[FEATURE] Show multiple pocket queries simultaneously

[+mamoreb]

Summary: Allow display of caches from multiple downloaded pocket queries at the same time. This could be done by using checkboxes to enable/disable pocket queries.

 

Rationale: The area that I "spontaneously" cache in, has more than 1000 geocaches. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I would love to have access to all those caches at the same time. I have tried splitting the area into a bunch of smaller geographical zones, but with the circular PQ zones, I regularly find that I miss caches. Geocaching in the border areas between PQs is a mess.

 

Most geocachers that I talk to, build PQs based on dates. The first 950 published in the state in one PQ, the next 950 in a second PQ, etc. With that method, you don't miss caches. Of course, this doesn't work with the Android app at all.

 

So far, my solution is to use GeoHunter, but I really want to be able to use the official app.

[+mpilchfamily]

Aren't you able to use GSAK to sort multiple PQs into a single file and sort them as needed? Once you have created a single .gpx file in GSAK you can upload it to the site where you can download the file like it was a regularly generated PQ.

http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/saved.aspx

[+mamoreb]

mpilchfamily, I am sure that you are right, but I consider your solution a workaround, not a feature.

 

Many geocachers are not familiar with GSAK, and (I think) particularly not those who only geocache with a smartphone.

 

Other apps do this without problem, and I think it would be a clever addition to the official app.

[AZcachemeister]

So I'm guessing you must be 'spontaneously' caching in an area with no data access?

[+The Real Boudica.]

Aren't you able to use GSAK to sort multiple PQs into a single file and sort them as needed? Once you have created a single .gpx file in GSAK you can upload it to the site where you can download the file like it was a regularly generated PQ.

http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/saved.aspx

 

Funnily enough I just worked out how to do this before seeing this thread feeling rather pleased with myself, I agree it is a workaround though, still feeling smug. Not having much involvement in databases before I found GSAK a bit daunting but help and instruction files certainly got me to manage the basics, incidently I use only a smart phone.

Edited November 3, 2011 by The Real Boudica.

[+GeoBain]

I get the idea and reasoning behind this request. However, my phone often chokes on one pocket query load. I'm not sure it could stand multiple pocket queries.

 

 

 

Droid Incredible

[+mamoreb]

So I'm guessing you must be 'spontaneously' caching in an area with no data access?

 

Sometimes I do - and in the country where I live, data access is rather costly. I understand that this is not the case in the USA, which is probably why this feature isn't highly requested/prioritized.

 

Since the app has the ability to store pocket queries offline, data access or no data access is not really the question.

[AZcachemeister]

...data access or no data access is not really the question.

 

Actually it is, since I have never felt the need to load even one PQ .gpx file. I just tap 'Find Nearby Caches', and away I go to the twenty nearest.

 

I do see the conceptual usefulness of what you are asking for, since I frequently load 'all the caches I haven't found in Arizona' into CacheMate.

 

I doubt any currently produced phone has the processing power to make this actually work, though.

[+niraD]

This is one of the features I miss from GeoBeagle. When traveling in an area with unreliable data connectivity, I would load a "nearest caches" PQ that included only non-puzzle caches, and a "solved unfound puzzles" PQ that included the puzzle caches that I had solved. I liked being able to see the nearest solved unfound puzzles right alongside the nearest non-puzzle caches.

[+mamoreb]

Az, I'm happy for you, but please realise that your solution doesn't work everywhere.

 

As nirad mentioned, Geohunter and geobeagle are doing this flawlessly.

[+niraD]

And for the record, Neongeo can display caches from multiple sources (GPX files, PQs, or live data) alongside each other too.

[AZcachemeister]

+1

 

After reviewing the app behavior with downloaded PQs, I am behind this request.

I can view one, or the other, but not two at the same time.

 

I think I could manage regardless, but why wouldn't I want to make it easy on myself?

 

[+bitmapped]

This feature would be very nice. Maybe even just an option to search all my pocket queries when I go to look for nearby caches. Even in the US, there are a lot of rural areas where cell service is non-existent so the current search for nearby caches feature is useless.

[+mamoreb]

Is this feature request not even submitted to the database for evaluation?

[+mamoreb]

This feature would be very nice. Maybe even just an option to search all my pocket queries when I go to look for nearby caches. Even in the US, there are a lot of rural areas where cell service is non-existent so the current search for nearby caches feature is useless.

 

No? OK, how about a "declined"?

[+deercreekth]

Hmm, this could be a decent idea for an app that can make one big GPX file out of a list of GPX files. Maybe call it GPXCombiner.