---
name: "geo-nearest"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gpsdrive"
version: "2.09-2.1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/geo-nearest"
---

# geo-nearest(1)

geo-nearest

## NAME

geo-nearest: - geo-nearest

## DESCRIPTION

### Usage:

-

  geo-nearest \[options\] geo-nearest \[options\] latitude longitude geo-nearest \[options\] zipcode

-

  Fetch a list of nearest geocaches.

### Requires:

- A free login at http://www.geocaching.com.

  Visit a cache page

-

  and click the "Download to EasyGPS" link at least once so you can read and agree to the license terms.  Otherwise, you will not get any waypoint data.

- curl

  http://curl.haxx.se/

- gpsbabel

  http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/

## OPTIONS

- **-c**

  Remove cookie file when done

- **-f**

  Do not report any found or unavailable caches

- **-n** num

  Return "num" caches \[25\]

- **-s**

  Output short names for the caches (gpsbabel option)

- **-u** username

  Username for http://www.geocaching.com

- **-p** password

  Password for http://www.geocaching.com

- **-o** format

  Output format, **-o**? for possibilities \[gpsdrive\] plus "gpsdrive.sql" for direct insertion into MySQL DB

- **-S**

  Alias for **-o** gpsdrive.sql

- **-d**

  For **-S**, just delete selected records\\n"

- **-t** type

  For **-ogpsdrive**.sql, the waypoint type \[Geocache\]

- **-D** lvl

  Debug level \[0\]

- **-U**

  Retrieve latest version of this script

### Defaults can also be set with variables in file $HOME/.georc:

- PASSWORD=password;

  USERNAME=username;

- LAT=latitude;

  LON=logitude;

- NUM=num;

  OUTFMT=format;       BABELFLAGS=-s

- SQLUSER=gast;

  SQLPASS=gast;        SQLDB=geoinfo;

## EXAMPLES

-

  Add nearest 50 caches to a GpsDrive SQL database

-

  geo-nearest **-n50** **-f** **-s** **-S**

## SEE ALSO

- geo-code

  http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/sw/geo-code