Caching With ViewRanger on the Nokia N95

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Caching With ViewRanger on the Nokia N95. The Nokia N95 is the largest competitor to the iPhone. It offers all of the same features …

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Caching With ViewRanger on the Nokia N95
The Nokia N95 is the largest competitor to the iPhone. It offers all of the same features
as well as having an integrated GPS module. The software that comes with the N95 is
intended more for vehicular navigational purposes, but there is a third-party application
for GPS-enabled Symbian and Windows Mobile devices called ViewRanger. It is a
directed at hikers, nature-lovers and geocachers! The
one drawback is that the background map data is only
available for the UK and Finland at the moment. They
are going to offer US map data, but they don’t currently
have a timetable for that. I decided that I would
download the trial version to see if I could miss the
background maps. This is such a well written
application that after using it for just over two week and
finding several caches I bought the full version of even
without the background maps! It seamlessly integrates
everything that you would expect from a standard GPSr
with what you would expect from a mobile computer.
When you first start
ViewRanger it will ask
you some setup
questions including
information such as
whether your GPS is…