naviguesser74

I do exactly what a2Arnold does -- Treo 650, TomTom and GeoNiche. Works great. Only one device. Get a protective cover. Other software I like to have when out and about includes Planetarium (to identify celestial bodiesJ) and Peck (to identify birds).

get a BT GPSr and use it with your Palm. Need only one device. I suggest GeoNiche for the software. Does geocaching and more.

I have scanned and calibrated maps on Palm with GPS Pilot's Tracker program. Doesn't show caches, however.

check out GeoNiche. If you have a BT Palm, it's the best. You can use your Tom Tom GPSr with it, and maybe their newer model will work fine, but I found the top of the line Globalsat BT GPSr to be much more accurate. Also, I have used TomTom for geocaching. Convert the gpx file to ov2. see here http://www.bioneural.net/2006/01/13/geocac...n-for-mac-palm/ Then zoom in while browsing map. I did it once when the cache wasn't in GeoNiche and TomTom worked great.

I am not sure I understand the problem here, but let me add this. Do a PQ and get a .gpx file. Go to www.gpsvisualizer.com. Convert the .gpx to .pdb ( and anything else you want, including html). Then put the .pdb file in your Palm, either via hotsync into RAM or via a card reader into the SD card if your Palm has one.

this was an ongoing debate decades ago when i was an OOD and a navigator in the Navy. some people think in "true" (north up) and some think in "relative" (track up), especially submariners. i have always thought that it is easier to always keep north up, especially when maps are involved and when using a compass. i have found the same to be true using a gpsr.

my suggestion, since you already have a treo 650 -- tomtom for street navigation, geoniche for geocaching and all other gps stuff and a globalsat BT 359 receiver. do a PQ for a qpx file. use gpsvisualizer to convert to tomtom format and to .pdb format. tomtom gets you close via streets, then switch to geoniche. for laptop use, i convert to html. works great for me.

since that Palm has BT, I'd get a BT GPSr and GeoNiche. You then can do everything that a typical GPSr does PLUS everything that Cachemate does, all in one device.

send me an email and i'll send you an excel spreadsheet that calculates direction and distance between two lats and longs. jeffreyfort@mac.com

I think the problem with TomTom is the GPSr itself. I switched to a GlobalSat BT GPSr and both TomTom and GeoNiche work better. GeoNiche updates alot better than it did with the TomTom GPSr. Actually, the TomTom "browse map" function, with geocache locations entered as POIs works remarkable well.

another suggestion for your palm: before you intall anything else, install "uninstall manager." then you can delete things you have added much more easily and completely.

I use geoniche. great software for geocaching and other gps functions. uses a BT GPSr. I use TomTom, too.

check out GPSVisualizer. It is a front for GPS Babel and will convert anything to just about anything.

I looked at Cetus but it looked to clunky to me. Haven't seen CacheNav but I am going to look into it. I can't imagine anything much better than GeoNiche. File management using SD card is a great feature. But what is really outstanding is how "customizable" it is. You can modify the displays to make them what you want. And, as far as I can tell, it does everything any standard GPSr can do -- tracks/routes, target management, navigation, etc. The documentation is good and the customer support is outstanding. I am not affiliated in any way. With a Global Sat BT GPSr it is very responsive and accurate on a Palm

I'll throw a wrench into this: I'd get a Palm Tungsten (or Treo if you want a cell phone, too) that has BT and the best Global Sat BT GPSr. For software, GeoNiche. Big beautiful color screen. SD cards so storage is unlimited. TomTom Navigator for Palm if you want street navigator. And, there is infinite software for doing many other things. For example, I like Planetarium so I can learn about the celestial bodies I see when I am out. All in one package.

i used GPSVisualizer and converted the gpx file into a tab-delineated file. Then opened in Excel

my set up is similar to altered's. but i use geoniche software along with the tomtom

most palm users will tell you that there are some very important programs to add to a palm early on. Uninstall and FileZ are two. When a program is installed on a palm there are a bunch of files that are created. Uninstall knows how to find them all and delete them.

this should answer your questions. get GeoNiche, too. GPSVisualizer is great. http://www.bioneural.net/2006/01/13/geocac...n-for-mac-palm/

i use geoniche on a palm and love it. can store targets on SD card and move in and out of internal memory. i use gpsvisualizer to convert a downloaded .gpx file to a geoniche .pdb file. then transfer to SD card. never have any problems. however, i don't try to connect to a garmin -- no need to. a gpsglobal BT GPSr plus palm and geoniche is better than a garmin, in my opinion.

try otter cases, too.

3. that provides a easy gps file to download to your gps and a html file to put those cache descriptions on your palm how does one view an html file of 500 caches on a Palm?

you can covert a downloaded gpx file to about anything using GPSVisualizer. Converting to html is great for viewing on a Mac.

It's more money, I know, but results in carrying only one device -- if you get a Palm with BT, you can get a great globalsat GPSr and use the Palm for everything. GeoNiche, for the Palm, is great for geocaching and much more. Way more "customizable" than any Garmin and does all the CacheMate stuff. And, with an SD card, memory is limitless.

have never used or seen garmin, so i can't compare, but TomTom works great for me. i use it on a palm and i put the cache locations in the TomTom maps as POIs. then you get voice directions to the cache.