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Re: Colorado 300

chrishat...@gmail.com (Psychrn) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:46:15 UT

Id agree with the last post.
Ive had a Colorado since February,
I love it.
Agree with the Battery consumption too.
I have a Garmin 60c Before and the only other feature the Colorado
appears to be missing is the Proximity Circle feature

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Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

rick...@hotmail.com (rick++) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:28:44 UT

An interesting variant to visit as many exact lat-longs as you can,
although many are in boring oceans or difficult polar regions.
One contest is to do all in the continuous US states.

Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

rick...@hotmail.com (rick++) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:26:25 UT

Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

Grümwî...@NOSPAM.THANKS.IM.FULL.lycos.co.de (Grümwîtch thë Ünflãppåblê) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:03:58 UT

Neither have I sent a dime to my local TV station, but they make a ton of money
because I'm exposed to the commercial advertising they display.
Cheers,
Barnabus Grumwitch Overbyte III

Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

siskuwiha...@gmail.com (Siskuwihane) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:51:51 UT

On Jun 11, 4:12 pm, "Grümwîtch thë Ünflãppåblê"
I've had an account there for over 6 years and never sent them a dime.
But they are the most well known.

Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

cottrel...@att.notthis (Gene Cottrell) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:53:17 UT

I personally prefer the old style, which requires a knowledge of
orienteering. I've done a small bit of geocaching with the GPS and find it
to be not very challenging. I only carry my GPS when I'm doing work for the
Endangered and Non-game Species Program - they require it for marking
species location. I'm not knocking GPS by any means, but would never rely on

Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

pcmed...@gmail.com (PC Medic) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:49:52 UT

Yes letterboxing and geocaching probably have as much in common as they have
not.
Still another example (though a stretch :0) )
Not sure many folks know how to use a compass any more.
PC Medic
Geocaching With Navicache
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Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

Grümwî...@NOSPAM.THANKS.IM.FULL.lycos.co.de (Grümwîtch thë Ünflãppåblê) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:12:47 UT

geocaching.com is nothing more than a commercial website trying to make
themselves a buck.
They didn't invent the sport, and they don't run it.

Re: new iPhone and paperless caching

gnu...@gmail.com (nemo) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:42:49 UT

What is a GPS compared to a SatNav? Are you talking about a GPS like
a hand held unit for sport use compared to a car unit for road use? I
have never heard the terms used that way.
Rick

Re: new iPhone and paperless caching

gnu...@gmail.com (nemo) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:40:09 UT

I don't know anything about the iPhone, but I know that you don't
really need waypoint projection. If you are at point X and want to go
YYY feet in the direction ZZZ degrees, you just set point X as your
GOTO point and then go in the direction ZZZ-180 (or ZZZ+180) degrees
for YYY feet. I find this is typically more accurate than an actual

Re: Geocaching, GPS units and the great outdoors

jeremypar...@compuserve.com (Jeremy Parker) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:29:27 UT

Here in Britain geocaching was invented one hundred and fifty four
years ago by James Perrot. Dartmoor is the area famous for it. In
those days you had to find the "letterbox" without a gps. It's
called letterboxing here, although American style geocaching has also
arrived
Jeremy Parker

Re: Google maps

buro...@charter.net (Don B) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:48:16 UT

If you can get an address there are several sites that will give you the
coordinates for that address. The one I use most of the time is:
[link]

Re: new iPhone and paperless caching

myn...@nolikespam.com (MK) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:40:37 UT

Crosspost from gps.garmin:
Hate to follow up my own post, but there's just so much out there on
www about this here's a few another about it
[link]
or [link] when it wraps - or if you want to see
nearly 1000 stories about how the press are seeing this take a look at

Re: new iPhone and paperless caching

myn...@nolikespam.com (MK) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:39:15 UT

Yeah - certainly sounds exciting, doesn't it!? I am fingers crossed that
the Opensource road Maps for NZ will be compatible!
MK