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Does anyone use a Garmin Oregon 200? I am looking for a middle of the road GPS and looking at one of those... I will use it on my motorcycle for turn by turn routing and geocaching but would like to be paperless. Are they paperless.. ie. can I load info from the cache page, size/terrain/difficulty etc? I notice they also accept sdmicro cards. Don't need tons of bells and whistles!!! Can you enter coords, then have the turn by turn directions? thanks

I would like to download multiple cache sites on my Oregon 200 and haven't got a clue how to do it. Can someone explain, in words of 1 syllable, how it is done. Thank you.

I just got an Oregon 200 and would like to find a destination turn x turn software. I just want to be able to pop my addy in and my destination addy... I hear there are shareware maps out there. Any idea where I might look and which are the good ones? I really don't want to pay 50 or 60 bucks for the minimal use I would use it. thanks

Does anyone know where I might find info on The Oregon 200 and whether it takes advantage of a 16MB memory card... or if it will even work in it..!?

Me and my boyfriend just purchased our first geocaching gps today, the triton 200, and I am starting to regret the decision of buying this particular one!! The users manual was very unhelpful. We cannot for the life of us figure out how to enter coordinates into it and then get it to lead us to them. If anybody has this particular gps please help!! Thanks!!

I am thinking about getting a Garmin Oregon 200 for geocaching. Any advice out there? Does anybody have one? Basically I am looking to get a unit for under $300. Have geocached before using a car GPS...painful. Advice greatly appreciated!

Hi; We are new to geocaching... We just bought a Garmin ORegon 200 and are trying to download cache information to our gps. We're not sure what we are doing wrong. Can anybody give us step-by-step directions? We have it hooked up to the computer, we've updated the driver, we've tried saving the file to the computer and on to the gps (though perhaps not in the right place). Help! Thanks!

I have the Oregon 200 with the TOPO canada Software loaded. While navigating to caches via car, the unit will give me turn by turn navigation, and the distance to the cache will update. Once I get out of the car and I touch the pin on the screen and move toward the cache, the distance stays at the car. The arrow moves, but the the only way I can tell how far I am from the cache is to touch the header at the top, and it tells me the distance from the waypoint, but it doesn't update dynamically of course. Sometimes when I zoom it it starts updating , but usually not. I've tried disabling maps, switching to pedestrain mode and I forget what else. Basically I have played with every setting I could think of. It's a new issue, and it's driving me nuts. I am ready to junk the stupid unit and get something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't have anything to compare it to but my Nuvi 200 has worked well and I'm wondering how others feel about geocaching with it since it is the cheapest GPSr I can find. It can be a little jumpy sometimes abd some of the options are limited but you can't beat it for the price. I have found the POI to be a useful tool but can't seem to figure out how to do a mass delete of caches without doing a hard reboot and erasing everything. I know we are only limited to 500 and I don't know if that is low compared to better GPSr's. Overall, I am happy with my 200. It does everything I need it to from road trips to GCing in the woods on my mountain bike.

THIS! I just had a couple big days of caching, with over a couple hundred finds. I uploaded all the drafts/fieldnotes, and then before posting any logs on any of them, I suffered some uncertainty about whether I had actually included everything. So because I wanted to make sure nothing was duplicated, I deleted everything and started over. NOW I CANNOT UPLOAD any of my 200+ drafts. Having to drag up each of those webpages manually to log them all is going to make me very, very frustrated. Groundspeak, this is not helpful! At the very least, there should be prominent warnings indicating that deleting a draft will result in never ever being able to use it again, even if you haven't followed through and posted a log from it! But seriously, how boneheaded is that?!

