GuadDawgs

I too want Wherigo for the iphone. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned the iphone sdk wouldn't allow it. NOT TRUE. I've had several apps built for my web stores that interact with store databases via web based api calls. It completley legal for apps to do this. It's also completely legal for apps to interact via wi-fi or bluetooth with other devices. The Wherigo iphone app could be designed to allow use of a bluetooth gps device. This would satisfy even the most difficult situations where prime accuracy was of great concern. The gps built into the iphone doesn't have to be the only that the app can use. Also it's possible to just build the app as a shell that pulls in code from the Wherigo website. all that is needed is an api of some sort to request data in an iphone gui format. So long as data access is available, the app could go directly to Wherigo.com to get info. ideally it would allow use of 'downloaded' cartridges when not in data areas too. I do envision though, that the Wherigo app would be used mostly by the less serious and more famly fun oriented types of cachers. If someone were to want to get to remote areas and the most difficult of caches, they'd probably be buying better more specific equipment for that kind of sporting anyway. The Wherigo app on the iphone would attract new users to the fun of geocaching.

I just played the first tutorial. The playing was fun. But the completion code was not. It was really really really (REALLY) confusing to enter my 'completion code'. I ended up googling and finding the answer somewhere else. I'm a determined person so I didn't give up. But I"ll bet a lot of people do. I understand from Jeremy's post that the 'unlock' serves two purposes not one. Seriously though using the word unlock just doesn't work. In the tutorial, all that is mentioned is "enter your completion code" and nowhere on the tutorial details on this website does it mention completion code. I thought until I read this very topic, that the unlock was probably for Wherigo cartridges that I might have to buy in the future. As in have to buy a code to unlock them... so I can play them.... (I hope that never happens) Now that I have ferreted out the answer about the completion code... I thought the unlock button on the site should be renamed.. how about 'code entry" that way it is for unlock CODEs and for completion CODEs. or how about just duplicate the silly button and put another name on the graphic... that says 'completion code' or something like that. This obtuse "unlock' button really violates all the K.I.S.S. principals of gui design.