I bought an iphone not that long ago, and it seems to me that the one application that is begging to be written is a GeoCaching website specifically optimized for iphones. I know the iphone doesn't have GPS, but alot of GPS don't have internet connections or data/memory for showing the rest of the geocache data. It would save me from having to tote around my Axim which has lately stopped working so well. :(
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I figured out a good solution this weekend, at least it's the best I can come up with until an actual GPX viewer for iPod touch comes out.
You can use Safari to load the html output from GSAK (or whatever program you use to convert GPX -> HTML) and browse it that way. I get around the Mobile Safari limitation of not being able to load local html files by installing apache (in Installer.app under Network) and putting the html files from GSAK into the doc root for apache. Then I just setup a Mobile Safari bookmark to point to http://127.0.0.1 to browse the files
That sounds halfway decent, although I'll admit I don't quite understand how to install apache (maybe that option is only available on ipod touch or "hacked" iphones).
Another option I've seen is http://m.cmiyc.com/, but so far it really sucks - it is quite slow and doesn't offer any good way to navigate a list of caches.
Yes, you have to jailbreak the iPod Touch / iPhone to install apache.
Try http://wap.geocaching.com/.
Bare bones but loads fast on my iPhone, and is less likely to choke when the connection is weak.
You do not need Apache, you can just install 1.1.3/4 Safari Patch to have file:// working (for example file:///tmp/html/geocaching.html)
Patch is here and info is here
You might want to check out www.ayefon.com for a good iPhone geocaching app.
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