Glenn

英語を話すんではない人々はどうでしょう。英語を学ぶことを余儀なくされるように、彼らですか？多分、我々はそれに存在するためにあらゆる言語の要件作ることができます。

The instructions for doing this are in the manual for your eXplorist 310. If you haven't already done so I'd suggest downloading a copy and reading thru it. I bet you'll discover something useful that you didn't know about! It sounds like to me that you have most of the steps down for the drag and drop method. Based on your description I think the problem that you're having is that you're not putting the .gpx file in the proper directory. The manual has very detailed instructions on how to do this. Just to be sure that you are doing everything properly you should download the manual and follow the procedures on page 17 for Installing Geocaches with Drag ‘n Drop. If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask.

What I've discovered it that how you set your orientation on a GPS without an electronic compass can make a very big difference in your enjoyment. If you put it on course up then the map has a tendency to spin wildly when you walk slow or stop. If you set it to north us then the only thing that spins is the arrow. It is easy to simply ignore the arrow and watch to see if you are getting closer to or further from the geocache.

Magellan makes many different eXplorist models. Which one do you have? If you have the GC model I recommend upgrading to the latest firmware version. How do you know this? What indications are you getting? How do you know this? What indications are you getting? What is the name and version of the "download program" that you are trying to use? Since the tablet and GPS "see" each other have you tried accessing the file system of the GPS thru the tablet? If you can do this then you don't need a "download program". You just have to copy the files from your tablet directly to proper director in the GPS.

Aren't we due for another "I hate micros" thread? Is it Wednesday already? This week has really flown by!

I don't think smartphone users are being treated differently. What I see happening is smartphone users asking how to use their smartphone to do things that can either only be done with a GPS or is done better or easier with a GPS.

Here is the TB in question. Like Pup Patrol said you may be able to make a log to grab the TB from them. Once they drop the TB you will then need to edit your TB and uncheck Make this Trackable collectible.

....As for the QR code- If you've ever heard of munzee, it's a game where you have to find QR codes. If I want to scan a QR code, I'll do that. And the other thing is, there's nothing preventing me from taking a picture of a QR code, and emailing it to all 5 million geocachers(except for lack of time to do so) ... You are right that with munzee, there's nothing preventing me from taking a picture of a QR code, and emailing it to all 5 million geocachers. But there is something preventing them from logging it as a find. The gps of the smartphone that is taking the picture needs to indicate that they are withing a certain distance of the actual coordinates that are registered to the QR code. But I agree, a physical log book is the only way to go. That method isn't full-proof either. There are apps for most smart phones that can simulate a GPS. Simply turn off the GPS on the phone and run the app. You can make the phone "believe" that it is anywhere in the world you want. People have been using this method to "cheat" at foursquare ever since foursquare started.

They are the same thing. Originally there was the travel bug. It looked like a dog tag. Then people started buying travel bug and transferring the tracking numbers to other items like coins. These were still generically known as travel bugs. Then gGroundspeak started selling tracking numbers in bulk. They were mostly used for making geocoins but people put them other things as well. Their car, their dog, some even had them tattooed to their bodies! The geocaching store started selling things like travel tags and cachekinz. The original term travel bug no longer accurately described what these thing are. Geocachers have been referring to them as trackables for years. Groundspeak only relatively recently has begun to refer to them as trackable instead of travel bugs. You will travel bug and trackable used interchangeably on the Geocaching website. All of your questions and more are answered in the Travel Bug FAQ.

You didn't mention what internet browser you are using. Here is how you turn on the background printing feature in some of the more popular browser. In Firefox. Select File then Page Setup. Check Print Background (colors and images). Click OK. Your printed page should now display background images. In Internet Explorer. Select File then Page Setup. Check Print Background Colors and Images. Click OK. Your printed page should now display background images. In Opera. Click the Opera logo in the upper left. Rollover Print and select Print Options. Check Print page background. Click OK. Your printed page should now display background images. In Safari on a Mac. Select File then Print. Click Show Details. Select Print Backgrounds then select Print.

