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A mate of mine bought TT2 and a few months later had to pay for his upgrade to TT3. It wasn't that expensive though. A mate of mine got it free, he bought TTN2 a month or so before TTN3 was released. I had to pay the 30 squid for the upgrade - was worth it for the updated maps.

Personally I would wait for V5 as it hopefully has more up to date maps, although you *may* find that if you buy TTN3 now you get a free upgrade to TTN5 when it is released.

I use Tomtom for driving to caches and GPSTuner for the on foot part.

The feature list is no different to TTN3

The other replies are probably what you are after, but I can add that you can download a database of cache locations as POI's for Tomtom from http://www.geocacheuk.com/ Also, I use the GC .LOC files in GPSTuner to find caches when on foot.

I didn't realise it could speak prerecorded samples, mine was doing a very bad Stephen Hawking impression and reading the forthcoming road names incoherently. It amazes me that with all the developments in technology over the last 20 years, speech technology seems to have moved on very slowly.

Congratulations, it's a good feeling getting your first isn't it Using the Go must add to the challenge as well!

I use Tomtom in the UK, but I tried out Mapopolis just for the hell of it when I was in the States a while back, and not only did it look ugly, I couldn't understand a word it said. I didn't need it for navigation and so I can't comment on the relative contents of the maps, but as far as software goes, Tomtom is streets ahead - bad pun intended

I am a relative newbie who is currently in SE London. Apart from a glut of caches in Greenwich and above, I have a handful of caches within about 5 miles of me, all of which I have done. Central London may be packed out, but the suburbs still have lots of room.

My point is that you could ask him what the price is, but if the original price isn't on the website, then you won't know if it is discounted for cachers or not.

How would we know if it was competitive? His website doesn't quote rates for labels.

Oops, seems like I got a tad confused somehow At least I will have something to do when I get down there

I'm a wannabe Kent Cacher, I am hopefully coming to the end of a stressful house sale and move to Maidstone from London in the next couple of weeks. Looking at the list of caches, there don't seem to be many in Kent and Sussex :-(

I don't see any reason why it shouldn't, you can try the demo version for 14 days to find out :-) I don't know a lot of GPS software so I can't compare it, but GPS Tuner can import the Geocaching.com LOC files and set them as a target to move to, the digital compass takes you there. There are probably more powerful programs out there, but for the price, GPS Tuner is pretty good IMO.

I have been a long time user of PDA's (since about 1987)and got thoroughly spoiled with the excellent Psion machines. While the Pocket PC is in some ways good, my main gripes/wishes are: 1) Stability - it is about as stable as Windows 95, my Psions were more stable than XP! 2) Alarms that repeat and don't fully drain the batteries if I am not there to hear it 3) A database application (I had to buy Listpro to get a staple function of a PDA) 4) The red X button at the top right of the screen should close an application, not minimise it! (you have to use something like Icbar to get around that lunacy) If you throw a load of money at it in the form of software applications and utilities, it becomes useful, though still unstable, but it should have all those things built in like Psion machines did nearly 20 years ago. It is just as well I like the GPS applications on it or it would have been sold on Ebay ages ago.

I used to have a Handspring Treo 90 that I liked a lot as it has a mini keyboard that is a lot easier to type in data than the bizzarre handwriting recognition of the conventional Palms. It was a nice little PDA. I "upgraded" to a Dell Axim Pocket PC with GPS card that allows me to run Tomtom Navigator 3 for driving instructions and GPS Tuner for Geocaching. While it does a good job at GPS duties, as a PDA it leaves a lot to be desired. Microsoft seem incapable of understanding the concept of what people want in a PDA operating system.

Cool, thanks Barry :-)

Excellent web page, thank you very much The Forester :-)

Aha, that was a bit subtle for this newbie, thanks for the explanation :-)

Thanks for that reply, although I have to admit that everything except Pythagoras went completely over my head - I think I will have to go and do some research (I was kind of hoping there was a handy website with such a calculator on it!). I do have one bit that really puzzled me though - why do you say the difference is 6.23M and then 5.38M, I don't see the distinction between the two sentences. Either way ~6M out isn't very good as it was an average over 125 samples.

Yeah, it much more reasurring to watch two tons of metal rip a path to shreds and pollute the area than to face the fact that people have genitals, *sigh*.

Newbie question here - I just checked out my local trig point and took a fix using GPS Tuner on my Pocket PC. How do I find how far that is from the specified co-ordinates? The trig point is quoted as being at: 51.459751 N, 0.023914 W My GPS reported 51.45979641 N, 0.02386053 W Thanks.

Agreed. I just hope Jeeocaching is kept separate to Geocaching so we don't have to wade through more mud than is necessary.

Are you sure that includes P&P? My take on the price list makes it look like there is a small package carriage cost of £5.29 inc. (which makes the origninally mentioned Ebay lot look like good value!).

I totally agree, whether or not it is intended, it comes across as underhanded to me and I wouldn't buy such items.