iPhone Apps
by Jeff on June 16, 2009
While I personally don’t own an iPhone, I have many geocaching friends that do. I did a little browsing on the Apple site for some related apps and am providing them here for your convenience. I have listed them in no particular order. Check the Apple site for new ones as they are developed.
Jeff
iGeoCacher
Allows you to prepare and upload your geocaching waypoint files and take them with you on your iPhone. Select your next cache location and a single tap links the coordinates into Google maps to give you directions to get to the coordinates. It sure beats printing out Google maps in advace of a hunt. Now just take them with in your iPhone!
Travel Bug
This Travel Bug style widget provides you with a full featured search for the Geocaching.com website. You can search using several parameters depending on what you are looking for.
- ZIP Code
- Cache Name (waypoint)
- Keywords
- Coordinates
- Travel Bugs (tag number)
MacCaching - Geocache Manager for OS X 1.2.3
A geocache manager supporting Garmin and Magallen GPS receivers. Caches can be managed into their own “Simple Cachelist” or “Smart Cachelists” for found, owned, and different areas. Included tools are iPod and Palm (CacheMate) Paperless Caching, Distance Calculator, and Coordinate Format converter. There are links to Google Maps and Geocaching.com to make researching caches easier. MacCaching can be used for generic GPS usage, but it is mainly built for managing GeoCaches. It is in active development and it is free!
LoadMyTracks 1.3.1
A utility for uploading, downloading, and transcoding GPS data among GPS devices, GPX files, and KML files (for Google Earth). The resulting files can be used in a variety of applications available for the Macintosh, including TrackRunner, TrailRunner, and of course Google Earth.Use LoadMyTracks to convert GPX files to Google Earth, or use it to download the data from your logging GPS device into a geotagging package to put latitude and longitude on your photos (now recognized by both Aperture and iPhoto).Or, use LoadMyTracks to take inforamtion from the your favorite geocaching site and load it onto your GPS for fun while you’re exploring the world around you. GPS devices supported include many from the following manufacturers: Garmin, GlobalSat, Lowrance, Magellan, Sony, Timex, TomTom.
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