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12  <h1>GPXView - Geocaching with Maemo</h1>  <h1>GPXView - Geocaching with Maemo</h1>
13    
14  This is a work in progress ...  GPXView is a <a href="http://geocaching.com">geocaching</a>
15    application.  Its main purpose is to work with <a
16    href="http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/">pocket queries</a> in GPX
17    format (hence the name GPXView). GPXView allows you to conveniently
18    read the information stored in these files and navigates you to
19    geocaches using your devices built-in GPS. GPXView features many
20    advanced features including full HTML rendered cache descriptions, GPS
21    based voice navigation and a built-in map viewer.<p>
22    
23    <h2>Obtaining it</h2>
24    
25    GPXView is available for three different plattforms:
26    
27    <ul>
28    <li>Maemo4 (codenamed Chinook/Diablo) on Nokia N800 and N810
29    <li>Maemo5 (codenames Fremantle) on Nokia N900
30    <li>Desktop Linux
31    </ul>
32    
33    The latest N810/N800 version is available from the
34    <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/product/raw/OS2008/gpxview/?get_installfile">Nokia repositories</a>.<p>
35    
36    <center><img src="images/maemo4.gif"><h5>GPXView on N810</h5></center>
37    
38    The N900 version is available from the extras repository and can be
39    installed from the Navigation section in the Application Manager on
40    that device. However, since there's a review process involved in
41    getting software into the repective repositories and since the review
42    process for the N900 is rather slow, it may take some time for the
43    latest version to show up on your device.<p>
44    
45    <center><img src="images/cachelist.gif"><h5>GPXView on N900</h5></center>
46    
47    There is no pre-packaged version for the Linux desktop. In order to install
48    GPXView on a desktop PC you'll have to download the <a href="http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/diablo/free/source/g/gpxview/">source code</a>
49    and compile and install it yourself.<p>
50    
51    <center><img src="images/desktop.gif"><h5>GPXView on Ubuntu Linux</h5></center>
52    
53    <h2>Getting started</h2>
54    
55    GPXView comes ready-to-run and even includes some little "welcome"
56    demo file. You can use this to learn about the basic usage of GPXView and
57    check out the various program features.<p>
58    
59    <center><img src="images/welcome.gif"><h5>First start of GPXView</h5></center>
60    
61    However, to start hunting geocaches near your location you
62    need to get the appropriate pocket queries in GPX or LOC format either
63    from geocaching.com where you have to be a paying member to be allowed
64    to download them. Or you check free services. Sources known to work
65    with GPXView are:
66    
67    <ul>
68    <li><a href="http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/">Pocket queries</a> from geocaching.com, available to paying customers only
69    <li>LOC files from geocaching.com are available for free, but contain very limited information only
70    <li>GPX files from <a href="http://www.opencaching.de/">Opencaching.de</a>
71    </ul>
72    
73    <h3>Installing GPX files</h3>
74    
75    Once you got your GPX files you might install them anywhere on your
76    device like e.g. the memory card on your N900. Files being downloaded
77    in ZIP format from geocaching.com can be left compressed. GPXView will
78    uncompress them automatically.<p>
79    
80    <h3>The GPX list view</h3>
81    
82    To import such files into GPXView you need to start GPXView and
83    and select "Import file" from the main menu. The GPX file will then
84    be included into the main screens list of GPX files. The following
85    session has two active GPX files and a closed one installed.<p>
86    
87    <center><img src="images/gpxlist.gif"><h5>GPX list</h5></center>
88    
89    These GPX list will be loaded whenever you restart GPXView. Since
90    these files may contain plenty caches, loading them may take a few
91    seconds. While loading you'll see a progress bar.<p>
92    
93    <center><img src="images/loading.gif"><h5>Loading ...</h5></center>
94    
95    You may wish to temporarily disable certain GPX files from this list
96    in order to speed up loading. In order to do so, just click the
97    <img src="images/delete.gif"> icon (on N800/N810 and desktop use the
98    Import->Close in the menu instead). A dialog will pop up to ask you
99    whether you want to remove that entry completely from the list or
100    whether you only want to close it.<p>
101    
102    <center><img src="images/close_remove.gif"><h5>Close or Remove?</h5></center>
103    
104    If you choose to close the file it will be displayed in "disabled" style
105    as visible in the GPX list screenshot above. These files will not be
106    opened at startup and thus don't affect the startup time of GPXView. The
107    containing cache files are not imported and are e.g. not found when using
108    the Search function and are not displayed on the map. To reenable a closed
109    entry just select it.<p>
110    
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