Seganku
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Thanks folks. I'll check this out.
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I've only ever used my GPS to cache with and to get basic directions etc.
I'm planning on a few small cycling trips this year and thought I would create some routes and pop them onto my unit.
I've created a route on MapMyRide, it's a GPX formatted file and I have copied/pasted into my GPX file which is on my unit. When I check the unit I can't find the route at all. I've been adviced that I should go to main menu - route planner, and that the route should show up there for me to select. This is where I have encountered a problem - the route isn't there.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Thank you
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My friend is travelling to Africa at the beginning of next month and I've loaded up my old Etrex H with caches for her. Will any of the settings need to be changed for the unit to work properly in another continent?
Thanks for any advice in advance
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Hello There,
Taken from the Garmin Knowledge Base :-
Question: How do I change the position format on my GPSMAP 62/78?
Answer: GPS coordinates can be displayed in different formats depending on the source or use. Garmin's default position format is h ddd mm.mmm. You can change the way GPSMAP 62/78 displays the coordinates of your location by changing the position format.
To change the position format:
- Go to the Main Menu
- Choose Setup
- Choose Position Format
- Select the position format you would like to use
The position format is now changed, and this format will now display all of the coordinates on the Garmin device.
Regards
Bernard
Thanks Bernard - this seems to have done the trick
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Surely if you have solved the final location it would be far simpler to just enter the final co-ords using the 'Enter Next Stage' facility.
I would but the format is British Grid when I try it, that's why I need to know how to change it
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I think I may have just solved a puzzle cache but I am having trouble adding the solved coordinates to my gpsmap62. When I go to add a waypoint the 'location' field is in British Grid reference rather than the usual waypoint set up. How do I change the 'location' field so that it shows as a waypoint reference?
Thanks in advance
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When I run pocket queries I'm selecting the gpx format but they are downloading as loc files? Can anyone help with this?
Edited to say I ran a Google search and found my answer. Apparently I'm not ticking the day that I want the query to run which only gives me the option of downloading loc files from the site. I think I should be getting them sent to my email and doing it through that? Is this correct?
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Try looking for a few more caches. There's a few that I have had trouble finding (and a few I still haven't found after a few visits) - I just put it down to lack of experience / bad day / day satellite coverage. Try looking for this one again in a few months and you might hit lucky. Good luck with finding it - it really bugs me when I get a DNF!
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Just because a dog barks and jumps at you doesn't mean that it will bite you. Have you ever thought about doing volunteer work at your local cat and dog shelter? Working with dogs which have different temperaments may give you more confidence with strange dogs and help get you over your initial fear of them.
Yes, I know that a dog that acts aggressively might not bite. And I also know, from personal experience, that a dog that doesn't act aggressively, can come up behind you while you're standing on a public bridleway and bite you in the calf, leading to a trip to hospital for disinfecting, anti-tetanus and antibiotics, and a leg that is painful for several weeks. And the owner explains "He's never done that before".
I think you missed the main point of my posting. It wasn't that I was afraid of the dogs, it was that ladysolly was afraid, and I had to make a decision about what to do about it. I'm not at all afraid of dogs; I'm a lot bigger than a dog, and I have boots and my walking pole should I need to defend myself. I am, of course, cautious with strange dogs, especially strange dogs that start off our relationship with threats and aggression. And I really really don't want to hurt a dog, unless I'm forced to.
I like your suggestion of doing volunteer work at a local cat and dog shelter, but 1) I'd prefer to spend that time caching, and 2) that isn't going to reduce the number of times that dogs act aggressively towards ladysolly.
Dogs just mustn't like you guys. I guess you'll just have to get used to it
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Interestingly, a similar scenario happened to me just today.
I had finished signing the cache, and ladysolly was walking along the public footpath a couple of hundred yards away, and I was walking to catch up with her. Suddenly, she stopped, and I could see a dog barking at her and making those rushes and jumps at her that they make. Then along came another dog, and did the same thing. By the time I caught up with her (she was still standing stock still, and she looked really scared) the dogs were in full flood.
Then the owner came along, and tried to call the dogs off. The dogs totally ignored her. And they continued to terrorise ladysolly by making those barking/jumping/rushes at her. The owner continued to call, with no effect, and made no attempt to get hold of the dogs.
