+jallwork Posted February 17, 2019 Posted February 17, 2019 I'm looking at the 'Submit a Geocache' - Hide a geocache map web page: https://www.geocaching.com/hide/planning.aspx If I search for a known letterbox location , e.g GC4TH0N at N 53° 17.166 W 002° 01.705 the letterbox (or any letterbox nearby) isn't shown on the map. Is this right? Quote
+Touchstone Posted February 17, 2019 Posted February 17, 2019 Most of the LBH caches in my area are NOT at the posted coordinates, so my guess is that they are treated like Puzzle/Multi/Wherigo cache types on the planning maps. 1 3 Quote
+niraD Posted February 17, 2019 Posted February 17, 2019 23 minutes ago, Touchstone said: Most of the LBH caches in my area are NOT at the posted coordinates, so my guess is that they are treated like Puzzle/Multi/Wherigo cache types on the planning maps. I think it would be a good compromise if the saturation map showed caches for which I have entered solved coordinates. This wouldn't help for caches with multiple physical stages with hidden coordinates, but it would help with most multi-caches, mystery/puzzle caches, Wherigo caches, and LBH caches. 2 2 Quote
+NYPaddleCacher Posted February 18, 2019 Posted February 18, 2019 17 hours ago, niraD said: I think it would be a good compromise if the saturation map showed caches for which I have entered solved coordinates. This wouldn't help for caches with multiple physical stages with hidden coordinates, but it would help with most multi-caches, mystery/puzzle caches, Wherigo caches, and LBH caches. That makes a lot of sense. It would add a bit of overhead though as the system would have to check every cache that it might potentially display to see if it has corrected coordinates in your profile. Quote
+Isonzo Karst Posted March 4, 2019 Posted March 4, 2019 (edited) I'd go for planning map displaying any cache that has posted coords as Physical. That would be most Challenges in the Mystery category, some other Mystery, some LBH, and some Multi. Currently it shows Trads and Multis with physical posted coords, not LBH or Mystery. At first it was Trads only. There are old listings that predate the 'physical' 'virtual' indicator on posted coords. You'd have to assume virtual I think where not indicated, and hide those. Gets tricky, which may be why it hasn't happened. I doubt show any cache where the user has corrected coords would happen. For one thing, they'd need to be right, which they might not be ;-) and people are using that module for Trads, which while it may be correct to cache's actual location, isn't how saturation is going to work on the site - and it adds a overhead, per NYPaddleCachers post. If you've figured them out, then figure out not to put another cache near them ;-) Edited March 4, 2019 by Isonzo Karst Quote
+bitlux Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) Could the planning map be changed to at least include the finals for my own mystery caches? Edited January 31 by bitlux Quote
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