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Hi I have been putting caches on to my etrex one at a time, from the ground sense page for my area. I have installed on my computor "Easy gps"
How in simple terms do I transfer the cache details from local GS. page to Easygps and then bulk load to my etrex.
Sure I have once done it but unable to remember how.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 04:59 PM
Create a PQ and download it to your computer. Open the PQ in EasyGPS. You'll see all of the caches in the left frame . . . highlight all of them (or however many you want to copy to the GPS) and then click on the "Send" button (or right click the highlighted caches and select "Send to GPS".
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Posted 18 April 2012 - 10:06 AM
In addition to the method that TJ described, you can also download the pocket query to your computer and then, after unzipping it, drag it directly to the /gpx folder on your eTrex or its micro-SD card. In other words, you don't need EasyGPS or any other software just to transfer files to the eTrex, only to manage your caches on your computer.
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Posted 18 April 2012 - 11:42 AM
Wintertime, on 18 April 2012 - 10:06 AM, said:
In addition to the method that TJ described, you can also download the pocket query to your computer and then, after unzipping it, drag it directly to the /gpx folder on your eTrex or its micro-SD card. In other words, you don't need EasyGPS or any other software just to transfer files to the eTrex, only to manage your caches on your computer.
Using a PQ is certainly easier. It depends on which eTrex you have, though. I think, but am not certain, that some of them do not support .gpx files.
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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:58 PM
New Jersey TJ, on 18 April 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:
Using a PQ is certainly easier. It depends on which eTrex you have, though. I think, but am not certain, that some of them do not support .gpx files.
Very correct! the older eTrex series (Vista-HCx and older) are prime examples, and require some medium to translate them.. (I.E. EasyGPS, which I've used many times before.)
The older eTrex models also have a limit of how many you can transfer too.. The Vista-HCx, maxes out at 1000 waypoints.. (read this as absolute maximum! If your any of the 1000 caches have child waypoints, they're going to take-up one waypoint themselves, and all 1000 won't fit with them!)
Pretty sure the Classic-Yellow, and the "H" model there-of, also had a maximum of 500..
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