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Jim W

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I've been using an Ipaq Pocket PC for paperless caching for about 3 months and I've tried GPXsonar, GPXview and Cachemate. For ME, I used Cachemate a lot more than the others. I also use Mapopolis for my mapping. It allows caches to be read in and plotted on the maps. Just touch them with the stylus and up comes a lot of the cache information. I also go to Geocaching.com and use the Google Maps for caches I want to find and do a screen copy and bring it up later on the Pocket PC. Works great finding paths and creeks on an aerial view.

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I've been using an Ipaq Pocket PC for paperless caching for about 3 months and I've tried GPXsonar, GPXview and Cachemate. For ME, I used Cachemate a lot more than the others. I also use Mapopolis for my mapping. It allows caches to be read in and plotted on the maps. Just touch them with the stylus and up comes a lot of the cache information. I also go to Geocaching.com and use the Google Maps for caches I want to find and do a screen copy and bring it up later on the Pocket PC. Works great finding paths and creeks on an aerial view.

 

Thanks peto geo, I updated GPXsonar, and GPXview, Cashmate acts to sluggish on my PPC

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I use gpxsonar. I takes about 30 seconds to open a file but my files are about 12M (about 650 caches each). I actually create 5 gpxsonar files of about 3,600 caches (around 125 radius from my home) but the gpx files are too big to handle by gpxsonar ( or my PPC's memory) if I only create one file. If your files are too big you might want to create a number of them. Mine are set up using GSAK so that i have 5 files: 0-30 miles from my home, 30-40 miles, 40-50, 50-65 and over 65 miles. Maybe something like that would help.

 

I then coordinate with my auto-routing program Mapopolis. When I click on the cache icon on the map page, the miles from home (ie. 34.7) display along with other data so I kknow imediately which gpxsonar file I need.

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Ah - so then I'd suggest Mobipocket / Mobibook. It reads the .prc file you can get along w/ your pocket queries. I downloaded it from here: http://mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp

 

 

Take a look at back country navigator. pretty slick! http://www.backcountrynavigator.com/

 

-cjd

Walnut Creek

 

Looks like a neat program if you're using your PPC to navigate, I'm just using my PPC for paperless caching, and using the 60CSx for navigating, I did bookmark the program in case I ever decide to use my PPC for navigating. Thanks for posting

 

Jim W

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