Continued from Geocaching with an iPhone – Part 1
From your result list when you tap on one of the caches you will be shown a page with information about the cache.
So here we see the name of the cache and who placed it along with the unique geocache identification number, latitude, longitude and approximately how far away it is from the place you searched. Pay attention to Difficulty and Terrain as it can help you avoid getting frustrated and giving up. Some caches can include long, hard hikes and hard clues that involve multiple layer puzzles to figure out.
The next few lines are links to other information about the cache. Navigate to Cache will take you right to a map showing were you are and where the cache is.
Save for Offline Use allows you save the info to your iPhone so you see it if you don’t have a connection or want to save battery by turning off your network connection.
Description will give you more information about the cache that may also include clues to help you find it.
Recent Logs will show you notes from other geocachers that have either found or not found the cache.
Further down on the page we find more menu items.
Hint shows you any hints available. This may be grayed out if no hints are available or the hints may give too much away and spoil the fun.
Inventory can show any special objects that the cache may include such as travel bugs or geocoins.
Post a Field Note allows you to post a note about your adventure such as whether you found the cache or not.
Find Nearby Caches will show you other caches that may be close to the one you are looking at right now.
View on Geocaching.com will show you the cache information in the web browser on the Geocaching site.
View on External Map will allow you to view the the cache location to your location on Google Maps or Live Search Maps or Yahoo Maps.
We’ll take a look under the hood of each one of these in the next post…
Geocaching with an iPhone - Part 3
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May 29th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I recently bought a Garmin 20X for my tablet PC, but I can’t get it to auto-load the coordinates from the geocaching.com website. What a great feature to have available.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Yeah, Unklar the process being streamlined like this makes it very easy. I’ve lost some people showing them the multi-steps to download a cache to the GPS device. The iPhone app totally eliminates that.