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Hello ricanrod, I sent you a PM for information. Thank you, Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

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ATTA BOY, BIG KUDOS TO YOU, THAT'S WHAT LIFE'S ALL ABOUT AMEN. Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

Ah, Trinket's that's what I need more of. Seriously now, we cache for the thrill of the hunt and the challenge of being able to find the dadgum thing. I think going to new out of the way places that we would never see if not for Geocaching is as important to us as the find IMHO. So many times we take nothing and leave nothing and other times we only leave something. We have seen Waterfalls, caves, forests so deep & dark, ocean views I could go on and on. Swag is nice even if it's nice swag, but for us it is really of little importance, it's the getting there that is the enjoyment for us. Always remember getting there is half the fun. Happy Caching, Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

I want to thank everyone for all the advice, all the information is great. Now all I have to do is buy my Palm. Then I can experiment with the different methods of entering the data into my PC and the Palm. I've defiantly had it with all the papers, paperless is the way for me to go. The Geocaching community is a terrific group of people and I'm proud to be a part of it. Once again thanks to all that offered advice, Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

Hey rpwhite, Thank you for the suggestion especially for the lint to Avantgo. This is the first info. I've received as to how to load the MapQuest maps into a Palm, sounds like the way to go. Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

I played with the little online tool and couldn't find any real difference in the maps between City Select and City Navigator. I wouldn't upgrade my GPSr just to change from one to the other. Also, the V is a better unit for hiking, in my opinion than the Nuvis. In fact, I which they would come out with a GPS VI. If they introduced a 'V' with a color screen, increased memory, and a talking cradle I would pay plenty to replace both of my current GPSrs. I prefer the usability of Plucker. Hey sbell111, I just discovered the other day on Garmin's site that the "V" has been discontinued. I didn't see any hint of a "VI" coming out. I agree I'd love to see the "V" done in color or a "VI" come out in color and increased memory. I'm not so sure about the Talking cradle, I have that on my Quest. I originally had a Garmin "3+" and then went to the "V" which I have had a lot of success with. James Lobb's procedure looks fairly simple using Adobe, but it looks like it abbreviates the cache page a great deal, but I'm not sure since I'm still in the start-up mode. Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

Hey Harriet the Spy, Thanks for the links . I read over the one from Geocaching U and it is very informative. I can understand what GreyingJay meant by saying no two people do it the same way. I guess you just have to decide which procedure works best for you . Well once I get my Palm I will have to do some trial and error to see what suits me best. Thanks for the help, Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

Hey GreyingJay, Thanks again for all the help and advice. Even without a PDA in front of me it's starting to sink in a little. I like to do a zoomed in or magnified view of those little MapQuest maps by clicking on the map and getting more detail for my navigator the Wench, actually once those maps are magnified their detail is quite good. The Wench will help me navigate the small rural roads and roads that we call tram roads around this part of Pennsylvania. Many of these small township roads are only hair lines on the maps in the GPS 5 and at times aren't even named. Since I have the GPS on the steering column in front of me for me to navigate to the cache site area the Wench can't see the map for guidance so I always print a zoomed in detail map for her to follow. If this sounds crazy and somewhat redundant this is the way we always have gone about it to find caches. So this is part of the reason I want to go paperless to stop printing maps so the Wench can follow the map in the PDA and also to have the cache pages in the PDA for viewing. So I hope with other software I can load the maps into the PDA since from what you have said the CachMate won't perform this operation, I really would like to be able to do this. I don't know maybe going paperless to the PDA is a PITA for what I want the PDA to do, I'm not sure at this point. I guess I need to think on this some more. If there are any more suggestions I'd welcome to them. Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench Well, with CacheMate you'll have everything but the Mapquest maps (and any pictures the hider has placed in the listing). Once you've downloaded a database of caches into CacheMate, it lists them all (sorted by their name, or by the GCXXXX waypoint number -- your choice) and you can page through all of the details: the size, terrain rating, the coordinates, the description, the hints, and the last 5 logs. I agree that the map image would be helpful. CacheMate does not support this. Actually, the pocket queries themselves don't support this. It can be done, as others have said, but via a different approach. Let's step back a bit. There are two approaches to getting the cache pages on your Palm. One is to use the information directly available in a Pocket Query, into a database file, which CacheMate (or other programs) read and display. Images are not included. The other is to download (or generate) the HTML pages. You take this collection of HTML pages (and any associated images that might go with them) and convert that into a Palm format, and then use any Palm-based HTML reader. Plucker, iSilo, MobiPocket, etc. can all read offline HTML. With this method, you COULD use the desktop converter to go out to www.geocaching.com and download additional images that are related to, but not included in, the caches downloaded by your pocket query. I hope that makes sense. However, having tried this out a few times, I question the usefulness of the little maps on the cache pages. Do they actually help you out? They are so "zoomed out" that the only useful information I get from them is what region of the city they're in, and that doesn't help me at all -- I KNOW the cache is in this region, that's why I was searching for it in the first place! What I really want is a map that's zoomed in well enough to tell me that the cache is within a few hundred yards of the intersection of Greenbank and Baseline, and that the best approach to get there would be southbound from the highway. And currently I'm not aware of any automated tool that can take the cache coordinates, zoom into a map, capture that into an image, crop out the relevant parts and spit that into a PDA for offline viewing. I would be very happy to be corrected....

