RCKen

Is there a place where I can download the GPX files for the block party and the APE event lab caches?

Not sure if this will help you in your situation by others maybe interested in this. I have an aftermarket Kenwood indash nav system in my car which uses Garmin as the navigation engine. I am able to load geocaches into the unit so they appear as icons on the nav screen. I am able to select a geocache, retrieve all the cache information, and even get turn by turn directions to navigate to it though I have to be careful as if the cache is off road it will route me to the nearest road closest to the cache. It does work good for urban caching. To get the cache information into the Kenwood requires GSAK and the Garmin POI loader which allows me to load complete PQs. The key here is the indash nav system use the Garmin for the GPS unit.

What happened to the ability to edit the post coordinates?

When you go to your friends Geocache tab you do see a listing of their finds. If you select traditional caches then you see a list of their finds but once you select "Map this location" it will bring up a map showing your finds not your friends finds.

If you purchase IPADs that have 3G/4G capabilities they will have a GPS in them. You do not have to have them activated with any cell service provider to use the GPS. I use an application called Geosphere that works great for offline caching and the large display on the IPad is great. This does require some pre-planning and prep work before going out caching but it is not too bad. You will need to have the IPAD connected to the internet in Wi-Fi mode for this pre-planning. Step 1: Generate a PQ for your caching activity. Step 2: Drop your PQ in Dropbox folder associate with Geosphere on the IPad. (Can also be done via GSAK too) Step 3: Import the PQ into a group in Geosphere. Step 4: While viewing the imported PQ data on the map page scroll over the trail or area that contains the caches. The detailed map information will be cached into memory so it can be viewed out in the field with no wi-fi connection and the blue dot that indicates current GPS position will show up and move on the map as one moves on the trail. (Satellite view of the map works great for this) Step 5:Set the desired cache that you want to find as "Target" and the compass pointer, direction indicator & distance to target will all work. You will also have the ability to view all cache details and record field and personnel notes that can be updated to GC.com once you are connected to wi-fi later on.

Thanks. That's what I needed to know. It works.

I have a Garmin GPSmap62S unit and you have to be careful if you have overlapping PQs. If you have a PQ that you load in the unit as a gpx file with a file name alpha and a second PQ that you load in the unit as a gpx file named beta and they have some caches in common (listed in both files) the ones in the alpha gpx file will override the ones in the beta file. Not a big detail if they contain the same information but sometimes one may be a puzzle cache that has corrected coordinates in the beta file but not in the alpha file. This results in the published coordinates (not the corrected coordinates) in the alpha file being display in the 62s and prevents the corrected coordinates from the beta gpx file from showing up in the unit. Now if the alpha gpx file is deleted (using the computer) one would think the corrected coordinates for the cache in the beta file would be display but no the cache listing is removed from showing up on the unit. Now the interesting part is if one uses Base Camp to view the caches in the unit the cache shows up but in stand alone mode the cache is not present. When I spoke to Garmin about this they told me "It seems that the unit is functioning properly it just doesn't do what you are wanting the unit to do." If one keeps a separate GPX file called "solved puzzles" that contains corrected coordinates I can recommend naming this GPX file "AAAsolved puzzles". This way it take precedents over other gpx files that may contain the same caches without the corrected coordinates. Alphabetical order of the named GPX files does matter sometimes.

Sometimes an event cache gets published with the exact same coordinates as another cache. The one icon sits right on top of the other when viewed on the map page. When the mouse is hovered over the icon a separate box appears showing the names of both caches but only the top one can be selected to view the cache details. There must be away to allow one to view the cache details of the other cache. I tried holding the tab key down while clicking the icon thinking it would cycle through the overlapping icons but it doesn't. Is there another way to view the send cache details in this situation?

Very good reason to see friends find on a map. If I am planning a hiking outing with friends I would like to search for an area where my friends need caches as well. If I could see their finds on a map I can quickly determine if they have been on a particular trail or not. Currently I have to pick a cache on that trail and search all the found logs to see if they have been there before and it is possible that the one cache I picked may have been placed after they found all the rest on this trail. Not a fun outing for my friends if I have 20 caches on a trail and they only need one.