One of my friends likes to call his GPS his "Geek Positioning System" and I've been wanting a GPS for a number of years now, luckily "waiting" for the newest models and SA to be turned off.

I had my first experience with Garmin customer service and I have to say that I am impressed! I used their website to e-mail for support after the rubber bumper on my Legend had ripped and they sent me an RMA number and their address suggesting a 2 week turn around. So I sent my unit in (waving a sad goodbye, but luckily a friend let me borrow his spare Magellan 315 for the duration, so no GPS withdrawal symptoms...) and waited for almost exactly 2 weeks (which included the time it shipped to Garmin by priority USPS service). My Legend returned home and not only was the rubber repaired and shipped back to me FedEx overnight, but they updated my firmware to the latest version. I'm one happy Garmin customer!

I've used my eTrex Legend for several interesting adventures including 74 Geocaches (and hidden aobut 20 of them!) and a number of Geodash site visits. See links below to both geocaching and geodash sites, including our geodash adventure stories.

GPS Links:

General information

GPS information (Joe Mehaffey's page)

The Global Positioning System

GPS Nuts

Gamin International

Yahoo! Groups

eTrex Legend

The Map 330 Club

Magellan Meridian

Geodashing

GPS Waypoints

GPS stash hunt

GPS Listservers

Arizona Geocaching

GPS diversions

Geocaching

Our GeoCashing experiences

Letterboxing North America

Letterboxing North America< (new site)/A>

Joe Mehaffey's Geocache page

Geodashing

Degree Confluence

GPS Waypoint Registry

OpenSourceGPS

National Geodetic Survey Marker search webpage

National Geodetic Survey webpage

GPS software

Garmin Update's & Downloads

GPS TrackMaker

G7ToWin

OziExplorer

Peter Bennett's GPS and NMEA Site

Topographic software

RoboGEO software - puts GPS location and elevation data into the EXIF headers of digital photos

Maps

Maptech MapServer

LostOutdoors mapping page

Sam Wormley's Maps & Mapping Agencies

Topozone interactive topomaps

GPS Maps for Recreation and Travel (link not active last time I checked, unfortunately)

Navigation, Misc.

SUUNTO Using a Compass

Coordinate and Datum Transformation

JeEep.com - Coordinate Translation

Navigation Calculators

Batteries

Green Batteries - great info on NiMH and NiCd batteries

Thomas-distributing NiMH batteries

Steves Digicams batteries

Reviews

Review of NiMH batteries

MAHA c401 review

Imaging-resource MAHA C401 review

FAQs

Thomas-distributing NiMH FAQ

batteries

Forest Fires/Forest resources

Southwest Area Wildland Fire Operations Website

Arizona White Mountains Tourism Guide (Updates on Rodeo-Chediski fire)

GEOMAC wildland fire map tool

Last update 2004 July 2