Genoist

I will probably continue to use bcaching. I keep all the caches within 75 or so miles from home in my bcaching database, and it is easy to get around on my BlackBerry since it is designed for the small screen and designed to load quickly.

I have used it on my Asus eeePC (800x480), and it looks good on there, but my phone runs at 480x360. My only thought is that they want to encourage the use of the iPhone app and Trimble outdoors (since those make them money), instead of making a version for mobile devices. Anymore it seem that nearly every web site that I visit, except GC.com, has a mobile friendly version.

I am quite intrigued by this. I've been praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster every night before I go to bed in hopes of a mobile (non WAP) version of Geocaching.com for the last 4 years. WAP is so 2001.

I've spent the last 4 years and 10 months checking this thread out on a weekly basis hoping to read that there was an improved mobile version of the site in the pipeline. I think that I will now give up.

How do you automatically post your finds to twitter from your field notes?

Would allowing someone to use the API to make a mobile device friendly presentation of the site actually end up being LESS of a burden to the servers? I know if there was a good, easy to use, PDA/Smartphone-friendly version of the site, I'd probably do ALL of my logging from my phone. As it stands right now I have run the full site to upload my field notes, then log the caches. I'm pretty sure that a mobile version would use a lot less bandwidth than the full site is consuming.

I'm using the private beta of CacheBerry on my Storm, and I love it. I still primarily use my Colorado for my Geocaching needs, but when I FTF opportunity comes up while I'm out, or while I'm at work, or when I'm someplace that I didn't intend to go caching, the compass view on CacheBerry is fantastic. I've mainly gone after urban caches with it, nothing under heavy cover, but so far it's been pretty much spot on. Even when I'm not using it to actually find the caches, I prefer using it for cache descriptions over the built in abilities of the Colorado. The screen is just so much bigger, there's a "real" keyboard for entering field notes, and if I need to get a better view of the area around the cache (as well as in relation to where I am) I can pull it up in Google maps from CacheBerry and see a satellite view of the cache location. When I get home I just email out my cache notes, and I get both a geocache_visits.txt file that I can upload to gc.com, but also a text list in my email of my field notes and links to the caches that I found. All in all, CacheBerry on the Storm works like a champ!!

Try hitting the return key on the keyboard instead of clicking the button. Works for me.

I'll second the vote for Cacheberry, great program for offline GPX viewing. It will let you view the data, view on Google Maps. If you do have coverage I have to say that Bcaching (www.bcaching.com) is my vote. I like it since the device doesn't need to do the heavy lifting. You just load the web interface either from your computer or via email with GPX files. The site then handles the files. You then just go to www.bcaching.com/m on your mobile device to log/view caches. If you're running a BlackBerry you can view the cache on Google Maps or BlackBerry maps. You can also download the individual cache as a GPX file to load into a GPS program like BlackStar. Once you finish for the day you just hop back onto bcaching.com and download a geocache_visits.txt file that can be uploaded to Geocaching.com to log your finds.

I would still love to see a more fully functional version of GC.com than the WAP page. One focused on smartphones or phones with full web browsers. I would settle for a couple little things like the ability to filter out found caches, use of cookies to keep me logged in, Waymarking and benchmarking on the mobile site.

Thanks. I'm very excited about the move, but it is kind of sad to see 6 years of caches leave my possession. Oh well, I know they are going to good owners.

I just wanted to put this post up to let everyone know that I have accepted a promotion at work that will be taking me to the Orlando, FL area. I would like to put some of my caches up for adoption, with the exception of some of my favorite, low maintenance caches (I'll be back every now and then since I have family here). I would prefer to adopt them out to cachers that have found them already. So here is a list of all my caches that I want to adopt out: GC13NBM - A New Place For It (no adopter yet) GCY461 - Traditional Cache Haunted Indiana #004: Chapman Road (no adopter yet) GCY45T - Traditional Cache Haunted Indiana #002: Margaret's Grave (no adopter yet) GC1CMPA - Traditional Cache The Allied States of America (no adopter yet) GC1ENFA - Traditional Cache Genoist's MWGB P&G (no adopter yet) GC1ENG9 - Unknown Cache Genoist's MWGB X Marks The Spot 2: Long John (no adopter yet) GC1ENFT - Traditional Cache Genoist's MWGB Treasure Map Cache (no adopter yet) GC1ENG5 - Unknown Cache Genoist's MWGB X Marks The Spot 1: No Peg Legs (no adopter yet) GC148KR - Traditional Cache Cedarville Reservoir Cache 1 - G.I.C. Gamma (no adopter yet) GC14CRE - Traditional Cache Pirates of the Three Rivers at Rivers Bend (no adopter yet) GCKKRY - Traditional Cache Happy Birthday Pip (no adopter yet) GC13NAY - Traditional Cache Pay It Forward / Genoist (no adopter yet) GCEB4B - Traditional Cache Land of Lost Auto Parts - G.I.C. Alpha (no adopter yet) GC13VFZ - Traditional Cache So Close (Adpoted by jtbrady01) GC13VC8 - Traditional Cache Yet So Far (Adpoted by jtbrady01) GCY45Z - Haunted Indiana #001: Coldwater Road Wal-Mart (Adpoted by jtbrady01) GC1CPA6 - What's Playing? (Adpoted by jtbrady01) GC1CPAT - Now Playing (Adpoted by jtbrady01) GCFE1A - Traditional Cache Mastadon Trek 2 (Adpoted by jtbrady01) Send me a message via GC.com or via my BlackBerry PIN if you're interested in adopting any of these caches. I'll keep this page updated once I start adopting these out

I am quite interested in giving this a try. It sounds very promising.