Oh, the visuals that one sentence conjures. Thanks, I haven't laughed this hard in such a long time. [if you don't understand why then lookup winkie at urbandictionary.com]

It isn't always the fault of the equipment. But before I get into that, having a GPS that is advertized as having a high-sensitivity receiver does help a little bit. I just checked the current low end offering from Magellan and Garmin and both the eXplorist GC and eTrex 20 have high-sensitivity receivers. I'd be very surprised if Magellan or Garmin are selling any new hand-held GPS units without high-sensitivity receivers. Also, the more satellites your GPS can receive the better chance that you will pick up a signal. The eXplorist GC can receive EGNOS (the European Union version of GPS) and the eTrex 20 can receive GLONASS (the Russian version of GPS). Again, since it is offered in the lower end models it wouldn't make sense not to offer it in all the other models too. WAAS, GWAS, and the like help with accuracy but not necessarily reception and like you said you are having reception issues not accuracy issues. I am unaware of a hand-held GPS that is currently for sale new that doesn't do some form of WAAS. So really it isn't an issue of higher vs lower end models but an issue of newer vs older units. What else could be affecting your reception? The way that you are using the GPS can a big affect on reception! For a GPS to work it's best it needs a constant stream of data from at least 4 different satellites. Placing your GPS in your pocket or in a bag can cause it to loose a lock on the required minimum number of satellites. While a GPS will recover quickly once it locks on to more satellites there is still a noticeable delay. Also be aware that some GPSes have power save modes that may or may not turn off the receiver. If you have your GPS set to automatically go in to power save mode read the manual to make sure that it isn't turning off the receiver when it does. Also turning a GPS off to save power isn't necessarily a good thing when you are within a couple miles of the cache. Remember a GPS preforms best when it is getting a constant stream of data over time. Lastly be aware of where the antenna is on your GPS and do not block it with anything. I knew someone who held their GPS upside down! He did this because the manufacturer put the buttons above the screen. Turning the unit upside-down made it easier for him, because pushing the buttons meant that he didn't accidentally block the screen with his hand. Unfortunately this also meant that the antenna was now at the bottom instead of the top of the unit and he would often cover the antenna with his hand whenever he held the unit. He was causing his own reception problems and didn't even know it.

All of the features that you mention are either already implemented, just not yet configured for geocaching, or can be added, with some changes to the website code. After all, Waymaking and Geocaching are run by the SAME company. I'm not saying to find or create a category for each and every cache. I'm saying make a traditional cache category and put all traditional caches in that category. Then make a multicache category and place all multicaches in that category. Then make an earth cache category and place all earth caches in that category. Repeat for all remaining cache types. Waymarking is more flexible than what you are saying. Have you ever seen the management options that are available to the officers of the groups that manage the categories? As an officer you have a lot of control over a category and how it looks and feels.

I disagree.... Yes, finding 10k caches in a day may be a challenge.. however, as my wife and I generally only cache while traveling nowadays, loading 4000 caches or more may be imperative for a long road trip. One never knows if wi-fi is going to be available when your cell is roaming and needed on an adventure, and when traveling more than 3000 miles it's nice to have a route of PQ's d/l'd and at the ready. This only just happened to us where went to California from BC and back. My GPS only holds 2000 caches and at a most inconvenient time the route was bare when it could have been loaded still. I understand that there are other solutions, but greater capacity is the one feature I am seeking. I'd be very wary about relying on one device to hold all the information on hundreds or thousands of my cache finds. If anything were to happen to the GPS then the only record of those finds would be lost too. I'd take a laptop with me to have someplace to backup my find log. The laptop will also provide you with a place that you can store additional PQs.

Not all caches are created equal. What you want to do is to stick to traditional geocaches that have a low difficulty rating and that aren't archived, disabled or needs maintenance. Having a recent (within the past couple of months) found log is also helpful but it isn't necessarily an indication of cache health, particular for caches with a high terrain rating. Do this until you are comfortable finding caches. Then work you way up to higher difficulties and different cache types. If you have a local geocaching club or just a local group of active geocaches you can get a lot of great help by attending meeting and events.

