Sunday, March 21, 2010

iPhone Geocaching App Reivew and Today's Geocaches - 3/21/10

Today I took my son and found a few caches that were close together.  He's almost two and was a blast to have along during the finds.  They were his first!

Here is a rundown of what we found:
CG22VDT - 1098 Old Dam Neck Rd. P&G - First find of the day.  Easy!  Always fun though.
CGJEH4 - Corporate Falls - Good little cache.  Its in a spot you wouldn't expect thats for sure.  Nice placement!  I took the Travel Bug and moved it to a cache across the street.
CG20N8M - This could be Taxing - Very cool small cache.  In a nice little spot you can easily miss if not careful.  I placed the Travel Bug I got from CGJEH4 here.  Was a tight fit, but will be a good surprise for the owner as I bet they never thought a TB would make it into this cache.  This is a premium cache only open to members of geocaching.com.

Today's trek was to test out the Geocaching.com iPhone App.  It was pretty good for the type of caches I was after (urban).  Not sure how good it would have been in the thick stuff because the iPhone has a hard time determining direction.  We did a lot of circles around CGJEH4, but it still did the job.

Pros:  It's nicely integrated with the iPhone and website.  I was able to post in the field.  Overhead imagery was a nice reference, but the images were a little blurry.
Cons: Battery hog!  Had to long-in every time I shut the app down.  It seems that you can get better resolution imagery on Google Maps app.

Overall:  It's still earning it's $9.99 price tag as far as I'm concerned.  Especially since I'm a paying member at the website.  It's a lot more convenient compared to my older method of keeping points with me that makes me want to continue to use it.  It's a nice to have in my GC toolkit.

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