michaelnel

Yes it does, and it's transparent and overlaid on the map at the top of the screen while you are navigating to a cache. Very nice! There is also a separate page that displays the compass, coordinates, distance to go, etc.

BTW, I just checked using the latest c:geo opensource version and the live maps work better than they ever have.

Actually it has been opensourced, and there is a new team working on C:Geo. I vote for NeonGeo though.

Dunno, I have never used GeoHunter. Dunno, I have only used it for one cache so far as I was walking home from a job interview, so... time will tell.

It seems to me to be as good quality-wise. NeonGeo is definitely faster with showing stuff on the live map though. You drag the map around with your finger and the caches show up immediately, along with a list at the bottom of the 4 or 5 caches that are nearest to the center, then you can tap on one and it gets to be about 3 times the height it was with more details, tap it again and you get a really nicely formatted description page. You'd have to use it to appreciate it. As with all market apps, you can install it and play with it for 15 minutes, and if you don't want to keep it, you can get a refund. And the developer is highly principled. I bought it, and ran into a bug involving the use of a bluetooth gps, a bug for which there is a totally adequate workaround that makes it work with my bluetooth GPS. However, during the night the developer refunded my money and apologized for any inconvenience, and further said that if I buy it again he will refund it again. Imagine that from the big boys.

Amazing!

I'm not surprised because if other evidence of poor decision making on gs's part.

I don't need avatars on the logs, and would much prefer the dates to come back, or at least make it configurable by the user.

I just started using a new geocaching app for Android called "NeonGeo" http://www.neongeo.com/. It's less than 1/2 the price of the Groundspeak geocaching app and is already five times the program. The developer is really fast to jump on problems and fix them. Unlike C:Geo, it uses the Groundspeak API to interact with the site in a TOS-compliant manner. If you geocache with an Android phone, I would highly recommend checking out NeonGeo!

The compass is still broken as it has been since 2.04.

Groundspeak has to be the only business in the world who repeatedly schedules server updates in the middle of the day on a weekday. What's up with that?

At least Garmin's *hardware* used to be pretty good. Times are a-changin' though.

The app's internal compass widget is very flaky after installing the 2.04 update. Sometimes it will be stable, giving good data and then flip out and start saying the accuracy is .46 miles and I have 2 miles to go, when in reality I am 50 feet away from destination and the GPS is reporting 7 foot accuracy. When it flips out I can switch to either Radar or the compass in Locus and get the correct reasonable, stable numbers. I am sure the app's internal compass is now seriously broken.

I'm not surprised.

After about a year of fixing bugs, they may actually BE awesome too.

Splashy, if you think I care what you think about my experience with Garmin, you are sadly mistaken. I will bring it up whenever I want to. Thanks so much for your concern.

I've been running Linux on my personal machines since the early 90s, when it came on images you burned to floppies. IIRC, the first kernel I used was 0.98, and there wasn't even a distribution yet, just a kernel and some GNU utilities. I have earned my living working as a Linux system administrator (although I am currently unemployed). Linux has sure come a long way since then. The internet pretty much runs on Linux now.

I'd rather use C:GEO and the GC app any day than the way buggy Garmin Montana I used to have.

I think the absolute *type* of antenna (ie: patch or quad helix) matters less than how a manufacturer implemented it in a particular unit with software, firmware, case design, antenna placement, etc..

Ooops, wrong thread.

The major difference is that Garmin has stopped adding new bugs to Mapsource, but they are actively screwing up BaseCamp.

If the necessary people in Congress receive the necessary graft and corruption payments, anything can be made to happen there.

Near as I can tell, nobody at Garmin has ever ventured outside their cubicles.

It's the normal Garmin Cha-Cha. New release! Fixes everything! Upgrade! Ooops. Doesn't fix the important stuff, creates more new bugs. Downgrade.

The geocaching.com app for android seems to work pretty well, if a bit slow and lacking in features. But it DOES work, and works better than several of my handheld GPSRs including the "state of the art" (HAH!) Garmin Montana 600 for finding geocaches.