JAT2010

Literally all you need to do is follow the hint.

Can anyone tell me who to talk to about the list of apps that appear in the resources area of geocaching.com? I have a new app that I'd like to let people know about...

GSAK is $30. My own GPXMate (not yet suitable for TomTom) is $16 Those really aren't expensive. (And GSAK has a massive range of features!!) Anyway, for $0 you may find what you need at this site: http://tomtom.gps-data-team.com/ Hope that helps!

Nearly every garmin unit Ive seen allows you to drop a GPX file into a folder called GPX. The Rino has a capacity for 500 of these. It won't steer you to GZ, and probably won't offer you anything in the way of on screen information (paperless caching) but you should be able to see a point on the map and get closer to it.

How about printing some extra co-ords in funny colours, and having the cacher lay a sheet of red or yellow plastic over the top to reveal the details? Ive seen caches in tubes that require a bottle of water to float the cache up. (And frustrated cachers rip the tube up and turn it upside down) Battery contacts exposed outside of a sealed box with a panel full of holes. Some holes blocked up inside, some not. Attach a battery, a lamp inside lights up and shows numbers through the holes..?

1: Are mushrooms available all year round? 2: if there is more than one prize in the final cache, people will take more than one. (But you will probably know who has been, at least)

And a brand new app that is for this exact purpose: http://www.ursasoftware.com/GPXMATE/stepbystep/stepbystep.html Before and After:

I added a new post about how to use the cheaper Garmin car Sat Navs for this just yesterday. You can pick up an older eTrex or something similar through eBay to get map, b&w screen, and compass, but entering co-ords is a bit fiddly. Using a low end car sat nav, you can use pocket queries, bigger colour screen, good accuracy, but no compass. (you have one on the iPhone) http://www.ursasoftware.com/GPXMATE/index.html

A small announcement, which I hope is in the spirit of this forum : Following the loss of my personal Dakota 20, I spent some time researching whether my car SatNav ( a Garmin 1410) would be of any use as a caching tool. What I found was it is happy to accept a pocket query .GPX file, that the accuracy was way better than my iPhone, and it retained better signal under tree cover. It wasn't without problems, however. Not least was the lack of any useful information about the cache when you reached GZ. So, I'm pleased to announce the release of new software to make things a lot easier. And to save people several hundred dollars by allowing the use of the car SatNav instead of a dedicated hand held GPS unit like an Oregon or Dakota device. Theres a free demo version to try it out , and the full thing is only $16 as a download. Please drop by and have a look : GPXMATE web site If you have any questions, please use the links on the site to get in touch.

I have a cache in the centre of Edinburgh which I anticipated being able to maintain easily as (although I dont live there) I vist for work purposes at least every couple of months. What I hadnt anticipated is the likely volume of hits when the tourist season kicks in. Ive changed the log 3 times since November, but its been logged many times this week alone, and it's not even summer yet. So my options are: Find a new spot and put in a HUGE log (its currently a micro) Share ownership or transfer ownership to a genuine local Archive it TD it between trips when the log gets full If anyone wants to lend a hand with an Edinburgh cache just off Cowgate , please get in touch!

Thanks for the reply. In fact, the plugin works fine and all tests work OK. Ive done some more digging: there is a 'send to GPS' icon next to each cache individually when you do a search. Thats one at a time. Fair enough. There is no similar icon next to a pocket query: I can download them on an iPhone but I would prefer a 'send to GPS' icon for the whole GPX file. Bit of an oversight by geocaching.com, perhaps?

On a side note, I have a new Dakota 20 Ive installed the Garmin Communicator plugin, and it checks out OK But I cant find anywhere on geocaching.com that uses it. I have managed to drag a downloaded GPX file to the device and make use of it, but since there is this functionality available, it would be nice to do that in one step. Anyone know how to make Safari use Communicator to get a GPS or LOC file onto the Garmin in one click?

I'm almost scared to ask this question, but I think it has a bearing on this post... Why does anyone spend money on coins and stick them in a cache? Even more than a TB (which can be a boring dogtag attached to a brick), a nicely designed geocoin simply screams out to be stolen. They sell wallets for geocoins at meetings, who spends hundreds on coins that have no value? Does someone believe a geocacher is just a numismatic that likes the odd walk? And even if a GC travels, thats your money out there, isn't it? Would you put a 10 dollar bill into a cache and hope that people would move it from cache to cache? Isn't using a coin as a traveller tantamount to leaving your wallet in the front garden? Don't shout.. I just don't get it...

I'm already starting to feel jinxed. I took a Smart car TB to edinburgh as part of a race. The owner dropped, it, I took it 200+ miles, and now it has vanished. Thats maybe 3 days in Scotland, and unless someone is late logging, its been stolen. I went to the GC10 cache around the other side of Edinburgh Castle this morning. The details of the cache show 5 TBs should be there.. Nope. A broken watch (why???) some cracker fillers and a bottle top. Both my TBs are either missing from their first cache, or in 'dead' caches. So I'm not keen on investing in more right now. I think the problem is that people are putting 'meaningful' stuff attached to the actual travel tag. They're just too 'collectable' to the magpies. Guess we should make the tbs a thing of ugliness, or maybe imbue them with a lingering smell to encourage people to move them on!

Thanks. Doesnt seem to be available on the iPhone app. Nor does 'dipping a TB' seem to be an option. But Ive managed it thru geocaching.com now. Cheers

I cant find anywhere on the TB page or the log page to add a photo of the TB at a location. How can that be done?