airhogs123 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Hello everyone, I just wanted to know what way is the best way to get many caches loaded onto my PDA to be used in conjunction with my GPS? I want all of the cache information like size, description, hints, etc on my PDA. If anyone can help me that would be great. Thanks, airhogs123 Quote Link to comment
+Huntleigh Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Hello everyone, I just wanted to know what way is the best way to get many caches loaded onto my PDA to be used in conjunction with my GPS? I want all of the cache information like size, description, hints, etc on my PDA. If anyone can help me that would be great. Thanks, airhogs123 What sort of PDA and what operating system? On my iPaq (Pocket PC 2003) I have used: GPXSonar which was free but might be a bit hard to find now as I think it is no longer supported Cachemate $8US Although Cachemate is the more sophisticated program I prefer GPXsonar. Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Premium Membership. Learn to use Pocket Queries. Load onto a PDA and use something like Cachemate It's how I started 'Paperless' caching. Quote Link to comment
airhogs123 Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 I have a PDA with Windows Mobile OS on it. At this point I would like to see if this would work first before I buy a premium membership. I did download GSAK, but I can’t seem to put the caches onto my PDA. Can I use GSAK to put the caches onto my PDA? Suggestions, help? airhogs123 Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 There is a version of CacheMate for 'Windows Smartphone Products', not certain if that includes your unit or not. Cost $8. Most likely you will need GSAK and a premium membership to get full use out of your PDA, but there are all sorts of possible ways to make use of it. Quote Link to comment
+Huntleigh Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I have a PDA with Windows Mobile OS on it. At this point I would like to see if this would work first before I buy a premium membership. I did download GSAK, but I can’t seem to put the caches onto my PDA. Can I use GSAK to put the caches onto my PDA? Suggestions, help? airhogs123 To be honest, without Premium membership neither GSAK or any of the PDA utilities will be of much use to you. As a basic member you can only download cache info in the .LOC format which is just the bare basics: cache name; location; difficulty/terrain; owner. Premium membership gives you the ability to get the data in the .GPX format which includes pretty much everything you can see on the webpage. (Apart from the pictures but GSAK has the ability to include those too). GSAK is a powerful database application that is ideal for manipulating data downloaded from GC.com. There are all sorts of macros developed by fellow users and include macros that massage data specifically for PDA ultilities such as CacheMate. You could download LOC data into GSAK and then use the export facility of GSAK to export the bare bones data into, say, CacheMate format. Then if you have CacheMate on your PDA load that data. You would get the general idea but you are not going to see the description; hints; etc. Quote Link to comment
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