Ez a tema foleg a fenti GPS-szel rendelkezoknek szol. Nem tudom, szoktatok-e egyaltalan a firmware-t frissiteni es milyen gyakran. Szerintem a stabil verziokat megeri rapakolni (Garmin WebUpdater-rel lehet). En eleinte frissitgettem, aztan el is feledkeztem rola. Ma ujra frissitettem es sok ujat talaltam benne. Pl. mar lehet a GPS-ben a ladakat szűrni meret/nehezseg/stb. alapjan. A muszerfal resze is egy kicsit megvaltozott es kiegeszult. Aki eddig nem csinalta, de kedvet kapott hozza, az azert mindenkeppen ugyeljen arra, amit a program is kiir, hogy legyen elegendoen feltoltott elem a GPS-ben, nehogy pont az update alatt meruljon le, mert akkor lehet hogy csak a szervizben tudjak helyrehozni.

I bought a new Oregon 200 and I use a mac. For two days I have been trying to figure out how to get geocaches onto the gps. I installed the communicator plugin from the garmin site and it says my gps is connected but I am unable to get any geocaches on it. I tried a pocket query and dropping it on the the icon. I tried applications such as mac simple gps and geocache manager but none of these work. I miss the days of my old laptop and my gsak. Now I have resorted to manually keying in waypoints. Can anybody help me out? I am dying to get out there caching now that it is spring.

My non-profit, Big Love Little Hearts', mission is to make sure that all children with heart defects get the lifesaving surgery they need regardless of their economic status or country of origin. 1 in 100 children are born with a heart defect - that means roughly one million children are born every year with a heart defect and half of them will need surgery to survive. February 7 -14 is Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Week. As part of our Awareness Campaign we have minted 200 geocoins that look like our logo and we need your help!! We are looking for volunteers to hide our coins in caches all across the US and Canada...our goal is for them to be found again and again, so our only wish is that you don't hide them anywhere too difficult to find If you would like to participate, please email me at: erosenberg@biglovelittlehearts.org ASAP. The coins need to be hidden during CHD Awareness Week so we are mailing them out in the next few days. We hope you'll help us spread the word - CHD's are the most common birth defect and the #1 reason infants die in their first year of life! Peace, Estrella Rosenberg Founder, Big Love Little Hearts

I've been looking at the Garmin eTrex Venture HC. It seems to be positively reviewed by most people. I don't need much in the way of paperless caching, as I have an iPod touch with the official app. I just need a relatively basic but reliable GPS to help me find caches. That's about all as far as my criteria goes. What do you all suggest?

Does anyone know how to manually input coodinats on a Garmin Oregon 200? I cant seem too.

I have a new Triton 200, I really like the thing its neet tough waterproof ect. But I cannot get right numbers on it, i mean I can be standing right over top of a cache and the numbers are all a good way off, Same as with the gps in my truck the numbers dont match it either ? What am I doing wrong ? Or is there something im not doing right ? Is there a simple idots way to program in a cache location where we can find it , And how ? Every thing is manual here I do not have a computer cable, Any help would be wonderful

Unfortunately this does not do, what I want. If my search results in more than 500 hits, only the first 500 will be mapped. I see no chance to somehow map the rest. Is it really too much of a request to just be able to add all of them to the list and not only the first 200?

Greetings and salutations This is my first post on this forum, I hope it is in the right category. I'm planning to buy my first handheld GPS device (I already have Garmin Nuvi 200 for in-car navigation), and I will use it for: photo geotagging and track logging (most important - I want to turn it on, put it on my backpack and forget about it for ~12 hours) navigation (in cities as a pedestrian, I travel a lot) geocaching (least important) After few days/weeks of reading every possible review, I have narrowed my choice to two models: Garmin eTrex Legend HCx Pros Price (~210 euros) Battery life (I read it is about 22-24 hours?) Can save tracklog to SD card Wrist strap + belt clip Looks pretty durable [*]Cons Screen and interface (it looks OK on this photo, however, it is really ugly on this one) Garmin Oregon 200 Pros Screen Touchscreen interface [*]Cons Price (~360 euros) Battery life (10-12-14 hours?) Can not save tracklog to SD card Lanyard + carabiner, no belt clip (only 3rd party) I do not need features like barometric altimeter and electronic compass, so I picked Legend over Vista and Oregon 200 over Oregon 300. Now, I have few questions: 1. Oregon can save 20 tracks with 10.000 points. Does that mean, if it logs my position every second, one track will last 10.000 seconds = less than 3 hours? 2. What will happen when I fill one track with 10k points? Will it continue automaticaly with another track? 3. Can I use map for navigation while track is logged in background (multitasking) ? 4. Can I load Garmin NT maps to eTrex? 5. This page says that eTrex comes with wrist strap but I am unable to find a photo of it. Is it a true wrist strap like for Foretrex and/or Forerunner ? For now, I'm leaning towards eTrex (because of price and battery life primarely), but interface on Oregon is so much better Any suggestion will be appreciated Thanks

