettles is minor compared to some countries where you might encounter nasty poisonous things like snakes. OTOH I recommend you and Dan check out Watermeads Wetlands 1 and take a strimmer with you. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching