[GeoStL] Re: iphone gc app - anyone recommend app other than official version?
- From: "Barbara Kryvko" <barbarastl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 22:17:49 -0500
When you are on the "navigate to geocache" map for any cache...
Tap on the little flag on the upper toolbar.
Select your new coordinates, name your waypoint and hit "Done."
When you get back to the map, you'll see your new waypoint as a flag.
Tap on the flag, and then the little blue arrow, and there is an option to "Set
as Target."
Barbara
----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 10:08 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: iphone gc app - anyone recommend app other than
official version?
There is a way. I have done it. I just have to remember how :-)
Glenn
Via iP-4s
On May 28, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Laura Williams <pi.arent.square@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike, I know that with the android official app, if you go to the satellite
view and then hit the menu button, it gives you the option to add a waypoint. I
have no idea how it works on the iPhone interface but there's gotta be a way to
do it.
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Mike Griffin <brawnybear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Because that had never happened with someone with a GPS.
I have the app and have used it to log caches for the last 4 months. I find
them all the time and my accuracy is always as good as a gps.
I would use a GPS to hide. The only downside to the app is you cannot enter
coords. At least I have not found a way. So if you solve a puzzle and want to
enter the final, you are kinda SOL.
Mike Griffin
Delivery Manager
State Farm Account
314-308-0916 Cell
Sent from my iPhone
On May 28, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Edward Turner <n0wnv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am not knocking it for the finding part of it, but as far as people
placing caches with the phones or get out of cell range they suck. I ran
across a cache that is in the Harvester area of St. Charles County that at the
beginning they used a phone and the coordinates were at least 400 feet off from
the phone apps. and this is what makes the game aggrevating because of the
phone apps and this was placed by a cacher that had been around for at least a
year. So as far as Phone vs. GPS GPS wIns with me and phones are supposed to
be used for phone calls nothing else
On 5/28/2012 1:52 PM, Laura Williams wrote:
I'm sure if he wanted an actual GPS at this point he would have bought
one. Or, ground breaking thought here, maybe he already OWNS a GPS and wants to
supplement his caching. He didn't ask for snark, he asked for an honest opinion.
I enjoy having BOTH the app AND a gps as it gives me the option to
cache with focused purpose (on the gps) as well as fill in gaps between time
slots in my agenda and as a quick pick me up during a trip where I may not have
originally intended to cache on the drive there. People are so quick to knock
the apps...and it really irks me. Especially considering that it was the apps
that gets many people into caching and willing to spend hundreds of dollars on
a GPS unit later on down the line. By discrediting the apps in general, I feel
like people are not only being rude to those who use them, but also turning
individuals off from the sport for ridiculous reasons.
Zeke, to answer your question: I don't own an iPhone, but I like using
the gc.com app on my android. I like the interface, but I know it's not at all
the same as the iPhone interface for the official app. I haven't heard any
complaints from my friend who does have the app for iPhone on her phone,
however. I know for sure on the official app you can directly download PQs to
your offline lists, so that's a perk that the other apps may or may not have.
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Edward Turner <n0wnv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
its called a actual GPS
On 5/28/2012 1:42 PM, ZLA Solutions wrote:
I plan to get the official $9 . 99 version unless someone says
there ’ s a better app out there. I ’ m not looking for a cheaper one, just the
“ best ” one.
Thanks in advance for all comments.
Zeke (ZLA) - owner of a brand new iphone
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