Geocaching with an iphone – take 2
Just discovered this via Tor Arne’s blog: Geode – looks perfect, not releasede yet. Maybe I do have to upgrade to a 3G iphone afterall…
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Geocaching with an iphone
This last week of paternety leave I’ve been picking up on my geocaching again. As I’ve got an iphone now I looked into how I could go paperless with it. Turns out that there are no real dedicated iphone geocaching applications out there yet – but with DataCase I can simply have GSAK export to HTML and load that onto the iphone – works great. It just replaces the paper – so logging needs to be done using the browser either on the phone or when you get home.
The picture is of Sondre while we were logging GCQ6ET Kebony by Maridalsvannet today 
First version of Cache Companion
Well, there’s been few posts the last week, I’ve been brushing up on my midp java development skills. More specifically I’ve written a small “paperless geocaching” application to parse GPX files directly on my mobile phone rather than having to go through several stages using GSAK and similar. A lot of XML parsing for a small device to handle, so the initial loading of the datafile is rather slow. After the geocaches have been stored in the midp recordset browsing and searching is done quite fast.
More details to be found on the new Cache Companion pages. Feedback is much appreciated.
