Easy Gps/cachemate Problems

[+MuckSavage]

I'm trying to go paperless. Downloaded EasyGPS & purchased cachemate. My problem is, I downloaded caches to my palm (tungstenE2) & all I have is the cache name, hider, coords. No stars, description, hints, logs, etc. What gives? Any help would be appreciated (In simple terms, I'm a computer numbskull!!!!!)

[+briansnat]

Sounds like you're using LOC files and not GPX files. You need to choose GPX files in your pocket queries.

 

Sliding this over the the Units and Software forum.

[+MuckSavage]

I think I read somewhere that this is common (Easy GPS not giving all the info over to Palm) Can anyone verify that?

[+Klemmer]

EasyGPS is not capable of providing the cache information. You need to download the .gpx files from geocaching.com, as Brian said, and then convert them to the .pdb files that cachemate requires (several ways to do that), then upload the .pdb file to the PDA. I use GSAK to do the coversion from .gpx to .pdb files. There is also a small utility that comes with Cachemate that can do the conversion to .pdb. Sorry, forgot the name, as I don't use it regularly.

 

Process: GC.com Query (.gpx)->GSAK->.pdb file -> Cachemate (in the PDA)

[+krisse]

Yes.

 

And to avoid having to download each gpx file individually you can make a query here: http://www.geocaching.com/pocket (if you didn't already know that)

 

- Note that queries can only be made once per day, and there is also a limit of five queries total / day.

[+Chuy!]

EasyGPS only claims to manage the necessary info for GPS'.

 

It handles .loc files, which contain minimal info; and, hence are relatively small fast downloadable files. It can also handle the more info-intensive .gpx files, but it saves .gpx files with the minimal info.

 

You need GSAK, or other program designed to manage files for PDAs.

Edited January 4, 2006 by Chuy