Question about my Garmin

[Scrappy Scout]

lol thanks DeeJay. i cant believe it is that easy. now just try it and see what happens

[One Paddle Short]

This is what I do.

Drag PQ file from email to the desktop. Open GSAK in a window so you can still see the file on your desktop. Click on “Database” and then “new”. I usually name the database as the date- but you can name it anything of course. Then drag the file off your desktop and into GSAK. It will take it from there.

Then, you will probably need to go to “GPS”, “setup” to set for your GPS and whether you’re using a USB or serial connection. You only have to set this up once as it will save the information. If you have multiple GPS units as we do- some serial and some USB- you have to change this in order to download to each unit.

From there, connect your GPS, click “GPS”, “Send Waypoints”. It should be that simple. You can get more advanced as you go along.

[Team Deejay]

@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

@Team Deejay wrote:

You get your query from Geocaching.com, not from GSAK. Set up a pocket query on the site. The site will email it to you. Save the zip file they send you somewhere that you can find it. Run GSAK and File|load the file. Done. (Yes, it is that easy. The harder part is setting up the pocket query to do what you want.)

If you are a Premium Member of course.

True, but I am not aware of too many people using GSAK (or EasyGPS) without pocket queries. It is possible, of course, to download one cache at a time as .LOC files, and then use GSAK to load all the files at once. Its just that by the time you download 20-30 individual cache files (and print out the sheets), you will find that the time spent is worth much more than the Premium membership fee.

[SammyClaws]

@Team Deejay wrote:

@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

@Team Deejay wrote:

You get your query from Geocaching.com, not from GSAK. Set up a pocket query on the site. The site will email it to you. Save the zip file they send you somewhere that you can find it. Run GSAK and File|load the file. Done. (Yes, it is that easy. The harder part is setting up the pocket query to do what you want.)

If you are a Premium Member of course.

True, but I am not aware of too many people using GSAK (or EasyGPS) without pocket queries. It is possible, of course, to download one cache at a time as .LOC files, and then use GSAK to load all the files at once. Its just that by the time you download 20-30 individual cache files (and print out the sheets), you will find that the time spent is worth much more than the Premium membership fee.

You can also download single GPX files (i.e. logs) too and load them into GSAK. I’ve down that just to pick up some files outside the bounds of a particular query. For a lot of them it would be time consuming, but it would work.

[gkrone]

@Team Deejay wrote:

@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

@Team Deejay wrote:

You get your query from Geocaching.com, not from GSAK. Set up a pocket query on the site. The site will email it to you. Save the zip file they send you somewhere that you can find it. Run GSAK and File|load the file. Done. (Yes, it is that easy. The harder part is setting up the pocket query to do what you want.)

If you are a Premium Member of course.

True, but I am not aware of too many people using GSAK (or EasyGPS) without pocket queries. It is possible, of course, to download one cache at a time as .LOC files, and then use GSAK to load all the files at once. Its just that by the time you download 20-30 individual cache files (and print out the sheets), you will find that the time spent is worth much more than the Premium membership fee.

I did the manual download without a membership for the last two years. It’s real easy to get a lot of caches down in a little time just going page by page and selecting all to download and the importing all files in a directory into GSAK.

The big problem is that the .LOC files that you get have very limited information. It gives you enough to do paper caching, but you really need to get a membership and pull down the PQs in order to go paperless. Lots of manual data entry to fill in the data gaps if you plan to run the FindStatGen macro in GSAK.

I just picked up a Palm off of eBay ($30) and got the one month membership from GC just to test it out. We are planning a trip to Utah for Spring Break and I didn’t want to carry a ream of paper with possible caches already printed so might as well go paperless. I am planning to get my 200th cache and my first paperless cache this weekend.

[hogrod]

@Team Deejay wrote:

You get your query from Geocaching.com, not from GSAK. Set up a pocket query on the site. The site will email it to you. Save the zip file they send you somewhere that you can find it. Run GSAK and File|load the file. Done. (Yes, it is that easy. The harder part is setting up the pocket query to do what you want.)

These are very good instructions, but there is another step some of you can do that will make it even easier to get new caches in GSAK, all you need is POP3 access to your email account.
For a gmail account I think you have to enable this in your gmail settings online, in the upper right corner of your gmail inbox.

In GSAK file menu, select get data via e-mail. setup your pop access(see gmail example below)

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