The Freuds

Occasionally, I like to look back on the caches that I have visited (especially if people ask for help). I find Google Earth a great tool for scoping out and planning future cache hunts, but I'd also like to use it for past finds. I've been slowly creating a .kmz of past finds with the real coordinates (not the moving ones that the .kml seems to produce). It would be awesome to be able to download your own .kmz or .kml (or someonelse's) to see what I or they've done in the past. I've organised mine according to date (not country or state) and I've also added my own description about where the cache is located exactly. I think a downloadable .kmz or .kml for yourself or another team with these options: º modify the current tag to list, my (their) find date; º a link back to geocaching.com to the cache description (even if archived); º the exactly location of the cache (rather than me entering it everytime). Regarding the last point, it could easily be included automatically by requiring the cache owner to detail the exact location of the cache and how it can be found (in two or three sentences) when they log the cache details. This info, would only be available in the .kmz or .kml when you have found it (that way we won't get cheats).

I'm running a Garmin GPSMAP60CS and want to create some custom maps for it. Does anyone know how to do this? On the same topic, if using GPSMAPEDIT, I need to create a .tdb file but... I've tried using the CGPSMAPPER but when I run the _PV compiler from the command line, it hangs, and when I run the compiler from MAPEDIT, it compiles the .img, but still no .tbd file - so I can't import it into MapSource. If I'm doing it the difficult way, can someone let me know. If there is a product that will simply (& cheaply (free is good)) allow me to create maps and upload them to the GPSr it would be handy. Many thanx