GerIRL

try http://mapstor.com/ Good luck.

I love my Oregon 400t. (I did have a pn-40 for a week in December). If I were doing it again, I'd buy the OR300 from Amazon for $358 and download the free gpsfiledepot for your topos. I find them to be just as detailed as the 400t's preloaded topo maps. Then (at your leisure) I'd spring for Citi Navigator. Trust me - you'll love it and it's superior auto routing. You will also love the "profiles" feature on the Oregon. Either way, good luck with your decision.

I'm hoping that it has the same SIRF chip set as the 60CSx series, but can't find any specifics on the Garmin website. Thanks.

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This is a ridiculous post - every thing stated is just plain incorrect.

My 2 cents worth are to go with the Oregon. I had a PN40 for a week and returned it back in December. I would get an OR 300, spend the $80 on City Navigator and download the free topo maps from gpsfiledepot.com. The auto routing on the Garmin is far superior to the Delorme. It navigates to actual house numbers, not address ranges. The "profiles" feature on the Garmin is one of it's biggest advantages. My automotive profile loads up citi nav maps, turns on auto routing, disables track collection and removes all of the menu items from the main menu that I don't use while driving. Once I get out of the car I simply switch to my geocaching profile which automatically switches to my topo maps, to direct compass point to point navigation, turns on track logging and enables the additional main menu items I use while geocaching like waypoint averaging etc etc. My experience is that the battery life is better on the Garmin. Even though both use the same chip set, I found the Garmin a lot better under tree canopy. Your experience may vary! The screen on the Garmin is bigger but not as easy to read as on the Delorme. Somebody above suggested waiting for the Dakota series to be released - not a bad idea. It'll be interesting to see what chip set it will use.

Wishing you a speedy recovery Brian, and if you need any help maintaining any of your caches, don't hesitate to ask. Especially those between 07090 and 07435 - i.e. along routes 24, 287 and 23. Hopefully, it'll be one I haven't found yet

Congtrats 'floopy - nice going.

Pretty cool. Nice job.

the Cx has "MUCH" better sensitivity under tree canopies. It never loses lock. You might want to consider the few bucks more for the CSx which has the altimeter and electronic compass. Additionally, the 60C can't handle the "NT" City Navigator maps - only the "X" series can.

I had the same issue, so i just called them to register. They answer very quickly.

I'm in the same boat. I love my 60CSx and have never lost satellite lock under the heaviest tree cover. Rock solid, but not paperless. I now have a OR400t, since December, and with each beta software release, it has gotten better and better. With the recent addition of Waypoint Averaging, it's almost perfect. I have not used the 60CSx in a couple of months, but bring it everywhere for backup. Compare this link of comparative tracks recorded on both units while hiding a recent cache. In and Out - 60 in Orange and 400t in Blue http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/7/27/129...uarantoohil.pdf . Regarding screen visibility, while the OR is not anywhere near as bright as the 60, I have never had a problem viewing maps or cache data on it. The interchangeable profiles are great. I have City navigator with no track log recording for "automotive" and for my "geocaching" profile, I use the Topo maps with track recording. If I could only have one of the two, I guess I'd take the OR. Hope this helps.

That's fine and dandy if you have $7k+ to spend. I'm not sure what the OP meant with "No Budget". No budgetary constraints OR no budget, period. In any event, even with a $7k+ solution out in the woods that gets you to within 20 or 30cm's, it's not going to do you any good if the cache location was fixed under foliage with a bad GPSr or bad procedures and is 40ft off, or in the cache of GC1N26W 150ft+ off! My recommendation would be a Garmin Map60CSx for <$300 that NEVER loses lock under heavy foliage. FWIW, of course! On the plus side, my company is purchasing not just 1, but 2 of those Trimble GeoXH units. So I anticipate "field testing" them when I place my future caches

Find|Address then select STATE then select City by typing then select the house # then start spelling the street name. one you see a match in the window below, you can hit the page key to pop down into the window below and you can rocker down to the correct street, highlight it, and hit Enter. Route numbers can be tricky. for US Rt 22 East, start by entering 22 and look for the match below.

Thanks...i'm narrowing it down to either a Garmin 60CSX or the Delorme. Not to sound stupid, but i think im getting the "paperless" thing a little confused. I thought "paperless" was the same as using the "Send To GPS" button on the GC website. I do appreciate your help with this!! paperless means that when you upload the caches onto your GPSr, the upload includes all the information from the cache page including hint, logs and description. So you don't need to print out the cache page onto paper. Nothing to do with "Send to GPS". With the 60, you will need to print out the cache page on paper if you need to have that info at the cache site. With the pn-40 and Oregon etc you have all of that info right there on the GPSr. SO while the 60 is not paperless, it does perform better under heavy tree canopy. It's a trade off.

Any suggestions on how to go back to 3.70? Thanks.

