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There is also tōd (http://www.todhq.com) and Wireless Sensor tags (http://www.wirelesstags.net). It seems like the hardware is out there for a more open (Bluetooth 4.0) alternative to the Garmin Chirp's more closed (ANT+) wireless beacon. Not to mention the fact that you can easily swap out batteries. What we need is finished product and software to make it work for geocaching. I suppose you could just place a couple BlueTooth 4 devices and name them what you want (coords or clues).

There are other geocaching apps out there. If you're a premium member then get iGeoKnife. You just save PQ's to your phone. The app loads up lighting fast and the filter functions are more extensive, quicker, and esier to use. The only downside is it isn't Live-Enabled. So now loading up caches from a new area on the fly.

Sadly, the iPhone app DOESN'T have a geocache proximity warning. Though that would be AWESOME!!! You have to open the app and run a Find Nearby Geocaches search from the main search menu.

You can take back any favourite point you previously dolled out. Just go to your public profile and click on lists. At the top will be a list of the caches you'ved favourited. Click on cache page you want to remove and just below the Log, Watch, Ignore, Bookmark buttons is an option to remove from your favourites. It then gets added back to your total. Now all those fav points you gave out early just because you could will actually get put to better use. Of course, I'd rather read a bookmark favourite list of an area because you can also say WHY you like it. I do this all the caches I've given favourite points to. P.S. Don't mind the extra U's. I'm Canadian

You can get caches aved on your iPhone 2 ways: 1) Searches - After you run either an advanced search or a Nearby Caches search you will see a list. Scroll to the bottom and click the button that says "Find Next X Results" Once you have enough caches you hit the disk button on top to save them to a list that will be available from the "Saved" button at the bottom of the main screen. 2) Pocket Queries - At the bottom of the main search screen is the Pocket Queires button*. Just go into that menu and load up the pocket queries waiting for you and save them to a list on your phone. * If the pocket queries section is greyed out or desn't work then trying logging out of your account on the phone and then logging back in.

Your profile says your a premium member. So make a pocket query filter out the stuff you don't like in a certain area. Then preview the PQ and click Map This Location. That way, only the caches in your PQ will show up. Then you can print off your map however you want it. I would like to see the options to filter terrain & difficulty on the side just like you can filter types. Those filters only work for premium members so the same would be true of a D/T filter in the same area.

Conversely, I know that many members use attributes to build Pocket Queries (Avoiding caches tagged as needing maintenance, <1 hour for a pit stop on a road trip). I personally filter out rock climbing & UV caches. Not that i expect a lot of them. but I don't want to waste my time of reading through the description to find out I don't even want to attempt the cache. Actually, I'd like to see a QR code attribute first.

Adding this to the map screen as a function for Premium Members would be awesome. I think Difficulty & Terrain are the most important.

It isn't a very hard thing to do. And with it you could do away with having to maintain the Twitter & Facebook connections. Which, let's face it, are buggy and not very customizable. With a RSS Feed I could setup a recipe at IFTTT.com to only share specific logs to whatever social network I want.

So I bought one and I LOVE IT !! PROS: - I can now cache with my iPod Touch. And with apps like NavFree & Navigon it can double as a car GPS. - I have found it to be much more accurate than my Garmin eTrex Legend (blue). The accuracy says 10 meters but it zeroed in on 2 caches on a very cloudy day using both iGeoKnife and the GC.com apps - The walking speed issue has definitely been fixed. CONS: - In order to charge the unit you turn it 'ON" with the inside switch. - There is no GPS only function. You have to use the battery too. - The screen is hard to read in the sun. Though this is true without the case. - You have to charge the case and your Apple product seperately - The power has to be on for the audio plug to work. Overall I really like the case for what it is. I give it 4/5 stars.

I was just thinking the GPS Review section. As long as you have the ToughCase listed as one of your GPSr's go to the bottom of the page, highlight the ToughCase, click Change/Add on the right, at the bottom of the next screen you can give a rating out of 5 stars and leave a review.

Thank you so much for this information! Would you mind terribly adding it to the GPS Review section? I've been combing the internet reading reviews about this product and really want to start using my iPod Touch 3G instead of my crumby eTrex Legend (Blue). I think in the next few weeks I'll be making a purchase from the Magellan website. Do you mind if I ask how much you got charged for shipping / taxes / duty?

WOW! I've never had so much activity on one of my posts before. The crack at TravelBugs was just me joking a bit. I've heard of cache listings being rejected because of "possible commercial promotion just because they used a word like TupperWare. I know not all reviewers are alike. Like anything, a few rotten apples spoil the bunch. I do like the idea of a FTF prize for a premium member and then another (the Premium Membership) for the regular member. Actually, after reading up on the rules & regulations for placing a cache I've learnt you can change a premium cache into a regular cache. So I think I'm going to list the series as premium first and then release it to regular members with FTF's for both. For those who think I'm made of $$ or something. That's so not true. Keep in mind this is going to be a 6 cache series with a puzzle cache as the final. The FTF will be in the final. I might put $1 in the individual caches. But I doubt it.

