Geocaching App For iPhone and iPod Touch
One of the great new activities to come out of the digital revolution is something called Geocaching. Essentially it is a hide and seek kind of game where individuals equipped with a GPS device hide a small treasure of some kind somewhere in the world (yes, world!). Using coordinates given on any of a number of web sites potential treasure seekers enter the coordinates into their own GPS unit and set off in search of the prize.
Depending on the person that set up the cache the prize may be something as basic as a simple film canister that holds a pencil stub and a paper log to record the time and date that you found the cache. More interesting caches can contain items that you are supposed to trade trinkets for, say swapping out a hat pin or a button in exchange for one contained in the cache. It’s a fun activity and can be done by almost anyone, especially someone with an iPhone!
In all of geocaching there is one web site that is the best, geocache.com. It holds the largest database of caches and geocaching information. The new, aptly named, Geocaching app for the iPhone and iPod Touch connects directly to this database allowing you to quickly search for any caches that might be in your general area. Once you find a cache that sounds like fun the app uses your iPhone’s GPS receiver to guide you in the general direction of the cache. Once you arrive at the destination it is up to you to find it of course, but half the fun is finding the cache in the first place!
Computer Software | admin | 
August 2, 2009 2:32 pm
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