Basic GeoCaching Tool Wiki

Welcome to BGCT !

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BGCT is a tiny client application platform OS independent written in JAVA to manage geocaches.

Have you ever looked for an application capable of maintaining cache information offline + visualization on a map ? Well, here it is ! It gives you all the features to prepare a caching tour at home + all the information abroad even without access to the internet. And it can copy this information to your specialized GPS device as well.

-->June 2010: due to changes in the page layout on geocaching.com web-import is broken in the binary releases.

     fixes are already implemented - binary release will follow shortly

already implemented features

• maintain several different collections of cache-informations
• visualize cache location directly in the client on OSM maps ( even offline! )
• get detailed cache information together with distance from defined location
• import information from web
• import information from GPX files
• export information to GPX files
• export information to KML files (for google earth)
• export GPX to Garmin devices (Garmin/Oregon)
• custom waypoints

features still under development

• read NMEA information from GPS device
• read NMEA information from remote GPS device ( information provided over LAN)
• navigation !
• enhanced support for custom waypoints
• display additional waypoints as track on the map
  • export tracks as GPX
• define routes
  • export routes as GPX
• calculate distance of points on map
• i18n
• usability enhancements of dialogs
• add different tile servers ( where to get topo maps from ?
• installer
• optimized download of cachinformation (only get delta / parellel download)