The last several weeks have been full of rumors around Garmin’s foray into the geocache listing business; a place where Groundspeak’s geocaching.com site is king. I found it hard to believe at first but as more details became available it seemed inevitable that Garmin would end up with its own site, putting it in direct [...]
Yesterday Groundspeak announced that they will approve chirp-enabled geocaches on geocaching.com, putting to rest a several day long chirp thread on the geocaching forums. While Groundspeak prefers that cache hiders provide an alternate means of finding the cache, a chirp cache can be listed as a mystery cache with a new “wireless beacon attribute” if [...]
Updated 11/4/10: I’ve added a chirp FAQ page on the Garmin Oregon wiki if you are looking for more detailed help with your chrip. After getting my hands on a Garmin chirp this morning I’ve been able to play with the tiny transmitter to see exactly how it works. The chirp is a simple wireless [...]
Updated 8:00am: Garmin product page for chirp is available. That was quick. After last night’s flurry around the Garmin chirp, Garmin has posted an announcement for the new wireless geocaching beacon on their blog this morning. A few items to note: Price of the chirp is noted as $22.99 Size: 1.3″ x 0.9″ x 0.3″ [...]
Garmin seems to be on the verge of announcing a tiny programmable wireless beacon that can transmit information to compatible Garmin GPS receivers. The so called “chirp” seems to be aimed at geocache designers who are looking for something a little different with their next cache placement. To get an idea of how chirp might [...]
Multi-cachers rejoice! Updated: GPSMAP62/78 2.44 Beta also includes multi-caching support and possible altimeter improvements. If you use an Oregon or Dakota you are probably tired of your friends who own 60CSx’s snickering at you every time you have to enter coordinates for a multi-cache or mystery cache in the field. On the newer units once [...]
In response GPS devices like the Lowrance Endura and Magellan eXplorist GC which support geocache filtering, Garmin released beta software yesterday which adds this feature to the Dakota and Oregon. Geocache filters allow you to view the geocaches loaded on your GPS which match the criteria of a filter that you create, especially useful with [...]
