Navigating in cave country

[planetoceandiver]

I'm setting up a new GPS for getting around cave country but having trouble finding some addresses.

Anyone have a street address for either Peacock or Little River State Parks? Any nearby business address would work.

My Garmin never heard of Luraville.

Help!

[SuPrBuGmAn]

You can get GPS coordinates off of Walter's site, www.tampadiving.com . Not sure about addresses... most caves don't have addresses.

[chilldive]

My experience with trying to use a Garmin GPS with coordinates was too good. The routing the Garmin uses needs addresses to properly pick the correct roads. With GPS coordinates it doesn't understand how to get you there and you can wind up in some strange places.

Just for fun one day, we followed it's directions to Peacock. We wound up on some very small roads. It was trying to bring us in the back way. If we hadn't already had an idea of where we were at, I don't know that we ever would have found it.

I'm pretty sure I was hearing banjos playing at one point.

[Me]

My Garmin never heard of Luraville.

Help!

Really? Mine does. Have you been getting the updates? Mine is a Garmin too.

But to be perfectly honest, I only use it in cave country in case I get lost for the same reason Chris mentioned....it takes some weird routes. I have the Delorme Florida book and find it works the best as it has all the springs noted that are located near a road.

[mag3]

Just for fun one day, we followed it's directions to Peacock. We wound up on some very small roads. It was trying to bring us in the back way. If we hadn't already had an idea of where we were at, I don't know that we ever would have found it.

Same thing with my Magellan Roadmate. I was doing Lake City to Peacock, and ended up on some unpaved roads in the middle of someone's farmland. There were street signs, but still.....

In general, I've found that if the streets are unpaved, it's very likely that they'll not be recognized by my GPS. Quite a few around Ginnie are like that (ie. the "back" way from Ginnie to FL-47 etc.).

[icestac]

Are you going to be cave diving anytime soon?

As far as an address for Peacock, you could always use Cathy's and drive the last mile or two on your own: Dive Outpost, 20148 180th Street, Live Oak, Florida 32060

Cheers,
Jeff

[Sludge]

We had fun Saturday with my TomTom. First, from Madison Blue to Luraville it took me on several dirt roads, then one that could only be described as a muddy path. I chose not to take the path, so it recalculated, and then decided I only liked main roads, so it got me to US-90 and took me to Live Oak, then to Luraville.

From one of Bill's trailers it took me to Branford the best way, but from Little River to Luraville it wanted to take me through Branford again. I instead took a left on 129, and it recalculated and gave me a good route.

I decided from then on the Google Maps on my Droid is a better navigator.

[Walter Pickel]

I decided from then on the Google Maps on my Droid is a better navigator.

My GPS -- Garmin 60CSx was been replaced by my G1 with Google Maps, Google Tracks and a few more Android tools...

[SuPrBuGmAn]

My Garmin doesn't have streets at all Just waypoints, destinations, a compass, etc.

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My experience with trying to use a Garmin GPS with coordinates was too good. The routing the Garmin uses needs addresses to properly pick the correct roads. With GPS coordinates it doesn't understand how to get you there and you can wind up in some strange places.

Just for fun one day, we followed it's directions to Peacock. We wound up on some very small roads. It was trying to bring us in the back way. If we hadn't already had an idea of where we were at, I don't know that we ever would have found it.

I'm pretty sure I was hearing banjos playing at one point.

me too! Winding around sandy ruts in the woods, no clue where I was, but tomtom assuring me to "turn right ahead" and after twice the time it should have taken, I came to a t-intersection. on the corner was a big mailbox that said, "Peacock Springs." There was a big house back in the trees. I guess that's where they get the mail!

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