I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about GSAK but it’s not open source and, maybe more importantly, not on Linux. So I simply googled “linux geocaching” and got to the geo-* tools. They are a set of shell scripts in the public domain — not, not GPL’d, really in the public domain.

These scripts are quite cool — if you are a command-line junky like myself. As the README says they take the clicky-clicky out of the task of finding waypoints. Now I’m able to type this:

geo-nearest -s -f

And the script will go to geocaching.com, get get the 20 nearest caches that I haven’t found yet. Since it uses GPSBabel, I should be able to send it directly to my GPS from that command. There are also scripts that can also display a map of waypoints.

Very cool stuff.

There are other scripts that map out waypoints, etc.