Geo-Kate

My GPSmap60c is WAAS enabled, and I often get a quoted accuracy of 5 or 6 feet, which is pretty good. Most of the time it is between 8 and 12 feet. I think it is a good help finding caches, but as you say, the printed co-ords are only as accurate as the GPSr that placed it. A good tip might be to log a position a few times, and then avaerage the results. This should help in cancelling the wandering of position sometimes found. Another good way is to let the GPSr take an everage reading over a period of time. This has often got an estimated accuracy of 3-4 feet!

It is a little complicated. That's why I've written a guide to installing and using the contour mapping. It can be found HERE -Wlw I have followed the instructions exactly, and have rendered my mapsource program useless. It will no longer run at all, stating there is an error in the registry, and promtly closes itself. I don't think I will sending the error report to Garmin as it suggests, and i am now concerned I have completely ruined my mapsource product. EDIT: after much stressing and faffing about, I think i have it sorted. The path stated to put the files into may not be where your Garmin folders are. I added the countours file to my Garmin folder, but had to make a dummy Garmin/contours folder elsewhere with the files in.

I too have been looking at Topo Great Britain to put onto my GPSmap60c. The maps certainly look better that the road maps I have installed (city select7), but still not as good as OS maps. The contour lines must be helpful to have, as are many footpaths and tracks. The road map part is still compatable for autorouting for use in the car, wich would be nice. I would like to see proper screen grabs from devices, rather than the computer based screens.

Sadly, i can't help with your bugs, but i have a similar story. A while ago, a cacher picked up a TB of ours and had it in thir polsession for a few months. The strange thing is, in the log they made of the bug, they mentioned doing a run of caches that day, but not one log existed on their profile, except the log that they wrote to pick the bug up. It was found in a different chace a while later by somebody, and at the same time, the original cacher wrote some notes aginst his log. Strange. It is a shame when irrisponsible people keep other people bugs, or give the sport up without first getting the bugs back into circulation. Best of luck to you in finding out about you bugs. EDIT: DocBoggle is a cacher who seems to have visited at least one cache with hoovooloo. they seem to be active cachers, try contacting them.

Hi, first post here, with nearly 60 finds and 3 hides... We started off with the basic yellow etrex, and upgraded after a few months to GPSMAP60c. In my mind, the 60 series with the better QH ariel has a huge advantage. I use the 60c for navigation in the car too, as it has turn-by-turn routing capabilities when used with city select software. The basic GPS60 has a nice clear display (b&w), excellent reception and good functionallity. It has no mapping, but if that isn't in you requirements, it might be a good choice to consider. As with most people here, I think spending a little more now will prevent you from wanting upgrading a couple of months down the line and ultimately cost you more money.