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    Default GSAK help for newbies or you

    Thought this would be a good way to introduce someone to the benefits of GSAk and all it has to offer.

    http://miragee.blogspot.com/2006/01/...ower-user.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Haffy6
    Thought this would be a good way to introduce someone to the benefits of GSAk and all it has to offer.

    http://miragee.blogspot.com/2006/01/...ower-user.html
    Wow! This a good one.

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    Never heard of it but it looks neat. Now I'll have to take some time with it. Thanks for posting this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FuddsGirls
    Never heard of it but it looks neat. Now I'll have to take some time with it. Thanks for posting this.
    Never heard of GASK? Sheesh! How can you go caching without it! It's really a great tool. Worth the price. Get it.

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    that's a really good quick start... but I'm still having trouble exporting files to MS Streets & Trips and to Nat. Geo. TOPO!.... GSAK won't create a file that is recognized by those programs, it comes close, but the extensions are like a letter off *.TRP or somethin goofy like that when it needs be somethin like *.TOP
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hiram357
    that's a really good quick start... but I'm still having trouble exporting files to MS Streets & Trips and to Nat. Geo. TOPO!.... GSAK won't create a file that is recognized by those programs, it comes close, but the extensions are like a letter off *.TRP or somethin goofy like that when it needs be somethin like *.TOP
    I'm not familiar with either program, but it sounds like you're looking for a different file than the waypoint files exported by GSAK. It exports a .TXT file for MS S&T, and a .TPG file for Nat Geo Topo. GSAK will place the file at your preferred location (desktop or documents), and then you import to your program.

    Not sure what the problem is...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hiram357
    that's a really good quick start... but I'm still having trouble exporting files to MS Streets & Trips and to Nat. Geo. TOPO!.... GSAK won't create a file that is recognized by those programs, it comes close, but the extensions are like a letter off *.TRP or somethin goofy like that when it needs be somethin like *.TOP
    I must be using an older version of NG Topo, because I have never had any problems exporting from GSAK. I use it all the time to see where caches are located. My version of Topo uses .tpo to save tracks and .tpg to save waypoints.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhereRWe?
    Never heard of GASK? Sheesh! How can you go caching without it! It's really a great tool. Worth the price. Get it.
    I thought I only needed a GPS and coordinates. Hey, there's lots to learn and events to learn them at!

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    Quote Originally Posted by FuddsGirls
    I thought I only needed a GPS and coordinates. Hey, there's lots to learn and events to learn them at!
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    Quote Originally Posted by FuddsGirls
    I thought I only needed a GPS and coordinates. Hey, there's lots to learn and events to learn them at!
    We're talking about the GSAK cache management software, which alows us to export sets of waypoints to our GPSr, a PDA (if you're a "paperless" cacher) where most of us use Cachemate instead of paper, or to your laptop computers.

    Then there are the mapping programs - Delorme's Street Atlas and Topo USA are popular, but Hiram is using Microsoft's Streets & Trips and National Geographic's Topo mapping software.

    I use Garmin's City Select mapping software on my GPSr - great for routing you right to a cache!

    Now are you THOROUGHLY overwhelmed? LOL!

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