I use nav sometimes for driving directions to the parking coordinates. I wouldn't think of using it for actual caching. If you use the companion website www.vznavigator.com you can enter coordinates. Those will then show on the device as "my places"

This is one of the reasons that I have started to use TextMarks to log my caches. http://coord.info/textmark.aspx

I receive notifications of new caches via email on my BlackBerry. Upon receipt I will copy that GCID from the email message, and send a message to 41411 with the following info "GEOC ?GCID" I then receive a txt back that gives me coords and some basic info. I can copy and paste those coords into Google maps and see where it is at. If it's something I want to go after I load it up in the Colorado and am off. Info on logging and info via sms is available at http://coord.info/textmark.aspx

I have a dedicated Gmail account set up for instant notifications of all cache publications within 20 miles of my home coords. I have that email addy pushed to my blackberry with a specific notification tone. When I hear that tone I know that there's a new cache to find. I just click the link in the email and read the description. I paste the coords into google maps to see where it is. Then I load the Colorado up and am off (if i'm not at work when it comes in).

I'm no web design wizard, but can't a lot of mobile device reformatting be accomplished with style sheets? All the data is there already, why not just use style sheets to change how it is displayed?

Hopefully the trouble with the current WAP interface are a herald of a new mobile interface (XHTML hopefully). But alas, I doubt it.

Dup post. grrr.

I consider myself done with the WAP site now. It is far far too limiting and clumsy to use. I have started just visiting the full site with Opera Mini on my BlackBerry. It may not be quite a speedy, but it is still pretty good over my 3g connection on my 8330 Curve. It should be enough to hold me over until there (hopefully) is an XHTML version of GC.com that is device aware.

I'm hoping that eventually the site will be "device aware", and reformat based on the device that is visiting it. Quite a few sites that I visit on a regular basis now do this, and even allow access to everything that I can do form a regular browser (for the most part at least). The WAP site is only good to a point, and that's if you already know the gcid you want to lookup, since a search will show all caches, including found caches.

Does anyone know if there are any specific characters in the problem cache descriptions that are causing the freezes/resets?

The VZW device has an anemic 64MB of memory and the q9h (the at&t version) has 256. Also a quick look at the phonescoop pages for both didn't say what processor each had, but I think that the q9m is slower than the q9h. All in all the q9m is an underpowered device. Also, working at VZW, I always hate dealing with someone who comes in for issues with the Q9M. Of all PDA's the original Q, the Q9M, the Treo 700wx, and the HTC 6700 make up 90% of all PDA woes and warranty issues that I see on a daily basis. There are just so many other choices that, statistically at least, should have far fewer issues.

The current VZW PDA lineup can all be used for paperless caching. Here they are by operating system and what software I've tried on each OS (not necessarily each phone, but as long as it is designed for the OS the phone runs, it should work). Palm OS - CacheMate Treo 700P: (discontinued, but still available) Treo 755P: (good choice if Palm OS is what you prefer). Windows Mobile Professional - CacheMate or GPX Sonar HTC (VZW) 6700: discontinued and sort of a piece of crap, but this phone is still around in the back rooms of many stores. Treo 700wx: This one is an old dog, can't see it staying around much longer. HTC (VZW) 6800: This phone, with the help of some hacked firmware, can actually use the internal GPS. This may be handy for use with CacheMate. Samsung i760: This is my personal favorite WinMo Pro phone from the current lineup. HTC 6900 (Touch): This phone seems like a pretty sweet choice, and will be out soon hopefully. Windows Mobile Standard - CacheMate PN-820: This was never very popular, but the people who bought it seem to like it. Good choice if you want a WinMo Standard flip phone. Motorola Q9M: Avoid this phone. The original Q was bad enough, but this one pretty much has the same hardware, but it stuffed into a different casing (which does happen to have a better keyboard than the original Q) and running the more resource intensive WinMo 6.0 OS. HTC (VZW) 5800: Best of the WinMo Standard phone VZW has right now. BlackBerry - CacheBerry BlackBerry 8703e: On the way out soon, get it while it lasts if you want an old fashioned scroll wheel BB. BlackBerry 8830: Excellent phone as long as you don't need a camera. BlackBerry 8130 Pearl 2: Good BlackBerry if you can get used to SureType.