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Evening all, Being a newbie - I have a quick question regarding Geocoins, if activated and placed in a cache, do they generally get passed around from one cache to the next and well tracked? Or do they have a habit of disappearing off the face of the planet ? Regards Mark

Hi Alice, With regards to the Google Earth question, try the following link: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?form=googleearth. If you use Geocaching.com pocket queries, you can convert GPX files into Google Earth files, allowing you to view them on the map - Excellent, it's very handy and well worth a look. Regards Mark

The following maybe of interest: http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalW...tyType=document Clothing would be sujected to 12% importation duty, Oddly baseball caps 2.7% both plus 17.5% vat, shame the about the carriage (not subjected to VAT, I reckon). So 29 tee's after excise, tax & carriage was taken into consideration, would have an approx landed cost £11.05 each....... May as well go and buy them on ebay for what little saving you'd make.

Hi All, I thought I'd add my pennies worth to the thread, Hobbycache.com are pretty easy to deal with, prices are favourable and to top it all off - for those eBayer's amongst us, they'll accept paypal. For orders below $75, the carriage works out at just over £8.00 to the UK, so I guess it may well be worthwhile if several of you want to club together and place an order - Customs charges might be an issue mind you, especially if the orders of high value. Teeshirts work out at approx £7.66 (based on current exchange rate of £1 = $1.76), however Paypals exchange rate is always slightly out of sync. Food for thought... Cheers Mark

Many thanks for alerting me to Google Earth, I've just downloaded it. Very interesting, my neck of the woods (Lancashire) is very well covered and the maps are pretty detailed, to the point that I reckon I can just about make out the wife's car parked outside the house... Cheers Mark

Moote's GPS Visualizer was very interesting and useful - Worth me asking the question just to discover this. Having spent most of the evening looking for Mac software, I'm now fairly sure that I'm not going to better Mac SimpleGPS. The way it hooks up the geocaching.com etc is all very impressive - It's miles ahead of the rest (Mac stuff anyway).... Many thanks to everyone for the help. Cheers Mark

Hi All, I'm a poor deprived Apple Mac user running OS X Tiger, currently I'm using Mac SimpleGPS to download waypoints to my etrex without issue's. Does anyone know of anything else I can use, not that I have a problem with Mac SimpleGPS, I was curious to discover if there was anything better out there? I looked at GPSy but didn't get very far with that... In fact I'm interested in any geocaching software full stop for Apple Mac. Cheers Mark

Hmmm, Worrying stuff Moote... I had a quick look at you're profile....... As a result, I felt strangly compelled to check my Nerd Score: Aghhh 71% 29% scored higher (more nerdy), and 71% scored lower (less nerdy). What does this mean? Your nerdiness is: Mid-Level Nerd. Wow, it takes a lot of hard nerdy practice to reach this level. That's it, I'm off to take up power boat racing or something....................................... Only joking, but I wonder how many others will now take the test

Eccles area, Manchester - if you're wondering where M30 is I rather suspect you've 'thrown the gauntlet down' buy drawing everyone's attention to this point.....

Wow, I'm amazed how a simple question could lead to all this, don't get me wrong, I'm finding it all very interesting - Being a newbie to geochaching and to some extent web forum sites, I'm amazed by the wealth of information being exchanged and the level of interest shown to my original question. In hintsight, maybe I should have asked which postcode district has the least number of caches ? I suspect I'll have an answer to that question quite soon.... Cheers Mark

You raise a fair point Moote, I'll take that into consideration, in hindsight however I think I'll wait and gain a little more experience before I start placing any caches I was interested to know all the same Cheers Mark

Hi All, I'm toying with the idea of placing a new cache, I'm not sure where too just yet, however I was wondering which county has the least number of caches within its boundaries? Anyone have any idea's? Regards Mark P.S. Hello from a Newbie !!

Hi All, Does anyone have any experience of connecting a Palm Tungsten E2 to a Garmin etrex, I'm running Cashemate on my Tunsten. It would be pretty cool if I could download waypoints to my etrex straight from the Palm. Any suggestions where I can obtain a suitable cable? Regards Mark

Hi Geognerd, Cheers for the information, now I know the reason why I had problems - Excellent stuff, once again many thanks for the information. Kind regards Mark

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice regards my new etrex for use within the UK, I guess I'm looking for confirmation of which settings others are using within the UK - I had real trouble locating my first cache this afternoon, 200 - 300 mtrs out... Current settings: Position Format: hddd mm.mmm Map Datum: ord srvy GB Units: Statute North Ref: Mag Variance: 0004 W Angle: Degrees I've heard that using the WGS 84 datum within the UK isn't very accurate, is this true - How do my settings sound? Many thanks Mark