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I have a Magellan Explorist 500 and it works for me but my friend is looking for a GPS for geocaching and he's not as computer saavy as I am. His budget is $200 or less and wants to know what the group would recommend. Thanks

Can you load GPX files on SD card to do paperless caching on a NUVI 200 Sd card instead of into favorites and will it work as well. Just received unit and looking at all the posts on Nuvi 200 I could find I didn't see any info on doing this. Using the latest GSAK. All help appreciated. I have DL the POi Loader Etc and looked at the tutorials ???? Thanks Chuck :[

Meridian Color GPS Lots of extras, 1- 512 Mb SD 2- 128Mb SD 1- 64Mb SD 1- PC cable/cigarette lighter adapter Mapsend streets and destination Canada

At the end of next month we are going on a long holiday (vacation) and expect to find maybe 200 plus caches. What options do people use for when you get back from a trip with a heap of caches to log?? I've been playing with the GSAK macros CachmateLogging and PPC_CachemateLog but I can't get either of them to work as I am not that computer literate. Are there any other methods that people use that might be easier to learn (other than a boring cut and paste log that is the same for each cache!) Annie

I have looked all over this World Wide Web and I am still having trouble getting a map that I downloaded from the GPSfiledepot to my SD card to be visible in my unit. The oregon only sees the basemap it comes with and I can not see the more detailed map that I downloaded. I tried disabling the base map that came with the unit "WW Autoroute Basemap NR" but I did not see any roads when I did that. Do I need to move things around via my PC instead of the unit? If so, I would be ever so grateful if someone explained it to me. Thanx Bill

I use ITATN to put stats on my profile. It tracks milestones. Is 200 one of those milestones? I'm at 199 now and want to do a cache that I can take a good picture at for a milestone. It's related to my user name. If it is a milestone, I'll be forced to go on a longer, steeper hike Friday than I wanted to.

The new "ENHANCED" search sucks! I cannot do things easily like we used to be able to. It does not use my home coords....shows me things 200+ miles or more away when looking for local things....doesn't show both D & T. So many issues, NOT USER FRIENDLY....why change something that wasn't broke! I dislike this update very much!

I bought an oregon 200 and everything works very well, but when i do multicaches i need to go to certain coordinates. I dont know how to do that wit the oregon. Can anyone help?

Love the utility, and have the SD card with topo and mapping capability, works superbly in CO. But without the compass feature, the display wanders dramatically when at a standstill; the terrain does not always permit moving fast enough to enable the gps compass, particularly in inclement weather on rough terrain. Any suggestions?

awhile back i purchased a bicycle mount for magellan triton 200/300/400/500 for a friend, only to find out that his gps isn't any of these models. anyways, i was cleaning my garage yesterday and found the mount (still in the package). i have no use for it (i don't even own a magellan), but figured that there's gotta be someone out there who could use this. according to amazon.com, the retail price for this item is $29.99. i'm just in the process of getting rid of a bunch of stuff i have around the house asap, so i'm willing to just give it away for free. it's brand new. the package is a little beat up since it spent a winter in my messy garage, but the mount itself has never been used, so it should be in perfect condition. anyways, to get a better idea about the mount, here's the amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Magellan-Triton-Bike...7452&sr=8-2 if you are interested, send me a message with an address and i'll get it in the mail asap and i'll send you notification that it's been sent. thank god for spring cleaning, huh?

How do I download coodornates into the Garmin nuvi 200? If this is possible. Also, how do I deleat them from the unit?

How do i delete Geocaches from my unit?

I went to best buy and they didn't have the data cable, besides the associate was really rude, he pointed and said, they should be over there. So far this GPS has been working great for me but I want to be able to load coordiantes and maps from the computer.

I just realizes yesterday that a cache that was loaded from GSAK into my Oregon almost a year ago, did not automatically update new coordinates put on the cache by the CO. Does anyone know what I need to do to ensure that the latest coordinates are being loaded properly? If this is the wrong place to ask, I'll try the GSAK forums, no problem. I just wasn't sure where the error was....I am probably just doing something wrong and one of you smart people will be able to help. Thanks in advance.

Just downloaded via Webupdater Oregon 550T 2.60 (GPS 3.70) Oregon 300 3.30 (GPS 3.70)

I'm looking at "upgrading" my GPS. I have a Platinum right now...was my first GPS and I bought it used. I saw that the triton 200 here at canadian tire was listed as "designed for geocaching". I'm just wondering what the general community thinks. Would this be a worthwhile upgrade for me or would I be lugging this thing right back to the store?

Hi, How is the Oregon 200's turn by turn routing compared to other car/motorcycle specific units? Can I expect pretty much exactly the same result, minus the spoken directions? Or is it different? Thanks!

