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Not really useful, tracks take very little space on an Sd, so the best thing is to have it on and not bother about it. The gps will close the track (and start a new one) once it reached it's limit, this can go on for many many month. Being on a trip the less settings on the gps the better, if you set the track off every time sooner or later you will forget to set it on again. Too true. How many times have you got up from a spot and found an hour later your hiking pole or something else was left behind. 2 Cache's later when you're thinking, "I should poke that hole with a stick before I reach my hand inside." DOH!!! I left that #$%@ hiking pole back at that cache while signing the log.

I really want this thing before heading off to GeoWoodstock. I'll fly to Atlanta, travel a bit through Georgia and then have lots of time to mooch around central Florida. That's a lot of area and I want to have a bucket load of caches loaded, with my trusty old Oregon 450 as a backup, for the trip. Not having it in time means relying solely on the Oregon 450, with its 5K cache limit. I hear you. I'll be traveling overland from Houston to Lakeland (about 14.5hrs driving + caching along the way - we hope to make it in 24hrs ) I'll have my Oregon 400t with me (1.5K limit), and my phone and tablet (both w/ c:geo - got 30K caches in it right now - not sure what if any limit there is) and two fellow cachers w/ both phones and handheld GPRs units as well, so we'll be stocked up, but I'd really like to put the 25K or so caches that I've located in area's we'll be in my GPSr and familiarize myself with the unit. Not to mention, show it off at Geowoodstock XI.

Assuming it's some sort of xml or similar script, I'd agree with that line of thought. If there's some sort of encoding or encryption on top, that may prove to be a different matter. I'll bide my time, twiddle my thumbs and keep caching w/ c:geo on my phone and Oregon 400t until I see something working from him, before I buy a 600 series.

Is that a 12K limit for geocaches, as in caches in GPX files? --Larry Apparently so. The Montana has the same limit. I was hoping there'd be some info on a GPX>GGZ tool. GGZ so far remains a mystery. Yeah, that's the basic reply I got back from a Garmin Rep. 12K GPX file limitation still applies, but hey you can do 4M caches in our new proprietary standard .ggz that nobody knows what the heck it is, but if you go with our Opencaching which has like 50 caches on it for your area, you can download up to 4M caches to put on our GPS unit. Trust us. Ok, a bit of paraphrasing in that, but dadgum this is a bit of bait and switch until they have a way for others to create .ggz files. The folks at GSAK said they would PROBABLY be able to do it if Garmin releases the spec's/definition for .ggz files. Until there's a tool for generating .ggz files then this isn't working for me. Sorry POI's only don't cut it for me when geocaching on a GPSr.

I have nearly 50k geocaches loaded on an Oregon 650. Nearly 22k geocaches surrounding Seattle, WA: And another 24k + geocaches loaded covering a large portion of the state of Arizona: Hope this helped answer your questions Great Thanks!

Well I was hoping to get on here and find that a couple early birds got there Garmin Oregon 600 series. But it looks to be delayed I was really wanting to see someone with a Standard .GPX file (1.0 or 1.1 - say generated from GSAK) w/ 30K+ caches in it loaded up and no balking. I know it's been debated as to what they mean by unlimited, as for myself, I question it until I see a huge quantity in there. I don't mean all 2M geocaches but something that would cover a couple big cities. 1000 or even 5000 caches a few years ago would have been fine, but now many NA and EU cities are have > 10K caches in them. When I travel (even across the city I live in) I don't want my GPSr to be restricted to relatively small pockets of caches. I've had as many as 35K caches in my phone to cover my home city and two other cities I was visiting. Sure I could have gone live view on my phone but you never know when Data Service is going to crap out of Groundspeak decides to perform an update. I'll check back in a couple weeks (unfortunately after the Texas Challenge XI Mega Event) and see if anyone's demonstrated this.

Buried is being placed under ground, a sprinkler head has the head at the surface and many containers are placed this way. That said, I've taken the top off probably a dozen sprinkler heads so far, and I've damaged none of them. All are very easily reassembed, push it back down and screw it back on. So far I've only found one sprinkler head cache hide. I'm considering buying a new sprinkler head to replace one of my existing ones that has the nice water mineral build up on it and placing it out there. The one thing about these is that they tend to be fairly muggle proof.

You could easily make it a multi-cache with the first stage pointing to the final but needing BT to do so. And you could put it in a metal lock box with a pad lock to limit vandalism and state plainly in the cache that it requires BT. I think it's a great idea personally. I've got a cache that requires UV light for the first stage. A similar things is done today with Garmins 'CHIRP' and these caches are accepted so I don't see why this one wouldn't be. I'd also make something available there at the first stage for someone to get the coords to the final w/o the BT if it's not working. A couple caches around here have hidden another container near the chirp with cords for those w/o chirp or if the chirp signal is too weak. I've had issues w/ Chirp signals in the past.

