FMFourStar

Cast my vote for an open API. I'm looking at trying WebOS development, and I would LOVE to try a native geocaching app for the Palm Pre. Maybe there'll be an "official" one from geocaching.com someday, maybe not. I understand being protective of your business model, but surely some kind of arrangement could be reached. Think of how many more users would get interested in geocaching if they had easy access to it on the device of their choice, and you didn't even have to expend any effort to enable those myriad devices! How about issuing a token to all registered users of the API (like Amazon does), and then only allow searches within a 50 mile radius for that token in any 30 minute period (or something similar)? That way no one could ever pull enough search data to compromise your database (any more than a Pocket Query could), but it would satisfy 98% of the use cases for a mobile user (e.g. "what caches are around me?").

I wasn't able to get this asociation to work. I can drop GPX files on the Google Earth window and it works fine, but if I Open a GPX file (from Windows Explorer or Firefox) and specify GoogleEarth.exe as the program to use, although Google Earth will open (if it is not already open), it doesn't go anywhere. If it is already open, it pretty much does nothing other than surface the Google Earth window. Obviously downloading a GPX file and then dragging it to the Google Earth window is easy enough, but I wish I could get this association working. Any tips would be appreciated!!

I know I can search for caches within a distance range of a given point or location, and I can search for caches with a particular keyword... Is there any way for me to do the intersection of these two searches? Find the nearest caches with a particular keyword to a given point or location?