mraymondus Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Back in the old days (before I was a player), geocaching.com was WAP enabled. Now, the links I find to it are dead or redirect to the standard geocaching.com site. I have a new cellphone that is pretty slick and (incidentally) wap enabled. I want to be able to do some rudimentary searches and to pull up cache details on it. I have found a few sites and a midlet (for the UK only) that work ok. Are there any plans to re-enable the WAP portion of your (the) site? Does anyone have a good WAP point of access for the US geocaching database? Thanks mraymondus Link to comment
Jeremy Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Actually yes. I'm working on a basic wap-enabled page as I write this. It would have been done last week if it wasn't for the forum issues. It currently allows searches by GC number and lat/lon. I'll be adding zipcode searches shortly. Once this is completed I'll add an announcement about it. (Moving this to the Geocaching.com discussion board) Link to comment
+jeff35080 Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 It currently allows searches by GC number and lat/lon. I'll be adding zipcode searches shortly. Cool Jeremy... I have really missed the old WAP app that the site had. It was very handy. Link to comment
+JMBella Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 You mean I'll be able to search caches by zip code on my cell phone? If thats true I might just have to piddle from excitement! Link to comment
+mrcpu Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 I just had a trial of a blackberry at work and tried to get on the wap site too. I'll be getting a blackberry soon and wap access would be awsome! Link to comment
+xenophon10k Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Actually yes. Sweeeeet! I can't wait! Link to comment
+Marky Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 I just had a trial of a blackberry at work and tried to get on the wap site too. I'll be getting a blackberry soon and wap access would be awsome! Assuming you have the most recent blackberry software version, and access to an blackberry enterprise server, you can do HTML on the blackberry just fine. I am able to do almost everything on the main site. Anything requiring javascript doesn't work, but the rest of the stuff does. Images are dithered since the blackberry doesn't have a greyscale display, but besides that things look pretty good. Link to comment
mraymondus Posted November 21, 2003 Author Share Posted November 21, 2003 Before you kill yourself coding one, take a look at the ones I have found so far... This one lets you search by Lat/Long and returns the 3 nearest caches. Not bad http://www.thinkingin.net/Geocache/Find.aspx This one lets you search by waypoint (GC...) and maybe coords (haven't figure out how that works yet) http://www.pluton.co.uk/wap I have bookmarked it differently to shorten my navigation http://www.pluton.co.uk/wap/#geo These are all ok - but I found a midlet on www.geocacheuk.com that is just too cool. It has icons for the cache types (regular, multi, virtual) and it pulls the 10 nearest caches to a given lat/long. It also pulls details for the selected cache in layers to not overwhelm the minimal amount of memory on my Nokia. Unfortunately, this one was written to feed from a local geocache database that is maintained in the UK. So it is not much help over here on the other side of the pond. If you are taking a trip to the UK, it would be worth loading. I also have the source for it and I am thinking about reworking it to use data from the worldwide geocaching database instead of a local one. Let me know if someone finds something better - I am always on the hunt. Thanks Link to comment
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