Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
Newbie Q:
Do I need anything other than my mobile to do a cache? (I have read FAQ promise, not being lazy!)
The link to get a Geocaching app on this website didn't work. And a lot of information / comments seem very old.
And I figure mobiles must have GPS these days for Google maps etc - so is that enough to participate?
Sorry of this is a tedious newbie question!
Thanks in advance for any advice
Do I need anything other than my mobile to do a cache? (I have read FAQ promise, not being lazy!)
The link to get a Geocaching app on this website didn't work. And a lot of information / comments seem very old.
And I figure mobiles must have GPS these days for Google maps etc - so is that enough to participate?
Sorry of this is a tedious newbie question!
Thanks in advance for any advice
- caughtatwork
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Re: Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
I've sent a message to the owner of GA Cacher to see why it's not available in the Play Store.
Re: Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
yep sorry about the new version of Android has tightened up the policy around location, so I need to make some minor changes to GA Cacher to become compliant again..
hopefully it won't take too long...
hopefully it won't take too long...
- Richary
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Re: Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
I believe a lot of people use c:geo on Android, though being an iPhone owner I can't comment on it. I don't know whether it just supports the main Groundspeak site or this one as well.
Re: Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
The GA cacher only works with GCA caches.
- caughtatwork
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Re: Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
c:geo does not connect to GCA directly. It can (as we use essentially the same API as the opencaching sites) but doesn't. You can load a GPX file as an offline load and still use the app, just with stored geocache data.
https://cgeo.droescher.eu/en/offline
Re: Newbie Q: Do I need anything other than mobile (Android)?
New version published, it should now available on google play.