Moote

The whole affair sound like complete stupidity, putting themselves the chap and the local MRT at risk, I bet they got a good telling of by the local plod

Dropped mine into a duckpond at an event once and it still working fine

Hazel is correct, and you can find Garmin's contact details here http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/contact

Years ago I remember a website which had many pictures of coins, and at the time was quite comprehensive, but I can't find the link now

It's really nice to see it has lasted so long, many of mine appear to have vaporized; lets hope it can last many more years,

Maybe it's time that Groundspeak thought about using high availability technologies, such as Virtualization, and Failover / Replication. Using these or a combination of these technologies usually keeps your uptime at 99%

Many caches I has seen recently have drop in quality compared to the old days, could this be due to our obsession on numbers. Moote

You could, but you would have to provide the owner with a copy of a Public Liability Insurance certificate; that is your Crux.

HH There is one issue you have failed to point out here, this is as one of the legal definitions of dropping or dumping little is leaving something either intentionally or none intentionally expressly without the landowners permission. Leavening a cache without permission would fulfil the criteria of littering. Not sure what it is like in your neck of the woods, but this is certainly the case in England and Wales.

Sometimes a TB or coin owner actually does not mind if it goes off mission; contact the owner to see if they require it back in the US

I think the definitive place is the Land Registry in England and Wales; but that will cost you. I have heard that some people actually place without any permission

Which is the reason why the sites a script runs on are listed when it's installed. If you install a Geocaching script, and see a-bank.com listed in the sites it runs on, then do not install it, and go and shame the author/promoter on the forums. Its all about trusting the source of your script. Edgemaster, sorry the reply is late, only just noticed your post, I agree with you here, but how many people still get caught out by phishing emails, websites, and even the good old fashioned paper letter in the post, to name a few scams. We know what to look for; but many just get suckered in by what looks like a genuine offer.

If following a pointer is wrong we'd better all bin all our expensive GPS kit! Education is all about how you use the kit rather than exact design of the kit itself. I'm also totally with The Forester on this, it is essential that map and compass can be used and understood in the outdoors, and carried when in the big outdoors, a GPSr is only an aid to navigation and a paper map and compass should not be substituted by a GPSr. After all what would you do if the GPSr failed and you had no means to find your way out of a place.

Equally, the existence of a RoW is in no way affected by subsequent mapping (in)accuracies. How can you tell if the published footpath/ROW is legitimate. There is a footpath near me, that has a branch through a field. The owners (renters) have posted a No ROW sign at the top of the filed. How would you prove one way or the other. Usually there is a string of signs which show the direction of flow, these could be finger posts, little markers and boulder markers; but that might still not imply a RoW, as a Landowner can provide an alternative which usually is to avoid a possible danger, and is usually agreed with the RoWO. If the landowner alters the RoW he would normally publish the fact with a poster or posters on route. On time that a land owner might alter the RoW, with legitimate cause would be if the field is being harvested ploughed or seeded. Or as has happened in some areas when an unforeseen danger happens such as a unknown mineshaft opening up.

I once did a cave in Yorkshire which surfaced under a persons Kitchen window; they were very polite and helped us hose down all the mud on our kit, whilst still wearing it. Personally I think they got a buzz out of it

Mark I have found that using a 20MB/s speed card and producing the DB as I stated it hardly makes any noticable difference in the running speed of Cachemate. It is the GPX import that is notoriously slow if performed on an SD card (I think this is the reason Big Wolf wrote the macro), mainly because Read and Write is going on almost at the same time, So the macro has stopped the need to do this, and you will no longer be performing bulk Read / Writes in quick succession. Therefore Cachemate on a SD card is no longer a problem. I have been using my ~4GB card, since 2006 with no issues, I purchased it from MemoryC a trusted source, and I made sure it was SD and not the SDHC type (a mistake made by many) The links I gave you are for 2 high quality SD cards, the x133 card being great value for money. Moote

I think it has been mentioned before in other threads, just because your OS map has a footpath marked on it, does not mean there is a footpath there, not saying in any examples given here that that is the case, just making the point. The map is out of date the second the surveyor leaves, so don't just remove an obstruction without checking, or you could end up with a charge of criminal damage. It is always best to refer to your local RoWO.

I think Luke's comment underneath sums it up pretty well! I have to agree with you there

Wrong! I've a 4GB SDHC in my mio P560 Not wrong at all, I was using this example for the OPs MIO P550

From memory it has to be installed on the Memory Card, but this will slow down Cachemate, especially when importing the GPX files to create the database. So here are some tips, 1. Create the Database using the GSAK macro written by Big Wolf, then copy the created Database to the SD card (not via ActiveSync) using a card reader, 2. Purchase a fast memory card, most (unless it states so on the card) are usually less than 600 KB/s so look for high speed cards of 20MB/s. The cheap jobs from the famous auction site might state x133 (20MB/s) but often they can be slower Chinese copies, so buy from a known source. 3. Don't overfill your card, for efficient running any storage should have a minimum of 20% left free. Just a tip the same goes for your computers hard disk. 4. Buy the biggest card you can afford, I have a card of almost 4GB in my MIO 550, yes there are some SD cards which nearly touch the 4GB limit, you just need to shop around, I think I got mine from http://www.memoryc.com/ Remember that the MIO will only take SD cards and will not work with the newer SDHC cards. Moote Edited just to add the following Yes was MemoryC and found 2 4GB SD cards see below http://www.memoryc.com/flashmemorycards/sd...d133xultra.html http://www.memoryc.com/flashmemorycards/sd...ispeed150x.html

Never seen the point of ignoring caches, I have no problems with heights, houses, or life in general, life too short to ignore things.

There is no rule on what people write, it will always happen, I'm sure of this

Just realised the Geoscout link does not work, so look under the Geoscout tab here http://eastlands.dyndns.org/Default.htm?navstation

Try these http://www.gpstuner.com/en/ or http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/default.htm or http://eastlands.dyndns.org/GeoScout/Default.aspx All have advantages, GPS Tuner is great at accuracy and Beeline is good for caching, being able to hold cache pages. Geoscout can hold Cache info, and also synchronise OS map squares from MultiMap.com for offline use

There are some caches inside old Nuclear Bunkers