June 18, 2009
I’m headed out for the Trek Across Maine in a few hours, and I just wanted to make a quick blog entry to show everyone the route and let you know that I bought a new gadget to go along with my Earthmate PN-40 GPS… I’ll be SPOT Casting my way from Sunday River in Bethel to Steamboat Landing in Belfast! The ride is a 3-day, 180 mile trek to raise money for the Maine Lung Association to help them with their fight against lung disease. This is our fifth year riding as a team. We’ve been making the Trek maps for much longer than that and are proud to be Gold Level sponsors of the event. We’ll be giving away two PN-40s with bike mounts along with all the data for the ride so that two people can join Team DeLorme in knowing exactly how far it is to the next rest stop! Learn more about the Trek and Team DeLorme.
I’ve created a few posts in the past with information about how our Earthmate PN-Series devices provide turn-by-turn directions, making them great navigation aids on long bike rides. I’ve also shared posts about the athletic data options in our Topo USA product. Here’s a screenshot from our Sunday River Training Ride that took place two weeks ago. You’ll see in the graph that my heart rate hit 196 while I was trying to stay ahead of one of the other riders… I’m submitting the profile to the Tour because I think this climb would be Beyond Category! It sure felt like it anyway…
So keep your eye out for Team DeLorme if you live between Bethel and Belfast… if you’re further away than that you can see our trek play out on our SPOT Adventures page where I’ll be SPOT Casting my location throughout the weekend. There will be an update every 10 minutes… pretty cool stuff.
Chip Noble
Team DeLorme
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June 3, 2009
This weekend, June 5-7, Team DeLorme is teaming up with Outside magazine to bring geocaching to the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO.
Thousands of people will descend on Vail for three days of sports, music, art, and fun. DeLorme will be in Gear Town all weekend demonstrating and selling the Earthmate PN-40 to all comers. On Saturday, June 6, we’ll be running a geocaching event where you can win great prizes from DeLorme and Outside, including one of three Earthmate PN-40 GPS devices!
DeLorme and Outside are hosting the geocaching event from 10am until 4pm. We will have PN-40s to lend out that are preloaded with the special Teva Mountain Games caches that we’ll be placing in various spots around the games’ many different venues.
Come on out to Vail for a fun weekend of mountain sports and music, go geocaching, win prizes, and try out the Earthmate PN-40! See you there!
-Brian
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May 31, 2009
I created a short video of the Cache Register widget for those that couldn’t make it to Bell Buckle, Tennessee to see the demo at GeoWoodstock VII. Check it out here or by clicking on the screen shot below…
A few answers to good questions that have come up since I created the video…
-The widget is cross platform, it will work on your Mac as well as your PC!
-Cache Register will work with all of our PN-Series devices.
-The widget will cost $9.95 and will be downloadable from our website.
-You will need a premium membership if you want to make Pocket Queries on Geocaching.com’s site.
The ability to load 500 geocaches at a time is well worth it and you get all the hints!
-You will be able to load GPX files with your custom filters from GSAK.
-Cache Register is scheduled to release on our website this week! Edit: Released!
Edited to add: -Cache Register will also transfer the Additional Waypoints for geocaches with the associated cache name as a prefix to help you keep track of waypoint and geocaches!
Let us know if you have any questions about the new Geocaching widget. We’re very excited to hear what everyone has to say once they’ve had a chance to try it out!
Thanks,
Chip Noble
Team DeLorme
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May 21, 2009
We’ll have a booth at GeoWoodstock VII in Bell Buckle, TN if any of you are in the area and planning to attend. Stop by and visit to take a PN-40 out for a test run, see a demo of the Cache Register widget, or just share your thoughts on GPS and mapping technology.
I will be doing a 30 minute educational session on DeLorme’s Geocaching Initiative covering the PN-Series Geocaching Firmware Update, the Send to GPS Plug-In, the Cache Register Widget, and Topo USA. Stop by if you’d like to hear the latest on our efforts to make the PN a top paperless geocaching device.
Ask about the new Eartha geocoin while you’re there, a 2D version of the very popular Eartha 3D coin, and you can take one home!
We’ll also be trading geocoins if anyone is interested in our new Team DeLorme “Serious Tools” coin… We’ll be bringing traded coins back to display them in the DeLorme Map Store so bring your team coins to exchange!
Now I have to go pack, I’ve got an early flight! Look for Team DeLorme at the Friday Night Meet & Greet, GeoWoodstock VII, and the Midnight Geocoin Madness Event. We hope to see you there!
Chip Noble
Team DeLorme
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