PDA

candaceandwill · Veteran Member

PDA

slippery_1 · Senior Member

My turn to ask a question on this topic.

The Sony CLIÉ PEG-TG50.

Any Idea whether this is or isn't a good pda.

All input welcome.

-- Edited by slippery_1 at 18:38, 2006-09-03

candaceandwill · Veteran Member

Well, I went ahead and bought myself the Palm TX and it is awesome! Now I have to figure out how to make it Geocaching friendly. I'll have to try paperless caching now!

Dragonfreys · Senior Member

The easiest way, without needing special software on the PDA, is have GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) convert your gpx file to html. If your PDA can open webpages you are set and it has lots of cool features like showing you the closest caches, the last five logs and many of the cache page graphics. Lizardo put us onto this and we haven't looked back since. Used to use a gpxviewer program, but we lost the install everytime the batteries on the PDA died completely so this works much better for us.

slippery_1 · Senior Member

Did some cheching on this and found the following,http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Sony_CLI_PEG_TG50/4505-3127_16-20906240.html

Perhaps Dragonfreys you all can send me the information on what you just suggested, cause it looks like I'm a buying this one....it's older, but a goody from the looks of it.

grnbrg · Senior Member

Dragonfreys wrote:
The easiest way, without needing special software on the PDA, is have GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) convert your gpx file to html.

If you decide to use an older Palm that doesn't have a decent HTML reader (or can't run it well) GSAK can also generate PalmDOC format files that most e-book readers can handle. No graphics, but not that many caches have images that are required to find the cache. CSpotRun (http://32768.com/bill/palmos/cspotrun/) is free and my favorite.

Note that GSAK is shareware, and will cost US$20 to register. While it does have a large number of unique features, if you are only interested in coverting Pocket Queries to PalmDOC, HTML or loading them into your GPSr, you can use GPSBabel (which is what GSAK uses in the background), which is free. GPSBabel is free, and available at http://www.gpsbabel.org/. For those who dislike using a command line, there is a free graphical front end called "GPSBabelWrapper" available at http://www.earthquakemap.com/gbwabout.html.

For the record, I use CSpotRun and GPSBabel to manage the ~1,500 waypoints that are loaded into my Palm (a 4M Palm IIIxe) and GPSr (a Lowrance iFinder M+M).

grnbrg.

slippery_1 · Senior Member

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milesmac · Member

RE: PDA

TASKForce3 · Member

I'm using a free utility called gpxsonar on my pocketpc phone and it is great. I can take the same gpx file that I put into GSAK and import it straight into gpxsonar. It lets you specify a coordinate and lists the caches by proximity to your coordinates. It lets you record field notes about a cache (handy for keeping track of what you took / left) and tapping on any cache brings up the appropriate html page in Internet Explorer complete with the last five logs and most of the info you find on geocaching.com. It gives you pretty much everything you need to go paperless.

Juicepig · Newbie

I use cachemate on my palm, works great for when I find I need the cache description, or (heaven forbid) a hint. 8$US for registration, but you can try the trial version which allows up to 10 entries. works good for me!

ztirnats · Veteran Member

Beeline and GPXview on the Ipaq using Pocket PC.

Been bulletproof for us and coupled with Bluetooth and the Earthmate Bluelogger GPS gives us paperless caching at its best!