Convert map to PDF or ideally Paper

[mjouk]

The Cachly map is great for deciding where I want to go caching, but in the field I like to have the map on paper. That makes it easy to scribble on, I don't worry unduly if it gets wet, and I don't worry so much in dodgy neighbourhoods. 

So, it would be great if there were a way to save a map as PDF or send it to a printer.

If there's already a way to do this, I apologise.

[rragan]

I can think of three possibilities:

- A plugin for Chrome named Geoprint. I think it is German and you would need translation. It integrates with geocaching.com so you can add caches to the map from the web page.

- cachetur.no: A new trip planning tool from @Thomfre,  a great Norwegian cacher. Attached is part of a printout generated from it. It does not import GPX's though but as I recall can do bookmark lists and just lists of GCcodes to put in the route. It can do route optimization.

- furkot.com: A non-geocaching trip planning tool that I like because it gives me detailed times to arrive/leave a cache. The only fiddly thing is you need to import the trip from a csv file wtih DD format Lat/Lon and column headings it expects. It can optimize the route and do printing.

 

[Nic Hubbard]

As @rragan mentioned I think this is out of the scope of Cachly and would be better served by his suggestions.

You could also go directly to openstreetmap.org and print those as that is what we use.

[mjouk]

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I think the solutions you've outlined above are roughly equivalent to my own homebrew solutions, so I'll probably keep using those instead.

I did try one idea of my own though: just taking a screen shot on the iPad and printing that. It is much closer to what I was hoping for, in that it's a very quick and easy way to get a paper copy of the caches.

One feature would be useful though: a way to see the GC codes of the caches on the screen. I think this is particularly useful on a big iPad where there's enough screen space for it not to clutter things up at sensible zoom levels. I suspect such labels would be more generally useful, especially if they were optional. A nice implementation might hide them when the cache density gets too high. Is this something which you think is in the spirit of the app, and if so should I start a new feature request thread ?

Thanks again for the app.

 

[rragan]

Project-GC's Live Map leaves the cache name label exposed as you tap around the map. Perhaps too manual a process but, still an idea.