Improved experience with Mystery caches
Posted: 17 July 17 11:03 am
Background:
I've primarily been finding GC caches but have more recently become interested in the GA flavour of the game. This interest has been increased through the games (such as Christmas in July). In the field, I only use my smartphone (iPhone). I use Cachly app to allow me to import GA caches. My favourite cache type is mystery/puzzle, making up over 20% of my 1500 GC finds.
Problem:
The 2 main problems I face with GA mystery caches are:
a) Not being able to store corrected coordinates. The real issue here is the resulting lack of mapping of the corrected coordinates. I have about 20 solved but un-found mystery caches on GA (over 300 on GC). I've tried keeping track of these on paper, google myMaps, adding as waypoints on unrelated GC caches and even with this small number, it has quickly become too hard and a real deterrent.
b) Not having the ability to add private cache notes as I can on GC. On GC, I use this to summarise how I solved the puzzle and add other notes such as hints from checkers, suggested parking. Corrected coordinates could also be stored here but it doesn't fix the mapping issue.
I can see that corrected coordinates is on the GA development list but not much detail; eg priority of this item, whether it's just storing of the coords or right through to mapping. With an IT background, if there is anything that I could do to assist with this, I'd be more than willing to do so. Otherwise please just see this as another vote for this functionality.
Of course the ultimate solution for me would be to have real-time access to GA caches on a phone app
I've primarily been finding GC caches but have more recently become interested in the GA flavour of the game. This interest has been increased through the games (such as Christmas in July). In the field, I only use my smartphone (iPhone). I use Cachly app to allow me to import GA caches. My favourite cache type is mystery/puzzle, making up over 20% of my 1500 GC finds.
Problem:
The 2 main problems I face with GA mystery caches are:
a) Not being able to store corrected coordinates. The real issue here is the resulting lack of mapping of the corrected coordinates. I have about 20 solved but un-found mystery caches on GA (over 300 on GC). I've tried keeping track of these on paper, google myMaps, adding as waypoints on unrelated GC caches and even with this small number, it has quickly become too hard and a real deterrent.
b) Not having the ability to add private cache notes as I can on GC. On GC, I use this to summarise how I solved the puzzle and add other notes such as hints from checkers, suggested parking. Corrected coordinates could also be stored here but it doesn't fix the mapping issue.
I can see that corrected coordinates is on the GA development list but not much detail; eg priority of this item, whether it's just storing of the coords or right through to mapping. With an IT background, if there is anything that I could do to assist with this, I'd be more than willing to do so. Otherwise please just see this as another vote for this functionality.
Of course the ultimate solution for me would be to have real-time access to GA caches on a phone app