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Being able to simply go outside and switch on your Geomate.jr anywhere in the U.S. and embark on another geocaching adventure is totally awesome. And the 250,000 geocaches that are pre-loaded on any Geomate.jr are sure to keep anyone busy for quite some time. But new geocaches are being added every day! With a Geomate.jr Update Kit, you too can have your Geomate.jr updated with the latest and greatest geocaches. Not only can you load the latest geocaches added in the U.S., but you can also load complete goecache lists for other regions of the world like Europe, Australasia, or even Canada! One-click updates of your Geomate.jr to get the latest geocache locations. Access every traditional geocache location up to a difficulty 4 in the U.S. (Premium member caches excluded). Load complete lists of geocache locations for other regions of the world. Set your own user preferences for your Geomate.jr or even give it a nickname.The best bit of all, is that once you have an Update Kit, there are no subscription charges, no service fees and no update frequency limits! You can even share your Update Kit with friends to make sure they too have the latest geocaches.Included with your Update Kit is a Geomate.jr USB cable (which is your key to unlimited geocache updates for your Geomate.jr) and a Geomate.jr Update Kit Quick Start Guide. Using the Update Kit is as easy as using the Geomate.jr itself. Simply go to www.mygeomate.com and select “Updates”. After an initial setup process, you can update your Geomate.jr with one click of the “Update” button.At this time only PC is supported, but a Mac version is in the works. You will also need a USB port on your computer.

User Reviews about Apisphere 20-050-31 Geomate.jr Geocaching GPS Update Kit (Green Black)

I agree that this is a necessary accessory for the Geomate Jr. The Geomate Jr. works fine without it, but it can be kind of annoying if you know there is a cache nearby, but you can't find it because it's not included on the original product.

The best thing about this update kit is that you can update as often as you want with no limits. One thing that should be noted is that you cannot load "all" of the caches in the U.S. onto the geomate jr at once. You have to select a region (roughly 1/2 of the U.S.) and it will load all "traditional" caches up to a difficulty level of 4. Considering that this gps is designed for kids, that should be more than enough!

I am also thankful to the previous reviewer who noted that Norton had to be turned off to install the update. That happened to be the case for me, too, and I knew what to do because I had read the review.

I bought the Geomate Jr. first and then ordered the update kit a few days later. If you're considering the Geomate Jr., you might as well buy both at once, because once you try it you will want it. :) -- Don't geocache without it...

This is an update to my first review, below...Apisphere responded to my email concern, same day, and on a Saturday at that. Using the update kit required us to turn off Norton Utilities to run the update. It worked and we were off and running. It's been muddy in our area so we have simply stopped by a place that we know there are caches and tested out our new Geomate Jr. Worked like a charm. Gave us cache size, terrain, distance, and pointed us in the right direction. We can't wait to put it to field use.
Original post: We received our Geomate Jr and update kit from Amazon quickly. No problem there. The Geomate Jr looks like it would be perfect for us to use with our children for geocaching, however, not being able to update with the current geocache inventory could be disappointing. We "successfully" uploaded the software on three of our PCs, two with Windows 7 and one with Vista. When connecting the Geomate Jr to the the computer with the update cable, Windows STOPS WORKING. So essentially this purchase does not work for us. We are waiting for a response from Apisphere's Help Desk. Depending on the response, I will either update my post or return the products. This could have been avoided had the versions of Windows been disclosed...they tell you up front that it doesn't work with Apple. -- GEOMATE JR UPDATE KIT - SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY

Awesome product..A MUST have for a Geomate Jr.
I beleive this cable should come with the unit. You can't update your unit without it. -- Should sell with unit.

Worked just as promised! I was able to update all my grandchildren's geocache jr.'s -- Great tool

Not much to say other than it works great. Gives some options on which caches to load which is very nice. The database is updated daily so one can update daily. More caches loaded than one person can do in an outing.

-- Works Great!!!