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http://www.geocaching.com/waypoints/default.aspx GSAK is Geocaching Swiss Army Knife. A program that can make your life easier, no matter what kind of GPS you have.

search these forums for "odometer bug" But in a nutshell, one would think it should ber larger, not smaller. I mean, if a trackpoint is taken every second as you move along, and your position accuracy makes your line look like a zig-zag, then the total distance should actually be larger than what you walked. Driving should be closer to reality, but how often are your tire pressure exactly perfect, and have you not noticed that, using detailed maps, if you travel from point a to point b on a highway, and not switch lanes at all,, your cars odometer is always about 10% smaller than reality too.

Search pages show caches with bugs/coins in them. GSAK will tell you if a cache says it has a bug/coin in it. But you can't search specifically for them. One of the maps, I thought it was http://www.geocaching.com/track/geocoin.aspx would show you what caches had bugs in them, and I thought you could generate a PQ on those. And of course you said it yourself, avoid micros and you have a higher chance of finding travel bugs or geocoins.

That is a multi. Like http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcqzm5 or http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcqbta or a puzzle like http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcj7kq

They may bring this method back.And they may allow recurring purchases for all scales of buys 1 month, 3 months, and 1 year, both for PayPal and Credit Card and other purchase methods. And then you could always cancel the repeating right after the one gets accepted so there is no need for non-recurring purchases. But I emphasize 'MAY', and it is not so easy to cancel on one or two of these...

Something that would make things easier would be to allow one to drop off bugs while editing your own log entry that you just did a second ago. But no, you havee to write a completely separate note log to do the drop off if you forgot, and then delete that extraneous log, and edit the original log stating your bug drop if you hadn't done that. I'd want a half hour time limit though for something like this or bug shenanigans might happen. This has been suggested again and again for at least 3.5 years.

And of course any of the Meridians or SportTraks or other Magellans that use a Motorolla S-Record based firmware load file has been fixed by yours truly. I think Magellan was embarased at the ease of my solution and decided to fix the one model line that my method can't fix.

And depending on your GPS you might have Educational Institutions/Libraries as POI's on the mapset. I use this frequently. I've been to hundreds of libraries in just the last 90 days, over half of those are ones I've never been to before.

Sure, for real. My caching partner and I have done 60 caches in 20 hours once. And on a week long trip to the Mega Event in Quebec we did just over 100 caches. As a premium member you can do PQ's for 1/1 difficulty/terrain caches and go get em... It helps if you work for yourself and have 168 free hours per week, LOL. What gets me are the 43 people with over 10,000 finds, or the 2 people with over 20,000 finds, or the one with over 30,000 finds. That's at least one cache a day since caching was invented (on average, and if they actually started right then).

There's a little (big) button at the bottom of that page called "Mark My Home Coordinates". If you don't press that, the map will only be showing you what you have entered but not what you have 'set' as your home coords.

But tell me, Have you really had someone elses travel bug for over three and a half years? Have they not complained in it's not moving? you should also read http://www.geocaching.com/track/geocoinfaq.aspx I'm hoping that you don't think that you can keep the coins you have found, since you have actually only logged one of the two you said you found.

You could become a Premium Member for $30 and download all the caches you could ever want. But everyone here will tell you that the best, and most up-to-date, listing of ALL caches is right here at geocaching.com. A premium membership does help in getting lots of caches, and depending on your GPS, lots of good information onto your GPS. The program GSAK is great, I use Plucker for my Palm Pilot to supplement my GPS which is severly limited in what it displays. Edited to add. Coordinates alone are not enough for most caches. Knowing if it's a micro can mean the difference between happyness or sadness. Knowing that the difficulty is 3 can make a search of half an hour happen much faster that that. Knowing parking coordinates can make the difference between not trespassing and jail. Reading a hint, well some hints, can really speed up things. But some of this really only applies if you are in a hurry. Some people LIKE to be totally unprepaired. Not to mention puzzles and multi's...

Aos be sure to notice the cache size. That 1/1 might have been a micro and not been on the ground but eye level in a tree...

Really??? You are completely wrong!!! In a simple search around a particular local point where I know all 20 caches have people watching them, the only ones with an eyeglass on the search page are the ones that I am watching. You see the caches in YOUR watchlist, otherwise that icon would be absolutely useless.

Probably on any GPS with TOpo maps loaded. Just like turn by turn wording will only be on a GPS if routable maps are loaded. Mapsets add features to the GPS's that don't show up if you do not have that map set. Well, actually I'm talking from a Magellan users viewpoint but in this respect I imagine Garmin is the SAME.

The only way, the only guarranteed way, to elimiinate lost bugs at an event is to "not host an event".

For my smallest telescope I use a golf club case. I have nothing for the bigger one yet. Now, for nice cache containers you could use a Transit Case, cases that were used to transport military equipment. All are waterproof. You used to live near a place that sold them. I call it Electronic Planet, but they are known as Electronics Surplus Superstore ESS. Off Candia Road in Manchester.

But what your GPS can show is a different matter. Though with the GPX file ytou can put it on a Palm Pilot and see 'almost' exactly the cache page, just no links and photos, and HTML might be messed up a bit, and...

What about the opposite, if they did #3 but not #2? Would you delete their log? I've never policed my caches, and some have been muggled so it would be impossible.

Now that's something new to me. I try to learn something new every day.

Except that the modern ones do not display the number, the number is read RFID style electronically.

The answer to question one, how to do it, is to search by waypoint and start with GC1, GC2... GCA...GCF, GC10... It was hexadecimal in the beginning. Another way is to search the state where geocaching started, and nearby states, and states with mega loads of caches (like Texas) and go to the last page. Look for low GC numbers and ignore anything with 'faked' placed dates, i.e. those with modern numbers. The answer to your second question is; Forum posts can't be deleted (well they can but only in extreme situations) is that 1. There is no such thing as a stupid question. 2. Others can always benefit from someone elses questions and answers. 3. The forums are all part of history, forever. Boy do I feel stupid. Bit by that history thing and didn't even notice it.

Tidy didn't catch it?

Some GPSr's allow you to add your own Datum (or Geoid) in addition to adding your own map projection (or coordinate system). But I can't get mine to show me what constants it uses for the already defined ones. Time to hack into the firmware to see how that's done. I wich they allowed multiple ones. I have to carry with me the constants for the various State Plane coord systems in the various states I frequent (If I care to know the SP coords).

Others have mentioned in the past for problems like this. Use UTM coordinates, there you can almost always use 5 digits for each part of the coord and therefore get down to 1 meter resolution of your coordinate, but of course not 1 meter GPS precision. Edited to say, it's 5 digits when actually using the MGRS subset of UTM, for UTM it's 6 or 7 digits.