Jones_UK_Hunters

Thanks Lee, for understanding. Its early days yet for Geocaches Near Me, I haven't yet seen the financial reports from Apple (which they seem to publish for the period of two months in the past) . Was it worth it, you may ask? We'll its taken me a tonne of time to learn Objective C, which has a steep learning curve. I've literally given it every evening to get to this stage. I've built two commercial apps so far. My first (Where U @) taught me about building interfaces understanding SQL Lite (iPhone's inbuilt database) and was all very different from the .Net background I've come from. I guess being 'cheeky' and promoting my app here my have not been a great move... Have a great weekend all.

I think I should probably come clean. I've given myself 6 months to invest in building an iPhone application that would pay for the £700 investment in a Mac Mini and Apple developer license. I'm 3 months into the project and Geocaches-Near-Me is my second application. I am not trying to annoy you guys or anything, just trying to re-coupe my investment and learn a few new skills. So at .59p a pop, this is my attempt to re-coupe my learning and expenditure.

It does exactly what it says on the tin. Simply shows you geo-caches near you :-) Of course there are other ways of acheving the same result.

Thanks for all of your interest, got a tonne of email. Sounds like lots of people are loving my humble contribution.

The link is only useful for people who have the ability to use the app in the first place. It's called "Where U @" according to iTunes. Hiya. Its actually called 'Geocaches Near Me'. Very simple, and useful which is why I built it. :-)

Little bit of self promotion, please excuse me. [ self promotion not excused by moderator. link deleted.]

What could I possibly gain from doing this!?!?! Come on, give a guy a chance... I just love the idea of a paperless find using one device with built in GPS etc and being able to straight log the cache when you find it. Even better still the act of scanning the barcode could reveal a hidden virtual treasure. I'll plant a cache with a barcode and we'll see what happens, how about that :-)

Im not sure of the process, for getting this into the programme for the Groundspeak developers. How do changes get submitted, voted for etc? Thanks Richard

So am I pushing the boat out to far to say.... Adding a simple QR code barcode would add a new element to finding caches. Would cost Groundspeak next to nothing to implement? Would be a nice little value add, to include and not take away the simple charm of finding a cache? Would maybe promote and inspire people to go find caches. I'm not talking about a seed change just a little evolution...

Place Magnet On Top Of Cache To Open :-)

Agreed 7 point weighpoint data sounds like enough. + please dont flame me. This is not commercial. Given the high-tech. GPS nature of the sport. I saw this a nice value add.

I love this idea. Its simple, would not alter any of the traditional charm of finding a cache. All we're talking about, is addding a little barcode onto the page & then if your a high-tech finder you can log the visit at the cache site. Surely this is great for the sport?

This is how I see it working. When you hide a cache, you print out the normal bit of paper that you put in your cache. We use a website like this to generate the codes http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ Code would contain a URL to the cache with a hidden cache find identifier, i.e http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...8e8-aa8b7e38ef3&found_it=e2ac987e-ee63-4a9e-b8e8-aa8b7e38ef39 Note the new found_it tag. So when you physically find the geo-cache. You scan the barcode with your phone, you will be prompted to logon to the geocaching website and then taken straight to the log your find page. How does that sound? How can we get this implemented? Thanks Richard

Hi. As an avid Geo-cacher, I've been thinking. On the cache information literature that you print and put in your cache when you hide it. Why don't you put on the top of it a 2D barcode (or QR code), with a reference to the cache web-page. As camera phones that support 2D barcodes are now getting pretty common, wouldn't it be great to record your cache visit simply by pointing your phones camera at this barcode. Have a look at this video, which shows the kind of idea - http://www.binaryrefinery.com/main/PermaLi...4d39ffd83d.aspx Its very easy to setup and the QR code generator is free. Clients available for iphone, Windows Mobile, Nokia/Symbian etc. etc. Happy to help where I can if you are interested further. Thanks Richard Jones Microsoft MVP