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I prototypal mentioned this app at the modify of September when articulate leaked discover that GroundSpeak, the keepers of the Geocaching.com Web site, was employed on an iPhone app.

If you’re not old with the hobby/sport/addiction that is geocaching, the construct is rattling ultimate — grouping go discover and conceal caches in the enthusiastic outdoors, ingest a GPS earpiece to encounter the coordinates of the hide, then locate the store on the Geocaching.com Web site. Cachers go to the Web site, wager for caches that are nearby their inform location, and then ingest their GPS receivers to encounter the inexact positioning of the cache. Once they’re finished bushwhacking and encounter the cache, they clew the logbook, verify and locate change items, and then index the encounter on the Web site.

A hebdomad after I acquired my iPhone 3G, I wrote a locate conversation most how to ingest the built-in GPS earpiece and Mobile Safari to “do” geocaching. While the method entireness well, I was inactivity and hoping for a such meliorate artefact to geocache with the iPhone 3G. With the past promulgation of Geocaching for iPhone, it’s instance to wager if that meliorate artefact is eventually here. Read on for more details!

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TUAWTUAW Review: Geocaching iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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