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Going to to the UK for a while and need some navigation assistance. What do I need get updated maps Or should I buy one there? I can get one with the car rental but they add $200 to the rental.

I use GASK and Cachemate (Zire72) to stay paperless but how do I get the found log I or my wife creates to GSAK and how can I get it to my Geocaching.com account? Today we hit 7 caches and I dont want to retype all what was entered by my wife...

Well I couldn't resit the sale for the c330 for $126 @ walmart so I have a Turn by turn based GPS and it works GREAT(I've even add 250 or so Caches as POI)!!! I cant believe you can get this kind of GPS technology for that price. I also saw the Tomtom one LE for 114 @ best buy but they were out. Was the c330 a better buy?

I have been a member for the last two year except for a short break, I only use the Queries when I get the urge to cache. Maybe once or twice a year for 5-6 caches at a time then I wait for the bug to bite again and do it again. The Membership is WELL worth it!

I use it primarily for Geocaching and for Mapping and not getting lost with MapSend Topo but would like to use it for Turn based routing with DR as well. I like the water proofness and ruggedness of it. But it seems a bit slow to lock, REAL slow updating the onscreen map and Goto and not as accurate as I would expect especially under trees but it has never let me down. I also don't like the serial connection. Is there one that I could connect to My Zire72 that I use for paperless caching and also to My PC? Seems they still sell for about $100 so that would offset a good bit of a new unit.

I have been trying to upload maps to my 512 meg card from my PDA but I cant get a map with the right street names for any thing. I have tried doing it at 32 meg regions and then 64 but neither work, I try just letting the PC work and then making a file then coping it to an SD reader but same thing. Any ideas? I’m using mapsend topo 3.4 that was patched to 4.20. thanks

Right, I have a 128 and a 512, this is not about buying a new one... ith a single map 512 megs or ehat ever is the performance worse than smaller maps?

I have a 128 in my GPS no I can keep the whole gulf coast, plus more in it. will putting a bigger SD card in really maek a diff? I have a 512 in my PDA and dont use it much would a swap over be benificial the the GPS map side fo things? how bout when I get Direct route?

The MPH is "off" due to the G-tech being more acurate. The reason is, the strip calculates the average speed of the last 30 feet. The G-tech Is within ~one mph of your actual radar verified Trap speed. There is a 0-100-0 mode on the G-tech, I'm not sure if was carried over to the G-tech Pro. it sense when you hit it and then tells you when you hit 100 and then sense when you are at a full stop.

can you send a pic or describe the Mount?

Dang it I just tried it out. The SD card is reporting only 92 megs total space. also it cant format it in any method... I wonder if the SD area is corrupted.

Just got back from a friends with a reader. I'm using 5.40 so fat 32 it is!!!

I just ordered one for 6.98 shipped for a 43 in 1 unit that will do my CF, SD,SM,XD,MS pro duo etc etc. but it'll be a couple more days. Can I do any thing in the mean time? So what should I do when I get the reader?

The GPS batteries died on an upload of a 60meg region. Now I am missing that free space, the card check, reports errors and I can't fit another load on it due to not enough room. I tried formatting in the GPS but to no avail! What’s the next step? I'm kina stuck, as I have no standalone SD reader yet.

Err????

Why not use G-tech??? They are deadly accurate on the MPH side if set and leveled in properly. Try using two at a time and do an average and you will see how close they are. They might not be perfect for a recorded record run for the record books, but they will work perfectly for an arbitrary comparison. It'll tell you when to start braking after hitting 100. The GPS will never work, on my 0-100-0 runs with a 5th wheel I'm at 100 for less than 1/10 of a second.

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Does any one have this patch? I am also hving problems getting 3.00b to run on my Win XP machine. any input?

I would Like the DR software, and possibly the car mount.

