GeoNiche is the first GPS enabled program designed for both geocaching and those who need the most powerful GPS system available.

If you enjoy geocaching, camping, hiking, fishing, bicycling, or other outdoor activities, GeoNiche is the PalmOS program you've been looking for.

Unlike most GPS programs for PalmOS, GeoNiche is intended for the off-road user. It was designed with geocaching and other outdoor activities in mind. GeoNiche uses your GPS receiver to record where you've been, making it easy for you or a friend to go there again!

Features:

* Imports GPX and geocaching.com files

* Imports points of interest and driving directions from Google Maps

* Creates GPX files that can be used with PC programs and on-line services such as GPS Visualizer

* Beams, Sends by Bluetooth or E-mail attachments, and writes GPX files to SD Cards

* Supports many GPS receivers, including Bluetooth devices

* Advanced target and route sorting (including automatic sorting and sorting by proximity)

* Multiple user-definable Navigation Mode configurations

* 360 degree rotation, several magnifications, pan up, down, left, and right

* Color, grey-scale, hi-res, and lo-res

* Uses standard PalmOS user interfaces

* Pedometer (Trip Meter) measures distance travelled

* Accurate distance and heading to target computations

* Distances, speeds and elevations in English, metric, and nautical

* Dates and numbers displayed in user preferred format

* True and magnetic compass bearings

* Many GPS coordinate input and output formats

* Powerful target and route management

* Sophisticated sharing capabilities

* Three independent GPS data displays

* Automatic update of target-visited date/time

* Proximity alarm when near a target

* Fifty icons (including 7 for geocaching), in any color, to represent targets

* Works well for users who connect their handheld to more than just a GPS

* Estimates accuracy of the GPS position fix

* Geocache hint decoding

* Cut and paste coordinates in one operation

* Help available for every screen

* Many other exciting features

Updated Description:

V1.44:

* Added more informative error messages when dealing with GPS receiver

* Added Nemerix and SiRF initialization strings

* Compass data from Garmin etrex summit, vista, 76S, and possibly others is now handled

* Route GPX exportation now includes more altitude data

* Improved 5-way navigator handling

* Changed default button on some dialog boxes

* Improved Garmin iQue 3600 support (Thanks Dave!)

* Updated EasyNiche to fetch container sizes through .loc files

* Fixed a potential crash after re-connecting to a powered down Bluetooth GPS receiver

* Fixed problem in EasyNiche with extremely long cache descriptions

* Fixed fetching of waypoint names through .loc files, (geocaching.com changed the format)

* Updated GoogNiche to work with heywhatsthat.com and yelp.com

* Added a PDF user guide

v1.43:

* Fixed various crashes introduced with V1.42 in Routes Mode and Targets Mode

* Typing characters on Targets Mode and Routes Mode immediately enters them in the L: field

v1.42:

* Improved 5-way navigator handling

* Fixed "Sound while near" preferences item

* Fixed infinite re-connection loop problem with Bluetooth GPS receivers

* Fixed various issues related to text editing

* Fixed crash related to powering down when communicating with Bluetooth GPS receiver

* Improved EasyNiche parsing

v1.41:

* More reliably re-connects to a Bluetooth GPS receiver after power-down

* Fixed element in GPX export

* Sound on Approach no longer beeps when not moving

* Fixed problem with unregistered version not importing short merge files

* Allows NMEA strings without checksums

* Ignores duplicate NMEA strings

* Ignores false latitude and longitude

* Improved Garmin iQue support

* Modified to work after telenav software re-configures its Bluetooth GPS receiver