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Garmin has updated their MapSource program. You can download it at the following addresses:
Primary: http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=209
Alternate: http://www.garmin.com/software/MapSource_6113.exe

Changes made from version 6.11.2 to 6.11.3:

* Fixed an issue when receiving GPX files that contain waypoints with
phone numbers from Garmin mass storage devices, such as the Nuvi.
* Fixed an issue with some devices not turning off after transfers.
* Fixed an issue with route driving directions having the wrong
direction in the street/highway name.
* Improved support for Garmin Mobile XT devices.
* Improved handling of problems in the map product installation
registry.

Changes made from version 6.11.1 to 6.11.2:
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From Richmond, VA…

Some of the tried and true methods of spreading the gospel haven’t always been the most enjoyable.

“I began leaving tracts and gospel CDs and sermons on CD in geocaches I would visit,” said Berend, who now heads the geocaching ministry at McLean Bible Church, in Vienna, Va. “It just seemed like a Christian-themed cache would be a neat idea.”

For folks already in the church, it offers a fun respite from typical Sunday morning activity, promoting Christian fellowship outside the confines of stuffy sanctuaries and hard pews.

But it’s also an ideal way to draw in teens and 20-somethings, who Baldwin said have often formed negative opinions of traditional evangelism.

Below are a few articles on geocaching, listing various cachers in the hobby.

Geocaching: Playing pirate in the present from byu.net

Caching in on the fun from Hillborough, NJ

N37 W79 Marks the Spot out of Lynchburg, VA

Local residents ‘cache’ in on GPS adventure game out of Bartlesville, OK

Small find delights geocaching family out of Pennsylvania

A nice brief article and 2.5 minute video clip from Utah news station KSL-TV doing a report on Geocaching.

Full story and video…

In the “there must be no real news” department comes a series of articles in a local Wisconsin newspaper about accusing geocachers of trampling flowers in a “park” that is 19 feet by 30 feet.

Technology, outdoors meet in scavenger hunt called geocaching

Appleton park gets redo after geocacher trashing

Enthusiasts leap to defense of geocaching, high-tech sport blamed in park damage

Geocachers dispute accusations involving trashed city park

Maybe next week there will be a series of articles in that paper on replacing the stop sign in town with a light.