JimmerUK

Let's all just stick our fingers in our mouths and hail a cab to reality town for a second. This is a simple miscommunication, that's all. Look at it from the OP's point of view: He's discovered Geocaching and got all excited at finding his first cache, as I'm sure we all did. The moment he popped the lid of the iconic lock&lock he thought to himself "I've got a brilliant idea for a cache! I love this!" as I'm sure we all did. By the sounds of it he lovingly spent some time putting his cache together, not some pokey magnetic nano stuck thoughtlessly behind a street sign, and trusting his device (and why shouldn't he if he used it to find one already) placed it and submitted it for publishing with glee in his heart that he's contributed to the community. The reviewer saw the cache with admittedly a severe accuracy issue and, after a couple of messages, decided to archive it. Understandably the reviewer didn't have time to write an essay on why, probably having eleventy-seven other caches to review, but clearly he didn't convey much information as to the reason for the cache being archived. The OP, understandably, views that his cache has been rejected out of some old-boy elitism against the new fandangled iPhone members of the community and, after failing to elicit a reasonable response from the reviewer as to why, he gets shirty. It turns out that the OP's ONLY mistake was to use the wrong tools for the job. He used Google Maps on his iPhone and not a proper GPS application such as MotionX or indeed the official Geocaching App. Is his enthusiasm and subsequent outburst at his perceived rejection really such a crime? A new member shouldn't be chastised for making a mistake, their enthusiasm should be embraced, they should be helped and (quite literally in this case) pointed in the right direction. Also, this has highlighted the fact that there does actually seem to be some elitist element by the dedicated GPSr old-guard against the newer iPhone users. Remember, the iPhones will have better chipsets than older dedicated GPSr units. Just because some people can play Doodlejump or make phonecalls on their devices as well as find geocaches doesn't make them any worse or less valid a tool. Every community needs new members. I've only been doing this for a couple of months, I started with an iPhone and found it perfectly acceptable (except under heavy tree canopies, but then who doesn't have trouble under the trees). I've been very active in my area and have gained a bit of a reputation because, as you can probably tell, I'm awesome. I've since bought a Garmin Oregon (which arrived today), and I have several prototype caches, with hours of build-time behind them, being tested for weathering before I put them out. If I'd had the same experience as the OP at the very beginning I'd probably be a bit miffed too, and would have knocked the whole thing on the head there and then.

My 450 was delivered today and I discovered exactly this problem. Especially annoying when two of the four caches I did this evening were a multi and a puzzle. The way I'm playing it is to have the geocaching dashboard on my map screen, but NOT on my compass screen. That way I can flick back and forth, using the map to navigate to traditionals, and the compass to go to waypoints.

Am I missing something here? I got my Oregon delivered today and noticed WAAS in the settings. I did a quick search and discovered that it only makes a difference in North America. "Currently, WAAS satellite coverage is only available in North America. There are no ground reference stations in South America, so even though GPS users there can receive WAAS, the signal has not been corrected and thus would not improve the accuracy of their unit." http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/waas.html So, if I turn on WAAS, based in London, am I actually using EGNOS?

I ordered an Oregon 450 from Handtec last week and it arrived today. Went out to test it this evening and must say I'm very impressed. Up until now I've been using the iPhone. The Oregon's Geocaching app is very similar to the iPhone except you download all the cache details in advance, so no hanging around trying to get a 3G data signal between caches. The accuracy is amazing, I'm so happy with it.

Nope, that's what I was trying to do for ages, but it's the wrong way round. That little button on the compass screen only changes the top, not the larger section. I was trying to add the map to the compass, but you need to add the compass to the map, which I figured out by accident. To get the compass to appear on the map go to Setup, then Map, then Datafields. Tap Dashboard, and select Geocaching Active. Come right out, back to the main menu, then select your map... tah-dah! You should have the geocaching dashboard displayed above your map, just like the image.

Ignore me. I got it. I was doing it the wrong way round. I was trying to display the map on the compass screen. I just played with all the settings and accidentally activated the compass on the map screen. D'oh.

On the Garmin website it shows the geocaching app with the map and compass displayed on the same screen. I can't figure out how to do it, I can only see a small compass with the distance in the top bar (same as image) but a larger compass in the bottom section. Any ideas what settings I need to change? Cheers Jim