fratermus
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I just purchased City Navigator on DVD for my Oregon 300. How do I download it onto my SD card?
Install the DVD to your PC.
Open Mapsource
select the CN map in the dropdown if not selected already
Select the maptiles you want
click "send to GPS" or "upload" or whatever it is in the most recent version
wait for it to think, perhaps a long time
success
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Hmm ... poor student, just needs nav to coords, nothing else mentioned ...
Good call. And it will accellerate the thread to the next step where the OP starts to list his real GPS requirements. :-)
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> 1. How do I delete all the caches that I've entered?
Normally get to a waypoint or cache page, hit whatever menu function you have and hit delete. Many garmins will let you pick a given icon (cache, found cache) or all.
> 2. How do I do multicaches on the Oregon? I'm not sure how to go about to add in points two and three. I
Either enter new points and edit them to match the coords, or edit the original.
> Websited that might describe how to create pocket caches ...
The "build a pocket query" on your account page is where you do it. The logic might take a bit of thought but it's all laid out there.
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The GPS, not having been used for a while, probably has not locked back onto the satts and therefore does not know where it currently is. Therefore it may not think it is within 100M or whatever of the cache.
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Is there an SD card in your GPS?
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You can use topo by itself if you want (or if money is tight after the upgrade). AFAIK autorouting GPSr will generally route on their basemaps when no routing mapset is present.
Routing GPS units really come into their own when you stuff autorouting maps on it, though. The orthodox choice would be City Navigator on DVD. Load whatever portions you want onto your SD card.
Since the new oregons, etc, are out you might be able to pick up a used 60c{s}x. I have a 60cx and love it. Best gps I've ever used.
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The perfect model is one that can get me to the coords I need to be at with some degree of accuracy and efficiency.
All handheld units will meet the above criteria. Sniff around the Garage Sale forum looking for older used models; people buy new ones and sell off their older gear.
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A free (non-shareware) solution is to use EasyGPS:
Edit | Preferences | Geocaching | Comment | Geocaching Hint (Decrypted).
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I'd guess the SD wasn't completely seated, is formatted strangely, is noncompliant, is larger/different than the GPS knows how to handle, or the GPS is doing something odd like still trying to write .gpx files to it (is track storage to card turned on?)*, etc.
Is the info on the card visible in the GPS while it's in the unit?
I'd:
1. try with a different 2GB max size card first.
2. If that works, then try reformatting the original sd and see how the gps works with no data on the card.
3. Then add data.
Keep us posted
* longshot, I know.
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If you were forced to Geocache with a PDA cellphone, which would you choose?
The problem is not so much that the hardware isn't qualitatively good, it's that most pda phones are not designed to withstand the tough realities of field geocaching. Drops, rain, mud, dust, etc.
I'd keep the pda in a protective case and get a used/cheap high sensitivity handheld for caching.
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Not to be a smart@-- but were the fences 20 foot tall with razor ribbon or a fence you did not want to cross due to trespassing issues?
The cache area was down in a low spot with low hills on either side. The fences were on top of retaining walls, so even if I wanted to scale them it would be about 20' of retaining wall then 10' of fence on top of that.
I have a concealed carry license that would be negatively impacted by arrest or involvement in illegal activities. This makes me unusally averse to breaking the law, even if the infractions appear to be trivial. It also reminds me that sometimes fence-jumpers get shot in Texas. I would prefer to remain unventilated.
Edited to add: I have in fact tangled with razorwire during my Army enlistment, and have the scars on my arms and chest to show for it. I actively avoid concertina nowadays.
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I'm seriously puzzled here........why would anyone, EVER, have "tracks" turned "OFF" ?????
It's not necessarily that anyone turns them off, rather that they might not have ever been turned on.
I think they were defaulted to off when I unpacked my 201, eMap, Legend, and 60cx. If that memory is correct, perhaps it was a privacy concerns at Garmin. Don't want people calling up incensed that their GPSr is tracking everywhere they go. Not as far-fetched as it might seem: TiVo and the TiVo forums regularly get screamers who are freaked out that "TiVo is recording stuff I didn't tell it to!!!??!!??!!" (i.e. the Suggestions feature).
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I wonder if the Garmin GPSMAP60CS or CSx would allow me to go deeeeep into the woods searching for a cache, BUT, at the same time record my path, steps or whatever to the cache, and IF I do become disoriented use the "backtracking" feature to get back to my starting point, using the exact way I first came in?
Yes the 60 series will do that (as will many/most/all?) of the other Garmin handhelds. The 60c_x might be overkill, but I certainly do love mine.
The possibility of getting in trouble even with a GPS is real. One time I walked way into a wooded area adjacent to some business parks. I found the cache after substantial crawling around in underbrush. I had my parking spot waypointed but couldn't "get back there from here" as the crow flies because of fences around the business park. I spent about 15mins trying some different approaches and started to feel worried and foolish. I mean, I knew EXACTLY where my car was parked and couldn't get to it. So i used the trackback to get me about 100m back down the trail where everything started looking familiar again. I was much relieved.
