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I got bored with it rather quickly.
Now I use my GPS for this.

The BBC quite recently broadcast a story about some company, whose name escapes me, that has come up with an alternative to GPS which uses wireless hot spots to tell your device where it is. They literally pounded the pavement all over the planet, logging the unique identifiers of wireless access points and making note of where they were. Obviously, if you take a wireless router and move it across town, its unique identifier will then be associated in their system with incorrect data, but I guess maybe one or two such anomalies are filtered out in the aggregate.

Anyway, I just found that kinda interesting.

Really though, I think we all need to be a lot more conscious of how to disable the GPS in our wireless devices. You don't want that information coming back to haunt you when you're being sued or prosecuted.

We did a how-to on geocaching with Mac apps in the magazine last fall. Not with the iPhone, but using a standalone GPS receiver.

There has been a problem in some areas of trash piling up around geo-cache's. Empty water bottles, candy wrappers, etc.

I think the problem may be slightly exaggerated - but I've seen it myself.

I'm surprised Mlkin hasn't chimed in. She's into this.