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I spent many hours, days and traveling before I finished Dave’s Gee, I’m a tree. ”Who Wants to Play Clue?” is eleven caches in one and took me several weeks of poking around to finish it.
If you are into numbers, you will feel cheated by multi’s. I know I did for a while until I changed my philosophy about the experience. Numbers are OK. Just don’t let it become an obsession and ruin the total experience of being in the outdoors and enjoying the technology.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
Others seem awfully concerned about memory, but I fit about 80% of Wisconsin in my legend without any issues. Plenty for my geocaching purposes.
The GPSMAP 60 is being compared to the Garmin V. That has autorouting capabilities and stores POI’s (points of interest) that demands much more memory.
When loading a map without adding the autorouting information, the Garmin V will hold a lot more map too. Once a person gets used to that autorouting, they don’t want to be without it.quote:
Originally posted by rpaske:
56 meg seems like a lot. But, how much of that memory is used by the system and how much can actually be uploaded. While I am at it, does the color map actually mean that less information can be uploaded. And, can the present routable cd-rom maps be used on the new Garmins?
While clicking around the specifications, it says 8megs is used for the system and 56megs is for uploading maps. Compare 56 to the Garmin V’s 19 meg and that is a lot more autorouting maps that can be uploaded. For example, on the V I can’t get all of the Chicago area in. With 56, I got my normal SE Wisconsin, ALL of Chicago and all of interstate 57 down to and including all the Evansville, Indiana and Owensboro Kentucky area that I’ll be driving too Monday. That works out to be enough memory to please me.
It will accept City Select for sure and I would imagine all the Mapsource maps. It does not appear to include City Select so that presents a problem for anyone wanting to upgrade from a V by selling their V. A buyer would demand the City Select software but you would want to keep it for uploading to your new 60. Sounds like a marketing ”gotcha” for someone to buy $125.00 of software.
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I just rechecked the link and it said PC/USB cable! Yah-HOOOOO! I was slightly bummed by no memory card but I checked out what 56meg will hold and it is a lot!
Coincidently, I just got notification by Garmin for the availability of an updated City Select for only (yeah only) $75.00. It might have Hwy 29 and 45 locations correct and have erased all the closed Hardee’s, but do I need to pay $75.00 for that?
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Sounds like a fun time RangerBoy! I enjoy caching out of state too. When I’m away on business, I try to get one or two in. The only caching that I’ve done in California was while in Reno Nevada. The Sierra’s sure don’t look like the coastal areas! I’ll be in Kentucky this coming week so hope to log some when not working.
You don’t need those programs and that might be what is making it confusing for you. The basic mobipocket reader is free adn works well. I’d suggest working with that first. Once you use that, then if you want to explore those other programs, it might fall into place then. I’ve tried them and have stayed with mobipocket reader.
Yes, I have Yahoo filtered out. Send me an email to my user name @wi.rr.com
For a while, I got caught up in the numbers. Now I wouldn’t care if they were dropped! I’d rather see them go the route that Navicache is doing. Asigning points rather than numbers. To me the reward is quality of the cache theme, as in SBTT’s Glow in the Dark. Obviously scenery isn’t rewarding in the dark! And the most rewarding is being taken to a new and interesting place. I’ve found several of those that I continue to go back to and enjoy rather than trying to rack up numbers.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaWell I put my two cents in. While not a resident, I do have family in the city and have geocached with my brother there. One thing I’m big on and did mention is the need for more dog parks. Since geocaching, I’ve found more neat places to go back to with my dog. So much so that it has cut into my geocaching. But, I treasure our hikes together. Gotta find more dog friendly caches!!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaWhoops! I should have checked back here sooner. Yes, you can swap chips with different maps on them. One of the popular eBay sell points of the chips is that often a seller will preload a map on it for someone buying the chip but not having mapsource. I sold a 64meg chip that way when I bought my Garmin V and didn’t need the big chip in the eMap anymore.
That word came from Harry Potter? No wonder I’m out of the loop. Too old! I saw the word in a comic in the Sunday Milwaukee Journal. Didn’t make much sense there either.
I’ll take $20. Interested?
Not this week but in the last two weeks I have had two or three loss of satellite messages while pretty much out in the open. This was on a Garmin V which I attributed to the latest software release having some problems, such as slow recalculation for offroutes. I had a couple occasions where my position would suddenly change by a few hundred miles but that was several software revisions ago.
EVERYBODY knows that the only thing better than a Garmin V is the nonexistant but long hoped for Garmin VI!
Well now, here is an idea. It would great to provide a plastic laminate card with hunting seasons and other relevant information that a geocacher would find useful. I’m a spontaneous cacher so it’d be nice to have a handy reference about hunting seasons right in the car or truck. Anyone have the where-with-all to do this???
Steve Bukosky
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