johnvanderlip

It's been sold

It's been sold.

I bought a smart phone so I sold my iPod and have no use for this. It comes with the full car kit. If you currently use your iPod for paperless geocaching this gives you GPS capabilities as well. With Navigon installed you have a fully functioning car GPS giving you full route guidance to the cache or somewhere less important. This works great for park and grabs. I dropped it once and the case has several chips and is slightly separated but it doesn't impact the performance at all. The big con with this device is that it takes a while to pick up the satellites so it's not great for walking around town and pulling it out of your pocket to quickly see if there is a cache nearby. This unit really excels when you pop it in the windsheild mount and use it to navigate to a cache. When you arrive switch to geosphere and pop it out of the mount and use it as a normal handheld to lead you to the cache. The car mount also keeps everything charged up so you can go all day. I'm located in Canada but travel a lot so I can ship from Canada or the U.S.

I have a Geomate Jr. in good condition with the update cable. The company stopped supporting these but apparently pocket queries can still be loaded, I haven't looked into it much. I'm located in Canada but travel a lot so I can ship from Canada or the U.S.

I thought I would post this in the hopes it might help someone out. I was at my local Walmart and noticed they were clearing out the Legend HCX for $100 and the Etrex H for $50. Not sure if it's country wide but might be worth a look if you're in the market for either of these.

NeonGeo seems like just what I was looking for. The interface is nice and loading maps for offline use is very easy. I loaded a pocket query and then in order to load the offline maps I went to Info -> Data -> Phone Menu button -> Offline Map Wizard and it automatically downloads the map tiles for the caches in your pocket query. Thanks for the info!

I just picked up an inexpensive Android smartphone with no data plan. I'd like to try to use it with a geocaching app and some offline maps. Any recommendations? I tried c:geo but never had any success creating offline maps. The whole process of creating offline maps seems very cumbersome and a major PITA. Ideally I'd like to have a few pocket queries and maps for cities I commonly travel to.

Mine are all back to normal now and I didn't modify anything. Looks like it's fixed.

I did the same thing. Check out my kids caching series. It's a kids puzzle, a kids multi and was a traditional which I had to archive.

I can answer a couple questions but I use the XGPS251. I use the geosphere app and Navigon for driving. It's pretty slick, geosphere has an option to allow you to switch to Navigon to get driving directions to the cache. It's perfect for park and grabs, as you get closer you switch to the compass page in geosphere, get as close as you can and the pop the iPod/cradle unit out and walk the rest of the way. As far as maps with the caches, if you look at the map page in geosphere while you have wi-fi the maps are tempoarily stored in memory so they are still available while you're out caching.

And then there's the puzzles out in the water. You have to solve them only to find they're on the wrong side. That's my problem.

I picked one up that had just about completed it's mission of going to Disney and returning home. It took five years to finally make it home, I brought it a few hundred miles closer and another cacher got it within a couple of miles of the final destination. Then it was taken and brought all the way back to Florida. I think it will be looping back and forth from Montreal to Disney forever. kind of funny really.

The guy might of signed the physical log but not logged online because he can't remember all the caches he was at. Go back and look at the logbook.

I have both. I started with the geomate but upgraded to the etrex because I wanted mapping and the ability to do puzzles and multis. The geomate is nice for traveling because you don't need to preplan, just turn it on and see what's nearby.

On the cache page you could have a look on the right side under bookmark lists. Maybe the cache owner created a shared bookmark list of his series. I did that for a series I made, I copied the idea from a series I completed. I'm fairly new too so I'm not sure how common it is but it seems like a good way to do it.

I had a great day out with my kids in a small forest off the 401 at the exit by Ridgetown. I think most of the caches were owned by BC and mskitty. Wouldn't be much of a detour since it's right by an exit.

I aways felt a bit reassured when I was on more treacherous terrain out in the woods knowing I had my GPS coordinates and a basic cell phone. I figured I could simply give the coordinates and it would a quick rescue. Apparently not. Those 911 operators need google earth or at least the rescuers, more and more people can tell you there GPS coordinates nowadays whether or not they're geocachers. Don't rescuers have handheld GPS's available to them, I hike way off trail sometimes. I figured if I ever needed rescuing the guys would at least have a cheap etrex handy.

I've found several caches using google earth only and it's a fun way to do it. This thread got me thinking it would be a neat attribute to add "google earth friendly" if it's easily found without a GPS. I know this thread was asking about hiding before somebody points it out.

I've been looking all over the net trying to find a camera that would be good to throw in a bag and bring along geocaching while leaving the more fragile camera at home. I would like something shock resistant, water resistant and takes AA batteries like my GPS so I don't have to worry about charging another type of battery. Some of the carabiner cameras look cool but the image quality wouldn't be there. The new Kodak EasyShare sport almost fits the bill but it isn't rugged, just waterproof. All the others I've seen are expensive and use proprietary batteries. Oh yeah, I want to spend less than $100. Any Ideas? I'm not against used or refurbished.

Good, I'm glad the post helped somebody out. I've been using them in my PN-40 and am very impressed so far.

Just picked up a charger with 8 AA and 4 AAA batteries online from Dell.ca with free shipping for $29.99 http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/Accessories/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&cs=cadhs1&sku=A4620478&baynote_bnrank=7&baynote_irrank=0&~ck=baynoteSearch

The fact that there will be no more firmware updates shouldn't deter anybody. If you like what the gps can do as it is and there are no critical bugs it doesn't matter.

I always buy refurbished when I can. I bought a Delorme PN-40 for $120 and it's like new. I've also bought a few iPods over the years and many other electronics. It's the only way to go. Never buy extended warranties and always buy "open box" or refurbished when you can. You'll be rich! (or broke if you buy too many, it could go either way)

This one moves. GC17ZP4

Create the pocket query, since you're limited in space keep it to about 450 caches, exclude caches you found to save space. Once you have unzipped the file open the mapsource software and click File>open and then navigate to your new .gpx file. Then just plug in your gps and click transfer. It should automatically detect the gps and have the waypoints box preselected. Remember to delete all of the previous waypoints in your gps beforehand. You do that in the Trip computer screen.