Find buried treasure with Geocaching Live for Windows Phone

Geocaching Live for Windows Phone

Growing upward, 'X' always marked the spot, problem was my lack of treasure maps. Fast frontward to 2022 and anyone with a GPS device can find buried treasure. Ladies and gentlemen, geocaching tin can make anyone of you a pirate for a day and we now have a great app for Windows Phone to alive out those swashbuckling fantasies. But before y'all get your Captain Jack cosplay on, how about you read into Geocaching Live for Windows Telephone.

Let me explain for the three pct of y'all who have no clue what geocaching is (and yes it's as nerdy AND crawly as it sounds). Geocaching is a global, outdoor recreational action centered on hunting treasure chosen "geocaches/caches". Those caches can be made and created by anyone, at that place is no requirement, and you lot just need to salve the coordinates to a geocaching customs. The simplest treasure chase involves following the coordinates of a cache to its location.

Almost caches are housed in weather proof containers and will have a various assortment of odd, minor trinkets that you tin can have out if you bandy in one yourself. You'll as well find a log volume where you tin can tape the date and fourth dimension yous accessed the cache. Hit up the Wikipedia article on geocaching to acquire all nearly it. This sounds so nerdy, merely if you've never washed it I promise a adept fourth dimension. You only need to accept some friends and try it out old.

Geocaching Live for Windows Phone screenshots

Geocaching has various websites and databases where you tin look for hunts, one of the largest is Geocaching.com and they've merely made an official app for Windows Phone. This particular network claims over one,600,000 caches worldwide! Odds are you can find a hunt near you. The app is well designed and works groovy on my Lumia 920, but should work on well-nigh Windows Phone as it's not sectional to either 7.X or 8. Cheque out some features of the app:

Directly access to over one,600,000 geocaches effectually the world including description, hint, attributes, gallery photos, trackable items, and recent logs
Costless 3 full cache downloads per mean solar day (unlimited "lite" cache data) for Bones Members of Geocaching.com
Unlimited caching for Premium Members of Geocaching.com (visit geocaching.com/membership for more information)
Navigate using Bing or OpenStreetMap maps and compass view, and create custom waypoints for solving Mystery and Multi-Caches
Log geocache finds directly from the device, including picture upload from the camera or camera roll
Full support for moving Trackables in and out of caches
Salvage lists of geocaches for use when travelling exterior network coverage

Geocaching Live for Windows Phone screenshots 2

Fairly impressive in terms of what it can practise for a geocaching app. When I first went geocaching years ago, you had to download the file to your handheld GPS device. Now you tin browse the site, take hold of the relevant caches y'all want to hunt for, and so you the GPS on your phone to find that treasure.

If you lot feel like killing a few hours friends on a weekend afternoon bank check out Geocaching Alive. It doesn't matter if you live in the heart of city or out in the boonies, you're sure to notice a geocache somewhere nearby. We will have to expect as far equally when we tin can look an update for the app to take advantage of features unique to Windows Phone 8. I reached out to their support team and am yet waiting on a answer. I'll update if nosotros learn anything useful. Check out the pic below of a local enshroud at a park near my firm. This was a super easy one just to demonstrate what a cache might look like. This one in detail can be labelled as a "micro" cache since the container is and so small-scale. Inside were a few trinkets and the log.

Geocache in Redlands

The app is available to all Windows Telephone versions, it's free and y'all can download information technology hither in the Windows Phone Store, use the QR code below, or swipe to the right in our Windows Phone Central app. You are limited to saving three caches per day from the site as a basic member. Premium membership costs $10 for three months or $thirty for the twelvemonth. With that you get unlimited caches per day and a slew of other perks, read about them here.

Any of you been geocaching earlier? Interested in trying it sometime?

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