Geocaching software, free

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Not much I beleive but I have not hadmy first bill!

Onlything I have noticed if caching where phone range is weak it seems to crash the phone at some point.

Not good if using the GPS to find things!!!

AM I the only one who has foundthis fault?

Is it exaduraeted by me using Viewrange simlatainiously?

Other coments apprechiated.

Gerrit

gerrit wrote:Not much I beleive but I have not hadmy first bill!

Onlything I have noticed if caching where phone range is weak it seems to crash the phone at some point.

Not good if using the GPS to find things!!!

AM I the only one who has foundthis fault?

No, you're not 😞 Like so many of these things, cleverness seems somewhat proportional to flakiness, and I've found this app crashes a lot.

Works fine on my N95 8GB. Searching, navigation, radar, compass etc.

I use this app on my n95-1 and it works well. I've not had any crashes and I've found geocaches with it.

Yeah - never crashed on my N95-1 (Running v20 and now v21), data use is pretty minimal.

I've just downloaded this to my pc.
It's come as a jad and a jar file.

Can you tell me what i do with these to install to Nokia N95 V1 latest firmware installed

Cheers

Nokia PC Suite and its Application Installer.

Or copy the .jar to the phone over USB in mass storage mode and install that way.

Or send it to the phone using Bluetooth.

Or use the phone web browser to download it directly.

okay, will have a go.
I tried to download it from the link via the phone, but it told me phone wasn't supported.

So what is the jad for then?
Only asking to increase my knowledge

Thanks V Much

If you want knowledge, try opening the jad in Notepad 😊

It can contain lots of info on certificates, original place of download aso.

Nice proggy, btw. Been using it for a long time and my son loves it. If you haven't been geocaching with the kids yet, you are really missing out on something good 😊

well...i installed the jar and the program looks great, hoping to use it at the weekend. I must admit that it looks like a really professional program for nothing !

And it did find loads of caches nearby, which is great because i live in a rural area and wasn't expecting much.

Will report back how i get on later

ps..cheers for the info about ther jad file

Well.....went out last night and found two out of four caches, using just this software on my phone. Not sure it's good enough if you want to take it up on a serious hobby, but as a cheap introduction to the idea, it's not bad at all. Definately worth a look

sbc wrote:If you want knowledge, try opening the jad in Notepad 😊

It can contain lots of info on certificates, original place of download aso.

Nice proggy, btw. Been using it for a long time and my son loves it. If you haven't been geocaching with the kids yet, you are really missing out on something good 😊

So given optimal conditions, how close do you reckon you can get to co-ords
and then on poor covered conditions, how far away are you?

cheers

When you are moving in a straight line towards your goal, the presicion at the end is usually a few meters/yards. But if you are unable to find the cache and try the program again, the position it originally told you was the exact spot can now be 8-10 meters/yards away. A bit confusing, but I guess it's the result of the cheap GPS receivers used in our phones.

will i need internet on my phone for this...like will it use my phone service?

Yes, i think it uses your data, but not massive amounts

It uses data to retrieve information about the cache as in coordinates, cache information (name, landmarks, other information) and maps. It doesn't use that much data.

It is pretty accurate.

Yes. It connects to a server to find the caches near you.

It only uses data if you want it to, I think?

If you want, you can look up the geocaches on geocaching.com and print out the info, or write it down, then type the coordinates in to geocache navigator.

Oh, that's a horrible way to use it. Why would you wanna do that, to save $0.000001?

I don't do that, but it's not all that bad. In fact, the conversion of the cache web page to the textual version that geocache navigator actually makes some caches impossible to do (e.g. picture caches, and I've had some badly converted ones that cut chunks of the text out including important co-ordinate calculations!). I usually use Opera Mini for dealing with that.

If you're in the UK and some other countries, data is pretty expensive for some people with not-so-favourable tariffs - why do you think people keep complaining about unexpected data usage on these forums? It's because they're getting unexpected bills to match!

Also, geocaching has been around long before geocache navigator. Only 1 or 2 of the handheld dedicated GPS units can directly connect to geocaching.com but still people seem to manage 😊

edit: I don't know about you, but about 50% of the caches that I've found have been multicaches, which involves making calculations and manually entering the co-ordinates anyway. Repeatedly flipping between the Notes application and Geocache Navigator to record the variables for the calculation, then again back and forth to make the calculation, then copying the co-ordinate in to the boxes. It would be nice if GN had some functionality to make this stuff easier - I've been tempted to take a small notebook with me to make this sort of thing more efficient, but I strive to keep paperless.

The program in question only moves text, so you'd have to have a rather cr@ppy data plan for the cost to be of major interest.

You are absolutely right, multiple caches are not where this app excels. I've been having the exact same thoughts about paper usage aso. But because I mainly use this with my son and single caches are his favorites, it doesn't matter that much to me 😊

It can also show background images on the maps if you wish, although the satellite and terrain imagery weren't available here in the UK when I last checked.