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You can always try the Search the Map button on your profile page (https://www.geocaching.com/my/default.aspx) That is what I always use.

GSAK can be run on a MAC as long as you have a windows emulator, I know a few people who do that, but as I use Windows I do not know the details on how it is done.

As PQ's are limited to 1000 caches there is no way you can use them to amalgamate the CM bookmark lists, hence why they are limited to batches of 1000. If you have GSAK you can then load all the PQ's into a single database and then use one of the many mapping and routing macros available in GSAK to see the caches and workout a route.

There are active Facebook groups for Sussex, Surrey and Kent, so I would suggest joining them. Additionally all three counties have monthly meets see: South East Area Monthly Meets, so I would look out for those and try and get along to one of those where you will be welcomed.

Talkytoaster can also provide maps

There is the Sussex Olympic Rings Just above Haywards Heath. There is also some constellations, smiley face and Fish near to Newhaven and Peacehaven in East Sussex

You could try contacting Talkytoaster, as he supplied me with a complete set of maps for Spain, just last month. Talkytoaster Maps

If you use GSAK on your PC you can get the iGeoKnife app for iPhone/iPad and then you can copy your GSAK database(s) onto your iPhone/iPad and have all the caches displayed on a map, as well as all the information and extra goodies that GSAK allows you to do

I would also add a log to say that you have checked the cache, as that will let other cachers know that it is there and everything is OK.

Have you copied the files into the correct folder on the SD Card? For my Dakota it needs to be in the Garmin\GPX folder on the SD Card in order for the unit to find the files. Hope that helps.

I have recently published one and initally it would only work on the iPhone, as that is all I had to test it on. It did take a lot of playing around to even get it to work on that, so I would say it is not an easy thing to do, but it may be I did not start with a very basic cartridge. After publishing it I was notified by the first people to try it that it did not work on the Garmin Oregon and Andriod phones . I have since managed to borrow a Garmin from a local cacher and I managed to tweak the cartridge to work on the Garmin eventually. Only to find it then did not work on the iPhone!!! A few more hours of tweaking and I eventually managed to get it to work on the Garmin and iPhone. I still have no idea about the Andriod phones yet, but I may have a gueinea pig testing it for me soon To sum up: I would say it was fun, but then I am a software developer, so I like this type of challenge. It is going to take you some considerable time to learn how to build the cartridges, so you need to keep plugging away at it, just remember there is more than one way of doing anything. Before releasing test the cartridge on as many different bits of equipment that you can beg or borrow from your friends.