[Holiday Caching?]

I use the WAP service on my mobile to log in bugs. Its not that fiddly. I don't write logs for caches, just bug pick-ups and drop offs.

 

practise using WAP on your PC then you'll know the way round it.

 

http://wap.geocaching.com/

 

Dave

[Binoculars]

Just ordered a pair having not seen your post saying out of stock. They've not contacted me yet to tell me out of stock yet.

 

Back to the drawing board...

 

Dave

[Maps]

He must have misread my post 8 above yours then!!!! :-)

[What Made You Chhose You Avatar Image And Tagline?]

We cache as a family hence the 'team' part and you guessed it.... we live in Ballibeg!

 

The pic is almost all the team nicely silhouetted at this cache Duncan Ban MacIntyre

 

Dave

[Maps]

Where is the best place to download the Garmin maps for etrex from??

 

Unfortunately you need to get a MapSource CD with maps on it. Then you download the areas you want from your PC.

 

There are a few places on Ebay selling maps, MetroGuide will probably be your best option for the mapping software. There is a thread round here somewhere called something like 'before i buy'.

Once you've bought Mapsource get free contour maps for UK here.

 

http://www.smc.org.uk/contour_maps2.htm

 

Dave

[Pengy And Tigger Geocoins]

AArrrgghhh, my mistake, never paid invoice. Apologies. Any left or have they all gone?

 

Team Ballibeg

[Pengy And Tigger Geocoins]

Placed an order a while back, received nothing. Any news?

 

Team Ballibeg

[Autoroute Positioning Errors]

Glad you managed to work through it!

 

It helps me to see all the different caches on a map on the pc. When I get directions somewhere I can see the close caches to the route and if I'm away a quick search of points of interest lists the numbers of each sort of cache in a 10 mile (or whatever) circle.

 

Dave

[Autoroute Positioning Errors]

I followed this web site.

 

http://www.craiggiven.com/gc_pushpins.htm

 

and read posts about it in the GSAK support forums. It took me a while to set up but I find it useful.

 

I've put an uptodate Autorute file of them all here in a zip.

 

Autoroute file of all uk caches zip

 

Dave

[Autoroute Positioning Errors]

I love Auroroute because with GSAK's help it produces this for the whole uk....

 

 

Here's Bute as an example. At a glance I can see what sort of caches are where and with a click I see the short info and a double click opens the web page. I find it invaluable.

 

Dave

[Where Is The Counties Map On Gcuk?]

Cheers Kitty Hawk,

 

just what I wanted!

 

Dave

[Where Is The Counties Map On Gcuk?]

Been browsing but cant find the way to see the counties I have cache in image.

 

Any pointers?

 

Dave

[Drivers For Gsak To Garmin Etrex Vista]

Thanks, I thought so but reckoned it better to check!!

 

Dave

[Drivers For Gsak To Garmin Etrex Vista]

My brains gone dead........

 

I am away for a week and want to use GSAK with my Vista on another PC.

 

Its easy enough to put GSAK on the other PC and then restore my database on that. What do I need to do though to get GSAK to put waypoints on my GPS on its serial cable? Do I need to install mapsource? or drivers? or nothing?

 

Cheers,

 

Dave

[Anyone Placed A Cache In Woodland Trust Ground?]

Before I contact them has anyone already made a contact to share or an existing cache on their ground?

 

Dave

[New Protocols On Garmin X Series]

Steady on.......................

 

Its an interesting point worth mentioning.

 

Dave

[New Protocols On Garmin X Series]

That's where I came across it! I see there's a work using Mapsource.

 

Just thought I'd add it to this forum for extra readership. I'd be gutted to get the latest GPS and then not be able to use the functionality of GSAK.

 

Dave

[New Protocols On Garmin X Series]

Seems its all a little different on these new models and as such GSAK and Google Earth aren't compatible.

 

Info here,

 

http://www.gpsbabel.org/garminx.html

 

Dave

[Wanted...garmin Mapping Software]

Well if the maps not there the units faulty. Return it.

 

Dave

[Wanted...garmin Mapping Software]

http://www.smc.org.uk/books/books_contour_maps.htm

 

get contours here. Free.

 

Dave

[Probs With Images In Cache Pages]

I've noticed today images not showing in some cache page descriptions.

 

Its made some caches hard to follow!

 

Details being discussed here.

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...ic=117329&st=50

 

Dave

[Missing Caches From Pq's]

Thanks for the tips.

 

I've been using the same PQ's with the same settings for months. Last week it went pear shaped and GSAK showed all the holes in the PQ's I was sent.

 

This week its back to normal.

 

Hey ho.

 

Dave

[Missing Caches From Pq's]

I was looking at the preview. Thanks for pointing out that they're out of order.

 

I've made sure I've run all my PQ's in the last few days and low and behold all the English, Welsh, Scottish identified caches have turned into UK! The only ones I have are archived, and hence not updated. English caches were GCPTEQ and GCG4F7 to name but two.

 

In fact all seems back to normal.

 

There must have been a glitch for a few days.

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

[Streetmap]

Thats a top tip!

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

[Missing Caches From Pq's]

I've checked and rechecked.

 

I've not altered any PQ settings, they are all correct. However it seems the problem remains for me.

 

Settings as described, this PQ {19} 3rd nov- 17th dec 2005 returns no caches placed between 4th nov and 11th nov inclusive.

 

Now I find it odd that its missing a chunk by date. Surely an off setting would remove odd caches, not whole days?

 

Dave