Re: What about Navigation
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Originally Posted by tech_guy
What method and tools do you use to get to the site?
I use Ostia turn by turn navigaation software that came with the GPS for my handheld.
The Garmin is loaded with Mapsource City Select v7. It will do turn by turn navigation. We find it to be accurate about 85-90% of the time. The directions can be no more accurate than the maps they are loaded with. It will take you to the nearest road to the cache. It does not recognize that there is a 100ft bluff there, if there happens to be one. So some interpretation and common sense is required.
The 60 CS has an electronic compass and after switching to off road mode it will point you to the waypoint pretty well. After we get to the area nonni finds the cache.
We do carry a laptop in the car if we are traveling overnight so that we can, if desired, send email to cache owners or log finds and DNFs. In one instance we were at a meeting in New Mexico and had chosen to fly. While in flight back home we wrote the T4RX number and then the log into a word document. Skip a space and write the next log. Then logging into GC.com after arriving at home we copied and pasted our logs.
That process and this answer would both have been much easier if I could type instead of the hunt and peck method.