How to get Oregon 300 to recognise Geocaches

[caughtatwork]

Also, try a GCA cache.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0526 seems to be close to you home location.
Go to that page, attach your GPS, hit the send to button and report back.
If it can't see the "send to" data from either website it mght help narrow down the problem as being the device rather than the data from a website.

[binns1012]

Hi CAW downloaded the suggested cache did send to gps and it worked it showed up in the list even though it is 40k from my location so what the hell is wrong with geocache.com ? thanks for the help at least I now know that it is not the device so if anyone has any more suggestions on how to get it to work on geocaching.com that would be great.
regardsTony

[caughtatwork]

Well, that implies it's something to do with found caches.
If you have found caches, then can you post the contents of your geocaching_visits.txt file on your Oregon. The file is located in [drive]:\Garmin

What "may" be happening is that the geocaching_visits.txt is marking them as found which stops them appearing in the list.

Rename geocaching_visits.txt to geocaching_visits.txt.old (or something) and see if the caches appear.

[binns1012]

Hi CAW thanks for your help I think that when I downloaded the cache that you gave me the link to it must have woke up the device as I have now downloaded both new and found caches from the other site and they all now show up . When you mentioned the text file I could not find one in the folder so I think that maybe the cache that you gave me may have created one and hence fixed the problem thanks again .
regards Tony

[caughtatwork]

W00t!

[binns1012]

Double WooT :>)

[binns1012]

CAW just a query can i get nearest caches to home list on Geocaching Australia ?
regards Tony

[caughtatwork]

Of course, chuckles.
Easiest way is to create a My Query.
http://geocaching.com.au/my/query/

Set your criteria. e.g. Terrain, difficulty, type of cache, ones that you haven't found, etc.
Set the Sort by Closest to HOME (make sure you have home co-ords set in your My Settings http://geocaching.com.au/my/settings/)
Save it.
Send it to the screen and check it does what you want.
On the My Query page there should be a GPS link (last one in the line).
That will act as a bulk "send to GPS".
Hit that and (hopefully) it should send everything to your GPS.

If you want a GPX file, select GPX. For a ZIP file, select ZIP, etc, etc.

[binns1012]

Not sure how to do the Query thing but here is what I would like > local caches in gpx format using S34° 44.460' E138° 49.022' as home can this be done and How ?
regards Tony

[caughtatwork]

Trust me, the query thing is the way to go.

You have your home co-ordinates set (I checked the database).

I have set up a query for you.
Go here:
http://geocaching.com.au/my/query/

You should have a query called Caches close to binns1012
If you click on screen it will show you the closest 500 caches to your home co-ords sorted by distance.

If you want a GPX file, click on GPX.

If you want to change the criteria, click on Update and make the changes. e.g. If you want fewer caches or you want to only include traditionals etc.

[binns1012]

Thanks CAW a job well done and it works a treat I never knew about this query thing .
regards Tony

[caughtatwork]

You're welcome.
It's a very powerful query generator and you can use it to generate almost anything you can think of so enjoy.