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| Geocaching Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache. |
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| Join Date: Jul 06 2008 Location: Iowa
Posts: 2
| new gps for car and geocaching
HI- I am replacing an older handheld COBRA unit with a black and white display. It was fun for geocaching, but I'd like to upgrade I want the new one for use in the car....maps are new for me, and also be able to enter coordinates for geocaching. I haven't found reasonably priced models that can do both. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for your time. |
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| Chicks dig waypoints. | Re: new gps for car and geocaching
When you say use it in the car, you mean like a big touch screen and auto navigation? or just something you can use occasionally, and non-touch screen is ok? I like the 60csx/76csx/VistaHcX, but I understand for Geocaching the current hotness is the Colorado series, as they allow paperless geocaching. The other units have spaces in notes but not as much info as the Colorado from what I understand. I guess like all things it depends what percentage of time you want to spend using it in the car, or for caching?
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| Join Date: Jul 06 2008 Location: Iowa
Posts: 2
| Re: new gps for car and geocaching
Truthfully, I think we'll spend more time using it in the car, but stil need to find (and hide) a few treasures in geocaching. We love to geocache, but we don't really hunt as much as we would like.
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| Join Date: Jan 22 2009 Location: east coast Canada
Posts: 12
| Re: new gps for car and geocaching
The big thing with units for cars is the battery life is very short mine is only good for about an hour . I am interested in trying geocaching and am looking for a hand held unit but would use the one in my car to get me to the general location . then use the hand held, can anyone suggest a cheap handheld for occasional use geocaching ?
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| Join Date: Jul 06 2009 Location: Arizona
Posts: 5
| Re: new gps for car and geocaching
Most automotive GPS units are not very good for geocaching. They do not update quick enough requiring excessive movement for a pedestrian, albeit it is a small distance in an automobile. Also, automotive GPS units may lack the proper coordinate resolution, or may be designed with error correction which often places you on a roadway.I use a Garmin Colorado 400 series for my geocaching. It has changeable profile settings which make it useful for for other modes as well, such as automotive, but you would have to buy an automotive map set.The Colorado has a larger screen than most hiking GPS units, but it is still a bit smaller than an automotive GPS unit. Originally, I used my Magellan Roadmate for geocaching, but the coordinate resolution is only D,M,S with no decimal. I had only a 50% success rate on cache finds due to the poor resolution. The only auto GPS that I know anyone to use successfully for geocaching is the Garmin Nuvi, but the owner has returned the unit for repair twice. Remember automotive GPS units are not ruggardized like hiking units. Your best bet is to buy both an automotive GPS and a hiking GPS. I recommend a Garmin Nuvi for the car and a Garmin Vista HCX for the hiking. If money not not a major concern, either the Garmin Colorado or Garmin Oregon. The Delorme units are also fine, but there are many free topographic maps for the Garmin units. |
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| Join Date: May 11 2009 Location: Portland, Oregon
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