Geocaching Garmin Style

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 19 January 05 3:28 pm

See http://www.garmin.com/outdoor/geocaching/

Andrew

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 19 January 05 6:00 pm

Hi Andrew,

Garmins been supporting geocaching for some time (>1year iirc).

The geocaching features of the GPSMAP 60CS was one of the main reasons for my purchase

Its good when you have just found a cache and your GPSr asks if you want to find the next nearest cache

(only to realise it is 300km away

)

Regards

Agsmky

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 19 January 05 6:01 pm

My Legend Colour does the same thing - and it's soooo much better than the Legend not Colour for that very reason.

EcoTeam · Post by **EcoTeam** » 19 January 05 6:02 pm

agsmky wrote:Hi Andrew,

Garmins been supporting geocaching for some time (>1year iirc). The geocaching features of the GPSMAP 60CS was one of the main reasons for my purchase

Its good when you have just found a cache and your GPSr asks if you want to find the next nearest cache (only to realise it is 300km away )

Great for the American market though were the nearest cache will only be 300m away at most - almost guaranteed!

EcoDave

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 19 January 05 9:02 pm

Hi

I appreciate Garmin has had the models out for awhile, it was the page which I think is new.

Andrew

xf king · Post by **xf king** » 19 January 05 9:36 pm

This is very interesting. Unfortunately My Etrex wont do this little trick.

zactyl · Post by **zactyl** » 20 January 05 1:45 am

But the etrex does list the distance and direction to the nearest waypoints!

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 20 January 05 8:05 am

Aushiker wrote:Hi

I appreciate Garmin has had the models out for awhile, it was the page which I think is new.

Andrew

Actually the page has been there since the release of the 60C/S at least as the GPSr shows this webpage as the main link for information on geocaching

i remember seeing this page when i first got mine

Great link though Andrew.....sorry for getting carried away

Regards

Agsmky

Post by **CraigRat** » 20 January 05 1:51 pm

Agmsky, you have a 60CS???

How much information does it store for each cache??

Can you put a whole description/hint etc or is it only a couple of lines??

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 20 January 05 2:06 pm

On the legend colour, and i think they are pretty similar, I can get into it something along this line:

ACACHE 1/3 T S FFFF

Which isn't heaps, but is a good quick indicator. I use a smart tag from GSAK to get it all in there. It is a magic little addition which means you don't always need the paperwork.

I send all my points in as Caches and then use the notes to see what type they are. I used to send multi's in as rollercoasters, but then they don't show up on the 'find next geocache' search.

I don't know what the limitation of characters actually is - I don't know if the GPS is truncating or if it is GSAK.

Should find some specs I suppose.

I'd liektobe able to set proximity alarms from GSAK as well.

Sam

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 20 January 05 5:49 pm

CraigRat wrote:Agmsky, you have a 60CS???

yep

How much information does it store for each cache??

I use GSAK and input the cache name and difficulty/terrain rating. It (60C/S) is limited to 40 characters for the notes, 10 for waypoint name...IIRC

Can you put a whole description/hint etc or is it only a couple of lines??

Screenshots from the GPSMAP 60CS showing information able to be stored.

Hope this helps

Agsmky

Post by **CraigRat** » 20 January 05 5:55 pm

Arrgh... My Nemesis cache.. (YGTBJ).....

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 20 January 05 6:01 pm

oh....and i didn't know

Agsmky