…continued from Geocaching with an iPhone - Part 2
On the previous menu we saw Navigate to Cache. Touching that menu item takes us to a map screen.
It will show you as a blue ball and the cache as marker with the cache ID above it. The buttons at the top determine what you are looking at – you and the cache, just you, or just the cache.
The View Compass button at the top allows you to see a compass with a direction pointer as to which way to walk toward the cache.
I find that switching between Map view and Compass view is helpful because it refreshes your location in relation to the cache. I tend to forget to use the longitude and latitude at the bottom although once you figure out which way to travel so the numbers get closer to matching it does make finding a cache easier.
Backing up to Cache Info menu again, touching the Description menu item shows something like this.
Again keep in mind that the description may be practically nothing, i.e. it’s under some leaves to something shown above listing the different stages and problems to solve.
Recent Logs will look like this picture below.
Remember that warning about spoilers. Part of the fun for people is working to find the cache. People sometimes put too much information in their logs. But for a counterpoint if you are having trouble locating a cache reading through the logs may indicate that the cache is now missing in action or moved.
We’ll look at the rest of the Cache Info menus in the next post.
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