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- 07-31-2008, 03:51 PM #1Guest
iPhone 101: Geocaching with an iPhone 3G
Posted Jul 19th 2008 8:00AM by Steven Sande
The iPhone 3G is perfect for the hobby of Geochaching. Simple
instructions of how to get started are at this link
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/19/iphon...-an-iphone-3g/
Larry I bet you haven't tried Geocaching with a Siamang Nokia 800.
http://www.gibbons.de/main/photo/12synd.html
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- 07-31-2008, 06:09 PM #2LarryGuest
Re: Geocaching with an iPhone 3G
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Larry I bet you haven't tried Geocaching with a Siamang Nokia 800.
> http://www.gibbons.de/main/photo/12synd.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2bzejAfQw
Au contraire, again, my Jailbroken friend......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUkvEeBd1Is
Is it still fair to carry 3D Google Earth into the field to see the
terrain or to use terraserver for terrain mapping, not some stupid
street program??
The following is a set of working repositories that you can use for
Maemo Mapper:
Google Maps (street)
http://mt.google.com/mt?x=%d&y=%d&zoom=%d
Google Maps (street) (alternative)
http://mt.google.com/mt?v=ap.999&x=%d&y=%d&zoom=%d
Google Maps (satellite)
http://kh.google.com/kh?v=999&t=%s
Google Maps (terrain)
http://mt.google.com/mt?v=w2p.999&x=%d&y=%d&zoom=%d
Virtual Earth (street)
http://r0.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.n.../r%0s.png?g=45
Virtual Earth (satellite)
http://a0.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.n...a%0s.jpeg?g=50
Virtual Earth (hybrid)
http://h0.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.n...h%0s.jpeg?g=50
Yahoo Maps (street)
http://us.maps1.yimg.com/us.tile.map...=%d&y=%-d&z=%d
Yahoo Maps (satellite)
http://us.maps3.yimg.com/aerial.maps...=%d&y=%-d&z=%d
OpenStreetMap - Traditional "Mapnik"
http://tile.openstreetmap.org/%0d/%d/%d.png
OpenStreetMap - Developmental "Osmarender"
http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/%0d/%d/%d.png
Terraserver USA (WMS)
http://www.terraserver-usa.com/ogcma...PTIONS=INIMAGE
RunwayFinder.com
http://www.runwayfinder.com/charts/x%dy%dz%d.jpg
U.S. Weather Overlay (WMS)
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi...COLOR=0x000000
viajoasi.com.ar (WMS)
http://viajoasi.com.ar/c.php?VERSION...PTIONS=INIMAGE
Feel free to use these map/photo/chart repositories on the FruitFone.
Terraserver's terrain mapping is especially useful in planning
geocaching outings because you can see the "lay of the land" where you
are going, besides just a blank street map with no sat photos or
anything on it.
Wouldn't want you FruitFoners to get lost in the mountains just because
you can't look ahead on the little screen when the streets disappear....
(c;
Mountains aren't the problem in Charleston. Swamps are. Finding you
way around swamps and over the 3,200 miles of waterways within 50 miles
of my keyboard are very imposing, indeed, without Maemo Mapper and
overhead recon shots.
Long before portable GPS availability our jetski club was geocaching
without calling it that. It was called a POKER RUN stolen from
motorcycling, but far more interesting in this waterworld I live in.
One great geocache, full of poker chips specially marked with drilled
holes to prevent cheating, ended up on Shute's Folly at Castle Pinckney,
a tiny island right off The Battery on the tip of the Charleston
Peninsula on the Cooper River side. I put it there, myself. All the
poker runs I had jetskied to before had been in the boondocks, way out
in the massive array of swamps, old rice paddies and spoil islands of
the Atlantic Coast ICW both N and S of Charleston Harbor....some out 50
miles just to see how jetskiiers were going to refuel in the boonies.
(PS - carrying gas cans to a station from a boat landing in the
boondocks is NO FUN!)