So I'm planning my first series of hides. Each hide will have a clue to lead you to a 'final' cache that will be a puzzle cache. I'd like the offer a Premium Membership as a FTF prize. I'm fairly certain it's pretty easy to do. I'm just wondering if Groundspeak has any rules or regs against it? I know caches aren't supposed to be commercial in nature and this could be technically promoting Groundspeak. Though, I'd imagine using the term Travel Bug® would't be allowed either.

Thanks for all the ideas. I'm thinking of doing a ring clamp around the post.

Waymarking is a Groundspeak site. There's not a Groundspeak-approved features request forum for Waymarking that I know of. (Maybe because they don't care.) One of the biggest reasons people don't use Waymarking is the lack of PQs. Many people who don't waymark have said that is one of their biggest reasons why they do not. Waymarking will continue to see little traffic as long as it has substandard features. I actually mentioned something similar to this in a chat room today. Geocaching.com, Wherigo.com, and challenges all have mobile apps. But Waymarking.com doesn't. Why? The 'little traffic = not worth it' rationale doesn't fly. Cuz Wherigo's tend to suck, are next to impossible to make, and only run on certain devices (very few actual GPSr's). Yet, they have their own app and even show up as an official cache type. Why not market Waymarking as a benefit to the mainstream car GPS market? Going on a road trip or vacation? Want to find some cool places to go rather than the typical tourist traps but don't want to spend forever looking for them? Use Waymarking. Then do the same thing as with GC.com. Suck them into a $30 premium membership to get PQ's along a route. I know most car GPS's have the ability to find restaurants & stuff. But WM.com has many different categories. And that is the bit... getting that niche market. Just a thought. Besides, how hard is it to add the same function to a similar database? Not very.

I'm trying to plan a series of caches titled "Welcome To...". The idea is to place caches on the backs of the signs of the small towns, villages, & hamlets in the area. Sadly, they are all wooden signs & posts. Any ideas on how I can add caches to the back of wooden signs without vandalizing them? Or should I just abandon the idea?

Oklahoma? I selected southern Ontario. Specifically the GTA area where I live. I'll have to check the file size of the IMG files when I get home though. I think I forgot to check the file size when I was working on this (I was too worried about screwing up the steps).

I have an eTrex Legend. For clraity, it's the blue one with a black & screen, serial connection, and junky base map. Since I only bought the unit for $50 I don't want to spend the $100 Garmin is asking for their maps. So I did some digging online and came across some pages on the OpenStreetMap.org (OSM) wiki that explain (kind of) how to get OSM data, convert it to Garmin file types (IMG files), and upload it to your GPS unit. - Well I found the OSM tiles I wanted and downloaded them - I uncompressed them - I used SendMap to create the GMAPSUPP.IMG file - But when I go to use SendMap to actually send the map to my GPS unit the GMAPSUPP file suddenly has ZERO file size and I get an error. Here are the sendmap commands I type: sendmap20 -l 63257955.IMG 63257954.IMG 63258135.IMG 63258134.IMG sendmap20 GMAPSUPP.IMG It looks like sendmap is trying to find the GPS on USB instead of serial. I still have to dig out my serial/usb connector to see if it will work that way. But I had issues before with Windows not recognizing the GPS unit when I connected it through the USB converter. So I switched to serial and it connects with Windows. Can anyone help me?

Thanks IBcrashen. I thought the same as mpilchfamily at first. But when I logged a DNF and it didn't show on the bar I wondered what they could be for. It took me a while to realize that when you press the Menu button the actions are dependant on which option you have selected at the bottom (Searc, Saved, Logs, & Trackables). I liked the option to save caches for later. The part that took me a while to figure out was being able to sort your searches. What I find interesting (being a basic member) is that the app gives you more options to filter your search than the website does. I guess that's because you shelled out the $10 for the app. Too bad there wasn't a way for the app download to count on my account so I have those functions on the website too.

Obviously there is a marked reduction in accuracy with a smartphone GPS. Especially with the iPhone 3G. I guess the function I'm curious about that they never explained was the bar just above "date hidden" in the Cache details screen below. I know that a find changes the middle portion to green bar that says 'found'. But what do the other 2 spaces for bars display?

So... Groundspeak created a geocaching app you can get from the iTunes App Store. It works on the iPod Touch, iPhone, & iPad. They even wrote a simple tutorial. But I'd like this thread to be a place where we can share experiences and some finer details of the program. Don't forget to log your suggestions in the Groundspeak iPhone Apps feedback section of the forums.