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kayakerinme

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This is a feature enhancement request related to the Insta-Notify emails I receive for new caches being published. I recently updated my phone to a Treo and now have emails coming to the phone. When I receive the email, the cache name and guid are part of the email along with links to the cache. Unfortuately, none of this info really helps with the WAP interface as one can view a cache by its waypoint. I end up having to go a rather roundabout route to find the coordinates.

 

So, my request is to change this:

This is an automated message from Geocaching

 

Location: Maine, United States

0.3mi N (0.43km N)

gpsfun published Dyer Hutchinson Farm Chian Cache (Traditional Cache) at 4/17/2006

 

Log Date: 4/17/2006

Published

 

Visit this log entry at the below address:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...27-438c9dbc3a39

 

Visit Traditional Cache

Dyer Hutchinson Farm Chian Cache

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e4-151466aa48dc

 

Profile for gpsfun:

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=5a...18-be64d4258026

 

Notification: Traditional Publish

http://www.geocaching.com/notify/edit.aspx?NID=13124

 

ever so slightly to this:

...

Location: Maine, United States

0.3mi N (0.43km N)

gpsfun published Dyer Hutchinson Farm Chian Cache (GCVFYV) (Traditional Cache) at 4/17/2006

...

 

Note that the bold type is only to emphasize the requested change and would not be part of the mail... just regular text with the rest of it.

 

Thanks,

Barry / kayakerinme

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I recently updated my phone to a Treo

With the Treo you can just click the link and the normal page will open in the built-in web browser. You don't need to bother with the WAP site.

 

However for everyone with less-capable cell phones, I do support this suggestion <_<

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With the Treo you can just click the link and the normal page will open in the built-in web browser. You don't need to bother with the WAP site.

 

Well I'll be darned. I poked and poked on that link and it wouldn't go. I even tried copying the link to the browser but it got cut off as being too long. Apparently I wasn't poking hard enough because it did open in the browser today. Sheesh... technology <_<

 

Still, it'd be nice to have so I could go to the WAP site instead. Thanks.

Posted

I'd like to see the GPX file attached to the email as well <_< I end up going to the site and downloading it, so if it was attached, that would speed things up.

 

Just an idea...

Posted
With the Treo you can just click the link and the normal page will open in the built-in web browser. You don't need to bother with the WAP site.

 

Well I'll be darned. I poked and poked on that link and it wouldn't go. I even tried copying the link to the browser but it got cut off as being too long. Apparently I wasn't poking hard enough because it did open in the browser today. Sheesh... technology :mad:

 

Still, it'd be nice to have so I could go to the WAP site instead. Thanks.

 

For those of us without a "real" web browser on our phones, a link to the WAP version of the cache page (not just the GC number) would be great.

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I think a wap link would be useful for some users. But on my phone, it can receive emails but I can't follow the links, even to the wap site. Having the waypoint code would at least allow me to look it up.

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I'd like to see the GPX file attached to the email as well :mad: I end up going to the site and downloading it, so if it was attached, that would speed things up.

 

Just an idea...

Quintupling the size of the email? No thanks.

 

It's not much use for most people using hand-held devices. And for those on PCs, the GPX is just a few clicks away.

Posted

This is a feature enhancement request related to the Insta-Notify emails I receive for new caches being published. I recently updated my phone to a Treo and now have emails coming to the phone. When I receive the email, the cache name and guid are part of the email along with links to the cache. Unfortuately, none of this info really helps with the WAP interface as one can view a cache by its waypoint. I end up having to go a rather roundabout route to find the coordinates.

 

So, my request is to change this:

This is an automated message from Geocaching

 

Location: Maine, United States

0.3mi N (0.43km N)

gpsfun published Dyer Hutchinson Farm Chian Cache (Traditional Cache) at 4/17/2006

 

Log Date: 4/17/2006

Published

 

Visit this log entry at the below address:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...27-438c9dbc3a39

 

Visit Traditional Cache

Dyer Hutchinson Farm Chian Cache

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e4-151466aa48dc

 

Profile for gpsfun:

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=5a...18-be64d4258026

 

Notification: Traditional Publish

http://www.geocaching.com/notify/edit.aspx?NID=13124

 

ever so slightly to this:

...

Location: Maine, United States

0.3mi N (0.43km N)

gpsfun published Dyer Hutchinson Farm Chian Cache (GCVFYV) (Traditional Cache) at 4/17/2006

...

 

Note that the bold type is only to emphasize the requested change and would not be part of the mail... just regular text with the rest of it.

 

Thanks,

Barry / kayakerinme

 

Thank you! I notived that over the past week or so (maybe longer but I'm not sure), the insta-notify emails have included the GC waypoint ID. It now comes through as:

 

...

For GCXNNY: YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE (Traditional Cache)

Location: Maine, United States

41.6mi N (66.9km N)

gpsfun published YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE (Traditional Cache) at 8/19/2006

...

 

Thanks for doing this! I appreciate it very much!

Posted

How about an option for a 'short notification'.

 

I'd love to set up forwarding on my notification emails to my phone via SMS, but it would take up about 3 texts. Since I have to pay for each one, a simple, short notification would be brilliant.

Posted
... emails to my phone via SMS, but it would take up about 3 texts.

What provider do you have? I have Verizon and they just truncate emails if they are too long and I just get one text message. There are times I wish it would split it into multiple text messages.

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they just truncate emails if they are too long and I just get one text message.

 

I wish! We're a bit stuck for choice over here in the UK. O2 provide the service, but I suppose I could try elsewhere. ;)

 

Either way, it'd be handy to have the important info in the top few lines. :huh:

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