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Geocaching Droid Army knife

Rev Slippery

I downloaded a new “FREE” Android app for geocaching named Geocaching Droid Army Knife or GDAK. It is a sister program for GSAK on your phone which enables you to have your complete GSAK database available to you offline on your phone. You can upload one or multiple databases from GSAK and go caching with everything you got. It also does field notes. To make it work you just have to copy your database folder from GSAK on your PC to the database folder in the GDAK folder on the phone. It only takes as long as it takes you to plug in, open folders and drag, so simple. It seems to do everything you need to go caching offline and when you get back in coverage you upload your field notes or do it when you get home with the computer.

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For more information visit the site at http://wolojoli.woelmuis.nl/index.php?home and to download the app just visit the Android market.

I think I will give it a try tomorrow.

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Rev Slippery

Rev Slippery lives in Rivervierw NB and has been caching since 2007. I am a Husband, Father, Scout Leader and Leave No Trace trainer. I love the social aspect of caching, the events and group hike and trips are my favorite.

11 thoughts on “Geocaching Droid Army knife”

    • I do, just letting people know there is another free piece of software out there, that is what this site is for.

  • rofl, sounds like on the GC.com forums, every time someone mentions a new piece of software being developed, they get 5000 replies of “why not just use GSAK”.

    Looks good Rev, I’m considering getting myself a droid phone through Koodo sometime in the new year.

  • Funny, I still use a Garmin GPSmap 62s to geocache. I must be ancient or some kind of weirdo. But seriously folks,
    I can understand some of the new cachers using their smartphones to geocache as the technology is free to them to use if they already have the phone. Why buy an expensive handheld gps to try out something new and find out you are not interested. I have a smart phone with g:ceo installed. I think I may have found one or two caches with it. I keep my gps on the phone turned off to save battery life. So to turn it on and wait for it to aquire satalites and turn on c:geo and wait for it load and connect seems to take too long for me. Plus the fact it is nowhere near as accurate as the handheld.
    But I am not saying caching with the phone is bad. Just saying, for me, caching with the handheld is far better. There are many more arguments for both sides but this isn’t what this topic was about.
    Thinking about this now, I will try using the phone more in the next little while to give it a fair chance. I know it will be useful when I am out around town and do not have the handheld gps with me, although I am not an impulse cacher so I know before I leave home if I will get any caches or not.
    I do have GSAK but don’t use it very much. Just for puzzles. So I would not have a big use for the GDAK software.
    Now with the ability to correct coords right on the cache page itself I may not even use GSAK all that much. But it does still have its use.
    So whether I use a piece of software or not is irrelevant. It’s nice to know what is out there available to use. Thanks for the post Rev. Keep looking for more software and do all the work finding it for us.

  • I use my phone as much, maybe more than my GPS so why would I buy a new GPS that does what my phone does, kinda reverse thinking for me. I had my GPS in one hand today and my phone with GDAK open in the other and when I got to the cache there was only one meter difference between them. I don’t see me buy a new GPS anytime soon, I have a Magellan 500 that I love and a Garmin 60cs that I kinda like so until they die I am happy with what I have. The only draw back with the phone is battery life but I have 3 batteries for my phone and can plug it in when driving so I can go all day and I can add an SD card if I run out of space, those are the reasons why I got an Android instead of iPhone but that is another topic…lol

  • Thanks Rev… Another new app to play with on my android.
    /me goes to the app market to start the download 🙂

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