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I have a TB that was a sticker on my car which I wrecked. The TB went to the junkyard with the vehicle. So how do I "bury" it since it's no longer able to circulate? The "graveyard" link in the first post is archived so I can't "place" it there.

[Edited by moderator to remove forum guideline violations.] At least ONE person figured out a solution (thank you opens source) and posted it. Others have found work-arounds but the rest of you think it's GS's responsibility? ... [F]igure out how to do this on your OWN using the WORLD WIDE WEB. This is actually between YOU satellite junkies and Google... GS is caught in the middle because of YOUR dependency on those maps. Does it suck? Yes but as someone else pointed out, change is hard. Is it the end of geocaching? Nope.

I agree. I was thinking about this today when using my HTC's The data connection dropped out so the maps and other data took forEVER to load. The GPS signals worked great but without knowing where I was trying to get to, they were useless. So, smart phones are great for urban caching, satellite maps, posting of logs and pictures on the fly but only as long as a good data connection exists. So I'd say use it till you decide you want to spend the money to buy a GPSr and are really into this hobby.

We installed the official app on my phone and the c:geo on my SO's phone because paying $20 just seems stupid to us. She can log all of her finds under our username just as I can with the official app. As for one working better than the other... I think that's just a matter of preference. I can't tell that either works better than the other. As far as the GPS accuracy goes, we've not had a single problem with either the HTC Thunderbolt or the Incredible. We've been within 1' of the cache every time. So to say that "Mobile devices are inaccurate" is inaccurate. When caching we turn all radios off except the GPS. This improves the accuracy and reduces variance in both apps. I think mobile devices have degrees of accuracy just like handhelds do and should be graded accordingly and not lumped together. As far as violating the TOU I don't think c:geo does. The original one may have but the open source one does not seem to. (This is from a quick look at the coding) but that's just my 2 cents.