Which mapping software do you use for geocaching planning?

For all your general chit chat, caching or not.

Which mapping software do you use to PLAN your geocaching trips?

Geocaching.com.au Planner
4
12%
Magellan Mapsend
3
9%
Garmin Mapsource
2
6%
OziExplorer
19
58%
Fugawi
1
3%
Multiple
4
12%
Other
0
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Which mapping software do you use for geocaching planning?

Post by leek » 09 April 03 1:02 am

Once again, just curious which mapping software people are using as their main source of information for the planning of their geocaching trips.

You may use other software for the tactical phase of your geocaching trips, (i.e. the one built into your GPS) but what do you use to plan your trips?

Once again, please excuse my ignorance if I've excluded your favourite software... Please add a reply telling us what you use, and I'll try to add it to the list...

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Post by maccamob » 09 April 03 1:09 am

Yes, the GPS built-in map is very handy for the 'tactical phase', but before leaving home, we use a combination of the AUSLIG maps and others in Ozi, and of course Cheatisearch, plus autocache/cache monkey to sort out the waypoints into a half-way logical sequence.

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Post by Two Goth Geeks » 09 April 03 8:17 am

Cheatisearch :)

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Post by ideology » 09 April 03 8:26 am

we use cheatisearch, planner and an alpha-test application called geology which recommends caches based on a complex algorithm of difficulty, distance, bearing and virginity!

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Post by riblit » 09 April 03 10:36 am

Usually Oziexplorer as I have a lot of maps of various scales of the area known as the County of Cumberland and adjoining parishes. Mapsource if I want street level outside that area.

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Post by embi » 09 April 03 11:30 am

Only Oziexplorer...

...sometimes even with the 3D moving map...

I know.....i'ts over the top, but its fun :wink:

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Post by Horus » 09 April 03 1:33 pm

You missed out -
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None - I don't need no stinkin' software, I did a TAFE course on "Aboriginal Tracking and it's uses in modern GPS Gaming" :)

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Post by Mind Socket » 09 April 03 4:56 pm

Mostly Ozi-exp, with some occasional Cheatisearch and my own density analysis thrown in for good measure.

I was trying to come up with a similar cache weighting to i!s recommendation, based on distance, diff/terr etc. Never did get a good metric despite lots of theories. :)

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Post by The Rats » 09 April 03 5:12 pm

I mainly use Mapsource for finding the general location of caches. I regularly download the waypoints from http://www.roblisa.com/geocache/.
Once I've honed in on a particular cache I use cheatisearch & cacheway or marvin. :P

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Post by Team Geo-Nads » 09 April 03 10:00 pm

I use Ozi Explorer and because we live in the bush I use chetisearch for the city

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Post by leek » 09 April 03 10:42 pm

Hi Geonads... You should have a look at http://multimap.com. It's the only map site I've found which has complete street/track level coverage of the whole of Australia (even outside cities)... It uses data from the PSMA (Public Sector Mapping Agencies) which is the same source of data used for Magellan's MapSend programs...

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Post by Slider & Smurf » 09 April 03 10:51 pm

OziExplorer for the mapping, CacheMonkey for the waypoints, and Autocache to suck the cache pages onto my PDA. Works for me, anyway ... :wink:

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Post by Team Geo-Nads » 09 April 03 10:55 pm

Thanks for that Leek. I have also just discovered Cachemonkey and it seems to work well too

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Post by EcoTeam » 10 April 03 12:14 am

We use CacheMonkey to download all the caches, send them to the eTrex, export to OziExplorer Format, and export to my GeoMap program.

We still use GeoMap to get a quick view of the general location of all the caches we haven't found yet, it's much quicker and easier to use than Planner. OziExplorer is then used to see more accurately where the caches are.
We use Planner as a quick link to the Sydway maps which we occasionally print out on the other side of the caching sheet. We actually use recycled paper which has something printed on the other side, which can often make the map hard to read!

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Post by Two Goth Geeks » 10 April 03 10:33 am

Any thoughts on a Geocaching FAQ forum section?
Only READABLE by all members, but additions, etc by the Admins.

You could list software links, GPSr retailer links, HowTo's, etc.

I know there are a lot on the main page, but it might be handy to look up while in the forum?

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