AbingDanClan

Hi, please direct me as appropriate if this is already covered.... How do I make a TB in to "Discover Me" only? I have my code (not the TBXXXX) ... and it is in fact a LIVE TB...but I want to make it Discover Me only...? I can't see how to set it up like this though? Or..if it is labelled as "Discover Me" in the real World, people will just have to log it as "Discover Me" from the drop down list once they come across it? Thanks for any help!

Hi, To go back to the last part of your original question... I am using an HTC One S smartphone. I am relatively new to the whole World of Geocaching, and am having a great time with it...but I wanted to 'increase my accuracy' too. So, I bought (second hand) a Garmin Geko 201 hand held GPS, to see if it were "any better". This is where I am now up to.... I have found the Geko fairly awkward to use ( I know it's a bit 'Old Skool' - but wanted to try it out), it is mainly awkward because of the whole having to type the co ordinates in manually situation. This may be a surmountable problem, but only if I invest in a data cable - which will cost me about the same as the second hand Geko! Not worth it when finances are tight. I found the Geko to be no less, and certainly no more accurate than the GPS in my smartphone. 1 - 0 to the smartphone. I therefore Googled/and PlayStore searched for "best GPS APPs" and have now been playing with "GPS Status" and "GPS Essentials". Both are great and way beyond what I am prepared to comprehend...but from the little playing I have done, whilst these apps are great for 'looking at satellites' - geeky...but not particularly useful for Geocaching(!), I am not sure what they offer above and beyond what my main geocaching app, c:geo, gives me. I seem to still have to copy/paste/input manually the co-ordinates in to my GPS dedicated apps. I did this, and as well as c:geo, have literally just got in from walking down to the local shop to get milk...and passed a known cache. I honed in on it using all three apps... As a comparison, all three apps performed equally. All counted down the metres to the cache, pointing me in the correct direction, all flickering between 3 and 7 metres accuracy. It's a clear night here in Oxfordshire, UK. A quiet country path with intermittent light tree cover. Once I was standing 'over the cache', all the apps said - "3metres over there"...so were equally all "out" by some factor... My understanding is that GPS Essentials is often in the top 10 Android Apps, in general. What have I learned...? The biggest thing I have realised, which is specific to me..and how I cache...and perhaps specific to the more urban nature of Blighty - ie NOT trekking off into the wilderness for days on end - we can't, we run out of country pretty quick on this little island! The biggest lesson is that...I don't really need anything more accurate that 3 - 4 metres...and in fact, I don't think my 'game play' utilises a GPS at all. I read the description. if necessary I read any clues, I look at previous logs...and I hunt around. That's how I find caches...NOT by honing in to within a few feet of a location.... So, in summary: for me, the GPS apps and devices are all well and good, but are of no practical use for my game play. c:geo does what I need - it allows easy access to all the relevant details - cache details, description, logs, clues...and, should I want to use a compass to navigate - the co ordinates are all there already. I can also log on the spot, mostly, too. I hope this goes some way to help. As I too have been looking into this, it seems you guys have a bigger wilderness to deal with, so a dedicated GPS may make more sense, but for me, when it comes down to it, it seems my phone suits me down to the ground(speak)! Happy caching! AbingDanClan