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On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 08:43:56AM +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:43:56 +0100
> Tony Sumner <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 25, 2007, Robin Cornelius was like:
> >
> > > should make the whole experience a lot more fun as it requires user
> > > thought and decisions!
> >
> > I agree; Geocaching is great fun, with or without a young family --
> > but better with. www.geocaching.com (for those still catching up).
> >
> > Tony Sumner
> >
> I think some of the group are mixing up geocaching with sat-nav. I am
> not talking about using a GPS receiver while driving. It will be used
> to help me find a cache, the modern version of Dartmoor letter boxing.
>
> With some of the more expensive receivers it is possible to transfer
> the co-ordinates etc from a computer to the receiver, rather than
> typing it all in. I was wondering about doing that using Linux.
I was reading something about this just the other day.
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/linux_tools_for_geocaching may have
something useful.
Ben
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