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ere's the first one I ever found.... last week at Wildcat Mountain State Park in Wisconsin 43°42'4" N 90°34'47" W

--> QUOTE(Luna B @ Oct 18 2009, 03:20 AM) 4098460[/snapback] First: I'm not very familiar with this forum. Hope to post this the right place/way === I do have a wish; I want a map-function showing all caches/waypoint from a bookmark list... As an example, if I open a bookmark list of interesting caches, I will like a "show on map"-function visualising the content of the list on the map, eventually including waypoints showing parking possibilities, trail heads etc. I do hope this will be possible in a near future, not costing to much energy and resources. Best seasonal wishes from Bergen, Norway! I agree. I would use this feature constantly -- especially for series caches and puzzle caches.

Been out of the loop for awhile, but I think you all are right in that, if its not for the iphone itself, I think we can thank the iphone's penetration into the market for garmin to realize they really have to get with the MAC program, literally. My GPS died, and I'm in the market for a new one, so we'll see...

We just downloaded the new Google Earth Plus and its really nice. (we note that its in Beta). But we noticed that the groovy little icons that mark caches in the Geocaching kml overlay thingy (sorry, I'm slipping into non techy jargon) doesn't work. They're just push pin icons. Has anybody else noticed this, tried it:? We kept the previous version of Google Earth, and all our stuff transferred to the new one. It still picks up the caches, but we really liked the Geocaching icons that differentiated between types of caches. Are we doing something wrong, or is this just what you get when you go Beta?

I use a Treo 650, which has a Palm operating system. I'm not sure about the operating system of the Blackberry. If it is Palm compatible, then Smittyware's CacheMate is what you want. The Blackberry OS is NOT the same as the Palm OS. In fact, the Blackberry fundamentally has a different function as most Palm devices. Palm devices are first and foremost mini-computers, and have a develoment language and OS that is meant for devices that were meant to compute. The TREO series is simply a Palm with wireless communication capability (excellently I might add) attached. The Blackberry, on the other hand, is the opposite: it is primarily a wireless communication device (later models offer voice/cell capability), but there is beginning to be more development of apps for the Blackberry OS. But its core function is communication with a darn good PDA; the Palm's core function is a PDA and computing, and the Treo adds the comm aspect. A word of caution: you might find it difficult to find reliable programming for the Blackberry, and depending on your service provider, and who owns the BES server that your email is coming off of (email being the chief reason presumably one carries a BB) you may not be able to load any additional shareware/peripheral software. If you have a BB service/email through your job, your BES server administrator may not want you putting any unauthorized code on a unit that may, ultimately, infect his/her BES or Exchange/Notes/Mail server. Or else your tech support people don't want to have to support it. If you have private service (with, say your local ISP providing your BES server service, or even Yahoo or HotMail providing your BES service) go nuts. I'd be interested in knowing what's out there. A cludge of a fix might be, if you have Meta Message, to pop your cache files into Word or Adobe PDF and email them to yourself. Meta Message will be able to read them as attachments.

Actually, part of how I got into this sport was with the family, it basically seems like the perfect way to get out with your kids. they love a good treasure hunt, and they like the technology. My kids are 6.5 and 1.5, so I put the toddler in a backpack and my older ones does the detail hunting!

Hi. I'm new to the sport (and this is my first forum post), and I'm about to go shopping for my GPS, but this isn't a "Which GPS should I buy" question, I promise. Here's the thing. I don’t need lots of bells and whistles, but I would like the convenience of being to download waypoints into the GPS from the website (which I would access from my Mac running OSX). I also have a Palm device that I usually have with me at all times. However, I've read in some forums here that's there's issues getting GPSs to talk to Macs. But in the software FAQ, it seems easy. I have a premium membership (30 bucks to support this site seemed only fair). From what I can tell, I need: --"GPS Connect for MAC OSX" -- software to load on my Mac that would allow me to download waypoints directly into a GPS, provided I buy a -- A Garmin GPS (since GPS Connect for MAC seems to be Garmin-specific). -- A serial to USB cable/adapter to connect the GPS to the Mac when I'm ready to download -- A copy of Mobipocket Reader (free) loaded on my Palm to get cache pages to read all the detail about them. This really seems way too easy for what I want to do, if I am to believe this (admittedly way over my head since I'm a newbie) frightening thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=81948 What are the people in this thread trying to do that I'm not? Can I do what I want to do with just what I've listed above? Or am I missing something? -- Veronica

Hi. I'm new to the sport (and this is my first forum post), and I'm about to go shopping for my GPS, but this isn't a "Which GPS should I buy" question, I promise. Here's the thing. I don’t need lots of bells and whistles, but I would like the convenience of being to download waypoints into the GPS from the website (which I would access from my Mac running OSX). I also have a Palm device that I usually have with me at all times. However, I've read in some forums here that's there's issues getting GPSs to talk to Macs. But in the software FAQ, it seems easy. I have a premium membership (30 bucks to support this site seemed only fair). From what I can tell, I need: --"GPS Connect for MAC OSX" -- software to load on my Mac that would allow me to download waypoints directly into a GPS, provided I buy a -- A Garmin GPS (since GPS Connect for MAC seems to be Garmin-specific). -- A serial to USB cable/adapter to connect the GPS to the Mac when I'm ready to download -- A copy of Mobipocket Reader (free) loaded on my Palm to get cache pages to read all the detail about them. This really seems way too easy for what I want to do, if I am to believe this (admittedly way over my head since I'm a newbie) frightening thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=81948 What are the people in this thread trying to do that I'm not? Can I do what I want to do with just what I've listed above?