naviguesser74

rather than get a Palm with WIFI, I'd suggest getting a Palm with BT. Get a BT GPSr. Use GeoNiche, geocaching software for Palm that uses the BT GPSr. Works great. Just do a PQ, convert gpx to bdb using babel and put the pdb file into the Palm.

rather than get a Palm with WIFI, I'd suggest getting a Palm with BT. Get a BT GPSr. Use GeoNiche, geocaching software for Palm that uses the BT GPSr. Works great. Just do a PQ, convert gpx to bdb using babel and put the pdb file into the Palm.

I was on a Southwest flight just this last w.e. I noticed that GPS was on the list for approved use when not taking off or landing (along with, for example, iPods). I use a BT GPSr with my MacBook Pro/MacGPS Pro software and maps all the time

1. What is babel? do a google for gpsbabel and download it to your computer. it converts .gpx files to anything you want. again, covert to .ov2 for tomtom and to .pdb for geoniche (and probably, cachemate) 2. What are garmin-like screens? do a google for GeoNiche, Palm. Look at the description and the Owners Manual. The best GPS software available for Palm, in my opinion. It does what Cachemate does and a whole lot more. It puts a Garmin to shame. 3. And when you "switch" to GeoNiche, what do you do exactly? Close Navigator and launch GeoNiche? And does GeoNiche then automatically recognize and connect to the GPSr, or do you have to do something else to accomplish that? Yes. when tomtom gets me close enough, i shut it down by hitting "home" on treo. then launch GeoNiche from the desktop icon. It picks up the BT GPSr automatically. your merged geocaches show. you "activate" the one you are searching for. 4. Just to confirm...the TomTom alone is not capable of getting you all the way to the cache coordinates? I found one once with tomtom, but it is really not the right tool. GeoNiche allows you to read the notes, decypher the clue, etc. 5. Do you do all of this with Pocket Queries? I haven't actually tried any of this yet. I haven't used Pocket Queries, converted GPX files, or anything else really, so...baby steps. If you are a premium member of geocaching.com, just go to your account and "build pocket query." it's pretty easy. just use the zip code of where you want to search. make sure you select .gpx as the format. i usually include 500 caches in a search. the .gpx file will show up in your inbox. if it doesn't, check your junk inbox I have several other questions and issues...if you don't mind helping me out some more! Do you have Navigator installed on your device, or on an SD card? I have everything on a card, which seems to work fine. Just wondered how you do it, and if it really matters one way or the other? I have Navigator installed in RAM on the treo. but really, i think there is just an icon and a "start" program and it really goes to the card for the program and the maps. i am not really sure. check out the tomtom home.app. put your SD card in a card reader on your computer. tomtomhome treats your card like a device. you load tomtom and its maps using tomtomhome.app. I am a Mac guy so it may be slightly different for you. Does your phone ever crash/lock up while you are using Navigator? When I had a treo 650, tomtom strained it. but with the 700, i don't have problems. i often have to do a soft reset before i launch Navigator or Navigator doesn't "see" the gpsr. once they link up, it works perfectly. turn on the gpsr. soft reset palm then launch tomtom. sometimes it's slow, but it connects and maintains connection for me. i think that the big US+Canada map is too big for the treo. I just install one of the smaller maps to include the state you want. if you uninstall the big map and use just a smaller map, I bet you will eliminate the problems you describe below. I went geocaching for the first time last weekend, and it did this several times. I would do a soft reset and it would work for a little bit, but then it would happen again. It was very frustrating. In addition to that, it then couldn't connect to the GPS device for a whole day! I kept trying, but it was searching for a valid GPS. I reset the phone, recycled power onthe GPS, restarted Navigator, but no matter what I did, it wouldn't connect. Has that ever happened to you? And...before you ask, I was outside, and not in heavy forrest. I also want to do paperless caching. Do you do that? I have downloaded and installed Cachemate onto my Treo, but haven't done anything with it yet. Would that be the way to go, or have you found something that works better (if you go paperless). Again. just buy GeoNiche. You won't be disappointed. I use it when fishing, hiking, as wells as geocaching. the most important gps software i have on my palm

I use exactly that setup. I convert the .gpx file to .ov2 using babel and put the ov2 file in the TomTom map folder. name the geocache image (as a .bmp file) with exactly the same name as the ov2 file and put that in the map folder, too. then the geocache locations with the image will show up in your TomTom map. Take my word on this -- buy GeoNiche and install it on your Palm. convert the .gpx file to .pdb file and merge it into GeoNiche. TomTom will street navigate you close. Then switch to GeoNiche, which is shows you Garmin-like screens (only much more customizable), to hike to the geocache.

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I think GeoNiche on a Palm is great for geocaching and any other GPS function. As for the vulnerability of a Palm, look in www.brigadeqm.com. They have waterproof stuff and a holder that goes around your neck. problem solved.

convert the .gpx file on your Mac with babel. i believe you convert to .pdb for a Palm program. then just copy the .pdb file onto the Palm's SD card using a card reader. I use GeoNiche and a BT GPSr.

convert the .gpx file on your Mac with babel. i believe you convert to .pdb for a Palm program. then just copy the .pdb file onto the Palm's SD card using a card reader. I use GeoNiche and a BT GPSr.

