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Introduction

Pocket Drake is a freeware application for Windows Mobile devices designed to do paperless Geocachingu.

If you wonder where the name came from, here is explanation: cacher in czech sounds like “kaÄŤer” and it is duck male, i.e. drake :-)

Features overview

  • finger-frienly
  • database of geocaches and waypoints
  • complete cache information
    • coordinates
    • terrain and difficulty
    • distance and direction
    • attributes
    • listing (original HTML)
    • list of assigned waypoints
    • logs
    • own notes
    • own log as Field Notes
  • navigation to cache or waypoint
    • compass
  • export Field Notes
    • customizable text of log, include time, note and sequence number
  • import and export of GPX
  • export of track to GPX, KLM, PLT
  • map
    • various map sources - www.mapy.cz, Google, OpenStreetMap
    • automatic download
    • automatic saving for off-line use
    • Google Maps, Open Street etc.

Future plans

  • more finger-friendly
  • on-line downloads from geocaching.com
  • upload logs to geocaching.com
  • filter management

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