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Handheld GPS for Geocaching

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JoeFahey

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I will probably pick it up from Best Buy, but if none of them see like a good deal, or if I find a better model, I might buy elsewhere.

Here is their page:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...+skuid&id=abcat0301001

Again, this is for Geocaching. I saw the cheapest one (Garmen Etrex) only has a compass telling you where to go with no map. Although this would probably work, if I only had to fork over another $50, I would prefer to have a map. The Triton 200 appears to have a map.

What models would you suggest?

Thanks!

***EDIT***
See 2nd post down
 
Well, I ended up buying the Triton 200 at EMS. It was the same price. I found one cache today, and I am pleased with it. However, I don't want to have to manually enter the points for every cache. One the website:
http://www.geocaching.com/
They make it so that you can simply download each cache onto your GPS, however, this is only supported by Garmin GPS's. I would like to keep my Magellin, but how can I load the caches onto it?

They list some applications on this page:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek...ng=-122.348306&dist=25
But I am not sure how to use them.

Help?

Thanks!
 
Garmin has their own proprietary communcation codec or whatever, so if you have a magellan you are out of luck. It looks like on the cache pages there are two different files you can download - a LOC Waypoint file and GPX eXchange file, you'll have to see which one your magellan supports.

As for geocaching, those aren't applications, they are just coordinates to get to a cache. You just need to enter them into your gps and find it (or download the cache coord files).
 
Originally posted by: abaez
Garmin has their own proprietary communcation codec or whatever, so if you have a magellan you are out of luck. It looks like on the cache pages there are two different files you can download - a LOC Waypoint file and GPX eXchange file, you'll have to see which one your magellan supports.

As for geocaching, those aren't applications, they are just coordinates to get to a cache. You just need to enter them into your gps and find it (or download the cache coord files).
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Oops, sorry, the link doesn't work. When you choose to download all of the caches, it brings you to the page I was mentioning.
 
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