Motab

Thanks! Yeah, the one nice thing about using the map feature was turning on the Hybrid mode. Seeing a satellite image of where the cache was hidden helped quite a bit on another one I did. But then the pictures were a few years old in another part of town, and the pin was pointing to an empty field. D'oh!

Nice job on the app guys! I saw a post on www.tuaw.com about the official Geocaching app coming, so I've been watching this thread, waiting for it to be released. My wife and I have some friends that are way in to the hunt, so I wanted to get the app and see what it was all about, and show off some new features of my new iPhone 3G. Downloaded it Friday night, and so far haven't had any problems. I've never been Geocaching before, though I've been aware of it and almost got into it a few years ago. So we're sitting at Buffalo Wild Wings Saturday watching football, and I'm showing the app to my friends, and it shows a cache a mere 0.2 miles away. The title had something about a bullseye, and we're right next to Target, so I figure, hey, I should go look! I wait til halftime, fire up the app, and follow the arrow. Across the parking lot, looking up occasionally to make sure I don't get hit by any cars, around the corner... I switched to map mode, because at <~50 ft, the arrow just starts going crazy. I looked real quick and couldn't find it. Zoomed in on myself in the map mode. Got right on top of the red dot, and BAM! There's a little nano cache! It was so exciting! It was even more interesting to see that it had been signed 3x previously too! All in a rush from that one, I went back to the app, and there was another cache .3 miles away. Walked over to that one with a friend, and found my first ammo can! My 2nd cache, his first. There's no question that I never would have found either of those things without this app. The perfect storm of Groundspeak development, Apple design, and a halftime beer buzz have got me all excited about this activity. Being 2 caches into my career, this app is perfect. It's great because I always have my phone with me, so if I'm bored, I can just fire it up and head off a few hundred feet and find something. I can definitely see the value of some of the requests here (filtering caches, something to be done about multi-caches, putting a log capability in, etc), but those will just be candles on a cake that's already got icing. My personal suggestion for an improvement is to have some way to load cache data into the iPhone, in case you're out of cell range (which happens occasionally in the middle of Eastern Iowa). That opens up a whole mess of a can of worms, but if you integrated some way to browse the website at home, save your caches to your account, and then integrate with the (semi) push model that the iPhone supports, so we didn't have to sync, the info was just sent Over the Air... Oh man, Killer app. Bottom line... great product. Got me to do my first cache, and will keep me doing more. Looking forward to seeing what you have next. TFTA, Andy