+TEAM 360 Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Okay, time for a fun poll. You know you just can't put down that GPS, even while you are not caching. It drives everyone crazy that it appears to be permanently attached to your hand. You are addicted to the readouts, like a techno-junkie, you just can't get enough. What do you do with your GPS that drives other people insane? Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Last year as we pulled out of the parking lot as we started the drive to Washington, DC I called out "450 miles to Washington, DC!" . . about a minute later I called out "449 miles to Washington, DC!" . .. this went on for some time. Amazingly enough, we decided to drive it again this year.... and I'm riding with the SAME people. Well . .most of them. Bret "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44 Quote Link to comment
+Brian - Team A.I. Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 I walk in circles a lot when I'm near a cache. I guess I sometimes get in the way if I'm actually walking in circles around the cache we can't find. Brian Team A.I. Quote Link to comment
+Zartimus Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 I mowed my lawn with my GPS so I could use the track log to figure out the best method and grouping of cutting shapes, you know, circles, long rectangles, triangles, tetrahydropolygoniaklons, pentagrams work best, and channel evil as well, hey a two for one deal.. Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 I'm obsessed with the "average speed" functionality. Living/driving in and around Los Angeles, there's a lot of traffic. I look for trends in how my average speed relates to the mileage I get. -- Random fortune: Quote Link to comment
+TEAM 360 Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 Never thought about that. You could use it to figure out which way home is quickest during peak rush hour...hmmmmm... Quote Link to comment
+Cacheola Crew Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Put in a "go-to" and give it to the kids during trips, so they don't have to ask "Are we there yet?" Cacheola Crew "You have brains in your head; You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...." Dr. Seuss Quote Link to comment
+Huntnlady Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 The speedometer/odometer in my Bronco quit working about 7 years ago, and with my new GPSr my daughter can tell me just how bad I am breaking the speed limit. Deer laugh when they hear my name! http://www.geocities.com/ihunts Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 1. Marking "open house" coordinates as my wife and I search for a new home using the address lookup in my Vista. 2. Looking up the nearest "fast food" places as we drive around caching. 3. Checking the altitude my ears "pop" when driving up a mountain. Alan Quote Link to comment
compass_bearing_north Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 I just tell them how fast they are going. They are not annoyed, they're amazed! Quote Link to comment
+Bloencustoms Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 The ETA says 7:50, but the sunset says 7:23. We'd better get a move on! "Searching with my good eye closed" Quote Link to comment
+eroyd Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Drive somewhere in the dark and when I get there turn my headlights off and follow the backtrack home. Hey! If you don't like my driving stay off the sidewalk! Quote Link to comment
+DeerChaser & Company Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Who has time between caches? Rino 110 MeriGreen 128 Quote Link to comment
+beatnik Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Using the search function on my Sportrak to find interesting names. Like: Assiniboia which like Moose Jaw is in Saskatchewan Assinippi, MA Happy, TX pop 588 Y City, AR Cowlic, AZ Funk, NE pop 198 Furniture City, GA Goober Hill, TX Put In Bay, OH pop 141 -beatnik- Quote Link to comment
+phantom4099 Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Try to answer as many questions as possible with my unit and saying each time "My GPS says..." I do this for elevation, time, distance, the next town, population, bodies of water, sunset, moon phase... Wyatt W. The probability of someone watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 I'm fine and don't do anything annoying with my GPS. The ghostly white faces and death grips my family have on the armrests in the car might have something to do with the careening all over the road while trying to read the GPS and drive. But I'm not sure. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+lightnsound Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 We just went for a bike ride with Glimpse. He picked up two caches along the way that I had already hit a couple of weeks ago. As we returned to the parking area he bagan to tell us that we traveled 15.6 miles, our average speed was this, our max speed was that, moving time, stopped time, blah-blah blah. I had to chuckle because Missy and I took a walk along the Delaware River a couple of days ago (looking for a spot to hide our first cache)and as we got back to the car I told her that we walked 2.28 miles at this speed.......blah-blah-blah. Birds of a feather are we. Funny stuff. I am not addicted to geocaching, really. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 I had to vote for announcing a nearby cache. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were driving down the road. According to our GPS, we were getting close to a cache. I said, "We're close to the 'balance' cache." My wife said, "Let's go get it!" (I finally got her addicted to caching) That's when I told her I had marked the waypoint of the cache I was going to PLACE next week... Quote Link to comment
+H. & N. Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 Constantly use the GPS's to see how far our own speedometers are off. Track ALL our routes so we get back home and look on a map and know EXACTLY where we have been. (This includes runs to McD's.. Work.. How many miles I drove to deliver pizzas all night...) Hey, anyone know the accuracy of these things versus cop radar? Quote Link to comment
+ScottJ Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 The GPS is probably more accurate than the cop ... the GPS isn't trying to meet a quota! Scott -- Scott Johnson (ScottJ) Quote Link to comment
+CWL Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 When I bought my first GPSr. I got it off of E-bay and it didn't come with a PC cable. So one day at work I manually punched in 75 someodd coords, when the whole time the "beep" feature was on so I was sitting in my cube at work with a GPS in had going "Beep..beep..beep..beep..beep" and so on... Finnaly the guy behind me just about went nuts! Screaming "WHERE IS THAT dadgum BEEPING COMEING FROM!!!!" I quickly stopped and put it in the silent mode and contiued to punch in coords. A wise man once said... "Its better to be pissed off than pissed on!" Quote Link to comment
+H. & N. Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 quote: The GPS is probably more accurate than the cop ... the GPS isn't trying to meet a quota! LOL Heather and Nate Quote Link to comment
Bender Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 When I upgraded the firmware in my sport-trak map, I found that there is now a maximun speed readout. When I am out on the murdercycle I try to get a new high reading. 150mph is tops so far, but I know I can top that! Yes, I am serious. Quote Link to comment
+rpecot Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 I recently ran in a 10K race. I used the GPSr during training to plot out my milage from my house. I saved my track logs for my 3, 4, 5, and 6 mile runs. Quote Link to comment
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