So, I figured a good way to fool 'em was to start the run out in the
boonies where we usually started the run, then direct them right into
the heart of the city to an island few mortals every land on, abandoned
since the Civil War as it is of no use. It's right across the ship
channel from the USS Yorktown (CV-10) WW2 naval museum...a beautiful
view from the castle ruins. The bucket was, actually hidden away INSIDE
the castle ruins, of course, and subsequent finders kept getting more
and more devious hiding it in the rocks and crannies out there.
It stumped them, completely, for nearly 2 weekends and 8 devious hint
sheets requiring extensive South Carolina Historical knowledge
compliments of The Confederate Museum of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, located in the old city market on Market St at Meeting St.
The little old ladies of the Confederacy were even MORE devious than I!
My exwife is a real granddaughter of a Confederate soldier, so is a full
member....meaning I was used many times as a Southern slave, a no-
account husband and pack animal.
So, you have a way to go geocaching with your inferior new toy with its
very limited GPS capability once you're off the streets in the
city.....limited, indeed!
Oh, to be in Hotlanta and have STONE MOUNTAIN just sitting there waiting
for a cache to be stowed ATOP IT BY THE BROADCAST TOWER! Almost too
eaasy...(c;
(I wonder if the lift car operators remember the hams from Charleston
wearing long blonde wigs riding up Stone Mountain making the car swing
from side to side between the bottom tower and the top tower? Hope
they've forgotten us by now......drunken hams do crazy things.
http://www.wa4usn.org/
Click on Club History for the book. Look on page 5, charter member
7...das me, March 1971 was the first meeting...page 6. On page 18,
buried in the back so's less will notice, you'll see a little history of
the club drinking and cavorting organization called The Eagles, the hard
core who rode the cable car swaying in the wind to the top. Most Eagles
are dead, now, of old age, not liver disease. To become an Eagle, one
had to be able to drink the REST of the Eagles present under the table
at a club outing, of which there were many, Eagles present and outings.
Pig Roasting in a special cooker clandestinely made in the metal shops
of the Charleston Naval Shipyard, where most of us worked, was our
specialty. But, that's another story...(c
- 07-31-2008, 09:57 PM #3Todd AllcockGuest
Re: Geocaching with an iPhone 3G
At 31 Jul 2008 14:51:21 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
> iPhone 101: Geocaching with an iPhone 3G
>
> Posted Jul 19th 2008 8:00AM by Steven Sande
>
> The iPhone 3G is perfect for the hobby of Geochaching. Simple
> instructions of how to get started are at this link
>
> http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/19/iphon...-an-iphone-3g/
Oh you kill me, Vic... You've really got to stop feeding me straightlines
like this. This post isn't as good as the "how to use your iPhone as a 3G
modem" post, but it's not bad...
Here's some highlights from that post about how the iPhone "is perfect" for
Geocaching...
"One of the first things I looked for in the App Store was a geocaching
application... Well, nothing is available yet. But don't let that stop
you..."
"Make sure you have an iPhone 3G. A regular iPhone or iPod touch will not
work; you need the Assisted GPS capabilities of the iPhone 3G for this to
work. If you don't, please stop reading. Go do something else..."
"If you're looking this up on your Mac, you might want to print it to PDF
and then email it to yourself for easy reference once you're in the field!"
"What you want to do now is enter that latitude / longitude information
into Google Maps -- that's the app that you're going to use to get to your
cache. It would be nice if Apple had built copy/paste into the iPhone 2.0
software so you could just drop that stuff into the proper slot in Google
Maps, but noooooooo!"
Look up the info on a website, or a document you had to e-mail to yourself,
then manually retype the lat/lon into Google Maps? Yep- sounds "perfect..."
Here's a few Windows Mobile geocaching apps iPhone developers can use as
inspiration...
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/GP...ut-17295.shtml
http://gpsmission.com/gps-mission/The-Game.htm
http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/
http://www.pathaway.com/PWWinMobile.htm
http://www.backcountrynavigator.com/content/view/14/1/
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