Geocaching With Your Blackberry
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Geocaching In High Tech Style
Ditch your GPSr! Ditch your PDA! Go geocaching the high tech way!
We dove head first into the 21st century with our Blackberry Curve and the GeoNavigator software. Before we cached with a Garmin 12 Map (don't laugh. It worked.) and a Handspring Visor Deluxe (you're still laughing). Needless to say, it was a chore.
We were addicted to our Blackberry after the first outing. Here are lessons we learned while geocaching.
We dove head first into the 21st century with our Blackberry Curve and the GeoNavigator software. Before we cached with a Garmin 12 Map (don't laugh. It worked.) and a Handspring Visor Deluxe (you're still laughing). Needless to say, it was a chore.
We were addicted to our Blackberry after the first outing. Here are lessons we learned while geocaching.
Paperless Geocaching
It's hard keeping track of notes, waypoints, and descriptions in the field. Using your smartphone, or in my case, my Blackberry Curve, you can easily go paperless while geocaching.
Want to have previous logs of your cache available? Want to go ahead and take a peek at the hint? How about a topo map to guide you in the right direction? Let me show you how to go paperless geocaching.
Here's What You Need
Tools and links to get you started paperless geocaching
- Supported phone
- Many options here. Check for your supported phone here.
- Geocache Navigator
- Check out the entire suite of Trimble products. For geocaching, you need GeoNavigator.
- TwitPic
- Tweet and share your adventures while out geocaching with your camera phone
Getting Started
You have some options to start out. Let's say you're on a road trip and have some extra time for geocaching. Great! Use the Quick Cache option to identify caches nearby. The list provides the distance and the direction from you.
Maybe you have a destination in mind. Select Find Caches and you can enter an address, an intersection, or a zip code and get caches. You select how many and how far.
Or maybe you want to go after a specific cache. You read about it or perhaps received a published geocache alert on your phone. Manually enter the cache code and you're off and running for that FTF.
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More For Blackberry Owners
Must see sites for Blackberry owners
- Crackberry
- Very active forums. The definitive site for the Blackberry owner
- Trimble Outdoors
- Products for your GPS-enabled phone. Go hiking, running, geocaching. The tools you need
- Geocaching.com
- You can't geocache without this site.
- TwitterBerry
- Tweet while geocaching! Share the love!
- TwitPic
- Such a cool service, it gets a second link
- Vlingo
- Your personal assistant in the field. It will open applications for you. Send your emails. Send your tweets. Make toast. Well, not that, but my assistant--I call her Yvonne--is a help always. Free application.
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The Small Print
* Now available with Verizon Wireless
* Your GPS coverage is only as good as your phone coverage. If you're caching in the Boondocks, bring along the old GPSr if you have one.
* Geocache Navigator is a yearly subscription. There is a nice long trial to get you acquainted with the program to see if it's for you.
* Unlike your GPSr, your smartphone is not weather resistant. Repeat
* Your GPS coverage is only as good as your phone coverage. If you're caching in the Boondocks, bring along the old GPSr if you have one.
* Geocache Navigator is a yearly subscription. There is a nice long trial to get you acquainted with the program to see if it's for you.
* Unlike your GPSr, your smartphone is not weather resistant. Repeat
Getting Your Smartphone
If you'd like one, here a place to start to get a good deal on your own Blackberry.
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lisadh Feb 8, 2010 @ 6:28 pm | delete
- We've never tried geocaching, but just got a GPS, so have been thinking about it. Thanks for the info.
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kiwisoutback
Jul 23, 2009 @ 6:57 am | delete
- Another reason to have a Blackberry. You'd have to pry it out of my dead hands in order for me to give it up at this point. Great work, I'm lensrolling this to my Blackberry lens.
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Treasures-By-Brenda
Feb 19, 2009 @ 7:44 am | delete
- I have a son who loves geocaching. Every chance he has, he turns a school project into something related. I'll be e-mailing him the link to your lens.
Brenda
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Reasons To Go High Tech
- No more batteries! And not just one kind. AAs for the GPSr. AAAs for the PDA. Gez!
- No more paper! No more lists of caches, with coordinates scrawled on the size.
- My geo-bag just got a whole lot lighter.
- It's more accurate. My BB responds so much quicker while out in the field.
- Did I say no more paper?
- With the handy topo maps, no more taking the wrong direction. No more going up the hill when I could have gone around. No more surprise wetlands. Hurrah!
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Tips For Geocaching High Tech
Some lessons I've learned in the field that
- If you're going someplace that you don't know well, set a waypoint at your car.
- Maximize your phone's battery. Keep it on a charger while driving to the cache site.
- Minimize the number of applications running in the background. Using a GPS is battery expensive. Don't add to the drain by having other apps that you're not using, running.
- Carry a spare battery if you're going to be out for a very long time. You may need your GPS to get back to your car. That's not the time to find out it's dead.
- Put your phone on standby to minimize battery drain when not actively seeking a cache.
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