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gw90se
June 26th, 2005, 09:56 AM
All right gang, I need to see if I can do something that I really would like to do. I enjoy geocaching and I currently have an older Garmin GPS that I use. I am looking into purchasing a new GPS though. My question here is...

Are there any GPS units or mapping programs that will work with Linux/Ubuntu? So far, I still have to go take over my wife's Windows box or wait till I get to work to load updated maps or save what I have manually entered. I generally load several cache locations and save them on the units software for upload to the unit.

This is my only area that I still need Windows (Other than work, but that's not my computer).

Any other cachers out there that have worked around this?

weekend warrior
June 26th, 2005, 10:21 AM
These links should start you off in the right direction as far as software. :)

click me (http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/linux_tools_for_geocaching-2005-02-05-23-13.html)

click me (http://geo.rkkda.com/)


HTH

gw90se
June 26th, 2005, 11:22 AM
Thanks, I'll get busy reading. I Googled it, but didn't find those pages.