+EyeGore22 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Okay I have been geocaching with my HTC Touch Pro 2 and I've been using GCzII which is a AWESOME app for geocaching. but I know it's not supported by Groundspeak so i want to upgrade to a handheld gps i'm looking at the Garmin Oregon 550 or the Garmin Colorado 440t. what i'm looking for is something that has all the features that GCzII has with mainly finding geocahes near me at anytime and paperless to go looking for caches on the fly which one of these two would serve my purpose the best? and if these cannot do what i'm asking can anyone point in me the right direction? thanks for the help Quote Link to comment
+jeepdelfuego Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Okay I have been geocaching with my HTC Touch Pro 2 and I've been using GCzII which is a AWESOME app for geocaching. but I know it's not supported by Groundspeak so i want to upgrade to a handheld gps i'm looking at the Garmin Oregon 550 or the Garmin Colorado 440t. what i'm looking for is something that has all the features that GCzII has with mainly finding geocahes near me at anytime and paperless to go looking for caches on the fly which one of these two would serve my purpose the best? and if these cannot do what i'm asking can anyone point in me the right direction? thanks for the help If you don't need the camera, you can purchase a Garmin Oregon 450, or Oregon 450t for less money. Plus, there is a $50 rebate from Garmin right now. Quote Link to comment
+Entropy512 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 Okay I have been geocaching with my HTC Touch Pro 2 and I've been using GCzII which is a AWESOME app for geocaching. but I know it's not supported by Groundspeak so i want to upgrade to a handheld gps i'm looking at the Garmin Oregon 550 or the Garmin Colorado 440t. what i'm looking for is something that has all the features that GCzII has with mainly finding geocahes near me at anytime and paperless to go looking for caches on the fly which one of these two would serve my purpose the best? and if these cannot do what i'm asking can anyone point in me the right direction? thanks for the help If you don't need the camera, you can purchase a Garmin Oregon 450, or Oregon 450t for less money. Plus, there is a $50 rebate from Garmin right now. Given that there are 24k topos available for free from gpsfiledepot.com, I would recommend the 450 over the 450t - the extra $100 or so for 100k topos just isn't worth it. Quote Link to comment
+Tahoe Skier5000 Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 (edited) Okay I have been geocaching with my HTC Touch Pro 2 and I've been using GCzII which is a AWESOME app for geocaching. but I know it's not supported by Groundspeak so i want to upgrade to a handheld gps i'm looking at the Garmin Oregon 550 or the Garmin Colorado 440t. what i'm looking for is something that has all the features that GCzII has with mainly finding geocahes near me at anytime and paperless to go looking for caches on the fly which one of these two would serve my purpose the best? and if these cannot do what i'm asking can anyone point in me the right direction? thanks for the help If you don't need the camera, you can purchase a Garmin Oregon 450, or Oregon 450t for less money. Plus, there is a $50 rebate from Garmin right now. Given that there are 24k topos available for free from gpsfiledepot.com, I would recommend the 450 over the 450t - the extra $100 or so for 100k topos just isn't worth it. The caveat to that is that the topo maps on gpsfiledepot suck... atleast the ones I found for California. Maybe the ones for the back east regions are better, but the one I installed was terrible. It doesn't have labels for anything, no city names, no feature names, just contour lines and points. Check gpsfiledepot first and make sure they have what you need. Their selections is very limited for certain areas... not every place is covered. If it were my decision, I would get the 450 and buy the Garmin topo maps. That way I would have a spare copy of them for if and when I decide to buy another GPS. Edited June 2, 2010 by Tahoe Skier5000 Quote Link to comment
+Entropy512 Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Okay I have been geocaching with my HTC Touch Pro 2 and I've been using GCzII which is a AWESOME app for geocaching. but I know it's not supported by Groundspeak so i want to upgrade to a handheld gps i'm looking at the Garmin Oregon 550 or the Garmin Colorado 440t. what i'm looking for is something that has all the features that GCzII has with mainly finding geocahes near me at anytime and paperless to go looking for caches on the fly which one of these two would serve my purpose the best? and if these cannot do what i'm asking can anyone point in me the right direction? thanks for the help If you don't need the camera, you can purchase a Garmin Oregon 450, or Oregon 450t for less money. Plus, there is a $50 rebate from Garmin right now. Given that there are 24k topos available for free from gpsfiledepot.com, I would recommend the 450 over the 450t - the extra $100 or so for 100k topos just isn't worth it. The caveat to that is that the topo maps on gpsfiledepot suck... atleast the ones I found for California. Maybe the ones for the back east regions are better, but the one I installed was terrible. It doesn't have labels for anything, no city names, no feature names, just contour lines and points. Check gpsfiledepot first and make sure they have what you need. Their selections is very limited for certain areas... not every place is covered. If it were my decision, I would get the 450 and buy the Garmin topo maps. That way I would have a spare copy of them for if and when I decide to buy another GPS. I was very happy with the Northeast Topo map series. Quote Link to comment
+EyeGore22 Posted June 2, 2010 Author Share Posted June 2, 2010 so i am still wondering with these gps do i still have to get a computer involved with loading up my caches or can i simply download them while in the middle of the woods Quote Link to comment
+Redwoods Mtn Biker Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 The Oregon 450 screen significantly improves upon that in the 550 series. Quote Link to comment
+psychjennica Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Which GPS would you suggest that would be paperless in which it would be similar to using a smart phone with an application. Thank you Quote Link to comment
+EyeGore22 Posted June 5, 2010 Author Share Posted June 5, 2010 okay so i'm guessing when i get a handheld GPS i'm going to have to load up all the caches i want to visit before heading out? Quote Link to comment
+coggins Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 so i am still wondering with these gps do i still have to get a computer involved with loading up my caches or can i simply download them while in the middle of the woods You're going to want to load them from your computer to your GPS. Quote Link to comment
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