Personally, I HATE the new maps. Sorry, but MapQuest, OSM, OCM are inferior to Google Maps. I use the Google Maps Satellite view every time I look at a cache's location. 1.) MapQuest Aerial view is of extremely poor quality 2.) It loads extremely slowly - it's not just via Groundspeaks interface, but on MapQuests site it's very slow to load. This is a giant leap backwards IMHO. Heck, if you need to limit Google Maps to PM's do so.

First, as has been stated there's more than one way to skin a cat (about 1/2 dozen ways to achieve the open in new tabs and many of them automated to a single click.) Second, isn't that a middle button on the laptop you're displaying? It's becoming more and more common for laptops to have middle buttons. I know mine does. The simplest solution of the one extra step isn't a big deal. I'd much rather have this than being forced to a new tab all the time. It's simple to just assume it will not open a new tab/window if you know you want to come back to the same window. I'd rather not be forced into opening a new tab when I know I'll not be coming back to it because that means one more tab I'll have to close as I'll quickly grow to over the 15ish tabs that get displayed at a time and then I'm side scrolling my tabs.

Flaming Geocide - Wow, I think I have the name of the geocache mystery I've been working on!

You do realize that most of those regions do not even have one cache in them, and others only have one or two caches correct? It's the least densely populated geocache region of the world. There are regions bordering the Moscow Region that do not have caches in them. While I'd say it's a great idea if there were a decent cache population throughout Russia, it's a waste of effort when most of Russia doesn't even have any caches. Dasvidaniya Comrade

I agree in principle, but you also make the assumption that you're GPSr is right at that instance (or more accurate) than the CO. That's not always the case. I had someone swearing one of my caches was 10m off. I use a Garmin Oregon 400T w/ GPS averaging, and my Android Phone w/ GPS averaging for a couple mins, had the exact same coords from both, checked the coords on Google Maps Sat view which had the spot nailed w/i may 1 or 2M max. It was simply their GPSr that was off. It happens. That said, I've been on the opposite side many times. I've found caches off by as much as 30M (circling out.) I took averaged coords and sent them to the owner, and informed the owner that they should take a look at Sat views from the coords. That said, it's often a matter of missing a digit and not doing the do diligence of rechecking the entered coords w/ Google Sat image (if reasonable) or at least a visual inspection. I know I can be just as guilty as anyone off it. I've entered final coords in my GPSr incorrectly more than once and developed the habit of double checking, and if it I'm not finding it reverifing the coords I entered. That said, 10M isn't too gross of an error. I'd still make a comment on it, but only if I took the time to do an average of the coords.

I actually plan on doing a gotcha, if they select hike and do it too quick, I know the biked it and will tell them to do it again. Anyway, I'm still stuck w/ how to generate the option of making to options, hike and bike buttons to push. Any inputs?

Ranger Fox, I guess the one thing I'm missing is how I create the options themselves, that is what actions do I need to drag into the 'on enter' of the zone using urwigo. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm trying to build my first Wherigo, but seem to be running into some issues figuring out how I can accomplish what I want to do. As a side note, I'm an engineer and I have a decent amount of SW development experience, just not use to the 'syntax' for lack of a better word. The focus of my Wherigo is to traverse a hiking/biking trail, but I want to put a time limit on it (not too hard but not too easy either.) I also want this to be done via Hiking or Biking. So after entering the 1st zone, I want the user to make the decision of hike or bike. I've created a task for both hike and bike, but I'm not certain how when in the first zone to select them, and then when the reach the 2nd zone, located at the starting point the countdown time will start (created 2 countdown timers) which one will depend upon whether doing hike or bike. When traversing through the zones, it will set variables from false to true, and at the last zone it will stop the timer, and at the end it will verify all zones where traversed and the timer was stopped before expiring. So my question is how I setup and use variable for Hike or Bike and check which one was chosen. I've set them as Boolean False for initialization, and I'd want the selection of Hike or selection Bike to change the variable condition to True, and this would be used show the task at this point, and to start the appropriate timer when entering the start zone. I'm using Urwigo BTW.

Looks like it's back up today :-) Did another WHOIS on them and looks like the leased the name for another year.

Ok, I haven't used purplehell.com in several months and today I wanted to give someone several progressively more revealing hints in one e-mail so I was wanting to ROT13 them (so he can decode them one at a time.) Anyway I of course went to Purplehell.com and found that the website is down and I'm on one of those redirecting pages. I found another ROT13 page so please don't bother with posting 'here's a place to ROT13 something.' I'd just like to know if anyone knows what happened to Purple Hell. Also, I'm well aware of a number of other riddle/puzzle/solving pages so I'm not looking for a list of URL, just if someone knows what happened to Purplehell.

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but when I try to load a .kml file of a list of caches my Laptop does a hard crash, it simply shuts off. I've never experienced anything like it. It's not a blue screen of death but a simply shuts off. I can use Google Earth all day long w/o an issue. My laptop is a Dell M4300 w/ a Core 2 Duo (2.2GHz) and 2GB of RAM running WinXP Pro w/ SP3. Anyone else experience this issue?