skeg

Straight-through-Windows works for me using Intel MacBook with Parallels Desktop. POI Loader and other Garmin software "sees" my USB Garmin Vista HCx. There are some Mac patches on the Garmin website, but I can't remember if I installed them first or not.

Rats - GMail is encrypted pop3 and won't work with Geojournal's neat-o import-and-organize feature. I'll have to try later with my Hotmail (ick) account. Thanks jchiar for all your input! Running PQs by type instead of by date (the 3300 in NS run by date starting Jan 1, 2000 to make sure they're always up-to-date) is a great idea. I'll have to re-configure all my PQs, though, and at only 5 per day, it's going to take some time to test the whole thing... Anyway, I'm on the road tomorrow, I'll have to muck with this later, since I'm going geocaching!

Sounds like you're after the same thing as I am - serendipitous caching!! Agreed - I used to do this until the 7-character cache names came out. Ruined my system! I also note my details on my Palm (just a Z22), so the 'found' icon in the GPS is just a fun bonus for me. I used to be the same way, with my serail connector, until I got my new USB-only GPS. Now it's reversed: I can't get MacSimpleGPS to communicate, and have had to use GPSBabel. meg the skeg

No, they're saved on the SD card. Then in the Find menu of the GPS, instead of finding "Geocaches", you find "Custom POI" - and the option to find Custom POI doesn't appear on the GPS until you have some to find. To clarify, what I was doing in GSAK was running this macro: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=...amp;#entry18194 with these icons: http://www.thepropers.com/geocaching/60Ser...stomSymbols.htm so that all 3,987 caches I had loaded in GSAK (from 11 PQs that I run on different weekdays) would be available on my Garmin Vista HCx, and I could see on the map what kind of cache was nearby - wherever I'm travelling in my province, and a couple other cities I'm visiting soon. I took this Custom POI system out for a test drive today - I was prepared to be disappointed that you couldn't use the new 'geocaching mode' on the Vista with Custom POIs. <i>But,</i> it turns out you can - sort of. Once you arrive at your Custom POI (so, GC14DCX or whatever - don't forget to sign the logbook!), you can Save it, and then declare that you Found it (there's a Found button for your waypoint), and it'll automatically change the icon from whatever your custom one was (I only found traditional caches today, not sure if this will work with multi/puzzle/events) to the Geocache Found (open treasure chest) icon. Then, just like in geocaching mode, my GPS saves the cache in my calendar. The sky's the limit for us Mac-types, I'd say. Just have to get a couple of features into the already terrific software.

The Garmin Vista Hcx only supports 1000 waypoints. If I just use GPSBabel+ (I used to use Mac SimpleGPS when I had a serial connection) to send the GPX files, I can't take advantage of the 1GB micro SD card in my GPS - I hit 1000 waypoints and that's it. There are 3300 caches in Nova Scotia, and I'm going to be travelling to Ontario this week, and well, I just need more than 1000, that's all. I'll try that - it may well work.... Thanks so much for the hint, jchiar, in the midst of all my techhing (that's a verb) this week, I hadn't even thought to look for that in Babel! Big smiles.

Sorry to ask in 2 threads, but is there any support for POIs in this app, ie, can it output all the multis as "multi.csv" for POILoader? Thanks in advance - this is an exciting time to be a MacUser.

Does anyone know if GeoJournal supports POIs (ie will save to .csv)? Right now, the only thing preventing me from letting go of Windows on Parallel Desktop and GSAK is that cool macro that saves the caches as "multi.csv", "traditional.csv" etc, which then matches it to custom icons, for POILoader. There's a Mac version of POI Loader, of WebUpdater, a translator for MapSource for Mac; the only thing missing is the POI support for those of us who like to take 6,349 cache listings on the road with us! meg the skeg Garmin Vista HCx PPC Mac 10.4 desktop Intel MacBook

I think this has happened to me as well - the .gpx file that's supposed to contain 500 waypoints per the preview, only returns 83 caches, no matter which software I use to access the file. Very frustrating - thanks for the suggestion.

Mudfrog, how do you mean "straight from gmail"? I use gmail as well, so you may have just the key I'm looking for... Thanks, skeg

Hmmm, now I get the same error msg in both browsers. Does anyone want to tackle this one? Warning: unlink(/home/krugdm/public_html/itsnotaboutthenumbers/files/774087-wpts.gpx) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home/krugdm/public_html/itsnotaboutthenumbers/processgpx.php on line 61 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/krugdm/public_html/itsnotaboutthenumbers/processgpx.php:61) in /home/krugdm/public_html/itsnotaboutthenumbers/processgpx.php on line 64 Thanks, skeg

Hmm, any Mac OSX users out there (non-Intel, Tiger 10.4) find a good browser? Firefox doesn't like the .zip file, and Safari hangs....