"Official" geocaching app coming soon

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I would also like to reiterate what Jeff said above. I love geocaching, and have been a cacher since 2001, one of the first to sign-up. But I am continually disappointed in Geocaching.com and Jeremy's insistence in keeping the sport a closed system.

There could have been so many great geocaching applications, for the desktop and mobile devices, but without an API, we can't develop for it. Well, there appears to be an API but Geocaching.com only allows a few of their select friends to utilize it. Facebook, Flickr, and even Twitter have learned that a closed system is a dead system. If you don't, someone else will.

Please, Jeremy, when will you open Geocaching.com?

This is outstanding news. I will be purchasing this application Day 1.

I too, have been using other geocaching apps, such as geoffer lite and igeocacher with great success. For me, it is not an issue to spend another few dollars to have some nifty tools in my bag.

A question was asked regarding the accuracy of the iphone, which Jeff responded to.

Although the iphone rarely reports accuracy less that 29-56 feet, I have found that in actuality, the iphone is getting me very close to the caches.
In a head to head competition with my Garmin 60CXS, once I found the caches, often I found that the actual distance to the cache, as reported by the iphone was as accurate as the garmin.

I'm not suggesting the iphone is more accurate, but is it possible that the iphone is just more conservative when reporting the accuracy.

Perhaps Jeff can weigh in here. Is the accuracy reported by any device based on actuality, or is it a calculation within the device itself that is dependent on that devices own algorithms?

Anyway....I don't think anyone will be disappointed by the iphone's performance as a geocaching tool.

I am very excited about this app. I've been using iGeocacher since it was Web based and am very pleased with it. However, it takes some planning to set up a pocket query and download the .gpx file. From what I gather, the Geocaching app will pull it down from their site.

So, I will probably end up using both. iGeocacher will be great when I'm planning a big day of caching or if I know 3G coverage will be poor, but the Geocaching app will probably be my pick if I end up someplace and want to do some urban, or even suburban caching on a whim.

I can't wait. It's like Christmas for geocachers!

Awesome, awesome awesome! I don't have an iPhone, but I love Geocaching and I'm very happy to see programs for more devices! I hope they consider an Android version as well! :-)

I went geocaching for my first time on saturday with my iPhone. It was a total blast, but a pain to have to use paper to go from safari to google maps.

So, this is officially the first iPhone app I am going to purchase.

Too bad, Only for iPhone 3G.... Waiting to upgrade after Apple starts selling the iPhone online again an ships it to me.......

Yes, finally! Very happy to hear this news. Can't wait to try it out.

Damn, now my sole justification for not needing to update to a 3G iPhone just went out the window. ;)

And I'd like to echo Jeff's comments above, as well.

This is AWESOME! So happy to hear this....SO HAPPY! :)