I'd also be interested in this if it works on the n800 with a bluetooth GPS.

It will for sure work.

OS2008 abstracts the two devices.

OK so sounds like there is interest. I have submitted the mCacher project to Garage which hopefully will be approved.

mCacher is a Python GPS application for Geocaching on the Maemo platform. A Waypoint is entered by Latitude/Longitude. Goto Waypoint provides distance, track and directional arrow to the destination. Arrow indicator is based on direction of travel. Current GPS location may be copied. The currently entered waypoint is saved/restored on application stop/start.

I personally did not have a need to manage/pull in more than one waypoint into mCacher. But it likely would not be too difficult to add.

Assuming the Garage project is approved is anyone willing & able to help get this packaged for NIT (.install or .deb)?

Charlie.

Any way to take in the .loc XML file from geocaching.com?

OK that was quick, the Garage project has been approved - mcacher. I just need to make a few changes (mCacher icon for Extras) and package this up as a .tar.gz. I will then post out to the project files with instructions to get things going.

Charlie.

cjmonicajr,

I am sure you are working on this fast as you can, I appreciate you doing this.

We are planning on going out geocaching tomorrow. It is supposed to be our first 60f degree day after our second snowiest winter ever. We received 105 inches here in south east Wisconsin it will be nice to get out.

I am wondering if there is any chance that this software will be available by tomorrow morning.

Thanks!

Hi,

what a coincidence, i have also just written my first geocaching related software. It's a geocaching.com gpx file viewer. See here

It's still under development and currently still lacks some features. While you can already view all the important stuff from the gpx, e.g. the reference bearing and distance is calculated from is fixed. Maemo really eases the development of such stuff as it comes with libgtkhtml and libxml and thus even allows to embed rendered html cache descriptions.

This is written in C with maemo-mapper in mind and i plan to either include this into maemo-mapper so the caches are marked on the map. I am also trying to get this combined with navit and its ability to read garmin maps and hopefully this can be combined with e.g. topographic garmin maps.

Regards,
MoG

OK, I have uploaded the initial release of mCacher to the garage project site.

http://mcacher.garage.maemo.org

Note the software requirements and follow the installation instructions. This is a manual install at this point from a .tar.gz archive. You can explode the archive on the NIT or your desktop and ftp the files.

Let me know how things go,
Charlie.

This is great, thanks!

Maemo Mapper does have a DBUS interface for interaction with it. Details of it are in the dbus-ifc.h file in the source tarball.