If they offered waymark categories which offer the same flexibility and the same options than are available for geocaches except that there is no container and no inclusion in the found count, I'd be happy to implement some of my ideas there. The way Waymarking is right now it does not offer anything geocaching-like to me and I still prefer to hide a container at a location I hate to tweaking the waymark concept to make my ideas that are best implemented without a container work. That says a whole lot about Waymarking which is far from what I have in mind when thinking of the concept of containerless caches. The statement that Waymarking is a replacement for virtual caches comes mainly from those for whom traditionals or short offset multi caches are what they have in mind when thinking about a geocache. Cezanne What I am saying is to implement Geocaching as a Waymarking department. Not just virtual caches but ALL caches. For example, the traditional category will require a person listing a Traditional Geocache Waymark to place a physical container with a log book. The logging requirements for the Traditional Geocache Waymark will include finding the container and signing the logbook. Your find count will increase. Except it won't be your Geocaching find count that increases but instead your Waymarking find count will increase. This will increase your Waymarking and Geocaching find counts, at Waymarking.com only. It wouldn't make any sense for your finds at Waymarking.com to be counted at Geocaching.com. In fact there would be no need for the Geocaching.com website anymore because everything that was recorded at Geocaching.com will now be recorded at Waymarking.com. There is far more flexibility and options with Waymarks than there is with Geocaches. The Geocaching website currently list 16 different caches types. Three of those cache types have already been successfully converted to Waymarking categories. There really is no good reason to exclude the 13 other cache types from becoming Waymarking categories. When I say bonus what I mean is that in Waymarking you will continue to collect smilies (if the smilie is chosen to represent one or more of the geocaching categories). If you choose to do so, you'll be able to collect the icons that represent the hundreds of other Waymarking categories, but there is no requirement to do so. If Geocaching is all that you are interested in then you can limit yourself to just the Geocaching category.

100% agree. If people really wanted to discover interesting places they would hit up Waymarking. I've found many interesting locations using that site. It doesn't take a lot of work to eliminate a bunch of categories that don't interest you and focus on the good stuff. In fact, being able to eliminate entire categories in a single shot makes it actually EASIER to filter out the lame stuff then it was with Virtuals. Of course, a lame Virtual gets you a smiley whereas a cool Waymark doesn't so it's easy to see why Waymarking never caught on in a big way. I've always thought that geocaches would make an excellent Waymarking department and each cache type would make an excellent Waymarking category. Groundspeak could then bring back virtual caches as a Waymarking category in the geocaching department. This way people who don't like virtuals can easily filter them out. As a bonus, people who like to collect smilies can collect other icons too!

Bingo! This review isn't the first to have been accused of using the position to gain an "unfair" advantage. I doubt this will be last reviewer accused especially with technology making everything more mobile and convenient.

Since the GPS is going to be used and abused by children I'd go with the Explorist GC. You don't need "all the bells and whistles". In fact removable memory cards (miniSD cards) aren't desirable because a mischievous kid could remove the card. I'd also steer away units that have electronic compass. These compasses need to be calibrated and are an unnecessary added annoyance in a learning environment.

I'm playing the Devils Advocate here. This is purely a hypothetical situation. With the state of technology today couldn't a reviewer view a cache up for review on their smartphone, tablet or other portable device. Go and find the cache. Then click on publish on the portable device as they are signing the log.

Talking about the Oregon 450. I just saw that Cabela's has them on sale for $175.

I have the Explorist GC model. did you preview the pocket query before you uploaded it. Where there 500 entries on it? What you wrote about suggests you only have 100 caches in the query and it may be displaying all 100 for you. This is very true. The total limit setting is often misunderstood, even by seasoned geocachers. The total limit provides an overall limit to the number geocaches returned but only of the other search options cause more than the value specified in the total limit to be returned. If your search settings cause less than the total limit to be returned the PQ will not expand the search parameters. It will simply return less geocaches than the value you set as the total limit because the total limit value was never reached. Think of it this way. If my search includes more geocaches than this value then exclude any geocaches that cause the limit to be exceeded. If my search returns less geocaches than this limit then don't exclude any geocaches from the PQ but also don't include any more geocaches.

Done to get another badge... It should be ripped off their sleeve, in front of the rest of the pack, to teach them all a lesson! Placing a cache is just one out of a choice of four activities in order to earn the badge. The purpose of the merit badge program is to allow Scouts to examine subjects to determine if they would like to further pursue them as a career or vocation. This means that they will try many different things throughout the year. They can, and usually do, quickly loose interest in many of the things that they try. Placing a cache doesn't fit well because it requires a longer term commitment than most Scouts are willing to give to something that they are just trying out once. Option A (visiting caches), option B (creating and releasing a TB), and option D (practice CITO) are much better option for the typical Scout. I think that option C needs to be refined and/or reworded to dissuade a Scout that isn't already a geocacher from choosing this option.

You don't need to use VantagePoint if you are comfortable with navigating folders and copying files. When you connect the GPS to your computer it will show up as an external hard drive. Just copy the files in the PQ .zip file to the Geocaches folder on the GPS.

What is the model number of the Magellan Explorist and what is the version number of the firmware? When you upload new PQs to the GPS are you deleting the old PQs? Have you always had this problem or is this something new?