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I just read a Garmin ad in the latest FTF Geocacher magazine that surprised me a bit:

 

"Geocaching gives families more reasons to come together. And with 250,000 preloaded geocaches from Geocaching.com and detailed color maps, the GPSMAP 64 series gives the most preloaded "reasons" to unplug, get outside and get caching." [emphasis added]

 

Has Garmin officially given up its misguided attempt to create an alternative geocache listing service, and when did this happen? I must have missed that memo.

 

--Larry

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I just read a Garmin ad in the latest FTF Geocacher magazine that surprised me a bit:

 

"Geocaching gives families more reasons to come together. And with 250,000 preloaded geocaches from Geocaching.com and detailed color maps, the GPSMAP 64 series gives the most preloaded "reasons" to unplug, get outside and get caching." [emphasis added]

 

Has Garmin officially given up its misguided attempt to create an alternative geocache listing service, and when did this happen? I must have missed that memo.

 

--Larry

I don't know the answer to that, but I hope so. When Garmin was promoting geocaching.com instead of its own silly attempt at a geocaching site, it made their handheld product line stronger, more relevant and innovative with things like Wherigo and Chirp. Would be nice to see a cooperative relationship again.

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The "250,000 preloaded ..." was on their own site and on all ads when the 64s came out, so not new.

The other cache site's still listed. I don't know anyone who participates any longer.

Seemed (to me) interest was dying, by logs from members in their own (now gone) forums.

Probably a good move on their part to concentrate on what they're good at. :)

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The "250,000 preloaded ..." was on their own site and on all ads when the 64s came out, so not new.

The other cache site's still listed. I don't know anyone who participates any longer.

Seemed (to me) interest was dying, by logs from members in their own (now gone) forums.

Probably a good move on their part to concentrate on what they're good at. :)

What was new, at least to me, was the specific reference to "geocaches from geocaching.com" in the new ad.

 

This brings up another interesting question: Did Garmin get all those 250,000 caches with Groundspeak's cooperation and permission? As far as I can figure, they must have.

 

--Larry

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The "250,000 preloaded ..." was on their own site and on all ads when the 64s came out, so not new.

The other cache site's still listed. I don't know anyone who participates any longer.

Seemed (to me) interest was dying, by logs from members in their own (now gone) forums.

Probably a good move on their part to concentrate on what they're good at. :)

What was new, at least to me, was the specific reference to "geocaches from geocaching.com" in the new ad.

 

This brings up another interesting question: Did Garmin get all those 250,000 caches with Groundspeak's cooperation and permission? As far as I can figure, they must have.

 

--Larry

 

Most of the caches listed on Garmin's site were listed/cross listed there by the cache owners.

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Most of the caches listed on Garmin's site were listed/cross listed there by the cache owners.

That's one of many reasons it was pretty much useless.

 

Some cachers I know tried it out as a sort of protest over some of Groundspeak's policies at the time, but once they checked out "the competition" and realized there was nothing really there, they came back to the fold.

 

--Larry

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Most of the caches listed on Garmin's site were listed/cross listed there by the cache owners.

That's one of many reasons it was pretty much useless.

 

Some cachers I know tried it out as a sort of protest over some of Groundspeak's policies at the time, but once they checked out "the competition" and realized there was nothing really there, they came back to the fold.

 

--Larry

 

Garmin enticed people to "import" their caches to the site with pathtags and contests. It was all a clever way of building that huge data base for the new file gizmo that thier units use to store 250,000 caches or more.

 

Most of that data in those units is no good straight out of the box. Most of the listings on Garmin's site were just dumped there and were never updated.

 

Garmin makes some good units, just delete any data from the factory and store your own PQ's ect.

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What was new, at least to me, was the specific reference to "geocaches from geocaching.com" in the new ad.

 

This brings up another interesting question: Did Garmin get all those 250,000 caches with Groundspeak's cooperation and permission? As far as I can figure, they must have.

 

--Larry

 

The full quote with the geocaching.com came out with the press release for the 64 over a year ago.

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