Geocaching Australia

I saw the APC about an hour after making the posting. As I've already downloaded the software and aussie images and I could find nothing else that cought my eye, I didn't buy it.

Does APC have just the software, or do they have the cached (in the original computer file sense) images as well ?

I've loaded a copy on my 800mhz/512mb system and it doesn't take long before it slows my whole machine to a crawl. I'm going to try and run it on a 3ghz/1gb system in the next couple of days to see if its just a "grunt thing". The user interface is a little "simple", but the images are quite spectac...

I found it might have 80% of roads and tracks and POI isn't up to date. It depends on what state you live in that determines how much info they put in that state, and in South Australia it won't show you the River Murray, The river stops at the border. thats why we don't have any water it's all dri...

... or if you just want to see what a map might look like ... http://plrecgps.pp.org.pl/bin/view/GPS/UserMaps follow the instructions for GPSmapper and GPSMapEdit (they worked for me and my eTrex Legend) and I found a good map of the Melbourne SE Suburbs at http://mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com/maplist.ph...

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My rule of thumb for placing a cache is... 1. Does it take cachers somewhere "interesting" or show them something "interesting" ? 2. Can it be protected from being muggled ? I'd think the HB cache sort of fails both checks. Not that I don't think the HB is interesting - it's an icon - but people hav...

I haven't tried it, but you might be able to grab all you want using a program called GeoToad (http://toadstool.se/hacks/geotoad/) to download the data.