I have an eTrex Vista Cx which is about a month old. Most of the discussion has been about the Venture/Legend but the Vista is similar so I thought I would comment. Up until I read this forum I was having no problem using it for geocaching. After reading about these issues I suddenly started wondering if I was having the problem with accuracy that others were.
On two occassions I have been with about 5-8 metres of the cache and gone one way only to see the distance and direction change and send me the other way. Nothing close to the 100 metres plus some people have been seeing. In reality I think this maybe caused by the excited running back and forth of my two young boys who are with me and often holding the GPSr. On both occassions we were also well into the woods under heavy trees. On both occassions things settles down and we ended up at the caches. In one instance it said we were one metre away and the GPSr was pointing right at the actual hiding place one metre away. That definately made me feel better about the accuracy of my unit.
Overall, this has been an amazing unit. It was definately well thought out and designed prior to release. Everytime I am playing with it and think "it would be neat if you could................." I end up pushing a menu button and seeing I can do exactly what I was wondering about. I also just got City Navigator NA v8 and went on a 1000km road trip.
Detailed mapping certainly adds a whole new dimension and it was awesome, right on everytime. No issues at all with accuracy when it came to following roads etc. I was amazed it knew I had stayed in the collector lanes on the 401 Highway and not gone into the express lanes as it had suggested. Also on the way back we were caught in a heavy downpour for about 10 minutes and it was showing +/- 2m accurracy the whole time which is the best accuracy yet.
So basically, I am very happy with mine, but keeping a close eye on these forums just in case.............
Matthew