So now I've caught up, and I'm near to ladysolly, and the dogs are still ignoring their owner (who now says "They won't bite", a statement which I don't fully trust, in view of her inability to control her dogs) and the dogs are still kicking off.
And here's my question.
What do you think I should have done at that point? Answers that occurs to me are:
1) Nothing
2) Defend ladysolly, if necessary with my boots and/or walking pole
3) Grab hold of the dogs, as per Dorsetgal's anecdote
4) Some other action, please suggest what
This isn't a dog-bashing thread, it's a thread about what we non-dog-owners should do when confronted by aggressive, out-of-control dogs. I'm hoping that people who understand dogs will be able to make constructive suggestions, and not just (as often happens) blame the innocent victim of the dogs' aggression.
Just because a dog barks and jumps at you doesn't mean that it will bite you. Have you ever thought about doing volunteer work at your local cat and dog shelter? Working with dogs which have different temperaments may give you more confidence with strange dogs and help get you over your initial fear of them.
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A german shepherd once bit me on the ar*e
Mind you he was really drunk at the time
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Used the field notes feature today - really impressed with it
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As you log caches as found, and make notes etc, it saves it all to a .txt file on the GPS.How do you use and access field notes on the GPSmap 62s?
Log into your GC account and attach your GPS to your PC.
Go to 'Your Profile' and select 'Field Notes' from the drop down.
Near the bottom of that page is a link 'upload my field notes'.
From there you will find instructions specific to your make of GPS.
Haven't worked out the photo's bit yet - look forward to hearing how to do that.
Thanks Mike, much appreciated
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How do you use and access field notes on the GPSmap 62s?
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Thank you for all the help and advice
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Yes that's how I do it. Please please please tell me the correct way to download them?
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Have you unzipped the PQ files from GC before loading them on? Also which software version do you have?
I'm not sure what you mean by unzipped so I probably haven't done that. Where do I unzip these? At the moment I run a query on GC, download the caches, then click the download (which appears as a pop up)which sends it straight to GSAK, from there I send it to my GPS. Is there something else I should be doing between the process I mentioned above?
I'm not sure what you mean by software version? If you mean my operating system its Windows 7 (which was my idea
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Does it show the full description and past logs?
When you view the cache details you should have the following options:
Show Description
Show Logs
Show Hint
Log Attempt
Enter Next Stage
Find Another
Show Found
I have all of these but if I send pocket queries from GC to the GPS the hints and logs etc don't show up. If I run a query from my home coordinates in GSAK the hints show up? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help in advance
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Can anyone point me in the right direction for an idiots guide to using this unit. I've managed to put caches in but don't know how to take them off. Also, does this device show hints etc? They aren't showing but I think I may have GSAK set up wrong for this device??
Many thanks
Seganku
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Thanks for all the views. As I say it doesn't bother me if someone wants to log dnf as a find with the permission of the CO - it was just something that I hadn't came across before.
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Why would someone log a cache as found but say on the log page they couldn't find it and confirm that the owner had given them the ok to log their dnf as a find??
It seems a bit strange to me - kind of makes logging finds pointless if you're going to log ones that you don't find. I know everyone plays the game to their own rules but I just can't get my head round this
I'm more puzzled by it than bothered by it. If smiley faces mean so much to people let them get on with it. To me the main object of the game is about actually finding the cache (the great places that caching can take you to is a bonus).
Would you give someone permission to log dnfs as a found?
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Great story
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I found a cache yesterday with a work colleague. Just checked the log having read this thread and it says that I found it today and she found it yesterday - yet both logs were submitted yesterday
I love the older logs stating that the cache was found "about 5 days ago" 
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I love the older logs stating that the cache was found "about 5 days ago" 
Caches in your own garden
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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I've only ever found one cache that was in someone's garden. Even though I knew I had permission to be on their property, and had previously bumped into the CO whilst caching, I still felt like a trespasser. I can't really say it was an enjoyable find due to the fact it just felt wrong searching someone's garden. I only looked for it as it was really close to home, and wouldn't have gone out of my way to find it if it had been further afield.
I'm sure lots of people won't have a problem so don't let my views put you off. I do think the idea of a less traditional cache is much better than just having a tupperware in your garden.