Geocaching thoughts (FW7.07)

Found around 120 caches with this unit, hiking and a power-trail-ish. Having used multiple Garmin units to cache with for 20-odd years, I like the refresh of the app and workflow.

Things I noticed:

1. Geocache...with one selected and hit the menu...."update co-ordinates" and if you DO NOT chnage the co-ords, unit will crash and need a long-power reset,

 2. Inconsistent display of geocaching dashboard (or any dashboard?) on the navigation map. If you "page" across to another page, and head back to the navigation screen the dashboard is there again

3. When you navigate to a cache, it adds a waypoint to the map..which will show even if you have waypoint layer off on map layer setup...the auto generated waypoint is painful and covers the actual cache on the map.

4. When  you get close to the cache, a "you are nearby" screen pops up..with a few choices, such as "log" or "continue navigation?". It comes up at the most annoying time, about 40-60 feet away, too early for when you are often need to start looking. Please make it an option (maybe it is).

5. Please add different zoom points for different types of map objects...showing caches only when super zoomed is annoying. A less tight zoom is very often required when choosing areas.

6. In the geocaching app, it looks like the default sort option is "name A-Z".. is there an option to change this? If not, the default should be "by distance".  Distance is way more important than name.

More when I use more!

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  • 5. Please add different zoom points for different types of map objects...showing caches only when super zoomed is annoying. A less tight zoom is very often required when choosing areas.

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  • 5. Please add different zoom points for different types of map objects...showing caches only when super zoomed is annoying. A less tight zoom is very often required when choosing areas.

    In most all previous units, this was a very common (and expected) filtering feature allowing for different zoom levels for differing types of map objects. Garmin has now (in their infinite wisdom) removed this pretty much mandatory feature for some reason (known only to them) inhibiting the performance of a "top-tier, flagship" model.

    You may want to send them a suggestion at the link bellow but seeing as this was such a prominent and useful feature in the past, I don't know how this would suggest anything to them as they themselves removed it

    www.garmin.com/.../

  • I agree - The GPSMAP H1 and eTrex Touch are both huge steps backwards when compared to previous models.