Towards paperless geocaching - Advanced Geocaching Tool for Linux

Hans Zimmerman hans at everlasting.be
Wed Sep 2 20:59:34 CEST 2009


D. Fett wrote:
> "Notify the community mailing list."
> (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Applications) 
> 
> Advanced Geocaching Tool for Linux has all important features to make your
> geocaching life easier:
> 
> - download geocaches for offline use with full text, hints & images on your
> freerunner
> - map view with icons for nearby geocaches (uses openstreetmaps and tangogps
> map directory, downloades missing tiles automatically)
> - search the internal database for geocaches by name or type
> - target selection: selected geocache, one of its waypoints or manual input
> 
> more at http://www.opkg.org/package_268.html

Testing the latest version 0.1.2:
- I do not seem to get a GPS fix (other GPS applications do get a fix)
- I try do download caches, the console does show some caches are 
downloaded (I recognize names from the neighbourhood) but they are not 
shown on the map.


Hans



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