Website enhancements: unknown caches and personal cache notes

[+And Sister]

I have two improvements I'd like to see:

 

1. It would be very helpful to be able to put a picture into my personal cache note.

 

One of the main ways I use the pcn is to record information about the hide for my own future reference or for when I get a PAF. It would be very helpful to be able to look up the cache and see what the hide, or at least GZ, looked like when I was there. When I found it two years ago and someone asks me about it, it's often hard to dredge up the details, and I'm often not on my home computer when I get the call, so I can't access the pictures I've got stored.

 

2. I'd love to see some way to distinguish between an unknown cache that is a solve-at-your-desk cache and a field puzzle.

 

I often browse the maps just looking for puzzles to solve. It not only helps me hone my puzzle solving skills, but also enables me to be ready to go if I wind up driving through an area and decide to do some caching along the way. But presently there's no way to tell from the icon whether it's a field puzzle or not, so I wind up checking the same items multiple times throughout multiple visits. Would it be at all feasible to have, for instance, a blue question mark for field puzzles and a yellow question mark for desk puzzles? I realize this would have to entail not only the CO marking the cache in some appropriate manner when submitting a cache for review, but also some code tweaking for the developers. But it would be so helpful!

Edited May 10, 2014 by And Sister

[+niraD]

2. I'd love to see some way to distinguish between an unknown cache that is a solve-at-your-desk cache and a field puzzle.

What about caches that have a solve-at-your-desk puzzle, followed by one or more field puzzles?

 

I think a more general solution might be to distinguish between mystery/puzzle caches with edited/solved coordinates and those without edited/solved coordinates. Then, when you're ready to go to the cache location, you can edit the coordinates of the mystery/puzzle cache.

 

If the cache is located at the posted coordinates, then you just copy the posted coordinates into the edited coordinates field. The cache then shows up (ideally, both on the map and in your PQs) as a cache with edited/solved coordinates, and you know that you're ready to work on the field puzzle, or that you're ready to find the challenge cache that you've qualified for, or whatever.

 

If the cache is located somewhere else, then you just copy the solved coordinates into the edited coordinates field. The cache then shows up (again, ideally both on the map and in your PQs) as a cache with edited/solved coordinates, and you know that you're ready to find the cache, or that you're ready to work on the field puzzle that follows the solve-at-your-desk puzzle, or whatever.

 

Of course, this assumes that there is some way to identify caches with edited/solved coordinates. This has been suggested before, for example:

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=318460

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=318617

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=318047

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=297831

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=286441

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=287015

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=289994

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=316915

[+Hanes69]

Very nice solution would be to extend PQ Filters by adding of additional checkbox like "I corrected coordinates" into section "That (And)". When you combine with type Mystery and "I have not found" you can get PQ/Map with your already solved mysteries fo trips planning etc...

[Blue Square Thing]

2. I'd love to see some way to distinguish between an unknown cache that is a solve-at-your-desk cache and a field puzzle.

Isn't there an attribute for field puzzle?

[+And Sister]

2. I'd love to see some way to distinguish between an unknown cache that is a solve-at-your-desk cache and a field puzzle.

Isn't there an attribute for field puzzle?

 

I'm looking for a way to distinguish the two on a map browse, without having to open every puzzle cache to see which type it is.

[Blue Square Thing]

I'm looking for a way to distinguish the two on a map browse, without having to open every puzzle cache to see which type it is.

I would have thought premium members could run pocket queries based on attributes and then map the results of the query?

 

I appreciate your thinking but, to be honest, the number of current caches that would need fixing to meet any new icon would seem to me to make such a change unlikely. And people seem to find it difficult enough determining what's a multi and what's an unknown anyway - adding another type will just confuse them even more.