I am very new to this geocaching but i have to say this a very good begginings of an app here.
i have used this app and the one for the geocaching website on the iphone. my experiances were as follows.

in your app:
things did sort of work but the updates were not frequent enough and the compas seemed to point the wrong direction occasionaly. also the compass doesnt work until i open the maemo map and then go back to the goto.

altho i like the way you can add a list of .loc files to a directory then add the directory. and if you need more information from the website the is a nice button to take you straight to that caches page.

something i loved from the iphone app
the fact i didnt have to look for caches close to me it automaticaly qurryed the website for them.



i was wondering is there any chance in you being able to query the offical geocaching website and return the closest boxes to you at that given time.

i had a look to see if there was an open api for this but it turns out they will only give access to trusted partners. could you become a trusted partner as the representative of the maemo geocaching comunity.

I have just got my n900. I have tried loading the software for GPX on Geocaching.com and the download from here and no idea how to make it work. I just need a simple geocahing programme to work here in the UK and EU.

Any help appreciated.

Yeoman

Hi, I use gpxview for geocaching, the software is very nice imo.
For this you have to activate repositories on your device. For this read carefully:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel

After installing the application you should deactivate the repos again.

Once the software installed, you can download your caches aa *.gpx from geocaching.com. These files can be imported in gpxview and you can start caching :-)


Another great app for caching seems to be "agtl"

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...highlight=agtl



Regards debrez

Debrez

Apologies; I'm being thick! I installed GPXView. As a member of Geocaching.com, I have downloaded sone gpx caches but when I import them, they appear to do nothing - how do I access them in GPXView. In addition to that when I touch the map, the whole thing shuts down. Any suggestions?

GPXView just got an online-manual under http://gpxview.garage.maemo.org

Gpxview always suffered from Maemo5's inablity to handle copy'n paste satosfyingly. The use-case for this typically is to copy equations from the main cache description to the notes page to work with.

This now works thanks to PR1.2. Just hold the shift key while dragging the screen to mark text. Hit ctrl-c to copy the selected text to the clipboard, change to the notes view, hit ctrl-v to paste. Voila ...

Gpxview is a so-called hildon application. Hildon is the framework used by most maemo apps up to early 2010 (after that nokia announced that qt is the way to go).

The n900 is the last maemo device with hildon support and meego will not include support for hildon apps like gpxview.

This means that i'll maintain gpxview the next half year before meego comes, but i won't start anything like direct geocaching.com integration anymore.

Thanks, I've found this program to be a very usable geocaching tool.

Question: when was the last time you tried the "show coordinate on map" function (from the goto page) with Maemo Mapper, as I have a feeling this isn't working right?

Also, can I make a suggestion for the user interface? Change it so that one can start typing a cache name (or maybe also the GC code?) immediately once a gpx file has been opened, without having to select "search" from the menu?

I just filed bug about pulseaudio cpu usage when GPXView is running. https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?fu...=973&atid=3642

This comes quite a big problem for me if I want go for whole day cache hunting. When I looked at bugs.maemo.org there seems to be also some other 3rd party programs which might have same problem. So roots of this problem might be deeper than GPXView. Is anyone else seeing this?