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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 “kačer” and it is duck male, i.e. drake
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Features overview
- finger-frienly
- database of geocaches and waypoints
- database fully compatible with GeoGet, plugin for synchronization
- can handle huge data volume, tested on 20 000+ caches (plus waypoints), can work with 80 000
- 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
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- compatible with GeoKuk
- Google Maps, Open Street etc.
- mass download using Mobile Atlas Creator with type of atlas OSMTracker tile storage
Future plans
- more finger-friendly
- on-line downloads from geocaching.com
- upload logs to geocaching.com
- filter management
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