Re: GPS

Stephen Rainsbury wrote:

Mind you have you seen the price of leads for the damn things!! £25
just to plug it into a PC!!!!

Crazy - given its just an RS232 cable!

I've just found that the s/w to edit waypoints and routes is not
free or included either ... another £23 :o(

Still, there is a free plugin which means you can download geocaches
as waypoints direct from geocaching.com, which should do for now.

How did you get on with this Pete? Thanks.

37 cache finds and counting ... !

My original intention was to give it a go to see if it was something which
would work with my Unit, but I seem to have got a bit carried away myself -
it's great fun. I've even hidden a couple of my own and have a third in the
pipeline (once some devilishly small micros I've ordered arrive from the
States!)

I have got a cable to connect the GPS to my PC, then use the
geocaching.com/Garmin plugin to download the waypoints, which works just
fine - saves punching them in by hand.

I've also subscribed to geoaching.com so can run 'pocket queries' which
email a file through which contains not only the published coordinates, but
also any 'additional waypoints' given in the listing. These files can be
opened in EasyGPS (which is a free program) and downloaded to the GPS Unit.
I did buy a copy of Garmin's 'Trip & Waypoint Manager' from eBay (£9.99),.
but EasyGPS is better.

I've not tried it with the Unit yet, but I think it will go down quite
well - its on my list of things for next term - recap on Grid Refs (ties in
the DofE training!), go through Romers then on to GPS and finally get out
and do some caching.

Pete

--
Peter Maley
SL, 3rd Whitstable
ESL, Tombstones ESU


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