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I use Garmin's POI loader and GSAK to load thousands of geocaching POI's (points of interest) into the Garmin GPSmap 60CSx.  It is a neat trick that lets you use customer geocaching icons and have cache page details available on your GPSr.  I have been doing this for years...Until a few days ago! 

invalid string position

This is the error message I received when the POI loader was transferring the data to the GPSr.  Nothing I did solved the problem.  Garmin technical support's suggestion was to just quit using the POI feature.  Since this was unacceptable, I finally used Google to search and develop a theory on how to fix the problem. 

It seems that the newest version of Garmin's POI loader doesn't handle invalid string data well.  I finally installed an older version of the POI loader and the problem was solved. 

Here is a link to a more detailed experience with Garmin's technical support and the solution to the problem:

http://carolinacacher.blogspot.com/2010/07/garmin-technical-support-as-good-as.html

There was a picture of 'ol Ozguff retrieving some of his. I think he said he had around 40 in Bent Creek alone.

There's probably 150 caches at Bent Creek. That would take some time to clean up!

I've recently been made aware of these documents.

USFS Limits on Geocaching and Metal Detecting

Geocaching on National Forests in NC

Ken

I stumbled across another geocaching app... c:geo. Check it out...