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 Geocache anyone? 
#15495359 - 12/10/11 02:36 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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i go turned onto Geocaching a couple weeks ago, and while the compass and gps in my phone are apparently NOT shaking hands, i still try until i'm painfully aware of how absurd i look walking in a 100' circle. lol.
anyone else geocache? lol, and do you think they'd delete my post if i asked in the mushroom hunting forum 
a hunt is a hunt right?!
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Hey ya - yeah, i do some geocaching now and again...when i remember to find some online. Its good fun, gets you interesting places. I found Bruce Lee's grave that way! Trouble is my fone is much higher/quicker of a gps locator than my GPS unit, a delorme. I'm not sure how i can enter the locations of the geocaches on my phone yet...
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Re: Geocache anyone? [Re: shibumi]
#15504046 - 12/12/11 11:45 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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i presume if you have gps on your phone you have a smart phone.
and if you have a smart phone "there's an app for that"! lol
the one i use is C:Geo. to get it workin you have to register at gecaching.com and then VIOLA!! all of a sudden there're are more hidden nooks and crannies then ever before LOL
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come to think of it . . i just downloaded an app from the android marketplace the other day . .. h/o i gotta go find my phone.
it's called "the mushroom navigator" and purportedly saves coords in your phone. not on some online server.
i haven't had a chance to test this yet, i'll give it a shot when i take the dog for a walk later today.
anyone here know how to open and read an android app to verify whether or not this actually keeps geo tags locally, and what, if any, information this phone sends home to daddy ?
incendentally - Both the apps i mentioned are free
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ok, so aside from having waited all morning to choose the exact time i get 500 paces out the door to rain . . the walk was nice =P
like my girl said " it's unseasonable rain" . . to which i replied " but not unexpected" 
anyhow, mushroom navigator seems to work like any other geo-tagging app.
especially in that it requires that you have a decent gps on your phone.
personally i think mine has gone a little wonky. the tag is within 40 feet or so for most. he program reports accuracy to 9.8m which is kind of a LOT!
furthermore, like most reviewers said, the list of available mushrooms/berry's is short. and if you wanted to tag a regular plant or tree or just a location, you'd have to choose an unid'd berry or something and leave yourself a note. you can't take pictures without the full version =/
really i want to know if anyone has any experience with phone based gps . . are these things able to get REALLY accuarate? to within feet?
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Geocaching is a ton of fun. You can learn about some really cool trails around you by participating. Never have done it with a smart phone, though.
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Re: Geocache anyone? [Re: gimm]
#15642352 - 01/09/12 11:03 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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I found a geocache drop box in the middle of the woods without even looking for it.
I wrote a note saying "I found this/date" and carried on my way...
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That's Funny!
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I've been Geocaching over 6 years. Posted about it many times here in the past. I haven't been real active the last couple years though since I ain't been doing much hiking. I rarely urban-cache, it was mostly just something I used to add an extra dimension to my hiking habit. But I like to grab the ones near where I live and usually catch a few when I go outta town somewhere.
My geocaching name is the same as here.
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The phone app is nice, but the gps in most phones won't do you too well.
I tried today with my htc merge after finding my handheld gps is fucked..no bueno.
I just bought a magellin GC...made for geocaching.
hopefully that will get me out more.
I found my 1st also by accident, was pretty cool.
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