RebelSpy Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Do you fellow geocachers think that using city select software while geocaching is cheating? Let me know your thoughts. Quote Link to comment
+ZackJones Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 To get from one cache to another? Absolutely not! For me the hunt begins once I get out of the car and switch from "Follow the Road" navigation to "Off Road" navigation on the 60C. Zack Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Doesn't help you find the cache any quicker, just the parking lot! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 (edited) No. The point of geocaching is using a GPS to find a cache. Edited June 7, 2004 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+Cache Viking Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I use it all the time with the autorouting. Gets me to a parking point and from there finding the cache is just as much work as always when switched to off road mode. Quote Link to comment
Black Mage Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 (edited) I use MapSource all the time, it cuts down on the amount of gas that I use to find the general location of a cache, and with today's gas prices (cheapest I can find is $1.93/gal), that's a plus. But even with MapSource my brother, Red Mage, still can't navigate. Edited June 7, 2004 by Black Mage Quote Link to comment
+Phone guy Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 (edited) It's just another tool. Is going paperless cheating? no. If it was cheating then using a gpsr would be cheating. You could just use a map and a comass and use UTM coords. But Technology allows us to take advantages of whats available. Thats why we have gpsr's. Like other have already said, try to use City Select SW to find a cache. You'll never get off the road and I have not found many caches on the road, some but few. Edited June 7, 2004 by Phone guy Quote Link to comment
dampeoples Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Not cheating at all, like has been said before - the whole point is to use the GPS Quote Link to comment
+Imajika Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Do you fellow geocachers think that using city select software while geocaching is cheating? Let me know your thoughts. No way! I use City Select on my Garmin 60cs to auto-route me from one cache to the next. It gets me close but it doesn't jump out of my hands and run to the cache and sign the log book for me. So no, it's not cheating. Quote Link to comment
+GatoRx Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Not at all. As someone before me said, gas is not cheap right now, so anything that can help cut down on the time I spend trying to find the general area is a great plus. Of course, autorouting does goof sometimes, and gives me some directions that are no help at all. Quote Link to comment
RebelSpy Posted June 11, 2004 Author Share Posted June 11, 2004 Thanks for all your responses. I'll keep using it then. It works fairly well I must say. I wish, however, that it would give turn by turn directions a little faster. My friend has a Magellan RoadMate700 and it gives directions lightning fast. Maybe the processor in my 60c is not quite as fast as in the Magellan. Quote Link to comment
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