gloplastic

Been paperless on an old Palm with cachemate for a while. Just got me a pocket PC and am looking for the 'perfect caching app'. Cachemate for PPC doesn't seem so friendly as the Palm version. All the other progs I've demo'd have had 'issues'. Let's see how Smache performs..... and if we can make it perfect! Thanks for pitching in another geocaching app! PEterW

Just found a 50m registration error in Google Earth i.e. it shows me something in the wrong place by 50m! After caching a great micro in a fallen tree that is still alive, which I only found due to a very lucky GPS lock and perfect reported position, I decided to find it on Google Earth..... only to find it was marked some 51m to the north east. Oh dear maybe, that puts an end to any 'virtual Geocaching' ideas. One would have expected better things..... PeterW

For contour lines ONLY.... try seaching for the Scottish mountaineering Club website. One of their members has converted NASA elevation data into a format to be uploaded to Garmin GPS units. You'll have to find the correct software to do the uploading though. I use them, but I am also using the European metroguide for the roads etc. Hope this helps PEterW (aka gloplastic)

Old Palm and an eTrex, just go to keep them dry and in the deep inside pockets of my coat. No near misses yet. PeterW (aka gloplastic)

After walking around in some nettles in the drizzle, I would like to suggest an idea to everyone. When you find the co-ords of a cache to be a bit off (and you are sure they are... good lock and rebooted GPS to ensure repeatable location) then could you post the updated co-ords in the cache log and tell the owner to check the co-ords. I have had several caches where bad co-ords were reported. I was lucky that with one of them, someone (not so long ago) had posted alternative co-ords in the log and I found the cache fairly easily. Geocaching is supposed to be fun, if you can trust the co-ords you can then blame yourself if you are not clever enough to work out the hiding place. Thanks, rant over!! PeterW (aka glopastic)

OK, I am looking for some advice. First a bit of background. I am using an eTrex Vista with Metroguide and the UK contours from the Scottish Mounaineering club. I use an old Palm and cachemate to allow me to go totally paperless caching. Metroguide on the PC with the geocaching pocket queries allow me to see which caches to go for, GSAK allows me to push the cache information into the palm and then off we go. The vista is nearly 5 and starting to get occaisional screen and click stick trouble. Now I am looking at a possible pocket PC(WM5)/phone, with a sirfStar3 bluetooth GPS reciever provding the pocket PC with location info, what mapping and caching progs can I get for the Pocket PC??? I like Metroguide, though I could do with more data and detail and the UK Topo appears to lack some of the road data that I know and like. To be able to use my metroguide on the pocketPC would be good, but I guess Garmin aren't likely to release a pocketPC version of metroguide as it would undermine their iQue business. It looks like MemoryMap, Anquet, Fugawi are some of the most likely possibilitites. Full OS maps sound like a good idea, but can I still locate the names of all the streets or are the maps just flat raster versions? Can they give me variable amounts of detail depending on the zoom level, like on my Vista with metroguide? I am slightly put off by the cost of the OS derived products as I typically only visit a few small regions, but want the option of getting other random locations I may go to. Maybe I ought to scan in the OS maps I already own and use them? Full multi-resolution vector OS mapping with route-planning and address lookup would be the ideal, but I guess we cannot have everything... especially as I guess it would be hideously expensive and take up many Gb of storage! Any suggestions from paperless PocketPC cachers would be most welcome! Cheers PEterW (aka gloplastic)

TOTALLY. I have maps and free UK topographic data loaded into my eTrex vista and run cachemate on an elderly Palm m125. I get emailed the upto date cache info weekly for the area I want and then pop it on the palm. Only a very few caches require pictures to find them, so this works fine. All notes are recorded on the palm and copied to the PC later. NO PAPER..... saves a fortune on ink. I still need to have deep pockets for caching, but I have plans to make the whole setup lighter with a kit upgrade! Paperless is the future.... though maybe not for offices! PEterW

Follow the registry editing commands. I had a mapsource crash and did a system restore to get it back. The problem is that the autoinstaller link to your garmin folder is not pointing in the right place.... use regedit and point it in the right place and all works. These maps are just excellent and coexist overlayed on my vista just fine.... just wish we could see them overlayed in mapsource on the PC?! Cheers PEter