Hey sbell111, Yes I also have a map on my Garmin 5. What I like to do is magnify the MapQuest map to show all the small connecting roads in the cache area since most of the Caches we do are in very remote rural areas and we need the detail. Thanks for the input. Jeff

GreyingJay, Thank you for your help, the fog is clearing a little. I can understand that no two people do it the same way. I think I'm starting to get the process partially. A big part of what I want to do is load a MapQuest map which I would have magnified into the Palm also I want very much to be able to do this as well as the Cache page. I'm not so interested in loading Waypoints into the palm since this would be in my GPS. I'm wanting to basically just not have to print Cache pages and maps and have all this information in the Palm. Can you clarify this for me? I hope this all makes sense, sometimes when I don't know much about a subject I find it hard to put it all into words. GreyingJay thank you so much for your help, I greatly appreciate it . Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench Jeff, It gets easier once you've tried it a few times. It's made complicated by the fact that no two people do things exactly the same way... But here's how I do it. I use CacheMate on the Palm (costs $8), which comes with a helper application called, I believe CMConvert. 1. Set up a pocket query. I ask for the 500 traditionals and multis nearest my home coordinates (I don't bother asking for puzzles because they often need other resources that I wouldn't have if I was relying only on my PDA, such as examining pictures or Google searches or cipher decryption programs). 2. Download the GPX file from the pocket query. 3. Use the CMConvert program to open the GPX file. It should convert it to a Palm .pdb file and automatically put it in your Palm's download folder. 4. Sync your Palm. The database file will transfer. 5. Open CacheMate on your Palm. It will ask if you want to import the new database. Click "OK". 6. You're done! You now have all the cache listings and recent logs in your PDA! You will not have images, though. Every week or two I will clear everything from the Palm ("Delete Records" in CacheMate's File menu) and restart this process. This way I get updates on caches which have become disabled, or finders who have started DNF'ing a muggled cache, and of course the new caches placed in that time. You can add other tools like GSAK and GPX Spinner into the process, but that only complicates things... Now, to download all those waypoints into your GPS, you can use GSAK, or EasyGPS, etc. Loading into the Palm and loading into the GPS are obviously two separate steps, though the same Pocket Query GPX file is the source for both.

OK thanks to all that have responded. Now that I'm confused and at my point in life it doesn't take much to do it . So I would use GSAK that is installed in my PC to import the cache page and a map from the cache page into my PC and then with Cachemate installed in the Palm it will load the info. into the Palm if I'm understanding some of the process and I think I have this all wrong . I have read briefly about Plucker and Spinner would they be of any help to me also? If someone would be so kind as to outline the procedure for me from start to finish I would be most appreciative . It seems confusing since it appears that you have to load the information into the Palm in two separate steps. I do realize that getting a Tungsten E2 is overkill, but I'm sure I will come up with some other nerdy uses for it, maybe put a Wifi card in it and use it for email and INTERNET hook up. Thanks to all for their help so far, Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

Hello, I'm going paperless finally and can't wait. I plan on purchasing a Palm Tungsten E2, I've wanted one for a long time. I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row by reading all that I can. So I need some advice about getting started. What I would like to load into the Palm is, 1. The cache page with some log's. If I understand correctly Cachemate will do this and it will allow 5 entry's off of the first or say second page of the cache page? 2. I want to be able to load a magnified map say the Map quest map of the cache location into the Palm or another map of the cache location, I hope this is possible. I'm probably leaving something out and I admit I'm confused over the process, but as with everything else in life these day's we have to learn new technology if we want to use new tools. So any help and advice will be greatly appreciated and I thank all in advance. Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

Hello, I'm going paperless and can't wait. I plan on purchasing a Palm Tungsten E2, I've wanted one for a long time. I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row by reading all that I can. So I need some advice about getting started. What I would like to load into the Palm is, 1. The cache page with some log's. If I understand correctly Cachemate will do this and it will allow 5 entry's off of the first or say second page of the cache page? 2. I want to be able to load a magnified map say the Map quest map of the cache location into the Palm or another map of the cache location, I hope this is possible. I'm probably leaving something out and I admit I'm confused over the process, but as with everything else in life these day's we have to learn new technology if we want to use new tools. So any help and advice will be greatly appreciated and I thank all in advance. Jeff of Barefoot One & Wench

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I have had existing cache pages for some time now. I would like to add a photo as a background for the page, how do I do it?

Sorry the 3+ is gone. Happy New Year, Barefoot One Barefoot One & Wench

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