rk219

Hello folks. I'm currently living somewhere in the wonderful country of Germany. There are some very wonderful spots to go caching here, the folk really care about their offroad walking trails here. However there is one problem, barely any of the caching sites I can find on the Geocaching site in my vicinity have english versions. Sure I can translate into english but they are often quite poor translations. And many of the sites require you to do some math or something extra in order to find the cache. So with the bad translation you can't be sure that you are doing the right thing. So, my question follows. Is there a website out there that has european caches listed on it in English? Or does anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks.

I forgot to mention that sometimes it may turn itself off while I am navigating or could even "reset" itself, where it'll go to the startup screen then search for satellites. It has done this about 3 times in 2 weeks.

Hey folks, Little problem here. I purchased a 60CS a few months ago and it worked fine until I bought a Europe metroguide mapset for it. Once I put a few German maps into the GPSr it has been acting a little silly. For instance, sometimes it will not turn on, and other times it will not turn off, no matter how long you push that button down. Then at other times it will work fine. Anyone know what this could be? It's not the batteries as I have used both rechargeables and the normal ones and changed them out a few times. The box for the software specifically said that the maps would work fine on the 60CS (just can't use autorouting). Thanks.

In what way would I be cheating myself? Why are the cityselect maps much better than the other maps, such as metroguide? Is it the autorouting? Thanks Ryan

Hey folks, I'm fairly new to GPSr, I just got it a week ago and I have a few questions that I didn't seem to find elsewhere in this forum. I've done a bit of geocaching, found my first one, could not find my last 3. A problem I ran into was inaccurate readings once I got in the vicinity of the cache (one second it is 5 meters ahead of me, 2 meters later it is 10 meters behind me). I assume this is fairly normal, especially with a dense forest and limited views of the sky, right? I wanted to run a little test of my own, so I averaged my house as a waypoint over 20 or 30 minutes. Later on, coming back from a geocache, I decided to try to find my house using the waypoint. However when I walked to the exact spot I took the average at, the GPS said I was 10 meters away. Is this due to the position of satellites in the sky? In both cases my unit said I was getting an accurate location. Do you get more accurate readings when you are receiving signals from all over the sky (as if you were on the top of a big hill) than when you are mainly getting signals from one part of the sky (as this hill were blocking a major portion of the sky). If so, is there a way to estimate how far off your readings are? For example, if you were receiving signals only from the east, then perhaps your reading is more easterly or more westerly than it should be???? Just wondering, maybe this is all hogwash. Okay, on an unrelated topic, I assume WAAS is not available here in Europe, but EGNOS is. With a Garmin 60CS, is EGNOS available? And my last question, thanks for the patience. The Garmin webpage says that the CitySelect Europe v.7 is available for my 60CS, and no other European maps. If I were to purchase another map for Europe, say the metroguide or another kind that is much cheaper, would these maps load onto my unit using MapSource and function correctly on my unit (sans autorouting). Thanks! Ryan