rragan

It is the curse of a streak. One day I will retire from it.

Yes, that's the idea and what folks on the podcast were wanting. I could see the utility. I get notification mails of new caches but don't always remember to add them to my Daily list. After awhile, a fresh live search usually turns up several that got lost in the shuffle. For folks not getting notifications, I can see it would be even worse. 

The geocaching.com new search creates a bookmarkable URL that can be used to repeat the search at a future time. I was listening to GeoGearHeads Show #285 and folks were lamenting a LIVE update for offline searches like PQs which set me to thinking about what a LIVE offline list might look like.

The crux is being able to have a repeatable search over a set of criteria and a well-defined area to pick up new caches since the last date the search was done. Plain old updating would take care of the existing list members. I would expect to have to mark a LIVE list as such vs an ordinary one. Creating the offline list from a LIVE search seems the easiest way to get one -- capture the search criteria and either the region if one is specified or the area defined by the MAP view. I'm not sure how flexible the API is for defining a region but I suspect there is a limit on total area it can be when there is no state/region/country given. This could pose a challenge or a limitation. The other oddity would be a LIVE search only returns some of the caches in an area and you must repeat to get more (unlike a PQ which gets them all I believe). Maybe specifying the search to be LIVE would retrieve all caches behind the scenes -- a tricky bit this.

Once created the list would have the usual offline filtering abilities.

Thanks. It was mostly that I can't recall what features I asked for and hate repeating myself.

I know it is ultimately up to you what features to tackle after the release of 3.0. Some features are small effort with big payoff while others may be the inverse. I'm sure you already have some in mind to tackle. 

I'm not sure of the best way to do this but posting the list for comment and/or voting might give you guidance and let folks see if items are missing.

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Agreed Nick. Every time I use it in Geosphere, the initial reading is what becomes the final reading. Not sure why. Maybe some other way to store multiple readings based on several days visited or even just walk 50 feet away and back again and add a new sample. 

Is Average My Location on the feature list? Not a high priority for those who only find caches. 

If you really want to have them key them in, use an existing geocache and Add User Waypoint where Lat/Lon can be typed in. Then each of possibly many waypoints can be a navigation target. 

If someone creates the GPX file it can be transferred to other iPhones without email using AirDrop. No cell connection needed either. This would be easier and more reliable than having each scout key them in. 

I just did an experiment and returned to find your note. As you say, the Compass plays no role. I was trying to project a final location and using 52° magnetic North was specified. Using Cachly project gives the right answer for true North but not magnetic. I looked up the local declination of 13.5 degrees and corrected the heading to 65° and got the correct answer. It would be wonderful if projection could let you choose true or magnetic for the heading but declination varies by location. If you could read out the compass and compare to GPS to get local declination for magnetic, that would be cool but I don't know if that is possible. 

I found a free Declination app so that will suffice for the rare case the CO wants. Magnetic North projection. 

I had to do a projection using magnetic North. The iPhone Compass can be set to show either. Would changing the compass allow Cachly to do a projection using one or the other North? One or the other may be needed for a cache. 

The more general approach is in a feature request kicking around in the list. It is to recognize coordinate patterns in any text (description, logs, personal note) and make "hot" like a link. Pressing it would pop up a menu offering

- Save location 

- Set corrected coords to this

- Copy

- Add Related Waypoint

I tried many variants of your search coordinates (comma, no comma, degrees, apostrophes). They all worked fine. Is it possible you copied the coord text from somewhere else and picked up a stray invisible character or MS Word fancy single quote?

beta22, ipad

If you have the link opening to Safari, you can tap the GPX file button and send the file to Cachly. Then you can save it to an offline list for use within Cachly. That's the best one can do since Groundspeak controls what opens with coord.info and, of course, prefers their app. 

If I'm looking at a Friends Finds, I think Found date is most relevant. If looking at their hides then Place Date I think. 

The current Friend Hides seems to be in some random order. Is it possible to sort them from newest to older ones? If nothing, else this would be better than random.  I'm almost always interested in recent finds. 

Could waypoints with no associated Cache, be stored as locations?

https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=app

There are a couple of ways to go. Clear Map on Refresh:off, Use Map Center in Search:on. If you are picking onesies like an easy grab at a freeway exit, just save it to the list. If you want to grab three at once, zoom in to those and do Save Visible to the list. Then move the map down the road. The next search will show you new ones. Repeat the process. 

An alternative is to highlight the ones you want. Then you can do Save Highlighted when you have all the ones you want (assuming no other random highlighted caches are in the view)

I have asked for a search variant that limits the search area to the visible window. That saves loading caches I won't use when doing a manual caches on a route like above. 

21 hours ago, MrGigabyte said:

Exporting a GPX completely eliminates the need for a Pocket Query or Caches along a Route, for quick trips I take out of town. Go to the map, (Make sure clear map on refresh is set to off) and pan where you want to start, zoom in on an area, refresh the map. Now, pan the map along the route, hit refresh, repeat until you reach the destination. Now save the caches to an Offline list and also Export GPX. Once I have the GPX file on my Mac, I just load it into my Garmin GPS. This way the caches in my GPS are and exact copy of what is in my Offline list in Cachly. 

Similar strategy to cherry pick caches manually along my route and save them to an offline list. I just do it on an iPad (larger screen) and export to an iPhone for caching. 

For me, GPX is the universal interchange format with other cachers. The exception is those who use the geocaching app which only acknowledges bookmark lists. 

I failed to notice the other tab. User mistake. Sorry. 

If I set corrected coordinates via the web page and then import to Cachly, the corrected coordinates are shown with the marker. What I can't see then are the original published coordinates. Cachly shows a count of two waypoints but only lists the CC one. If I delete that one the original coords appear. There are times when I want to know both. Showing both also makes the count match the list.

I just spotted another thread that touches on various aspects of this which I think this approach could help. 

Cache entries have some user private data like corrected coordinates and personal notes. In the context of exporting a GPX, different tools seem to treat them differently. 

1.  Geocaching.com:  PQ from bookmark list to make GPX. Cache coords in GPX are the corrected ones and no indication of what the original might have been. Personal note not exported. Based on GPX from friend he says he generated that way. I have not tried it myself to verify.

2. Geosphere: Cache coords in GPX are the corrected ones and extra tags <gsak:LatBeforeCorrect> and <gsak:LonBeforeCorrect> hold the published coordinates. <gsak:GcNote> holds the personal note text.

3. Cachly: Cache coords in GPX are the published ones. Two wpt tags with no names associated are at the end of the export and hold the published and corrected coordinate values.

I don't run GSAK but it looks like it may behave like the PQ exports. Maybe someone can check.

So the question is what behavior is "right"? It seems to depend on the intended use of the export. If I am moving data from one of my devices to another either directly or via something like Dropbox, I don't want to lose any information. If  I am sending the export to others, I may not want to share my corrected coords or personal note. One can argue that I can get full fidelity with Cachly by just doing a refresh to pull the private data from the web site. However, this is not an option when there is no data connection.

I personally prefer full fidelity in my GPX exports and maybe send a GPX to others only a few times per year. Others may have different habits.  To cater to both needs, a setting for "include private data in exports" sounds like a good way to go.