TheLads

Thanks, so the waiting game it is then. Cheers

Hi There, Is it possible to change the formatting of the date on the geocaching website for a user, so for example the date could be displayed DD-MM-YY, as is the standard format in New Zealand. Thanks.

I can go almost all day with one set of NiMH, compass on, WAAS not available where I am and I think the screen dims after 30secs. Make sure you go into the settings and tell the unit what kind of batteries you have installed, it makes a difference.

As has been said, the communicator plugin will not work with serial GPSr on the mac, using a USB to serial adaptor simply creates a serial port on you mac, it does not make the device a USB device. Although you are technically connecting physically using a USB connection, it is still communicating via the Garmin Serial Protocol, which the communicator plugin for mac will not do, this is also the reason a disk does not appear on the desktop. So the only options you have are to get a newer USB native GPSr or use a program like the suggested MacCaching that can communicate via the serial protocol. For the person with the eTrex Venture HC, I'm not familiar with the model, but I see it is native USB, does it show up in Apple System Profiler under USB, and as what? I would expect that there are no drivers for it for mac and that it should mount on the desktop. Maybe you need to change the interface setting on the GPSr itself to Mass Storage or something like that. I'm guessing here, I have had no contact with the model.

I have been using an eTrex Summit for 8 years now and it still works fine, it's not mapping, but the magnetic compass works well. I can upload caches to it no problem with the Garmin cable and a Keyspan USB to Serial adaptor using the Garmin Plugin for the geocahcing website. (This option dosn't work on the Mac OS but there is a work around) Altough the limit of 6 charactors for waypoint names can be pain as some cache names GCxx... can be longer that 6. I have recently upgraded to a Garmin Oregon 300, very much the same as the Colorado, but with a touch screen, which makes input and moving the map around much easier, and it's not actually that much more costly. The accuracy seems quite good, finds lots of satellites, much better than the eTrex, but the it is 8 years old. However I like the eTrex's magnetic compass better, the Oregon is slow to switch between GPS and compass and can be slow to update. But still stoked with the Oregon, paperless caching, street and topo maps. And you just plug it into USB (Mac or Windows) and it works fine.