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GS64

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  1. Correction: Almost every smartphones use AGPS AGPS do not use cell tower triangulation. AGPS use dataconnection to get information from some servers, to get information about where the satelites should be, so the smartphone do not have to search the satelites like an ordinary GPS. With AGPS the phone "only" have to confirm the information from those servers. Without dataconnection, some will experience that it takes longer time to get GPS-signal, cause the phone have to search the satelites like a ordinary GPS. The phone uses Cell tower triangulation, until AGPS or GPS is working. And if you loose sight of satelites, Cell tower triangulation takes over until satelites are back again, and you proberly want notice it. Maybe you notice bad accuracy. Cell tower triangulation, should only be used when you have big trouble getting GPS sight(maybe indoor), cause it gives bad accuracy. I think thats why those who are use to a ordinary GPS experience phones as very unaccurate. Like driving with slick tires in snow. Try a trip without cell tower triangulation, and it feels like using a ordinary GPS!!
  2. I have Groundspeaks app, c:geo and NeonGeo installed I use Neongeo all the time, it's the fast to learn and a quick app.
  3. Bing map is almost as bad as map quest arial, in Denmark
  4. It's the same in Denmark, there is no usable satellite maps, after this change :(
  5. In Denmark, some people have dataplan. If not, you just pay ex. 5DKR, Just under 1$, pr MB I think we can choose to run our wap-traffic via GSM, so no data cost. Does anyone know if its possible in other countries? Yes, - I know its an old system
  6. I wanted mostly to talk about wap.geocaching.com See it as an extra(online)tool. You can get the description of the cache. Perhaps coordinate changed since the transfer to GPS. And as mentioned, also TB. You can sign both, online It used very little data because it is a wap page, and not a web page. 10 years old mobile phones can do this. You do not need a big data plan for this .. I'm IT-administrator and find it harder to rip the maps and use GSAK, than using a mobile phone wap. We are not all alike, and that's fine. Give it a try, an type wap.geocaching.com in your computers browser, and see how simple it is. I like to hear if anyone have some experience with this site. Regards GeoSnapper
  7. For me it's interesting, - where will my TB go, and my latest have this this tag on it. I just want to tell you that there is this helpful site. I do not check it all the time to, when I pick up a TB.
  8. I have gone geocaching a litle more than 2 years with a cellphone, and it's not a smartphone. Must people think that you have to have a smartphone or a Nokia. There is geocaching programs for ordinary cellphones, running java, - must people have them.
  9. You don't have to have a smartphone to use wap.geocaching.com, thats the point. An ordinary cellphone can do this. If you can MMS, - you can wap.geocaching.com.
  10. Please read the goal for TB's before you pick it up. I often see TB's that goes in wrong direction, compared to there goal. Some detour is okay but I often see TB's going total oppesite direction. I go geocaching with my phone, and here I can read the goal of the TB. If I can't bring the TB on, I leave and just log as discovered. If you use an ordinary GPS, I think you have you mobilphone with you. Use your phone and browse to wap.geocaching.com and you kan se the goal of a TB, or the description of a cache. You can also log both TB and cache from here. It's a wap connection, - there is a small amount of data. Last summer I dropped 2 TB's in Sweeden, and they have to go to Denmmark. One of them, went to Finland, the Czech republic, austria an now in Germany. The other went to Germany and still remains there. Regards GeoSnapper
  11. Look at Groundspeaks applications: Geocaching live1 for android, iphone and win7 mobile. Geocacing live2 Log in with your Geocaching.com username and password.
  12. Do you have a mobilephone with GPS? Try Geocaching Live at Live.geocaching.com it's for free. Full function, if you're a premium member. I have been using this for 1½ year, and it works great. It works online or ofline as you wish. On the homepage, you can download a program that rip maps for offline use (you don't have to buy maps). When you've found a cache, you can mark it as found, and upload to the server, and finish logging at at home(gain, no paper). You don't have to plan caching. Just start up this program, and search for nearby caches. Some talk about battery life. After 4 hours my phone used 50-60% (SE Hazel) GPS-precision says 1-6 meters. Love paperles geocaching I won't go back to an "ordinary" GPS.
  13. Do you have a mobilephone with GPS? Try Geocaching Live at Live.geocaching.com I have been using this for 1½ year, and it works great. It works online or ofline as you wish. On the homepage, you can download a program that rip maps for offline use (you don't have to buy maps). When you've found a cache, you can mark it as found, and upload to the server, and finish logging at at home(gain, no paper). You don't have to plan caching. Just start up this program, and search for nearby caches. Some talk about battery life. After 4 hours my phone used 50-60% (SE Hazel) GPS-precision says 1-6 meters. Love paperles geocaching I won't go back to an "ordinary" GPS.
  14. Do you have a mobilephone with GPS? Try Geocaching Live at Live.geocaching.com I have been using this for 1½ year, and it works great. It works online or ofline as you wish. On the homepage, you can download a program that rip maps for offline use (you don't have to buy maps). When you've found a cache, you can mark it as found, and upload to the server, and finish logging at at home(gain, no paper). You don't have to plan caching. Just start up this program, and search for nearby caches. Some talk about battery life. After 4 hours my phone used 50-60% (SE Hazel) GPS-precision says 1-6 meters. Love paperles geocaching I won't go back to an "ordinary" GPS.
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