I've been geocaching for a couple years now. My first unit was actually a DeLorme bluetooth unit which I used with my HP pocket PC. That still works fine for geocaching, but I recently decided I wanted to put a low-cost GPS unit in my car that I could take with me out into the field when I geocached. The handheld units are a real turn-off to me because of the way you have to navigate the menus. I wanted touch-screen because it's just so much quicker. The other day I was out with a friend looking around at car GPS units and I saw that Garmin's Nuvi line had the capability of accepting multiple coordinate formats and zooms in to 80 feet. I looked at the units with geocaching in mind first and a car GPS in mind second. I also didn't want to pay over $200 for a GPS unit. Enter the Nuvi 200, the low-end model of the Garmin car GPS line. The unit functions great as an inexpensive car GPS but it also is accurate enough to triangulate a geocache. I have yet to use it to test for pinpoint accuracy, so I'm going by the zoom feature. The only thing I don't like about the unit is the icon representing the current position, which can only be reduced to an arrow. The Li-Ion battery allows for portability and lasts up to 3 hours, which would be nice for a day of caching. In-between it would be charging while I drive. In the coming weeks I will be testing the unit on a geocache or two and will post my findings. As a car GPS I've already gotten out of a few pinches with the unit. Its features are basic, but they are enough to satisfy those with less to spend. I checked on the website and found that there are no updates for my unit. There is a program you can download and run to update firmware, but you can't download anything directly except a cursor pack that consists mostly of cars of different types to use as your vehicle. There are two upgrades you can add via the SD slot which enhance the points of interest for the US and/or Europe respectively. I don't consider these a necessity. If you're spending this low you're not worried about these kinds of features. The only other downsides---the model I purchased is being replaced with a new model so support in the future may be limited. Information in the unit can and will become outdated over time. I am unaware whether a firmware upgrade will update the unit's database as well, but I do know my unit has fairly new streets in it now at firmware version 3.80. More as soon as I get a chance to test it for geocaching.

barefootjeff - I think that your solution will work for me. I hope you will help me with sourcing and use of the light-dependent resistor you mentioned. So, the device I have and wish to hack is a Bunker Hill PIR Sensor coupled by RF to a receiver that sounds an alert and blinks an LED when the PIR detects proximity. I like the Transmitter/Receiver package as it is EZ and I can place the Receiver about 200 feet away from the Sensor and the whole shebang cost $12, Etc. I originally thought I could find an EZ way to hack the Receiver circuit board to act as a momentary switch to trigger the Sound Card I mentioned. Then it dawned on me that I would not have to do anything to the devices - just leave them as packaged except for silencing the speaker- by using your solution. The sound card is activated by a simple push of a momentary switch and then the sound device takes off with the recording. It seems that I could tape/mount a light-dependent resistor over the LED. I would connect the LDR leads and replace the momentary switch. Then when the LED lights up, I assume that the LDR would act as a switch and activate the sound card just like momentary switch does. What do you think and what LDR would you recommend ?

Okay so for like 2 wks I have been searching the forum, reading reviews on Amazon, reading Garmin's website and talking to fellow cachers. I still can't decide. Want I'd like to know is which one of these will show and make a sound to tell me when to turn and then I can pull it out of the car and go find the cache with adequate accuracy. I own the Explorist 400 and am wondering if the Nuvi 200 will hold 500 POIs and will it do like the Nuvi 550 and show you with an arrow when you are approaching a POI and in which direction. That's the last thing I want to do is use to GPS to find caches but I will if it's more cost effective. I'd like to pull the GPS out of the box with up-to-date road maps and use gsak to transfer caches and walk out the door. Is this possible? I just moved to a new area and I don't own a road gps that will show me where to drive to get there. Completely paperless is cool but not required. I was reading something about special batteries to get the most out of the Oregon what are they and where do you buy them? Are there are threads answering these questions if you'll direct me there I'll read them. Thank you for your time. Seriously I'm torn and just want the best for my money. Getting my car to the cache is my biggest issue right now.

I have been geocaching with some other moms and our 2 yr old sons. It's lots of fun but this week we are 0 for 4. We have searched for 4 caches and not found a single one. I am using a Garmin Nuvi 200 and wonder if that is part of the problem. It is the kind of GPS you use in your car but I can load the caches onto it from this website and/or put int he longitude and latitude for each cahce. We have found several caches using the Nuvi but our stretch of misses is making em think we are doing something wrong. I really dont have the money to invest in another GPS.Hasanyone usd the Nuvi or something smilar and had any luck with geocaching? Thanks, Stacy Tampa, FL

I can affirm that your work around does the trick, but I don't know how to get "The Old Search," which would still be preferable to me. Among other things, when I try to generate a list from the new search function, it seems to limit me to 200 caches. The old one allowed 1000. I wish it allowed even more. How can I get back to the old one.

The holy grail of geocoins. Are there still a few sitting out in unfound caches, or maybe hiding in the drawer of a cacher who has since quit caching? Maybe at the bottom of a kids toybox somewhere?

I have looked high and low for the clip that holds the Nuvi 200 in place. All I can find for sale is the suction cup / ball end mount. I already have 2 of these. I need the other end. I have checked with Garmin, aftermarket suppliers and ebay. Why is this simple little clip so hard to find? Clip needed circled in picture below.