Fuzzy's Geocaching Page o' Wonders

This page is just here to point you to all of the various little geocaching utilities I've written to make life easier on myself and the select people who use the same stuff I do to go geocaching. It's split up by what programs it works with rather than in any logical way, so feel free to just browse...

If you just like geocaching.com

Check out my Geocaching.com wallpaper.

If you use DeLorme Street Atlas or Topo USA

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If you use the routing features of Street Atlas or Topo USA and wish you could find all of the waypoints along the route, you need SARoute. It will convert the route files from your DeLorme product into a simple text format that can be used with GPSBabel's arc filter. GPSBabel now contains most of the functionality of SARoute, so if your only intention is to use it with the arc filter, you should just use the "saroute" input type in GPSBabel; see the GPSBabel documentation for details.

If you hunt benchmarks

If you hunt benchmarks and wish you could get pocket queries for them, BMGPX is the next best thing. It lets you easily create a GPX file for an entire county, which you can then use with ClayJar's Watcher to filter by distance or direction, ignore benchmarks, mark benchmarks as found, and merge multiple counties together. Best of all, it does all of this without putting any load whatsoever on the geocaching.com servers. C-language Source Code

If you use Cetus GPS

This page will translate a geocaching.com .loc file to a .pdb file you can transfer to your palm so you never again have to enter waypoints by hand (unless it's an offset cache, puzzle cache, or multicache, of course.)

If you use a PalmOS handheld, but can't or won't use MobiPocket

This page will translate the MobiPocket eBook you get from a geocaching.com pocket query into a format that works with standard Palm eBook software.

Alternatively, you can skip the MobiPocket step and convert GPX files directly to PalmDoc

If you use Internet Explorer

The Cache Simplifier saves your color ink and your paper by removing extraneous graphics from cache description pages.

The Search Toolbar lets you search for any geocache, any time, even when you're not on the geocaching.com webpage. (Thanks to dboggny for the idea and to ClayJar for figuring out how to delete a value with a .reg file.)

If you just have nothing better to do with your time

The Doot-it-Yourself Locationless Cache Generator should provide you with literally minutes of fun.

If you're still reading this tripe...

You must be really bored. This last link is just here for purposes of helping one well-known and enjoyable person (Neil Gaiman) play a prank on another well-known and enjoyable person (Penn Jillette). Click the link and read the last paragraph if it means that much to you.