Greymalkin

Hopefully this is the right place to ask this … On a Nuvi, I'm trying to play a reverse Wherigo that's password-protected. I have the password, but haven't been able to figure out how to enter it. Tapping the password box takes me to another password box. Tapping that takes me to a picture of a padlock, which I can scroll down to read the word 'Password' at the bottom. Tapping the lock does nothing. Tapping the word 'Password' does nothing. Is there somewhere/someway else I'm supposed to enter it? I've tried emailing the cache/cartridge owner, but to no avail, so I'm hoping someone here will know.

Where's home? Northern Orange County, southern LA County -- Fullerton, Anaheim, Brea, La Mirada, Whittier, etc. Sorry, I'd meant to put that in the original post and it looks like I forgot. d'uh.

Yikes, all the way down there. I'd love to go, but it's a bit outside my orbit and I probably couldn't do the whole day. Please keep me in mind if there's anything closer to home, though.

Hi, Folks ... As the title says, I'm looking for fellow cachers interested in teaming up. Caching is fun, but caching with others is fun-er, plus more brains and sets of eyes can be very helpful, especially on the tougher hides. The big complication is scheduling. I work full time and long hours, so Saturday mornings are usually my only times to play. Hiking, biking, and 4-wheeling are my transport of choice, and I'm happy to range far afield (out to the coast, the Santa Ana Mountains, the San Gabriels, etc.). City streets and bike trails are good, too. I have no problem with getting up early and have been known to hit trailheads at 5am, but later is fine, too. So, if there's anyone in the area interested in meeting up, please drop me a line here. Hope to hear from folks.

Intriguing. I'll check out the Magellan, thanks.

So I managed recently to lose *sob* the Archos tablet I've been using to do my paperless caching with, and am now looking for a replacement. I could go with the same thing (a 4.3) again, but figured I might as well explore my options a bit, so here I am seeking advice. I have only three requirements and one nice-but-not-necessary. The primary function is going to be paperless, so it has to be able to store and display cache information as painlessly as possible even without GPS. I have a Mac (which is not going to change and I'm not going to fiddle around with an emulator) so please nothing that requires programs (like GSAK) limited to the IBM platform. If it's a tablet or something that will run GSAK on its own, okay. I'm presuming this means Android, but I'm open to other ideas, as long as it's nothing that requires paying for a monthly data plan or similar. It can't be too expensive, as in should be under $300. I'm going to be carrying it around, especially on hiking/biking trails, so it can't be anything huge. I'll happily get a protective case for it and I'm not planning to toss it around or drop it off cliffs, but nothing ridiculously fragile, either. It would be great (but not essential) if it either had onboard GPS or would connect, via bluetooth or some other means, with my little Qstarz.

Does the 500 have that 1000 cache limit that the 60csx has? I can live with it if it does, but one nice thing about the TomTom was having every cache for 20 miles loaded and ready to go instead of swapping caches in and out depending where I was going on a given day.

The Nuvi 500 looks perfect. A little pricier than I'd hoped, but it does Wherigo, too, which qualifies as speshul. Thanks, folks!

I'm going on a long road trip next month and, since I plan to pick up 'a few' caches along the way, I'd like to upgrade my car's GPS. Right now I have a TomTom GO, but it's starting to get a little buggy and is a giant PITA to load caches into. My requirements are few, and I don't think especially extreme. 1. Must work with a Mac. Absolutely required. I have GeoJournal and MacCaching and am willing to get other Mac progams, but GSAK is limited to the IBM platform and thus completely useless to me. (And I'm not ever going to kludge up some pseudo-IBM thing on my Mac, so please don't even start.) 2. Must be easy to load caches -- at least GC code, name, and location. Description, hints, etc. are nice, but I've got a tablet for that. Putting PQs in directly would be ideal, but dropping them into something like GeoJournal and then exporting them in bulk is fine, too. 3. Must have a large screen. 4"+ would be great. 3" is the absolute minimum. 4. Must have some sort of proximity alert function. 5. This thing is never leaving the car. I have a 60csx for that, this is just to get me to the general area. It doesn't have to be waterproof, ruggedized, etc. It can be heavy as sin. It can chew through power like there's no tomorrow. Doesn't matter. 6. Not ridiculously expensive. Under $200 dollars is good and under $100 would be fantastic. I'll consider more, but it would have to be really, really speshul. Any suggestions? What's working for my fellow Mac cachers?

Add me to the list. Pages are taking forever to load and when they do, no smileys showing, ignored caches displaying, etc. I've been having the smilies/ignored thing happening for the past 2-3 months, but it's been fixable by either redoing the search or hassling around with a PQ. Both of which are giant PITAs, but since Groundspeak didn't seem inclined to fix the problem, ya do what you gotta do. Now not even redoing the search is working. I haven't even tried to do a PQ, but it looks like that would've been a waste of time as well.