Would you care to seperate the DR software?

http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/2709251.html By ED CULLEN Advocate staff writer Published: Apr 28, 2006 Advocate staff photo by Patrick Dennis Student Alice Kuyoro boards a bus for a few hours of geo-caching. Her aide, Inger Turner, stands inside the bus as driver Linda Naquin, left, operates the controls of a wheelchair lift. P.E. teacher JiJi Jonas, foreground, uses geo-caching to get her students interested in the outdoors. (Page 1 of 2) A couple of Baton Rouge physical education teachers are big on geo-caching as a way to get students outdoors. After a few minutes talking to JiJi Jonas and Joanna Faerber, you realize their real reason for promoting geo-caching is that they think treasure hunting with a GPS device is fun. GPS stands for global positioning system. Using satellite signals to determine latitude and longitude, GPS allows a person to pinpoint locations anywhere on earth. Geo-caching combines use of a GPS device, the Internet and maps to track down hidden “treasure.” The hunt is the thing. The “treasures” are often trinkets or other small rewards. “My friend, Joanna, and I went to a conference in Little Rock, (Ark.)” said Jonas, an itinerant, public school PE teacher in Baton Rouge. “We wanted to do orienteering, but we kept getting lost.” Orienteering is point-to-point map reading with a compass. Geo-caching uses a handheld GPS device that ranges in price from $80 to $1,000. “My husband teaches geography,” said Faerber. “We’ve put up 15 caches.” A cache (pronounced “cash”) is a hidden container holding log book, pencil or pen and, sometimes, a prize. A cache may be camouflaged to blend in with its hiding place. Often, the best finds are hanging in plain sight. “It’s about being outside instead of inside watching television or playing computer games,” Faerber said. “It gets parents out doing things with their children.” Classroom teachers like geo-caching, Faerber said, because “it integrates math, science, reading, critical thinking and problem solving.” The teachers use a free Internet service that’s open to the public (http://www.geocaching.com). The site gives GPS coordinates and the approximate distance from one’s starting point. The clues are clever and, sometimes, mention points of interest the searchers might want to check out after they’ve located the cache. One clue reads: “You might be tempted to hop on the train here in downtown Baton Rouge, but this train isn’t going anywhere. Check out the Old State Capitol and the Shaw Center while you’re looking for this cache.” (Page 2 of 2) One morning, Jonas and Baton Rouge Magnet High School junior, Alice Kuyoro, 16, set out on a cache hunt. Kuyoro is in a wheelchair. The geocaching Web site rates terrain in degrees of difficulty. Jonas has another student who is visually impaired who likes to geo-cache. The teacher is getting a GPS locator that “speaks” to the user to use with this student. “I like the hunt,” said Kuyoro. “I look at it as a big mystery.” Geocaching “lets me see new scenery,” she said. “Otherwise, I wouldn’t see new places. I saw where Miss FiFi lives.” “Alice uses the Internet all the time so that’s no big deal,” Jonas said. “This gets her out, and it’s something she can do with her mother.” Jonas travels to two elementary schools and two high schools as an itinerant special education P.E. teacher. Other things she does with her students include fishing, bowling, horseshoes, bicycle riding and weight training. Faerber teaches P.E. at the LSU Laboratory School. Along with geo-caching, her students play tennis, badminton and volleyball. They swim, dance, rollerblade and get instruction in bicycle safety and nutrition. Compared to some counties in other states, Baton Rouge public school children get a good bit of exercise at school, she said. “There are places in the United States where children have zero P.E.,” Faerber said. “Here, children in elementary school get 150 minutes of P.E. a week. High school students get 270 minutes.”

I want the turn by turn for my day job of on site stuff but still want to use the GPS for caching after work and on weekends. can I load a topo map and a DR map on the same card or possibly diff cards and just switch maps or swap cards out? Or does Direct Route work well with Geo caching? I saw a thread about somthing similar but couldnt find it when searching...

It's not a Post your cache here site, more a secondary rating site done by people that found the cache.

I am in a situation to need the information now (fiancee' is in a Wheel chair and crutches for a few months)and have always tried to be an advocate since My dad had problems that required him to use a cane and be very short breathed. But site has NO listings other than the 6 I did this mornig for the 100 mile radius area. Thanks Maybe a banner add? what does it cost? I could raffle a cool flash light out of my collection to rase money for it.