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I'm using Locus-App and OpenAndroMaps myself on the phone ;-) This idea here is just for browsing the gc.com map at home on the big screen of a PC. I don't want to switch to another map style just to see peak names, because I prefer "Geocaching" style to the other selectable styles for browsing the map.

That is the point. The default "Geocaching" mapstyle does not - although it's a "topo" style including pathes and elevation lines. Such topo maps usually also contain peak names, since this is one of the most important features of these maps. I don't want to switch to another style just to see peak names, I prefer "Geocaching" style to the other selectable styles for browsing the map.

In general "Geocaching" map style on gc.com's search sites https://www.geocaching.com/map/ is a beautiful topogrphic style, including location names, road names and elevation lines. But there's one element I'm missing a lot: peak names (and its elevation) of mountains. They are important geographic elements and shouldn't be forgotten on any topographic map. Especially not on a map which is dedicated to an outdoor hobby like Geocaching, where lots of caches are hidden near peaks. So Peak names would be very helpful for orientation on the map. Gc.com asked me to post my idea here, to get further feedback about it. What do you think?

This is a good argument! Sometimes AL owners describe that the listed coordinates are e.g. parking coordinates. Or people can see on the map that the listed coordinates are placed at a certain location next to a way to start the AL. But anyway: I think users should have the ability to navigate to this start/listing coordinates. If they are placed on a spot to drive to: very good. If they are just placed on a random spot like in the middle of the lake or people are unsure about it: just don't click onto the navigate-icon. But in all cases it makes sense to add the starting point on the map together with the 5 red dots of the Lab stages to judge the meaning of its location on the map.

Ok, I'll try explaining it using a series of 3 Screenshots. Remember: The starting point is an individual field which a AL-owner has to fill with coordinates. It has nothing to do with the 5 lab stages, and so it's also undependend if the AL is sequential or not. 1) On the overall screen, where all AL of a region are drawn, the icon of my AL is listed at its starting-coordinates: OK! But no ability to navigate to yet: 2) When clicking onto the AL we can see the follwing screen. Still not possible to navigate to the start-coordinates. In my opinion it would make sense to have it here. 3) After clicking onto "Start" the we can see the following screen, a map of 5 AL's stages - but not its Starting-coordinates (which I draw green). Hence we just have the ability to see and navigate to one of the 5 stages - but not the starting coordinates. But this feature would make sense, cause a starting-point (parking lot, Trailhead) can be distant to the location of Lab-Stage 1

The point is: These starting location is not random - but exactly at those coordinates the AL owner entered in the field of my screenshot. So especially if the AL-owner defined it onto a certain location (like parking lot or trailhead) it makes sense to make this point viewable + able to be navigated to. This was already working in the past - before we have been able to navigate to the Lab stages itself. So the coordinates Lab Stage 1 in general is something different then the location of the AL's starting point.

Every AL contains starting location coordinates. They are the one where the icon in the main map of the app is placed. Not to be confused with the coordinates of Lab-Stage 1 which could be far distant from the starting location (parking lot, trailhead etc.)

The starting location of an Adventure is often a parking lot or another important reference point to start the Adventure. Some months ago we were able to navigate to this point, which has been ideal. Right now I think this is not possible, correct? Please make the this Starting point viewable in an Adventure's map (besides its Lab stages). And also make it possible to navigate to it too (besides its Lab stages).

Right now it's working again, so probably a temporary issue, or Groundspeak meanwhile fixed it. Of course the "postage-stamp sized" image could be enlarged. And the image should also be added in the mail copy sent to myself (where it is still missing)

This issue happened several times in the past to me too. It has never been a permanent problem, maximum for 1 or 2 days. Btw, there's another recent issue regarding images and Message center, please have a look at https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/367690-bug-message-center-images-not-sent-via-email/

If somebody writes a message including an attached image, the image isn't sent via email anymore. This has worked in the past. It's a disturbing issue, cause sometimes infos to me are sent via images. And by reading the notification email right now I don't even know that an image with important info has been attached.

Still not working

Not only replying to Messages is a problem like in the past. Now also if sending a message through the Message center and the message is appearing as sent there - neither the receiver nor myself are getting a Copy of this Message. So I thought by mistake the message has been sent, but keep wondering why the receiver isnt't answering...

Hi, when this bug is going to be solved? It's still not working, probably thousand's of email answers get lost because of this problem.

siehe auch https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/359102-bug-replies-to-message-centre-emails-ignored/ ich bezweifle, dass die "Engineering teams" das Problem inzwischen gelöst haben.

I've got exactely the same problem for several weeks. Responding to e-mail copys I get from people who send me a message using my e-mail software/app has become very unreliable. The E-mail adresses I'm sending e-mails too look like ....@mc.geocaching.com - some answers work, some answers not. Groundspeak's email server seems to receive all my e-mail answers (cause my e-mail provider don't return an error message as it usually does if a problem occurs), but there seems to be a problem within Groundspeak to forward the e-mail to its Message center system. The evil thing of this problem is, that I often don't even notice that my answer is not being forwared to the sender of the message. So the sender is waiting for my answer although I already solved his request by answering his message. One indicator of a not-forwarded email answer is, that I don't receive an e-mail copy of my answer which is usually sent by message center if new messages (like my e-mail answer) is posted. So right now the one and only reliable method to answer messages is to do by opening message-center in a Browser.

Beautiful new layout, thanks! maybe 2 ideas to improve - please differentiate between tracks and roads - please add the names of summits. They are good for geographic orientation and for geocaching as well (often caches are hidden near summits)

a) On the first page of my manual I can see the plot screen of the SporTrak showing the Track as a dotted line. My SporTrack (Firmware 1.10) shows the Track as a solid line, what is difficult to distinguish between the Track and a GOTO or Route. How can I make the Track become a dotted line? When I upgrade the firmware of my GPs I got a file "DEBUG.OUT" What is this file for? Is it containing the former firmware and how can I play it into my GPS again?