bswanderer

as far as pocket quaries go, with ctrl they are not necessary with its live search. for apps that use pq's., u can use dropbox or bcaching with geobeagle and geeohunter.

I prefer geohunter. Geobeagle is good also. The best app, however, is one whose name cannot be mentioned here

1. yes there is a manual. check the market. 2. never had any of those problems you have referred to. I would check your gps settings and get an app to callibrate your compass. 3. dispute this post above. "the-app-that-shall-not-be-named" is still the best one out there

i'd uninstall the app and use geohunter or geobeagle instead

your phone will need to do some multitasking. To do the navigating, run the google navigation app. Once that is started use whatever geocaching app that you like on map mode to find caches as you drive along. GC.com can give you caches along a route as a gpx file that you load into your app (i'd go with geobeagle or geohunter myself). happy hunting

there are quite a few applications that will help you. geohunter and geobeagle will both let you use pocket queries or gpx files from gsak. cachemate is also a god one, but paid (worth it in my oppinion)

Started with a Garmin nuvi than droid1 and now Droid X. All three are pretty accurate (remember, the biggest issue you'll find is the accuracy of the person hiding the cach). On the Garmin you will need to either download caches from BC.com or use gsak (great program) With the droids, there are many great programs with a multitude of great features to help.

Started with a Garmin nuvi than droid1 and now Droid X. All three are pretty accurate (remember, the biggest issue you'll find is the accuracy of the person hiding the cach). On the Garmin you will need to either download caches from BC.com or use gsak (great program) With the droids, there are many great programs with a multitude of great features to help.

You should be able to save the gpx or zip. To the phone, direct cachemate to open the gpx file with the gpx import plugin. Or what I do is use the phone to go to the GC.com page, download the pq file directly and on my droid the pop-up for which program to use includes cachemate. Select it and your done. Good luck

I have an X and motodroid1. I use geohunter as my primary caching program when I am using pocket quaries and bcaching. But my preferred program is cgeo

1. Yes, droids, iphones and others let you preload caches with free applications using pocket quarries or an online service called bcaching (you load your pq to there. 2. Many apps are free 3. With a program called gasket, you can copy pq's and convert them for many car GPS units also. My favorite is a Droid with either geobeagle, geohunter, or gsac

those are EVIL.

I like exploring and hiking, so this is a perfect combination. I also enjoy person history...so I relish in all the cemetary (especially when a history is given about an individual(s) the location) and caches at historic (especially obscurely historic). AND...i've become rather fat and lazy over the last few years...so this has given me a good reason to get up and get moving.

i've had 2 times where someone has watched me from a distance and approached me...both times i've explained geocaching, one time the person's child help me hunt for the cache. Never had cops show up. Also, I have never looked for a cache that I had to enter private property...even if the cache description claims it is either their property or they have permission. I have looked for caches on peoples fence posts, or where property ends (i.e. next to road/trail) I would hope that no one gets offended if someone does call authorities if they are looking for a cache on private property...after-all, wouldn't we all prefer our neighbors are watching out for people snooping around on our own property? lastly...hopefully people who DO place caches on their property have enough sense to let the neighbors know what they've done and let them know not to panic if people are looking around a certain tree/birdhouse/fencepost/whatever.

moderator, moderator....wheres the moderator????? (p.s. me too) or geohunter. I was one of many that was very much looking forward to the "official" gc.com app for droid. And one of many that have been disappointed. Perhaps after some tweaking and a few updates it will be worth the price...but as it is, its not even the value of Cachemate (which, btw, I like ALOT even if it is the slowest at processing large queries.

I'm in the canton area and have same problem, family not into caching (although occasionally my young nephew will join me). If you get desperate drop me a line. I do at least some caching on most weekends. Both drive by's and trails.

That is why you should be using a DROID Good navigation for car, great tool for geocaching. Some programs will even let you route yourself to the next cache by using the car navigation program (for those caches that are just down the road and around the corner).

before the argument goes too far...has anyone heard any comment from GS, are they loosing money from less people buying the premium membership and if trackable, is it from more people using smartphones? IF this is a problem, than i'd be interested in GS limiting access to searches/downloads BUT conversely I'd also ask that they open things up more for those that ARE paying (as in premium users being able to use the droid app that shall go nameless). OR EVEN if there is a concern of bandwidth and need to upgrade servers even more for apps that strip info from the site, than add another tier of membership for smartphones that have this problem.

I use my Motorola Droid phone for geocaching. I own a garmin nuvi 255, but it is much easier with the apps available on the droid.

I have really started to get into the caches that were hidden at historical locations, and while on a 3 mile hike to another cache, I thought wouldn't it be helpful if we could filter the caches by catagories. suggestions would be 1) near road 2) must walk/hike 3) historic location 4) scenic vista

See post 258 on this very page. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...t&p=4296202 258 post refers to the original question. Was there another post you meant to reference? the link takes you back to the question with no answer. So what is the beef with the un-named prg. I like it far better than geobeagle and cachemate. Is it because non-premium members can access it without pocket queries? I still pay the membership here to support the work Groundspeak does. But i'd really like to know what the problem is.

what software are you using for your droid? geobeagle, cachemate, and [reference to unauthorized application removed by moderator] all have ways to upload field notes from droid back to geocaching.com.

I just got a Droid and am playing around with geobeagle and cachemate. I'm using an additional program to cut down on the sensitivity of the compass and gps. Did my first caching with the droid last weekend. the cachemate compass brought me directly to 2 of the 3 caches, and off by about 2 yards on the third. Geobeagle was very close on all three. The interface of both take a little bit to get used to, I plan on checking them out more this or next weekend depending on the weather. [reference to unauthorized application removed by moderator.] Geobeagle and [removed] are free, cachemate is $8.00

I read this as make it free and let them not make a profit. I could be wrong but developing and providing updates takes effort and resources which must be paid for somehow. Generally speaking, I think some geocachers are beginning to have the air of entitlement about them. not at all. It sounds like a bought on Monday, update on Tuesday only to find out a new update is available Thursday. Since I had this with my Garmin Nuvi also, and know of others with same story...sounds more like Garmin had a core update that spawned the ability for a second update. The core update was the freebie knowing full well it would spawn the second update that the customer would have to pay for...sounds more like a setup to me. but doesn't matter, since units like Garmin will probably be dropping their prices as more people use Droids and similar coming out this spring that have not only FREE GPS and navigation, but constant free updates to go with them.

installed. at first glance it does look perfect: ability to quickly go from map view of area caches to tracking a single one with one selection (i'm lazy, what can I say). I will give it a full try. thanks. and wow...no more need for pocket quarries. Do you know if its usage is limited if not a paid member of geocaching? (I currently am, but just wondered.) also..it is showing caches that i have found and giving me the option to log them. does [removed] not able to look at that info in geocaching.com or not scripted to recognize found caches?