+Trashcan_Man Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Just got my GPS this weekend, but waiting till spring to begin the hunt. Do you all use the turn-by-turn directions in your hand held device to get to the location? Or do you copy the coordinates to your car's GPS (if you have one)? Any advice or thoughts? --Jason Quote Link to comment
+Trashcan_Man Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 Crap, I posted this to the wrong forum category. Forum mods, please delete, I'll post in the proper section. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
+DonB Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Just got my GPS this weekend, but waiting till spring to begin the hunt. Do you all use the turn-by-turn directions in your hand held device to get to the location? Or do you copy the coordinates to your car's GPS (if you have one)? Any advice or thoughts? --Jason My handheld will navigate, it has a full set of maps on it but I use the Nuvi to get to the location. It's easier and safer to have the Nuvi talk to me then to have to keep looking at the small screen on the handheld. Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Just got my GPS this weekend, but waiting till spring to begin the hunt. Do you all use the turn-by-turn directions in your hand held device to get to the location? Or do you copy the coordinates to your car's GPS (if you have one)? Any advice or thoughts? --Jason Put GPS on handlebars, cycle to cache location, look for cache, keep cycling. Quote Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Its a long time since I went caching. AFAICR - put co-ords into gpsr; follow arrow; find cache; load next cache Quote Link to comment
+TheHarleyRebel Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 You can navigate in alot of differnt ways, maps, compass etc. Yes, you can put it in on a car sat-nav. Quote Link to comment
+pklong Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 You can navigate in alot of differnt ways, maps, compass etc. Yes, you can put it in on a car sat-nav. It depends on where the cache is hidden. If the cache is a long way from the road then an ordnance survey map (or whatever mapping is appropriate for locating trails in your location) is essential to locate a route to the cache along public footpaths. Philip Quote Link to comment
+Original A1 Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I tend to look at the map online first to get a rough idea of where I'm aiming for, then switch on the GPS as I get closer. It's set for a direct arrow rather than a driven route, so I follow it as far as I can by car and use initiative as to where to disembark and start walking (unless a waypoint has been provided, although 9/10, there isn't one). Tomorrow, I'm going to Glasgow for a Cup Final and will be at the mercy of wherever the coach chooses to stop (it's stopping somewhere en route for us to have lunch). I'll load up some nearby caches onto my iPhone and if we are close enough to anything, I'll give it a go with that. Not convinced anything's going to be within reach, mind! That technique applies to any situation where I'm not in Caching Mode, i.e., at the mercy of muggles who wouldn't understand about my addiction… Quote Link to comment
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