This is exactly what i needed to know. I was going to get the Garmin 60CSX because i thought it was able to do paperless caching. I think i will settle for the DeLorme PN20. I'm new to this, so just to make sure i'm getting this right...you can't use the "Send To GPS" feature on a Cache's page w/the Garmin 60CSX? BTW, i am a Premium Member (if that makes a difference when doing paperless caching)...thanks for the info!!! While the 60CSx isn't paperless, it is IMHO the best performing GPSr out there, bar none. You can use the "Send to GPS" feature on the GC website, but being a premium member, you'll probably run custom pocket queries that will email you a .gpx file of up to 500 caches. for paperless caching, consider the Oregon series, or the DeLorme PN-40. They both use the same chipset, but do not perform as well under tree canopy as the 60CSx. I used a PN-40 for a week, and returned it because I think I might have had a faulty unit. I then got an Oregon 400t which ws just OK back in December, but with various firmware upgrades, now performs very well, and I love the geocaching specific features including having various customizable profiles - 1 one for routing/driving, 1 for geocaching etc. The Garmins do auto routing better than the DeLorme, but you have to spring for $80 for the city navigator mapping. The DeLorme comes with a nice topo mapset for caching, but I was not impressed with it's auto routing abilities. The 60CSx has a 256 color display that is very readable. The OR has a 65,000 color display that is very customizable, but not very bright. Usually, just tilting my hand does the trick. The DeLorme has a nice bright 65,000 color display that is much smaller. The 60CSx and the PN-40 do waypoint averaging while the Oregon (inexplicably) does not, so when I hide a cache, I have bring my 60 to record the location. The 60CSx and the Oregon project waypoints on the fly, the PN-40 doesn't (or didn't when I had mine). I love the size, feel and construction of the Oregon. It fits great in my hand and I love that the lanyard hole is at the bottom of the unit. I could go on, but UNC v's VillaNova is about to begin.

1993 Garmin 45 bought for hunting (gave to my brother in Ireland who still uses it, but he only has 10 total finds!) 2005 Garmin Map60Cs - I was very impressed with this unit - bought City nav - eventually gave to a co-worker getting into geocaching. 2007 Garmin Map60CSx - best GPSr ever. Bar None. 2008-11 - DeLorme PN-40 - returned after a week because I could never get a satellite lock in the woods. 2008-12 - Garmin Oregon 400t - nice unit, happy to see that Garmin are continuing to update the firmware. Nice geocaching features, but not as reliable under deep tree canopy as the Map60CSx.

On a more serious note, I really miss 1) waypoint averaging and 2) the OR not displaying "corrected coordinates" posted in other geocacher's logs. I included the following 2 paragraphs in an email to oregonbeta@garmin.com. Feel free to copy and paste in your email to them. Thanks. Feature Requests: 1) Waypoint Averaging - it is incomprehensible that Garmin's top of the line "Trail" mapping handheld GPS receiver does not have this very important function that was present in the 60 series. Please - put it back in there. I take pride in providing good coordinates on my hidden geocaches, and the waypoint averaging function is a vital tool. (The Delorme PN-40 has it, and the Delorme folks and their supporters on the forums don't waste any time in reminding everyone that the Oregon doesn't!) 2) "Corrected Coordinates" in logs. When geocachers find a cache that they percieve has soft or bad posted coordinates, the geocaching website offers the ability to post a waypoint with "updated" or "improved" coordinates to help future finders. These corrected coordinates appear directly above the finders log on the cache page. They do NOT however appear on the Oregon's cache page. Would it be possible for your software team to write code to look for and recognize these "corrected coordinates" in the .gpx file and display them in the logs exported to the GPSr.

I'm curious here - exactly how long is your lunch break? 25 caches??? My lunch break is 30 minutes. The most caches I've ever done in a day is 23, and that took me 7 hours!

This is the issue with 2.93. I cannot figure out why some people are seeing this and others aren't. GerIRL, how were you powered? Off the auto adapter? Batteries, what type? Were you doing anything special when the shutdowns happened? At all times I was using NiMH Powerex 2700's, well charged. Each time it shut down, I was doing nothing on the GPSr.

I like 2.93v, HOWEVER since I installed it my OR400t has been randomly turning itself off for no apparent reason. Happened twice yesterday and once today. Today it was just sitting in my car while I looked for a cache. got back into the car and the unit was off.

just divide the seconds by 60 to get the decimal minutes.

Ok then - I resolved the issue, and got rid of the wierd .gpx file. I opted for the nuclear option and did a quick format of the internal drive and then restored the data from a WinZip backup that I had created prior to weird file appearing in the GPX folder. All is well - the OR fired right up and my topo usa maps were visible as before. Thanks to all for your input.

Tried Delete Doctor and got the same syntax error. I logged a support email with Garmin - let's see what they come up with.