JohnE5

No, I'm in Lemoore, Ca. I saw that series after some other caches were placed that messed it up a little. I was just thinking of making a circle.

Is there a way to search for games that are open source? Or do you just have to look at each one individually?

In my area there is one huge park that is perfect for Wherigo playing. No benches, trees, playgrounds or anything that could stop a Wherigo game. Could I have several Wherigo games starting point all in the middle of this park (idealy in a circle to look good on the map), but have the physical caches follow the guidelines of .1 miles from another physical cache? Even if that is a half mile to a mile away from the park?

Update- I'm working with the programmer on getting the Wherigo demo to work in openwig. They seem dedicated to get it working, I also tried the DiverJoe game and it works pretty good on Droid!

I hope it doesn't die before I go to Monterey Beach May 1st for a Wherigo spree and a 10 Years! Event. I keep trying to make more cartridges but it is hard to get all the pieces to line up. Some times it's fun to make the wizard generated cartridge and add a few zones in interesting places. How great would it be to hire someone to build a cart for you? You give him all the details and how the story will go and any art you want included. And he could make the game for you. I'd pay....say $20 to save 20+ hours of cart building.

I see the appeal.

Grab a $12 pelican case from REI and some no-rot rope and tie it to a brick attached with a D clips and floater on the brick side of the rope. Toss it in the area you want. The waterproof case will float as high as the rope will allow and the d-clip will allow it to be removed with out pulling up the weight. The floater will keep the rope from the weight floating so you can easily find it for re-attachment. See the movie Splinterheads. The girl finds one just like that.

In the picture, Swizzle showed one of the (kinda) clear film cans, with the lid that snaps into the body. I've always thought these, even by themselves, make great cache containers. My beef is with the black & grey film cans whose lid snaps over the body. Those things are almost universally crappy. Although, in the Swizzle configuration, I bet even the black & grey ones would fare better than normal. Are those grommets made of brass, or some cheaper alloy? I'm wondering if there is some way to chemically discolor them after application? They're brass plated. Might be able to rust them up a bit. I still think that the coat hanger bit is better. Another thing I read about recently is soaking your O-rings in Armour All for a few days before placing a cache and they'll last a few years longer. I'm thinking that these rubber inner tubes will start to crack and split in just a season or 2 so a soak in Armour All might increase there cache life. I plan on starting this practice real soon on caches that I place farther from home. Like the one I'm waiting on the reviewer for right now is 40 miles away and requires a 1.1 mile hike and a half mile paddle. Swiz Actually the best thing to soak O-rings in is Glycerin. It preserves rubber. People who fly rubber powered model airplanes use it to get longer flight time. I have about a dozen inner-tubed 35mm out right now, my "Invincible Micros". I didn't soak them in anything and they have been out about 3-4 months, I haven't seen any cracking yet. Inner tubes are cheap enough to replace though. I like the grommet!

Take a measuring tape at least 25 feet long too. They give directions to locate based on distance from landmarks or the road center.

The only way I know of right now is to have an iPhone with the geocaching app on it. It pulls the caches straight from the site. There is an android verison in the works right now.

Someone opened another thread on this subject, not hard to believe since there isn't once place to find anything on android.

Yeah. I found Geobeagle about 20 mins ago. Sad part is, I still gotta access a browser, navigate through the google map on the website (and try not to confuse the droid between when I wish to scroll/zoom on the map and when I am trying to scroll/zoom on the page itself) to find caches. Its a big PITA to me. Hoping this new program that the Geocache.com site creators come up come up with a better UI Try downloading a Pocket query instead. It's much faster and has more details. Someone else address it in another forum/thread. I can't wait for the Geocaching for Android forum so that we can have central location of all this information.

DP

Live searches will be a huge benefit with out the use of pocket queries. A lot of these features have already been addressed in other threads/forums; it would be nice if there were a "Geocaching for Android" like the iPhone, to bring all this information together. (Original and on topic enough?)

The way I see it, once the official app comes out it will be the yard stick of geocaching apps. If any unofficial app could never do what the real one should, live searches logging, without violating the TOU. Mean while, it would be nice to have all these android discussions in one forum wouldn't you say? Like the way the iphone has their own forum. (This is a unique message. Better, Robert?)

The mods hate when you mention p:trb. In another thread (All the android threads are spread about, there should be one central forum IMHO) the mod told us it's a violation, it automates the data collection process. You should edit it out before they do. I hate the censorship too but it's Groundspeak's turf.

Can we get an official "Geocaching for Android" forum under Groundspeak forums so we can stop using the GPS /iPhone/Wherigo hardware forums? It's bound to happen eventually and right now I'm tracking 3-4 different forums, 10 or more threads, for the same subject:"Geocaching for Android"

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Can we get an official "Geocaching for Android" forum under Groundspeak forums so we can stop using the GPS /iPhone/Wherigo hardware forums? It's bound to happen eventually and right now I'm tracking 3-4 different forums, 10 or more threads, for the same subject:"Geocaching for Android"

I've seen this issue pop up on several threads. Hopefully we will have an Android forum soon to consolidate all of these gripes.

It's been delayed but in testing, so that's good!

I haven't heard of GeoBrowse, nor have seen it in the market. There should be a list or forum where we can see all the android apps in one place, that market is a mess.

Geobeagle just had an update that includes the option much easier than before. I had to search several threads on multiple forums to find the solution before the update came out. Maybe an Android forum is called for?

With the initially proposed launch date passed, it feels like everyday is Christmas eve. I just want to wake up tomorrow and open my Geocaching App gift! Maybe I'd feel better if Groundspeak made a forum just for the android phone like it has for the iphone. We could track all the rumors in one place.

"Throwing in my 2 cents. Geobeagle and Radar work extremely well. I download loc files from geocaching.com and put them on my phone. If you use the opera browser instead of the built in one, you can download loc files right to the phone. I use the maps and pages from geocaching .com on the phone and log my finds while I'm still at the cache. Easy and fun." Those to work great together and I've found about 60 so far with just my phone. Still waiting on the official app, and forum.