Introduction

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

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

PocketDrake is designed for off-line work, ie. without internet connection. It's possible to download data on-line, but this possibility is meant as a tool for quick update not as main way of program usage. Cache data is downloaded as GPX file, it means, user has to be Premium Member to be able to use this feature.

Support of new operating systems:

• there is no Android version.
• there is no Windows Phone 7 version and it is not planned in the future.

• 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
  • www.mapy.cz
    • compatible with GeoKuk
  • Google Maps, Open Street etc.
    • mass download using Mobile Atlas Creator with type of atlas OSMTracker tile storage

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