naviguesser74

I, too, use TomTom Navigator on a Palm Treo and TomTom's GPSr. Love it. You can put the cache locations in TomTom as POIs. I also use GeoNiche for Palm. It manages the cache information a la CacheMate but does a whole lot more.

i got a soft carrying case with a strap that goes around your neck. it is clear and waterproof. they are carried by those stores that carry Army/Police/camping-type gear. I guess those guys need to carry a PDA, too. i just stick the BT receiver in my pocket.

this may help, too: http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blo...0547/index.html and a search on this forum should have found it, I hope.

Look at the Palm, TomTom and GeoNiche combination: http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blo...0547/index.html

I like carrying only one device. For the kind of money you are willing to spend, look at a Palm Treo or any Palm with bluetooth. TomTom Navigator is outstanding. You can put the geocache sites into TomTom and navigate to them. GeoNiche is great Palm software to keep track of the geocaches and it has many other uses. See: http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blo...0547/index.html

It was a cold, windy day here in NW Ohio, but this family of newbees couldn't wait. I did a pocket query for 200 sites on my zip code, put the loc file in the Palm Treo as a pdb for use with GeoNiche. Also converted the same loc file to a ov2 file and put it on the SD card in the TomTom map file. We picked a nearby cache as a POI in TomTom, fired up the BT GPSr and selected "navigate to." Great fun and extremely accurate to have John Clease telling us which way to go on all the country roads. When John announced that we had "arrived at our destination" and that he wasn't going to help us unpack, we selected the same cache from the target list in GeoNiche, read the notes and activated it for the GeoNiche GPS and Navigation modes. Worked like a charm. My wife is like a hound dog. Went back to TomTom, browsed the map showing the geoniche logo locations, picked one and navigated to that one. TomTom got us there perfectly in a way I would not have known. Found the second one. Wife and daughters had fun, too. Can't wait for better weather! Did another PQ for an upcoming trip to Arizona. TomTom will be invaluable there as we have already input a number of other POIs -- relatives and hotels. Thanks to all the help on these forums and to the NW Ohio geocache group. We are really enjoying this.

I see. Too bad that someone took the metal tag. Yet somehow it was being tracked. I will put each one in a cache in Arizona and hopefully keep them moving.

I found two TBs. When I go to the page for the TB and then try to log it, I get a "no match" error message for the tracking number. In both cases the metal tag shown in the picture was missing, so the only reference is the tracking number on the web page. What am I doing wrong?

see if you can put the cache locations in Tom Tom http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blo...0547/index.html

This is for adding cache locations to Tom Tom on a Palm, but it may help http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blo...0547/index.html

I didn't believe until I saw it work on a plastic TV screen, TOOTHE PASTE!

Maybe it's because I found it first, but GeoNiche for the Palm is great. It keeps track of all the caches, it has a Navigation mode and a GPS mode, which make it easy to see where the targets are relative to current location. The GPS mode can be configured in many ways. And, it has great general purpose use beyond geocaching.

I tried Earthcomber a couple of months ago. The price is right, that's for sure, but there wasn't much content. I had trouble getting it going, but, as I recall, their customer service was outstanding. I had a phone conversation with a real person. I got the impression that they were a small operation just getting off the ground.

I would say "ditto" with a Palm Treo 650. TomTom, music, movies, contacts, calendar, Planterium for star gazing, on and on. I like GeoNiche. I put the cache location in the TomTom maps and in GeoNiche. Just waitng for a break in the weather now.

wap. yes, that's it. thanks for the response. works great with palm treo 650

I thought I remember seeing that there was a version of the www.geocaching.com site for PDAs on the web. Is there? what is the URL?

I use a Palm. It has TomTom and a BT GPSr. Works great. I put the geocache locations (as a ov2 file) into TomTom so that they show on those maps and you can "navigate to" them. The same cache locations are in a Palm pdb file for use with GeoNiche, a Palm application that keeps track of the cache sites (apparently much like CacheMate) and also has a handheld GPSr-like screen.

does USA Photomap run only on a PC? Is there something similar for Macs?

Thanks, you guys. Now I see how to do a pocket query and I am just waiting for it to arrive by email. 200 sites should keep me busy for a while.

When I do a zip code search I get numerous pages of locations. I'd like to download the first two pages, a total of 40 locations. I believe I can go only 20, or one page, at a time even though 40 are checked. Is that right? I then covert them to pdb and ov2 files for use on a Palm and I am only getting 20.

my Palm Treo has a 320x320 screen, whick I like. It looks to be 1.9" by 1.9". So, I'd say 2x2 is pretty good. Always could be bigger. Just hope the resolution and color are as good as the Treo. I also hope it will work with a Mac.

I know everyone raves about Cachemate and I am new to all this, but why isn't GeoNiche the better choice. From what I can see, GeoNiche does everything that Cachemate does and more. It is very customizable, too.

check out www.everythingtreo. chris, there, has a lot of good info re TomTom on a Treo. I use TomTom on Treo and it is great. I put the cache sites in the TomTom maps as POIs. they even have the geocache logo. then you can switch to GeoNiche, or perhaps CacheMate.

i like having just one device -- a BT palm with TomTom Navigator. You can put the cache locations into TomTom and see them on the map. Then, when close, switch to GPS-type software, I like GeoNiche, to get closer.

this tells you how to put geocache locations into TomTom Navigator as POIs http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blo...0547/index.html