Welcome to GPSrChive and congratulations on the GPSMAP 66!Tufty wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:08 am Hi, I am a new member of this forum and have just upgraded from a 62s to a 66st. Still deciding if it was a good idea or not. Though I am leading to a good one.
I have a couple of issues with the 66.
1. The size of the cache icons. This was solved by reading the start of this thread. Thanks for that.
2. The method that I go through to get the description, hint, etc while navigating to a geocache. On either the Map or Compass pages I press MENU twice and the highlight Geocaches and press Enter. With the 62 it was press MENU and select View Geocache. When really thinking about comparing the number of keystrokes they would just about equal out. So I might have to stop grizzling about that.
3. But my main bone of contention at this early stage is that the Geocaching Dashboard (or any Dashboard that is listed) of the Compass Page does not have the number of Geocaches Found. The 62 had this item in its Geocache - Details Dashboard. Are any other users missing this item?
4. Back when I first got my 62 I joined a forum for that and suggested to Garmin that the Next Stage option (on the 66 it is called Coordinates) should have the option of either entering coordinates or Project a waypoint from the geocache published coordinates. So, when asked in a Multi-cache, to locate either the next waypoint or the final you are given a bearing and distance you are able to calculate it exactly. Back then they said it was a good idea. For me to calculate the coordinates it took a 10-step process. But, of course, it never happened.
Thanks for listening.
1. Solved
2. puh·tei·tow, puh·tah·tow (Both methods are essentially an equal number of button presses, just a different route through the menu)
3. While most current units track/record this number, they no longer display it in the Geocache Dashboard.
4. This a a great suggestion, but most of us just project a waypoint and save it, then navigate to it (for now). Frankly, most of Garmins units crash on multi-caches after the second set of coordinates are entered, so asking them to add more capability while they still have not corrected current functionality is a long shot at best.
Let us know how you like the GPSMAP 66 otherwise!