The Artful Dodger
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Originally posted by worldtraveler:After all, I've only owned the "old" CS for 7 months, and I paid well over $100 for it. I can easily get by with that and my MetroGuide USA (another $100+) for a few more years if the update cost remains exorbitant. If we could get the weight of geocaching.com thrown in, they may really take it seriously.
Jeremy?
Worldtraveler
AS Jeremy once said in response to why Garmin don't advertise on Geocaching.com...Garmin have a captive market in us geocachers. There isn't much competition out there. IMHO , they won't cave into demands by the geocaching community...
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was held by a guy SINCE OCTOBER last year. Constant emails were met by a promise to place it in a cache soon.
When I placed a note on the Bug's page stating that I may archive it, the 9 people who were on its watchlist emailed the guy that was holding it.
He said that his dog hid the Bug but now its found and that he will place it this weekend.
Who knows...but I am not holding my breath.
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was held by a guy SINCE OCTOBER last year. Constant emails were met by a promise to place it in a cache soon.
When I placed a note on the Bug's page stating that I may archive it, the 9 people who were on its watchlist emailed the guy that was holding it.
He said that his dog hid the Bug but now its found and that he will place it this weekend.
Who knows...but I am not holding my breath.
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Originally posted by worldtraveler:Since you've already got the RAM mount, you may findhttp://www.gpscity.com/accram/ramhol/ramholga2.html will meet your needs pretty inexpensively.
Worldtraveler
Neat! I did not know that you can buy the top part of the mount separately. In that case, my suction Mount will come in very handy if I buy the V.
Thanks again for the help.
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Originally posted by worldtraveler:Since you've already got the RAM mount, you may findhttp://www.gpscity.com/accram/ramhol/ramholga2.html will meet your needs pretty inexpensively.
Worldtraveler
Neat! I did not know that you can buy the top part of the mount separately. In that case, my suction Mount will come in very handy if I buy the V.
Thanks again for the help.
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Its good to get various opinions. I appreciate your comments. I have heard that the new 'version' of City Select arrives in June.
It looks like I will consider aquiring the GPS V again.
Hey, Gimpy. Thanks for the pics. I see that the mount that comes with the V is the one that is installed on the dashboard. Is there some other type of mount that prevents a permanent mount? With the MAP76, I have the RAM suction mount that I stick to the instruments display and the unit is nicely positioned where my RPM counter is. I heard that the GPSIII has a 'bean bag' of sorts that is supposed to be reliable - maybe it might be good for the V as well.
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Its good to get various opinions. I appreciate your comments. I have heard that the new 'version' of City Select arrives in June.
It looks like I will consider aquiring the GPS V again.
Hey, Gimpy. Thanks for the pics. I see that the mount that comes with the V is the one that is installed on the dashboard. Is there some other type of mount that prevents a permanent mount? With the MAP76, I have the RAM suction mount that I stick to the instruments display and the unit is nicely positioned where my RPM counter is. I heard that the GPSIII has a 'bean bag' of sorts that is supposed to be reliable - maybe it might be good for the V as well.
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Hi all.
Ok. I have a GPS MAP76 and love it! I do all my caching and driving with it.
For driving, I load Mapsource Road & Recreation on my PC and paintakingly create routes manually creating a waypoint at every turn in the route. That way, when I drive, the unit beeps at me and I know that I have to turn up ahead. This whole process is a bit of pain in the butt, but tolerable. The bigger screen makes it easy to view while driving(for me, anyway!)
For months, I have been salivating at getting a GPS V to replace my MAP 76. At this stage, I have read all the features about it and declared that the auto-routing feature is the best thing about it since sliced bread. At a recent geocaching get-togther last weekend, one of the cachers had the unit with him so I got to see one up close for the first time.
I was a tad dissapointed in the screen size first of all. The MAP76 is a little bigger making it easy to follow while driving. I asked the cacher about the auto-routing feature and he said it was a major pain as it would suggest roads that were not there or to go the wrong way up a one-way street etc.
I am having second thoughts about buying the GPS V. I think mainly due to the screen size. The V looks tiny compared to the Map76 and I think eye strain might be forthcoming if I use the V.
Perhaps the auto-routing mishaps the other cacher experienced can be overcome.
My Map76 stands confortably wedged between the bottom of my steering wheel and the top of the dashboard. Can anyone tell me their experiences with the GPS V vs the MAP76 as far as driving goes?
Thanks for reading a long winded entry
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Hi all.
Ok. I have a GPS MAP76 and love it! I do all my caching and driving with it.
For driving, I load Mapsource Road & Recreation on my PC and paintakingly create routes manually creating a waypoint at every turn in the route. That way, when I drive, the unit beeps at me and I know that I have to turn up ahead. This whole process is a bit of pain in the butt, but tolerable. The bigger screen makes it easy to view while driving(for me, anyway!)
