AKA Riptide Furse

One of the best applications I have on my iPhone is the official Geocaching App
from Groundspeak. The way it integrates the controls found on most handheld GPS units along using the huge database and tools of the main Geocaching web site is tops of any other iPhone app I have seen.

If you have been geocaching before and have an iPhone, you’ll want to check this app out. Even though it costs $9.99 it is well worth it. If you have never been geocaching but have an iPhone this app makes it easy to get started and helps you join the community of people that get out and go.

This should serve you as an introduction to the app for the iPhone to show you just what all you can see and do with this on your geocaching adventures.

You can see above that this is one of the menu screens from my iPhone. The Geocaching app uses the Groundspeak logo and can be found in the 2nd row.

Touching the icon brings up the front page reminding us that Geocaching can be dangerous.

For beginners to Geochacing remember this “With over 810,076 geocaches hidden worldwide, there is likely one nearby waiting to be found.” This is how easy it gets. Your next screen assumes the obvious, you want to go geocaching. So let’s find some that are near you. the My Current Location will use the iPhone GPS to find where your location is in relation to it’s vast database of hidden caches.

You can also search by a cache code you have been given or looked up on the web site or search by address. Looking up by address can be helpful if you want to scope out a place you will be going in the future, say on your next vacation.

However you search, the next screen will list the caches in that area with the closest first. Tap on the one you want look for or find out more information.

Continued Geocaching with in iPhone – Part 2

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