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Check out CacheMagnet, it will do what you want. Woooo Hoooo! That is just brilliant! Exactly what I wanted, thank you so much!

Thanks Matt but I have set it so that it knows it is an emap, and set the port to the number it should be, now it can't see the emap at all so I am going to give up for today before I start crying!

I'm reluctant to spend any more money as the emap cost me far too much (my fault, I got excited on ebay) then I had to spend another £15 on a cable and I still cant get it to work - I have the settings right but I cannot click send to gps on geocaching.com as it does not recognise it even though I have updated everything I read the instructions and got it installed and am going through EasyGPS to create a pocket query, that all worked fine but when I try to send it to the emap I get this: "Your GPS receiver identifies routes by number. The number of one of the routes you are attempting to send to your GPS is outside the range of numbers used by your GPS. Edit the route and give it a different route number." and it seems to think I have a different GPS, it says: "The route Delaney Geocache has an invalid route number (23) Your Magellan Spor Trac uses route numbers 1-20. Edit your route so that all route numbers are within this range' I have searched for Delaney under routes and I can't find it, I am doing something very wrong here, any clues would be much appreciated. I think the best thing I can do is sell the emap and get something that actually can hear the computer! If I connect it to the computer and look for it through my computer I can't see it, if I try to use EasyGPS to recieve from it it says the data is not right and then my mouse goes insane.

it is a garmin emap, but easygps thinks it is a magdalen or something so it won't accept the data easygps works with a lot of GPS makes including magellan the only reason i can think of that it sees it as a magellan is that you might have picked the wrong device on set up, or didn't pick it at all and magellan was default try checking if you can change it in the easygps if not reinstall it if all else fails you can always try geobuddy this site also has support for all easygps on all Garmin models http://www.easygps.com/ fantastic, thank you! I'll look at it tomorrow.

it is a garmin emap, but easygps thinks it is a magdalen or something so it won't accept the data

Can I print one out with the co-ordinates, description and clue (decoded?) sorry for the dur question! I can't get my gps to accept anything from the computer so I have to put them in one at a time, which is fine, but copying and pasting them to word is a bit grim! cheers! ps - I am using easygps, if there is something else free I'm willing to try it.

excuse typos, I am about to bang my head against the screen! I have finally got this garmin emap (which I love so far) connected to the computer but.... I cannot click send to gps on geocaching.com as it does not recognise it even though I have updated everything so, I read the instructions and got it installed and am going through EasyGPS to create a pocket query, that all worked fine but when I try to send it to the emap I get this: "Your GPS receiver identifies routes by number. The number of one of the routes you are attempting to send to your GPS is outside the range of numbers used by your GPS. Edit the route and give it a different route number." and it seems to think I have a different GPS, it says: "The route Delaney Geocache has an invalid route number (23) Your Magellan Spor Trac uses route numbers 1-20. Edit your route so that all route numbers are within this range' I have searched for Delaney under routes and I can't find it, I am doing something very wrong here, any clues would be much appreciated. I realise the emap is a dinosaur but I like the way it tracks our route and it is great for my 7 year old who can see clearly where we are going and where we have been.

That's what everyone seems to be using to deal with the problem of computers with no serial ports being attached to older Garmin units. So far, I haven't heard any complaints. I had a feeling you might be in the "no RS232 port" situation. It's coming up an an issue more and more these days. Sorry we couldn't save you that extra three pounds fifty, though Thanks everyone, I have the cable but I can't work out how to attach it to the emap Numpty level is high this morning! The end of the cable has a nobbly bit, it looks like it should slide into the emap but the nobble gets in the way and I can't get it to fit if I turn it around, should I take the nobble off? argh! Am loving the emap though!

this won't do it then? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PC-SERIAL-DATA-CABLE...=item3cade3a7e9 I am glad I asked, cos it is not a usb is it? There are a couple of other slots on the computer but I am not sure that will fit in there? ohhh, will this one do? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-SERIAL-CONVERTER...=item3cade39ae6

this won't do it then? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PC-SERIAL-DATA-CABLE...=item3cade3a7e9 I am glad I asked, cos it is not a usb is it? There are a couple of other slots on the computer but I am not sure that will fit in there?

I am an idiot who bought a Garmin Emap from ebay for far too much money. It came without a cable so I can't do what I wanted which was to download pocket queries. So..... do I spend another £10 on a cable Or is there a cheaper place to get cables? Or, should I sell it, try to get some money back and buy one with a cable? It is not refundable on ebay, another thing I didn't check because I am an idiot! Any advice appreciated!

I trust you are happy for cachers to keep turning up around your front door at all hours. The building is used as an office :-) The photo isn't of the actual place So presumably the owner/occupier of the office would be happy to have cachers turn up looking suspicious at all hours?? yes, I checked with the caretaker, all is well.

I trust you are happy for cachers to keep turning up around your front door at all hours. The building is used as an office :-) The photo isn't of the actual place

I've never heard of it :-) I'll go shopping :-)

all great ideas, I'll investigate what sort of glue will stick metal to stone as velcro is noisy and it is a populated area, I hadn't thought of velcro before though, inspired!

I love 'where's it to?' just brilliant! I get the mick taken out of me for saying 'where's he going to?' quite often, it sounds fine to me, being born in Plymouth and now living in Bristol :-)

The one I am thinking of is a bit lower down and a plant pot would get stolen from there. It is in the centre of town but a great hiding place!

those poor gorillas!

thanks but I am quite a few miles away from there with a big ocean in the way :-)

clever, I'l investigate! If I can manage to glue in a metal plate then I could use one of those flat magnetic key hiding things, now, what sort of glue.....

It is a boot scraper, you find them built into lots of victorian houses.

there is a great place I would love to hide a cache and it is up inside one of these there is not much space, the one I am looking at is lower down and you can reach up into it and hide things, I could just about get a small tupparare in there. I need a really good way to stop it falling out again though! If I wedge it too much eventually it will take away some of the cement inside if people keep pulling it out - If I could make a small shelf out of something I could put the cache on top of it, but what? Or, is it a really stupid idea? It would be my first cache, should I aim a bit lower?

What sort of cost would it be? I'm from Plymouth though I live in Bristol now so I'd like to put some Devon coins out in the world, I visit every couple of months anyway. I'm a designer and can help design if you have an idea, what's wrong with pasties anyway? Side crimped of course!

yep, I think I'll keep the nuvi for the car cos it does the job and see how I get on with the emap, if it is no good I'll ebay it and look out for something better

I am also new to this and I use a Garmin Nuvi - set it on pedestrian and off road and if you are lucky it will get you within 6 feet of the cache, I have to use the clues that are encrypted though, and sometimes the photos cos they often really give the location away! I try without first mostly :-)