+wolfy04040 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Hi, I am planning to place a geocache and i know the general area, but I don't have a handheld gps. Is there any way I can find it (my current location) on my iPhone without having to buy a gps? Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 There are plenty of apps for the phone. Go to the store and search for GPS. When you get to the spot stick around with the app running for a few minutes to let it settle and you should be fine. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 For reference, see the Help Center article How to Get Accurate Coordinates. Quote Link to comment
curlingfan11 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Hi, I am planning to place a geocache and i know the general area, but I don't have a handheld gps. Is there any way I can find it (my current location) on my iPhone without having to buy a gps? Some caches (let say one is in a parking lot in a lampost skirt.)Also, you can see where the cache is on Google Maps, etc. sometimes I do that because I absolutely know where the cache is. Quote Link to comment
curlingfan11 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Hi, I am planning to place a geocache and i know the general area, but I don't have a handheld gps. Is there any way I can find it (my current location) on my iPhone without having to buy a gps? Some caches (let say one is in a parking lot in a lampost skirt.)Also, you can see where the cache is on Google Maps, etc. sometimes I do that because I absolutely know where the cache is. I also forgot that on the Geocaching App, you can press any cache, press 'start', then press the compass button. There, it will say 'My Location'. There's your coordinates! Quote Link to comment
+GeoTrekker26 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Hi, I am planning to place a geocache and i know the general area, but I don't have a handheld gps. Is there any way I can find it (my current location) on my iPhone without having to buy a gps? Some caches (let say one is in a parking lot in a lampost skirt.)Also, you can see where the cache is on Google Maps, etc. sometimes I do that because I absolutely know where the cache is. I also forgot that on the Geocaching App, you can press any cache, press 'start', then press the compass button. There, it will say 'My Location'. There's your coordinates! According to a recent post in another thread, the GS app doesn't show the last two digits of the coordinates. With the iPhone you can go to Utilities then Compass and see the current coordinates. Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I also forgot that on the Geocaching App, you can press any cache, press 'start', then press the compass button. There, it will say 'My Location'. There's your coordinates! I dunno about "There's your coordinates". There's "some" coordinates or another, but how well they actually reflect your position is worthy of debate."Snapshot" coordinates taken this way are rarely as good as those taken over an averaged period, and better yet, averaged at several different points in time under different constellations. At a MINIMUM you'd want to stay in the location for a minute or so to see if the coordinates 'settle' at all. Just walking to a spot and reading whatever the device says in that moment is a good way to introduce a lot of unnecessary error. Quote Link to comment
+vw_k Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 It's worth checking the co-ordinates you have taken by moving away from the spot and trying to navigate back to it from different directions. Quote Link to comment
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