+FISHNFOOL9 Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Hello all. First post here. I have sat here for days and read 1.5 million posts on going paperless and my mind is fried. I need help on going paperless with my M500. Can i download the page(s) on Geocaching to my M500? Where do i start? What do i download? I have a premium membership on Geocaching.com My computer skills are about a 3.5 out of 10 so take it easy on me-LOL Thanks in advance for your help. Brian. Quote Link to comment
+wesleykey Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 (edited) Hello all. First post here. I have sat here for days and read 1.5 million posts on going paperless and my mind is fried. I need help on going paperless with my M500. Can i download the page(s) on Geocaching to my M500? Where do i start? What do i download? I have a premium membership on Geocaching.com My computer skills are about a 3.5 out of 10 so take it easy on me-LOL Thanks in advance for your help. Brian. Yes, you can use a program like GSAK to turn your PQ into something that your Palm understands. I think the Palm requires you to export the data to the Palm as a PDB file. Edited July 21, 2008 by wesleykey Quote Link to comment
nauticalwheeler Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 What I do is convert the GPX file to Docbook format so I can read it with the palm ebook reader. (I am a linux user so the programs I use are different but I am pretty sure that GSAK will do the conversion.) Makes it easy to find a cache using the search function on the ebook reader. I usually just plug in the GC number and it finds it. I use a plain old text file to log my caches or keep any notes on the palm. Hope this works for you. Good luck and have fun! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Moving to the appropriate forum Quote Link to comment
+busternfruss Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Hello all. First post here. I have sat here for days and read 1.5 million posts on going paperless and my mind is fried. I need help on going paperless with my M500. Can i download the page(s) on Geocaching to my M500? Where do i start? What do i download? I have a premium membership on Geocaching.com My computer skills are about a 3.5 out of 10 so take it easy on me-LOL Thanks in advance for your help. Brian. Hi, I've been recently researching paperless too, and was totally confused! This is the concensus of the replies I got, haven't tried it yet: Download GSAK to your computer, and Cachemate to your Palm. Get Pocket Queries from the geocaching site. That's everything needed! These are supposed to be very easy to use. I haven't bought a Palm yet, but am researching that. Hope this info helps you; please post how it goes. I need to know, too! B&F If this is wrong, someone please say so now!! Thanks-- Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Welcome to the Forums! I have been using a Palm m500 for caching and it works very well. I chose to get Cachemate for it. I downloaded it and registered it for the minimal fee of $8.00. I Export the data in the correct .pdb format from GSAK. Because I have had the Palm for quite a while, it has several programs on it. To hold more data, I got a 256 MB card for it and I put the caches on that card. I have thousands of caches in different databases in Cachemate. Quote Link to comment
+FISHNFOOL9 Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 Thanks to all who helped out. I am 100% paperless and its great Thanks again for the help. Brian Quote Link to comment
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