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Via email, TomTom informs its customers today that new maps are available for download. The US+Canada map is $70. Regional maps are $60 each. I think this is too much. I guess I'll wait for the new iPhone, which is rumored to have GPS, and see what alternatives there are.

if you get a Palm with BT, you don't even need another GPSr. Use a BT GPSr "puck" like from USGlobalsat and GeoNiche on your Palm. GeoNiche does what CacheMate and a handheld GPS do seamlessly.

just convert the .gpx file to .pdb (use Babel) and copy it to the correct place on the SD card. that should get you by until you figure out how to hotsync. (I wouldn't hotsync targets into Palm's internal memory, unless that's what Cachemate (which I haven't used) requires.

see my post below re GeoNiche. why would you want to limit yourself to Garmin, especially as a Mac user? (Read through this forum and see the frustration Mac users have with Garmin.) Get a BT Palm, a USGlobalSat BT GPSr (it will work with your Mac (using MacGPSPro) AND your Palm).

I am not affiliated in any way, just a satisfied user. I have GeoNiche on a Palm Treo 700P. I have to tell you, having just spent some time installing the newest version and customizing it, I am thoroughly amazed with this software. The Treo's buttons ("hard") can be customized. There is a compass-like view (called Navigation) with 8(!) customizable ("soft") buttons on the screen and probably 20-30 different commands/attributes that can be controlled by the buttons. All the items depicted, the background, everything, can be any color. There are 3 data fields, one above the compass and two below where any data you want can be displayed (the scale, the battery percentage, active target name, its bearing and distance, for example). There is a Target mode where they can be found, sorted, created, notes added, hints decoded etc. Groups of targets (from a PQ file) can be moved in and out of memory <> SD card. There is a routes mode that I haven't used and another mode/view with 3 sub views: (1) all the GPSr info, (2) four boxes that you can put anything in (lat/long, target lat/long, heading, speed, direction and distance to target, etc. etc. and (3) another 4 boxes to put anything in. Beyond geocaching, I think it can be used for just about anything anyone would want to use a GPS for. I use a USGlobalSat BT GPSr and it acquires quickly and is very sensitive -- updates with every step. I have used GeoNiche with waypoints on a track on a lake. It worked fine, but I preferred seeing my location on an actual map using different software. Best of all, the developer is responsive and available. Can you tell that I am a satisfied customer? It is just so easy to make it be whatever YOU want it to be -- not what some programmer thinks you want. Even if I didn't use my Treo for everything, I could justify/recommend getting any BT-capable Palm device just to use GeoNiche. Sure, there is a durability issue with using a Palm as a GPS, but there are waterproof cases and bags, lanyards, etc. And I love having to carry only one device (BT GPSr is in my pocket). I also have TomTom (with the same .gpx files viewable at POI's) for street navigation and software from GPS Pilot allowing me to use, for example, the county plat map, which I scanned and calibrated. Great fun to drive the back roads and know how owns what property. Planetarium tells me about all the planets and stars. Peck identifies every bird. Can't do even a fraction of all this stuff on any other device that I know of. I hope the 200,000 registered iPhone developers are listening.......

do a search on here. others have talked about trying to use a TomTom for geocaching. it's not the best, as street navigation is its forte, but it can be done. i use TomTom on a Palm. It's different, but I can tell you a few things. Become a Premium Member here. Do a Pocket Query for the area where you want to cache being sure to select .gpx, as opposed to .loc, for the output. The file will be emailed to you. Go to GPS Babel and convert the .gpx file to .ov2, which is the format for TomTom. I don't know how to get on your device. You should be able to put the file into Google Maps, too, and see the locations that way. I also convert to html and view them using web browser, in my case, Safari.

Heck, I had a hard time finding (affordable) GPS software for the Palm platform. I had a Palm from my job and a Bluetooth GPS I bought, but I found the free/cheap software available to be lacking in functionality. It made me miss my eTrex Legend. response: while not free, GeoNiche for the Palm OS, with a BT GPSr, is outstanding. no affiliation. (I hope something like it becomes available for iPhone.)

I am waiting for the next iPhone, probably June. Is there any chance that the app can be expanded to be like GeoNiche on a Palm? That is, in addition to managing the cache info, it could receive data from a BT GPSr and give you the direction and distance to a selected cache? That's what I would like.

do a pocket query to get a bunch of cache locations for a given area. you can use www.gpsvisualizer.com to convert the .gpx file format to .ov2, which is what TomTom uses. I don't know how to get the ov2 file in your model of TomTom, but you should be able to do it. Then, when you are driving down the road, you'll be able to see all the locations (as POI's) and "navigate to" them.

You mentioned MacGPSPro. For planning or just plain fun viewing, you can use MacGPS Pro on a Mac laptop. You can drag the PQ results onto a MacGPS Pro map and see the location of all of them. If you get a BT GPSr communicating with your Mac, you can (while your partner is driving) see where you are and sell all the cache locations. The name shown is only the six-digit name, but you can use www.GPSVisualizer, change the PQ results to HTML and search and view the results with Safari.

I put TomTom Navigator 6 on my Treo 700P. I use a GlobalSat BT GPSr. It is more sensitive than the GPSr that came with TomTom. I also use GeoNiche - great software for a Palm. You can put PQ results in the TomTom maps (and have John Clease give you directions) and in GeoNiche. It all works great. As prior posters have said, get protection for your palm. Military stores sell waterproof stuff. They also sell a bag that hangs around your neck so you don't drop it.

I, too, use MacGPS Pro on my MBP. I use a BT GPSr and drag the cache info onto the map and the locations show on the map. I change the same list of caches to HTML using GPSVisualizer.com. Then, using Safari, you can search for and read about the caches as you look at them on the map as you go down the road seeing where you are. It's cool.

I use GeoNiche on a Palm Treo. Works great for geocaching and all other GPS functions. Great software and great customer support. (I am not affiliated with the developer).

look at GPS Pilot's program, Tracker. I have scanned maps, calibrated them and navigated using a Treo.

I use GeoNiche with a BT GPSr and a BT Palm (a Treo). I like having to carry just one device. I also have TomTom on it for street navigation and the cache locations are on the street maps, too.