liquidmere Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 I must say, i love this gps. I couldnt' figure out how to use this geocaching feature however. I read the manual and looked on the internet and still got nowhere. Can anybody please explain? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+webscouter. Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 If you have waypoints that have the geocaching icon a couple of things happen. First when you are on the compass page you will have a found option. Selecting found changes the icon to your geocache found icon. Then at the end of the day you can look for the caches you found by selecting the found icon. Second is that when you select found it will add the cache to the calendar in reverse order from the found order. Quote Link to comment
liquidmere Posted June 12, 2005 Author Share Posted June 12, 2005 so when i download waypoints from easygps do i change the icon to not found? Or when i download the waypoints, hit "goto" and find the cache, do i hit menu and it will give me a "found" option? Quote Link to comment
+Sputnik 57 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Take a look at the Geocaching section of the FAQ linked in my signature line. Quote Link to comment
KayakIowa Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 I'm new to this too and this information has been a great help. However, where do I find waypoints with the treasure chest icon? Are you saying that some of the caches on this sight have them and some don't. I've downloaded a couple of waypoints but when I transfer them to my handheld they go into "waypoints" instead of "geocaching". Quote Link to comment
+webscouter. Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 You have to be a premium member and download the GPX file instead of the LOC file. If you are not a premium member you can go into the setup under menu-setup-geocache and set the geocache to waypoint. However this will cause all points that you upload to be seen as geocaches. Quote Link to comment
+Alan Ellis Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 (edited) You have to change the waypoint symbol to the geocaching icon (treasure chest) on your unit or save them as geocaching (treasure chest) icons on your mapsource software before downloading them. All geocaching (treasure chest) icons will show up when you use the "Find Geocache" menu of the "Find" page. Once found, you have to manually change them to the new icon (open treasure chest). The same with using Easy GPS software. You must change the icon to the little treasure chest (before downloading) if you want to use the Geocaching mode of the unit. The 60CS recognizes the treasure chest icon and automatically puts them in the proper folder for viewing in the "Find Geocaching" menu. Edited June 15, 2005 by Alan Ellis Quote Link to comment
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