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Hurrah - well done and many thanks. If there was a hand-clapping smiley you would see it here > so you'll have to settle for a BIG smile Thanks

I was very sorry to see the KML link to GE vanish. I used it as a matter of course to see what caches were in an area I was visiting, and to shortcut to getting cache details. It struck me from the start as the most natural way of locating caches in an area, and a brilliantly elegant step forward by/for the geocaching community/pastime. The corollary is that it's removal seemed a step backwards. Although there are other tools none seemed to me as simple and effective. Consequently I am very pleased and rather relieved to see that the code pixies at GC are moving forward again. Many Thanks for recognising the natural harmony of the link between caching and mapping and taking advantage of their synergies. I look forward eagerly to the launch day.

we've had a basic yellow (you can see where you dropped it) etrex, since Xmas and it works fine. There is a common error about its specification(and the camo). The error appears on the garmin site and suppliers who have copied data from it. The site says the etrex stores only one route of up to 50 waypoints and 1536 tracklog points. The current manual shows the following... Stores 20 routes with up to 125 waypoints each Stores 500 waypoints with name and icon 10,000 point active track log, 10 saved tracks (750 points each) WAAS enabled A Hunt/Fish feature showing best times for hunting/fishing Sun/Moon feature showing sun/moon rise/set (although the moon rise/set is not actually available!) See all etrex manuals at http://www.garmin.com/products/manual.jsp?...ct=010-00190-00 Download the current etrex manual ... http://www.garmin.com/manuals/eTrex_Owners...00andabove_.pdf The etrex is a fine device especially when linked with GSAK to manage cache locations downloaded in bulk. Even so, a GPS with a thumbstick such as the etrex Venture is more usable. It costs £30 more but you get a 'free' PC interface cable which you don't with the ordinary etrex. So don't dismiss the yellow etrex on the basis of the wrong spec. If a budget basic GPS is what you need then it's a good piece of kit.