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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)

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!!!

If you get the geomate jr... you need this as well.

The geomate comes with something like 250,000 preloaded caches, however cache's are a very dynamic thing.... many come, some go away the updates are important. Even with the best updates you will occasionally go to a place where there "should" be a cache it is gone, current data is important.

The Other up-side is that with the updates, you can get specific regions, as well as additional cache's that are not included with the pre-installed database.

The downside, for what it is, this cable is expensive.... I wish the geomate simply had a standard usb interface, and did not require a special cable, but even with that, I would put this as a necessary part of the unit and well worth getting. -- Necessary accessory