Idea: PodCaching

Time for some serious thinkage. I've been listening to many Podcasts the past few days and it's amazing how this idea of taping an amateur - style radio show and making it available via mp3 using RSS to syndicate it is catching on. While riding home on the train last night a thought occurred to me - what if you could combine Podcasting with Geocaching. Meaning instead of subscribing to a "show" you subscribe to a "location" - a GPS location. These locations could coincide with Geocaches so you could do things like listen for hints as to where to find the cache, list to others talking about the history of that location, or some funny thing that happened there.

Imagine further with me here :) Say you were going to go to a local restaurant. You could query the location and load into your iPod all the comments or interesting things about that restaurant. Heck! You might even get to listen to the owner of the store read to you the menu! Or imagine you want to go to a local museum. The night before you go, you request the feed for that location and in the morning you can take with you a series of stories, guides, comments and other great things around the museum. You might listen to someone who knows how to find the best art pieces quickly, or where to park nearby and save some money.


If anything, it would be very cool to plan to go to some park or scenic spot, or even ask you travel across country - you could have someone who's already done it travel along with you and point out great spots to stop or eat.