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That's the way I like to do it. When I'm on the road
for my two month vacation, I'll never know where I might end up. Arc
filters are OK if you know that you won't stray from your route. I do a
route of my intended travels. Then I get the queries with as close to
500 WP's in each one. I start off from home on the map and name my
first query 1-BLUE, then I make sure that the second query abuts my
first on my route and call that 2-GREEN and so on. I use the same name
in GSAK and my PDA. As I import the queries in to S & T, I put a
push pin in each cluster and name them 1,2,3 etc. The reason for the
different colors is that when I get in to a transition area, I'll know
where to look in the PDA for the right color/number. When I leave for
the vacation, I hook my second GPS up to my laptop and it puts a little
red car on my route. As the little car moves down the road, I can
always see where the next cache is located. After we get to camp and
get the camper set up and sight see the next day, I can go in any
direction and still have the caches on my map. For this years vacation,
I have eleven queries set up and might need one more. Sounds
complicated, but it works great. Bernie.
James Shilt wrote:
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To be quite honest when I travel I get two caches per state that cover
the bulk of my route. Then I load in all 1000 waypoints so if I decide
to take a detour or get forced to take a detour I can still find some
caches along the way.
Jim Everman wrote:
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James Shilt wrote:
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In Streets and Trips you can find nearby places. Select the entire
route. All the caches within the limits you set will show up in the
nearest places list. You can then edit each cache and move it to a new
bookmark list.
By the way if you have ExpertGPS you can do this even easier. If you
create a route and do a search along the route it will only show the
resulting caches. You save that file and you are done. Much easier.
I eventually got past step 7. I don't know what happened, but I wasn't
getting the menu where you select the search distance and "around".
After a few tries, it worked and now I cannot see what I did wrong.
I have easy GPS and use it from time to time.. I may give that a try.
When I'm traveling I need something easy and foolproof (well,
anytime!). I keep the e-Trex on the dash in a cell phone holder, the
laptop sleeping with GSAK and S&T running, and next trip I'll have
a pocket PC running GPX Sonar. It's nice when they all show the same
stuff. :-)
Geo Jim
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