[TriLUG] Geocaching with linux (was Re: NIC may be too old)

[William Schulz]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:12:34PM -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 
> Just out of curiosity, how many other geocachers are there on the list?
> What linux software is available to help out with geocaching?  I'm
> fairly dissatisfied with what I've found and just about to write
> something myself using Qt but I thought I'd at least ask what other
> people use before striking out on my own. :-)

I am a geocacher also.  The only software I've seen around is the
already mentioned GPSBabel.  Beyond that, I've been using a windows PDA
solution to carry waypoints, etc.

The only thing I've attemtped thus far was to have my found caches sent
to me in a .gpx file daily.  I then parse the XML with a perl script,
output a small HTML chunk and a data file.  The script then queries the
Tiger map server to plot the found waypoints on a  map and dumps it to
the website.

SWS <Jestre>