Android map applications

There is an incredible application Maverick that shows several different maps, including the Google Maps, and - what is the punch line - it caches them for the offline usage. Once you browse them on your phone (e.g. using the free WiFi connection), you can go out, stay offline and you still see and use the maps! Only in the zoom levels that you browsed them at home, of course. There is a free version of Maverick and then there is a Maverick Pro version. These versions differ in number of custom waypoints, and perhaps in few other details, but the main feature, the map caching, is in both of them.

Maverick can also be used for recording your tracks.

Android applications for geocaching

As a new owner of Nexus One telephone with Android operating system, I was obviously interested in the applications for geocaching. I found several and played a bit with some of them. The winner, at least for me,  was c:geo.

The main advantage: it can store description of geocaches into the phone for the offline usage, and it does not need to use the map. It can use Google maps but does not need to. Which is cheaper if you are dependent only on the mobile network. Some of the other applications also can do it - but they need to take it from a .gpx file while c:geo takes it directly from the main geocaching site.

Of course, it's also nice that the author is Czech, living (according to the caches on his screen-shots) close to my house in Prague :-).

Bar code for installing the c:geo