[GeoStL] Re: caching with a plane ole PDA. almost a review
- From: Weymouth <wey6567@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:42:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Glenn,
What kind of PDA is it?
Jeff
--- Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -
> My old Toshiba PDA gave up the ghost sometime last
> year. It is hard to
> paperless cache without some sort of paperless
> doodad like a PDA. I
> finally got another one last week. I had always
> used Mapopolos maps and
> GPX Sonar for mapping and gpx file reading on the
> old PDA. I saw
> Cachemate and it looked about the same as Sonar so I
> spent $8.00 and got
> a copy. Mapopolus is no longer available. :(
>
> Went out for lunch yesterday, RGS wanted to see what
> the PDA does. "PDA
> Stuff", thats about all I know. Cool. Need to put
> some caches in
> Cachemate tho, Hmmmm. Well, I run about a zillion
> PQ's I think I can
> dig one up. I logged into a google account where I
> stash stuff like PQ
> and found one that I liked. "500 nearest caches that
> I haven't found".
> That should get me started. Press that button.
> "click", "ding" and in
> about 2 seconds it said I was now in possession of a
> 750K file of stuff.
>
> Well, now what and where did it go? Donno but press
> that little button
> that looks like an "import thing" OK. I did that and
> zoom. I was now
> loading cachemate with caches. "That was pretty
> cool". Time for another
> soda, things are getting interesting. . .
>
> Lets go find something close. Of course I cant find
> the GPS and it has
> all old stuff in it anyway. Rats.
> More pecking on the screen turns on a big arrow.
> More cool. "It is
> pointing west". "Which way is west?" "Looks like
> whichever way we turn
> the PDA is west so just pick a Nice West that you
> would like to go and
> we can follow the arrow that way. Maybe it will do
> something."
>
> By now we have finished the burgers and several
> sodas while pressing all
> the buttons and making the thing go "ping" a few
> times. Progress.
>
> "We need maps", "I don't have any maps, I just
> spent my $8 on
> cachemate, not maps". Rats. So we just looked at
> the cache page and
> got a good idea of where we need to go. Click on the
> map thing on the
> cache page. Ping, now at least we have a map of the
> area. It was on the
> corner about 1.5 miles away. "West" said the
> arrow, 1.5 miles away.
> At least we agreed with the arrow. What does the
> corner look like,
> click the satellite view on the cache page. :-)
> Clump of trees. sweet.
> Not bad ciphering from the lunch table. We still
> need a route. Push
> the google map thing there. "ping" and now we have a
> routeable map from
> where we are to where I think I want to go. Sweet.
> Off goes RGS
> outside to see if the westerly pointing arrow does
> anything. Swing
> around and point west sure enough it does. More
> coolness and not bad for
> $8 cachemate. We drove to the clump of trees and
> approached. "Ya
> think we are going to find anything besides a clump
> of trees?" Slowly
> walking to where the arrow said to go and I stopped
> when it said I was
> 2 or 3 feet away. Looked around and found a
> microcache right there!
> Amazing. There was another little button, a "voice
> tag" thing. Click
> then talked myself a note that will get attached to
> that cache listing
> in cachemate for retrieval later. I haven't tried it
> yet but I am
> assuming that someday I can go back and listen to
> all my notes and
> relive all these good times. Now I will have a
> record of another cache
> that I probably wont get around to logging. Sweet.
> That voice tag thing
> could be handy on those hectic 4 caches/day cache
> runs.
>
> Conclusion:
> Well, it worked. We populated cachemate with a
> new PQ while eating,
> found a map, made a route, got there and found the
> cache with just the
> PDA. Thats better than what I can do with the 60csx!
> So I guess my
> afternoon trying to make the PDA do something worked
> out OK.
>
> I still think I would like to have some real maps
> like the garmin xt
> ones. That would be cool real voice commands for
> turning and all that.
>
> Beam us up Scotty.
>
>
>
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