This was only purchased in May, but to be honest I have a passion against touch screens and just can't get to grips with this, so we are going to get a more tactile one. We are selling this on Ebay in the UK, but it anyone is interested and wants to buy it outwith Ebay and Paypal, please just email us at: coxandclan@googlemail.com It comes fully boxed and has hardly been used. It was recently tested to destruction on the Gadget Show, so there goes my idea of chucking it out the window when I have had enough of it!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=260667852409 Thank you Karen and Rob aka CoxandClan

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Yes this is what I meant: Moving ALL search results to a list and not only the first 200. Which is really tedious to do.

I transferred a GPX Pocket Query to the micro SD card installed in my Oregon. When I went to the Geocache menu nothing was there. I loaded the same files to the internal memory and I could now view them. Are you not able to load GPX files to the SD card? Do I need to change a setting to view them? Thanks

So I downloaded a 1000 caches pq a few weeks ago and it's dawned on me that I might need to update it regularly. But obviously I want to be able to keep all the found details I've got on my GPS. Or am I looking at this the wrong way. Should I delete every detail on my GPS then download a found pq and a local 1000 cache pq? Or am I getting completely mixed up, I feel I am. So far I've just unzipped the pq file and put it straight into the right folder on the GPS. Any help to get me sorted out would be appreciated,

Everyone gets access to all non-premium caches right now for free for merely signing up on the website. Better start archiving your caches. At one time I was a new geocacher who didn't know what I was doing. I used the website instead of an app, because at the time there wasn't an app, and I found an inexpensive GPS receiver on a clearance rack, but I didn't go and destroy everyone's geocaches. I made mistakes and wrote stupid logs in the beginning but eventually I learned. App users aren't bad people bent on destroying a game we all love, they're trying out and then hopefully continuing in a game that you and I enjoy. Apps give easy access to people who already have smartphones, and help introduce people to this game, people who normally wouldn't go out and spend $200 on a GPS receiver just to try geocaching. And if they get into the game, they can purchase premium membership just like I eventually did. I don't want to see people who have have been geocaching for a while yelling at app users to "get off their lawn". Yes. The old app worked well. And then a new app replaced it that reduced functionality to basic members. I'm asking for the app to go back to that state, whether for free or possibly through an in-app purchase.

I think it's to encourage people who use The App to help pay for it. That's fair. "Apps" are not cheap, why not pay for something one enjoys, when many people who pay for PM are Geocaching just fine without "an App" -- people who would prefer IT work be directed at NOT an App. And show me popular game Apps that don't have "coins" or "gems" to buy (sure, everyone claims they never pay anything). Game Apps have the highest subscription, with no upper limit to what you could pay. Except for Geocaching. Watch out when using Google Maps. Although the pin is usually placed at GZ, if Google Maps can stick to streets, it will. Even if a cache is not in the street. Other than that, there are free "GPS Apps". But don't focus on "Apps". If one can afford a $1000 phone every couple of years, one can save up for a $200 handheld GPS. There's an entire web site of cache info to load on it for free.