Geocaching Australia

Rather than search for caches along a route why don't you expand your horizions a little more and try the excellent GSAK polygon editor tool ?. This enables far more flexible filtering than searching along a route.

Gather up some rocks or other natural materials lying around and create cairn markers.

Here's a good source info . <br> An earth cache can be as large as the physical earth feature e.g. a volcano. <br> A micro container has no real set down size but is generally accepted as being between a small pill bottle and a 100ml container. There is a smaller container size called a nano (often ...

Can someone tell me how many map tiles and the total amount of memory storage required?
Cheers.

OK OK OK You all can stop now. Just the data I was hoping for. I really should have searched this site more, seeing I'm a member. Thanks for the help. Now to plan my Oz holiday.

Does anyone have current sets of PQ's that cover these states? It's a bit daunting knowing where to start using placed dates (probably the best method to ensure that all current active caches are collected only once).

Help would be appreciated.
Cheers.

Thanks Paul. Looking forward to coming over to VIC/SA in November.
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Cheers, Eddie

mtrax wrote:... with luck a routable version is on its way that can be installed into Mapsource.. check back in a month or two...

I look forward to that day.

Can you preview the OpenStreetMaps on the computer before using SendMap to send them to the gps? How? What programs are needed?

Custom POI are a valuable way of loading extra waypoints to your gps. If you are not sure how to do it then read this article . You can have many different Custom POI databases - they are all loaded at the same time from your computer by the Garmin POILoader programme. <br><br> To search for Custom ...

Nice one Ian. I had been having trouble with one of those puzzles (and so too did everyone I showed it to). Now all is revealed.

If you have a Palm PDA then checkout Tide Tool 2.2 from www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/tidetool. This is freeware and shows tides for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands.

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Crisp image wrote:When I turn it on I get nothing but the screen saying "No upload present" so it does not tell me the version of software or any other information.

That's not a promising sign for what is now an obsolete gps.
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Maybe time to upgrade to a much better gps?

There were various models of the Garmin GPS12 made during it's manufactured lifetime. Some of the earlier models, I understand, cannot be upgraded with later versions of firmware. I seem to recall that early v2.x models can't be upgraded with v4.x firmware. You will need to discover what model and s...