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@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

So I have the POI loader figured out. But now on the Nuvi 350 they don’t show up in the 3-D view, and I have to zoom way in on the map view to see them. I also don’t see the name of them when I am zoomed in far enough. Is there a way to change this?

Unfortunately that’s the way it works … you only see the ONE you are ACTIVELY traveling to, when in the 3D View, basically it appears as a dot (unless you setup another symbol) at the end of your route … in the map view you only see what shows on your screen when zoomed in real far (I believe it’s 200 or 300 foot scale on my unit).

It works great for selecting a cache you want to drive to from the list … but is of basically no use if you just want to see symbols representing caches, along side the road, as you drive near them. The only/best way to just see what caches are nearby as you drive, is to NOT have a map screen up, but have the POI selector up, then the nearest caches will appear with pointer arrows and distances as a list … kinda fun watching the arrows switch directions as you go (but keep your eyes on the road).

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Eeek!
I missed that “just kidding” part the first time I read Jeremy’s posting.
For about 15 mins. I thought it was really going to become the picnic!
The jokes on me 🙄

Actually it was a grumpy 15 mins, as I can’t make it to the West Bend event 😥 and was hoping I could make it to the picnic 👿 maybe I still can 🙄

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Stuff just happens … next week will be better.

I had one cache going missing before it was even released!
About a year ago I released a cache and then I decided later to use a different container, the first was gone … good thing I decided I wanted a different one 😆 It was a very private spot and no people around (including no cars in the parking lot) when I hid it … so I almost think an animal dragged off with it.

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I too give the “Big G” design an A .
I kind of like it as is, with one exception, the black signal dots on the green G might not show up well (especially on a shirt), maybe just those black dots should be white, then of course the dots in the white state outline must stay black or be green, as white doesn’t show well on white :-). For the same reason, making the X white would not work.

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@Jeremy wrote:

I think the ideal no hands GPS would be some sort of glasses that would superimpose GPS information on the actual environment, like a heads up display. It would connect wirelessly (Bluetooth?) to a GPS receiver that you would wear on your belt. Of course it would respond to voice commands (or simply read your mind :)) to make it completely hands free.

Like the DINGO … remember seeing that proto type at my first geo-event: http://www.brooksstevens.com/portfolio/cs_dingo.asp

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I have two old Garmins … eMap and GPS72.
Recently I got a Garmin Nuvi 650 for in the car.

I really like this combination … I load the Nuvi with the waypoints as POIs (points of interest) … so the Nuvi tells us where to drive, then I hit “find nearest” on the eMap and hike to the cache. We only use the GPS72 as a “guest” GPSr or if the kids feel like running ahead on their own to find it (which doesn’t happen often any more).

I have a hard time justifying getting a newer/better handheld vs. my eMap. I like the size of the screen on the eMap … it finds the caches … and I like the way you manually enter waypoints better than how you do it on newer models*.

* On an eMap you move between the numeric fields of the coordinates using the left/right buttons, and simply flip through 0 to 9 using up/down buttons. To me it’s more user friendly than having to move around on the matrix of numbers layed out like a calculator on newer GPSrs. But I guess it’s all in what your use to.

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Actually … I’m stupid … for two reasons:

#1 I guess I could have tried looking a manual up online.

#2 Upon looking a manual up online (NOW!), I see it does have a [GoTo] choice, I guess in the heat of the moment I didn’t see it and just closed the waypoint after creating it.

Ironically, the person I was “teaching” knew how to download a GPX file to his GPSr using his cable … but never had to add a waypoint manually in the field (for a Multi or Event cache listed on paper). Especially in the case of a Multi, it makes sense to use/have instant Goto, rather than reselecting it after creating it.

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@PCFrog wrote:

@seldom|seen wrote:

Points made above. It is clear now that your “updated” version would look more like the existing logo than does your photo-realistic concept.

I can make the vector look just like the one displayed here. So, yes what you see here is what you can get. I use the term concept for the fact that tweaks to the GPS, ammo box, map, and others can be changed.

Now the drop shadow around the logo is only to make it stand out more from the white page.

I like this logo … I think it would work well on the website … but, if you would be looking into using a logo on a shirt or a coin … doesn’t the highly detailed graphics cause issues? Excuse me in advance if this has already been discussed and I missed it.

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First thing I’d try …

(1) Turn off the computer.

(2) Find were the cable you use with the Garmin connects on the back of your computer … make sure you keep track of where it was plugged in.

(3) Unplug the cable, then plug it back in … make sure it’s in all the way.

(4) Fire up the computer and see if it now works.

I’m thinking that if you didn’t change anything and didn’t use the computer much, that maybe the connection got bumped when you were vacumming or something, and it wasn’t tight enough to work.

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All the points of view thus far make sense … thanks, keep the comments/ideas coming!

I agree with everything that is being said … which makes it hard to decide 😯 … but at least I have time to ponder all this, and for you all to influence me 😉

A little reverse-feedback: I agree that most people that would attend a demonstration like this would “respect” the caches and let them be. I guess this is the likely “problem” scenario that I had in mind: The Jones are camping for a week, the whole family attends the demonstration, the next day the family is playing at the beach, 7 year old Bobby Jones starts telling some other kid on beach (Louie) about what they did yesterday, since a cache is nearby Bobby volunteers to Louie to see the cache. Since Louie and family didn’t attend the demo Louie doesn’t understand caching. Louie decides later to come back and take the cache or decides that maybe it would be fun to move it to a different spot. No one means any harm … but the newness of the concept combined with the amount of days spent in close proximity to the caches is more likely to open up a permanent cache to disappearing.

Now one answer, is to make sure the caches I lead them to are in less traveled areas (ie. lead them to the “creepy woods” instead of the “edge of the beach”). At the moment, I see the benefit of using both … maybe two permanent caches, with a couple of temps filling the walking gap in between them, so the little ones don’t lose interest.

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I agree with the Ry and Ny suggestion.

While Palms seem to typically recover well from crashes (at in my experience), yours of course is not … likely since the last thing you used was Plucker, the crash that likely caused this messed up your copy of Plucker in some way.

It’s likely not the “fault” of Plucker, but the fact that it was likely your “active” application at the time.

FYI … I’m in the habit of hitting the reset button on the back of my Palm very often “just to play it safe”. I prefer to press it BEFORE I leave home … weekly if needed … just to keep things steady out in the field. As an example: I used Cache Mate instead of Plucker … every time I reload (sync) caches, I ALWAYS press the reset as the next step.

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What about WGA stickers that you put on the outside of the cache containers, rather than the standard Geocaching.com ones?

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I indicated “No” … as I don’t use the LOGO, but I do have the scrolling marque link … mainly because it takes less space (since my caches are always so wordy they way it is).

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Our office is a bit afraid to get involved with Vista too. We have two IT guys and both are saying avoid Vista until Dell won’t sell us XP any more. In fact we deal with a couple web-based database that we must access that just plain will not work with Vista that some of our employees have at home.

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They’ve NOT made it to Ozaukee County … I’ve not had logs to my caches, except for maybe 1 or 2 log entries, for months.

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