So, I recently got a Nuvi 295W (needed a GPSr for my bicycle, of course, along with the TomTom in my car and the 60CSX in my hand). The manual for it is pretty much useless as far as loading custom POIs goes, so I read a few threads here and thought I knew how to do it ... but apparently not. I have GSAK. I downloaded and installed a likely-looking macro called GarminCsvPoiExport-v2. Ran it, then used POI Loader to send the file to the Nuvi. Ran the Nuvi, clicked my way through the screens to the POI one, found no Geocaches category or any sign where I might find them. Went back to GSAK and got another likely-looking macro called Nuvi60CsxGarminCsvPoiExport. Repeated the process with the same non-result. When I look at the POI folder on the Nuvi itself there's a file called Geocaches.gpi, but it's suspiciously small to contain even the most basic of cache data. Am I using the wrong macro(s)? Is there some other step I'm missing?

A good idea, but it really only treats the symptom, not the underlying problem. I'd half-hoped it was just me, but it's happening to other people as well. It's rather distressing to me that one of the basic, core functions of the site is malfunctioning.

This has been happening for the past few weeks and it's starting to really bug me. I go to a geocaching map of an area where I have some finds and some I still want to search for. My finds are displayed as smileys and any caches on my ignore list don't appear. Everything's great, I can see the route I want to take and I start mapping it out. Then I decide to drag or refesh the map and suddenly my finds are green boxes and stuff I'm ignoring is cluttering up the view. The only way to fix it seems to be to close and reopen the window -- but then a little bit later it happens again. It's the same thing with two different browsers, so that's not the issue. I did a search on +smilies +displaying and couldn't find any explanation of why this might be occurring and (more importantly) how to make it stop. Anybody know?

Recently I was alerted to a site called [link removed] where teachers can post small classroom projects in need of funding and people interested in contributing can find projects they'd like to support. A search on 'geocaching' turned up [link removed]. Most of them are seeking GPSrs, so if you don't have money to contribute but have an old (but still working) one to donate, you might consider sending it their way. Share the magic. Grey

I don't think they're lights -- at least I've never seen one glowing. They're round grey pillars about a foot in diameter and two or three feet tall, and they have holes ranged around the upper part (though not on the top itself). If I could find a picture of one online I'd post it, but not knowing what they're called has been hampering a Google images search. Something of a Catch-22.

I keep coming across caches that seem to be hidden in those grey pillars with the holes on the upper portion that lurk here and there in the city. I'm curious about what the pillars are for (ventilation of something?) but I'd really like to know if caches can be placed inside and how to get to them if they are. The pillars don't seem to open or unscrew.

I haven't gotten much into emulators. Looked at them and they all seemed to be various combinations of expensive, highly technical, unstable, and/or slow. I prefer to stick with Mac software if at all possible. (And I have an Intel MacBook). I looked at Maccaching, but it doesn't mention working with TomTom. I could use it for my 60CSX, though -- just about anything would be better than BaseCamp (you hit that 1000 upper limit fast when half your waypoints are being duplicated 5 or 6 times). Anybody got a good or bad word to put in for GeoJournal or GEObsession? I've glanced at them, but don't know how well they perform in action.

I'm looking for a waypoint management program for my laptop, something that I can load PQs into, maybe edit them a bit, and then output them to both my Garmin and TomTom. GSAK is great, but unfortunately limited to the IBM platform. BaseCamp seems to only work with Garmin, and is buggy as heck, anyway, with its habit of duplicating waypoints all over the place. Any recommendations for a Mac (OSX 10.4)?

uh ... *looks around guiltily* ... 4100...ish. (What can I say, I like to be prepared wherever I might happen to go ;> And there are a lot of caches around here). It crashed as soon as I selected the doc viewer. I'll let you know as soon as I prune it down enough to find the maximum.

Well, I think I may have loaded too many files into the text folder, because the GO now crashes every time I try to access the viewer. I'm going to trim them down a bit and see how that works. I love the itinerary thing.

If the root directory is the window that appears when I open Internal (I don't have a flash card ... yet), there's already a 'text' folder there. It appears to be empty, so I used it and it seems to be working fine. Can't wait to get out of work today and try it out.

Excellent! I'll give that a try, thanks.

No worries. It's well within my mad PhotoShop skillz. Awesome! I'm afraid I don't understand what that means. I think I just did an export to TomTom format. I'm not in paperless mode, but would very much like to be! How do I do that trick?

Having used GSAK on the beemer at work to generate an .ov2 file of cache locations, I'd now like to load it into my TomTom 730. I've created a POI category called 'geocaches,' which seems to have created a geocaches.ov2 file on the TT. Can I simply copy my 'geocaches.ov2' file over the one on the TT, or is the process more complicated? Guidance would be much appreciated.

My Garmin has maps of the cities, yes, but they frankly suck. Pretty much anything with less than two lanes simply doesn't appear. I turn off the main road and I'm in here-be-dragons country. It's just a big blank space. To fix that, for $99.99, I can buy a comprehensive map pack for LA, which gets me the same level of detail my $150 TomTom 730 has built-in for everywhere.