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Android phone with Georg software. The droid is normally really accurate but it was doing some very crazy stuff at the weekend. It would have been interesting to have a GPSr at hand too.

I don't know about all that, but I recently bought a compatible battery for my android phone for $10. It has more capacity than the original. Original Sony Ericsson batteries are around $40.

Lots of people seem to like c:geo and it has a lot of features but personally, I have found the downloading too slow and annoying. I prefer Georg with a PQ loaded. For on-the-fly caching, I use the GC app.

I've had a T-mobile pulse mini (about the cheapest android phone available) and a Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro. The GPS accuracy has been excellent on both. I don't know about any others. Pretty much anything will get you to the vicinity though.

It the iphone's GPS accuracy better on recent models? I introduced someone to caching once and their location was REALLY far out.

It's not quite the same thing as the information is free and available to all (c:geo doesn't give access to premium caches if you aren't a premium member). c:geo just allows you to get at it in a quick and convenient method that isn't allowed.

I like Georg for Android but I also have the official app for on-the-fly caching. If Georg had access to live data it would be perfect.

The official app will do just fine then. It's amazing that other apps are sold so cheaply that $10 seems like a lot.

I know it's not as easy as c:geo's live map but I have been known to create a PQ via my phone's browser, have it emailed to my phone and then import into Georg from my phone's email app. Hey presto - 500 local caches on a live map.

Wasn't that the point? It's a Groundspeak forum, not a forum to discuss 'illegal' 3rd party apps ad infinitum.

I can imagine it now... official Police geocachers in yellow vests trying to solve a multicache puzzle to figure out if a nearby tupperware box is a geocache or a bomb.

I've obviously watched too much Mission Impossible, etc.

What I don't get, is how blowing up a suspected bomb with something like a shotgun blast is a 'controlled explosion'. What happens when you do that to a real bomb? I'm sure they must know what they are doing but it seems a bit odd. "Cut the blue wire" "No, it's the red wire" "Let's just fire a gun at it"

I resisted mentioning it at the time but now that you have, I wondered the same thing. I also couldn't figure out where this information had come from. Maybe it's because I'm a 'phone only' cacher that I was too thick to work it out.

Either I missed the repeat, it's late or it's not happening. Shame, I have to go to work.

I think my answer would be along similar lines. I just hope that our justice system works as well as it is supposed to.

Having read the definition of public nuisance, I'm really worried that the answer to both these questions might be 'yes'. "But I didn't do anything wrong!" "Did you leaving your lunch box lead to the bomb scare?" ...

I hate to say it, but the public nuisance argument seems to hold water. If I walk up and down a few times looking over my shoulder and then seem to hide a small container in a town centre and a bomb scare follows, could I not quite reasonably be charged with causing the public nuisance? This has certainly made me have second thoughts about hunting for urban caches.

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Because people who know how to actually use their smartphones do that already, if that's what they want to do. You don't need it all in one app. Whilst driving? No wonder there are so many accidents!

I have used the etrex, it's not very obvious or intuitive but you can set multiple waypoints through the "mark" process as Bear and Ragged says. So there's nothing stopping you setting these before you set out.

It does that too, it just doesn't update it as you move. Some people seem to think it's a good idea to drive with a live view of the caches around them. Serious caching addicts, methinks.

I'm in my 3rd year of caching with a smartphone (also on my 3rd smartphone). The only reason I would buy a dedicated receiver would be for (much) better battery life. Apart from that, the phone is great and considering I have a phone already, I can do paperless caching for £5 (app) + $30 per year (premium membership) rather than several hundred pounds for a high end GPSr.

You don't need to pay a subscription for most apps. I use an android phone and Georg. It does work much better if you have a premium membership to GC.com so that you can download pocket queries but it isn't essential. There are lots of other android apps available and apps for most other smartphones too.

I just searched for GeoCompass in the market app. It seems strange that it would appear on the X10 Mini Pro but not the X10 mini. If you are really stuck, I could probably email you the apk file.