geootters Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 I am a rather newbie to everything. Been researching this site for awhile and enjoy every minute of it but the thing is that I know printing out sheets of papers sucks and of course doesn't help the enviorment or the back pocket and so I decided to try and mess around with my ipod since I have enough space to play that I copied and pasted into a text file the description of a cache and loaded on to my ipod and of course to my surprise a nice clean paperless cache description. I, however, am asking for anyone that uses this for paper caching and wondering if they have any tips. It only took me about 5 minutes to put together 10 txt file together for 10 caches seemed to work rather slick but just seeing if anyone has any tips or suggestions them might have to make the process I guess quicker if it can be any quicker... Thanks ahead... Geootter Quote Link to comment
+forcesofnature Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 If you are a premium member you can do a pocket query to get a gpx file that will contain the descriptions of 100's of caches. Then use some software such as GSAK (I use GPS Babel as I am on a Mac) to convert the gpx file to a suitable format for upload to your iPod.... I use GPSBabel to conovert the gpx file to vCard format that can then be opened in Address Book on my Mac so that when mt iPod syncs the descriptions of all the caches are added to my iPod... Perfect. I'm now working out the best way to connect my eTrex to my Mac so that I can upload the coordinates for all the caches to that to save me entering them by hand. Al. Quote Link to comment
+sock-it-2-me Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 I use a palm and for software, GSAK to get the data via pocket query, as mentioned in the previous note, plus Cachemate on my palm. Here is a link that should help: http://65.34.18.106/content.php?article.15 Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 See the 'paperless caching' topic in the collection of FAQs pinned to the top of this group. Quote Link to comment
+Creakhead Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 I just learned how to do this yesterday from the Podcaster Podcast http://www.podcacher.com/files/paperlessipod/iPod.htm Its pretty slick too, now I don't have to find me a cheep pda. But I did have to limit the number of caches to about 500 as when i tried 5,000 it made my iPod reboot Quote Link to comment
+cmiyc Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 If you're using a Mac, MacCaching has it built in now. After you send a list of caches to your GPS, you can export them into AddressBook. When you sync your iPod, the caches will show up in the list of Contacts. Quote Link to comment
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