WhereYouGo

Independent developers

About this app

It supports playing Wherigo cartridges, which is an interactive location based geocaching game. You can load, play and save the current state of your Wherigo game. Compass and online or offline maps can be used to navigate, alternatively Locus can be used to display maps.
Cartridges for usage with WhereYouGo can be downloaded from https://www.wherigo.com and other services.

Main features:
- Automatic download of cartridges from wherigo.com (can be triggered from your browser by opening a listing page on wherigo.com or from other geocaching apps like c:geo)
- Use compass to navigate to the next game zone or location
- View game zones and locations on a map
- Uses online maps from various sources
- Supports offline map files (only Mapsforge v0.3 format at this moment)
- Seamless interworking with Locus to display maps (alternatively to internal maps)
- Several save game slots per cartridge
- Automatic game saving when switching to another app
- Integrated QR-code reader

About:
WhereYouGo is OpenSource and licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.

After the source code was unmaintained for several years, a new development team (the c:geo team) was - with agreement of the orignal author - finally able to take over the source code and continue app development.
If you are able and willing to help us, you can find information and source code in the link below. We need your help: https://github.com/cgeo/WhereYouGo
The core of the application is based on OpenWIG, it uses the Mapsforge library to display maps, alternatively Locus can be used.

Notes:
- When manually downloading cartridges from wherigo.com, make sure to use the version "Pocket PC Device".
- Copy the cartridges into your Wherigo folder (Settings - Main - Wherigo folder). Make sure you granted the application permission to write to external storage and you have write permission in selected directory. Some newer devices don't allow writing to SD card. If you're not sure, set "Wherigo folder" automatically.
- If you have problems installing or using WhereYouGo please contact us at [e-mail]
- If you would like to know why WhereYouGo needs the permissions requested, please check https://github.com/cgeo/WhereYouGo/blob/master/PRIVACY.md for an explanation.

Ratings and reviews

The interface to get started is not intuitive, but in the end, I got the cartridges loaded. However, for some reason, the longitude is displaying in south and latitude in north, putting me 30000km from the cache. I think that would put me somewhere in high earth orbit. Make an app that can read GPS before going past the basics.

Every whereigo experience has been disappointing. I decided to give it another go today. After walking several hundred metres, the app shows an illegal Pointer operation and becomes. Even if it was working flawlessly, the interface is so bad ( feels like Windows CE all over again) that the experience is negative no matter what.

I first installed the app, downloaded the gwc file, tried to open it, but it kept telling me it couldn't find any .gwc files, even after changing the search location to the downloads folder. After about 45 min I finally found a workaround by connecting my phone with a USB cable to my laptop and moving the .gwc file to Android/data/menion.android.whereyougo/files/ and that worked! Not sure why the app is having trouble finding the .gwc files. Maybe it has something to do with android permissions?

What's new

For further development of WhereYouGo we need help of the Geocaching community! Contact us!

- Fix download failed error (caused by recent website workflow changes)
- Fix crashes on Systems running Android 7 or below when statusbar icon is activated
- Fix longitude formatting
- Removed 'Acquire map from c:geo' due to map version incompatibilities
- Updated targetSDK to Android 11