PQ’s????? WHERE THE HECK IS THE INFO??????

[Team Black-Cat]

It looks like they are adding new “stuff” to the .gpx files (PQs). Looking at the file, I see they are now including cache attributes. I don’t ever remember seeing attributes included.

[Team Deejay]

For those of you who didn’t sign up for the North of Highway 8 discount and are having problems with this, here is what I think will work. (I don’t have a Delorme, so I can’t test.) Load your PQ into GSAK. Export the entire database to a GPX file, making sure you are using GPX version 1.0 (the pulldown for this is at the very top of the dialog box), and make sure the Use Defaults box is UNCHECKED, and the “Include GSAK extra fields” box is UNCHECKED. Now, load that exported file to your GPS. I’m guessing this will remove the offending entries from the GPX file and let it be loaded to your PN-40. Someone let me know if this actually works.

Note that the reason GSAK is not failing is that GPS-Babel (the file conversion engine which runs “under the hood” of GSAK) was long ago converted to handle the GPX version 1.1 files that apparently geocaching.com has switched to. If anyone who doesn’t want to use GSAK for whatever reason (especially those running Linux or OS10), you can download the GPSBabel program at http://www.gpsbabel.org. Instructions for using this program is beyond what I can put here, but I can probably help you through using it if you want to try that approach.

[Team Black-Cat]

That works for Delorme Deejay. Either export a GPX file as mentioned and import to the Delorme Cache Register program or export directly from GSAK to the PN-40 if you have a new enough version. This is what I’ve been doing for month or two, so I never noticed that anything was broke.

One other fix that seems to work takes a bit of messing around. Edit the .GPX file (PQ) with your favorite text editor. Notepad works fine. Find and replace every occurance of “/1/0/1” with “/1/0”. I had to do that to get Topo USA to import correctly, but haven’t tried it with CR. Might work for some other programs as well.

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