Of course, this kind of thing will only save you if:
* the gps has signal under the canopy (this dictates having something with a High Sensitivity receiver like the 60-series or the new H models, etc) ; and,
* you have the tracks turned on (IIRC)
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They are only showing up in the "find by name" menu selection and map. When I go to "Found" or "Not Found" Caches, I only get 3 of the 15 caches in my "not Found" and none in the "Not Found."
As Bobb noted, it's a function of distance.
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As far as budget, hey I'm a college kid so I don't exactly have money to throw around, but I'll spend what I need to get the job done (I don't know if that helps you at all - I guess whatever an older unit on ebay would cost).
If you are patient you will likely find used eTrex platform models off the garage sale forum here with the cable for $50 - $75.
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That being said, you should go with one of the smartphones with windows mobile... NOT the Palm OS, or blackberry. I know a bunch of computer techs, and their palm OS phones crash a lot, they call it "getting palmed".
Based on my experience with all three OS:
Blackberry is very locked down and I will never voluntarily use one again.
PalmOS is stable, easy on the battery, easy to use, and has 200 kerbillion free apps, syncs much better. I do not assume Palm will survive much longer due to years of their own corporate stupdity.
WMobile is usually on much better hardware, has better wireless connectivity, is slightly less stable, harder on the battery, syncs sometimes if at all, and every little dinky app will cost you. Grrr!
Note: "SmartPhone" is not synonymous with "WindowsMobile". Smartphone is the no-touchscreen version of WM; PocketPC is the touchscreen version. Usually PPC can run smartphone binaries but not the other way around.
If I could get a modern PalmOS interface on WM hardware (wifi/bt) I'd probably take it.
Another note: if you have the opportunity to go with a GSM network you can change phones at will. Buy a used one off eBay, whatever.*
frater mus
* assuming the phone is either for the same network or is unlocked. All mine are unlocked.
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Is case (.gpx v. .GPX) significant on a Mac?
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I just want to be able to load the cache information into the phone, so that I don't have to worry about printing.
It would useful to know what kind of phone you have (ie, brand and model number).
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I say just store them as gpx, edit whenever you like, then use POI Loader to upload at will. POI loader will work directly from gpx files so there is no extra work.
So there is no reason not to upload as POI now; no need to convert them ahead of time.
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Why does it show the proper road route on the computer but not on the device.
"Proper" to the PC is whatever it calculates.
"Proper" to the autorouting GPS is whatever it calculates.
"Proper" to the human is ???
Until the route is calculated in the GPS it does not exist in the form you saw it on the PC. It consists of precisely two waypoints which is what you are seeing.
Consider any route you saw in the PC to be strictly FYI, advisory, and nonbinding as far as the GPS is concerned. The GPS will rework the route on its own.
If you want the GPS to faithfully follow the PC-generated waypoints (ie, use no logic of its own) then you can use a tool that uploads actual waypoints along the route (like Metroguide) , or manually insert enough actual waypoints that the GPSr will follow a very similar route. Or use a non-autorouting GPS.
Are Garmin's just generally a pain to use?
No, they're fine. The trick here is to not fight the GPS. It wants to build the route; both of you will be happier when you let it. :-)
If you want to see the route that the GPSr will take, then pull that route up in the GPS and tell it to navigate. It will generate the route in a few seconds. If you put it in demo mode it will pretend you are driving the route.
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is there any tweaking i have to do to this unit?
The tweaking is to the procedure. Stop looking at the GPS when you are near the cache.
I think all GPS should come with this stamped into the side of them, like "do not stand on the top step of the ladder".
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When you upload a calculated route from CN into an autorouting GPS only the start and end waypoints end up in the GPS. Then when you navigate using the GPS it makes it's own route.
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I guess I am looking for something that will not jump coordinates while in under cover of trees. If that is possible. The couple of time I went we would be close and the GPS would be switching spots saying it was one direction and then the other. Other than that I am not for sure what I am looking for. Just looking for a good unit that will guide me to the caches.
When you get near the cache, it's time to stop looking at the GPS. Seriously.
I wrote much more but erased it and will instead point you to an older page I wrote on this topic. It does not have the latest generation devices listed but may be useful to read.
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When I go to the waypoint manager, about 3/4 of the points aren't there. I can see them on the map, bit I don't get a choice to pick them off the Waypoint manager.
Any chance they are being searched by Find Nearest? Some garmins seem to only see waypoints within a specific radius (150M?). Try Find By Name and see if they show up then.
If that's not it then I don't know. I have no info about how successfully (if at all) the Oregon implements the SDHC spec for that big card.
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Last time unlocked a Garmin map it was done from Mapsource itself, IIRC. I try my hardest not to buy/use/consider locked software. I run MetroGuide v8 on my autorouting GPS and it routes just fine, given a bit of convincing.