For months, I have been salivating at getting a GPS V to replace my MAP 76. At this stage, I have read all the features about it and declared that the auto-routing feature is the best thing about it since sliced bread. At a recent geocaching get-togther last weekend, one of the cachers had the unit with him so I got to see one up close for the first time.
I was a tad dissapointed in the screen size first of all. The MAP76 is a little bigger making it easy to follow while driving. I asked the cacher about the auto-routing feature and he said it was a major pain as it would suggest roads that were not there or to go the wrong way up a one-way street etc.
I am having second thoughts about buying the GPS V. I think mainly due to the screen size. The V looks tiny compared to the Map76 and I think eye strain might be forthcoming if I use the V.
Perhaps the auto-routing mishaps the other cacher experienced can be overcome.
My Map76 stands confortably wedged between the bottom of my steering wheel and the top of the dashboard. Can anyone tell me their experiences with the GPS V vs the MAP76 as far as driving goes?
Thanks for reading a long winded entry
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The Short description is limited to 200 characters.
Your 4630 characters will be sufficient for the Long Description. Geocaching.com does not take any of the 5000 character allotment for formatting purposes etc.
The 5000 is purely for your use. If you use HTML youself to design your cache page, all the coding characters used would be taken out of the 5000 allotment, but it sounds like you dont need to worry about that for now.
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It can get chewed up pretty quickly if you use HTML
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It can get chewed up pretty quickly if you use HTML
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They say they only allow demo use of 100 times but I have used it over 250 and no problem.
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Originally posted by BassoonPilot:quote:
Originally posted by BrianSnat:Now this is just a rumor, but I heard from someone who knows someone who knows him, that the Geocacher who goes by the name of Stayfloopy is really Nick Nolte.
Well, if you want to see what "Nick Nolte" really looks like, click
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?ID=41921&L=316612.
I'm sure there's a surgical solution to that flag growing out of his head. Poor guy! At least it isnt a propellor !
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Originally posted by BassoonPilot:quote:
Originally posted by BrianSnat:Now this is just a rumor, but I heard from someone who knows someone who knows him, that the Geocacher who goes by the name of Stayfloopy is really Nick Nolte.
Well, if you want to see what "Nick Nolte" really looks like, click
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?ID=41921&L=316612.
I'm sure there's a surgical solution to that flag growing out of his head. Poor guy! At least it isnt a propellor !
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Originally posted by Bearington:Something is not right! I change the background and its ok, I check 2 or 3 times. I then go back a short time later and it has mysteriously changed back to green. What has happened ???
Also, I still need help to not have it tiled.
Thanks
This is your exact coding you have on your cache page (I checked
)You need to place a space before BGPROPERTIES
A good programmer always checks his code ... otherwise it becomes a program 'feature'. MS Windows has many 'features'
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Originally posted by Bearington:Something is not right! I change the background and its ok, I check 2 or 3 times. I then go back a short time later and it has mysteriously changed back to green. What has happened ???
Also, I still need help to not have it tiled.
Thanks
This is your exact coding you have on your cache page (I checked
)You need to place a space before BGPROPERTIES
A good programmer always checks his code ... otherwise it becomes a program 'feature'. MS Windows has many 'features'
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Unfortunately, I have seen a lot of broken plastic toys and bits and pieces of Happy meal toys in caches.
I agree that one person's junk is another person's treasure (the proliferation of antique stores in the US - especially the Northeast confirms this
) but, c'mon! its a sad sight to discover a cache filled with miscellaneous parts. No kid needs to dig around in there. -
Unfortunately, I have seen a lot of broken plastic toys and bits and pieces of Happy meal toys in caches.
I agree that one person's junk is another person's treasure (the proliferation of antique stores in the US - especially the Northeast confirms this
) but, c'mon! its a sad sight to discover a cache filled with miscellaneous parts. No kid needs to dig around in there. -
on one of my caches to see if geocachers will heed to the request not to leave McJunk within it.
I devised a little logo of sorts ...
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I saw this excellent scuba cache placed today by Mattw in Washington.
Anyone fancy going for a ride in a '58 Ford ?
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Originally posted by bldebabe:Much of the wooded area between Butler and West Milford is Newark Watershed. You have to purchase a permit to hike on the property otherwise you could get kicked off or fined for trespassing.
I can second that! See my log for the Sierra Bravo 01-Clinton Rd cache.
City Select Upgrade by Garmin
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AS Jeremy once said in response to why Garmin don't advertise on Geocaching.com...Garmin have a captive market in us geocachers. There isn't much competition out there. IMHO , they won't cave into demands by the geocaching community...