+TRADI Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) Have you ever had the problem that you got a long list with coordinates from a fellow Geocacher and then had to type them all one by one into your GPS/mobile device? Maybe when you solved mysteries together?The GPX-Builder makes this very easy by creating a GPX file from the coordinates. You can then import this GPX file into your GPS device or app and start geocaching immediately! https://tomrichter.dev/gpx-builder Edited April 18, 2020 by TRADI Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 16 minutes ago, TRADI said: Have you ever had the problem that you got a long list with coordinates from a fellow Geocacher and then had to type them all one by one into your GPS/mobile device? Maybe when you solved mysteries together?The GPX-Builder makes this very easy by creating a GPX file from the coordinates. You can then import this GPX file into your GPS device or app and start geocaching immediately! https://tomrichter.dev/gpx-builder That has never happened to me. I have never gotten a list of coordinates from someone. 1 Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) We use GSAK and/or the ability to move coordinates directly between our Garmin units over their RF link (even using our old Oregon 450s) when we get into that kind of situation, but I can imagine this being an even more useful tool if it were able to build POI files in the two more common formats (Garmin and TomTom) where lists of POIs with coordinates are sometimes found and need to be 'translated'. That said, GSAK (and other tools) could convert your *.gpx file of POIs to the necessary format as well. So I see this more as a potentially useful tool for text style POI translation rather than caches. Edited April 18, 2020 by ecanderson Quote Link to comment
+TmdAndGG Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 9 hours ago, Max and 99 said: That has never happened to me. I have never gotten a list of coordinates from someone. +1 Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 11 hours ago, TRADI said: Have you ever had the problem that you got a long list with coordinates from a fellow Geocacher and then had to type them all one by one into your GPS/mobile device? We'd sometimes get a list of coordinates from an event organizer, when they also placed new caches in the area. - But never saw loading caches manually as a "problem", and still load caches that way today. 1 Quote Link to comment
+K13 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 4/18/2020 at 12:37 AM, TRADI said: Have you ever had the problem that you got a long list with coordinates from a fellow Geocacher and then had to type them all one by one into your GPS/mobile device? Maybe when you solved mysteries together?The GPX-Builder makes this very easy by creating a GPX file from the coordinates. You can then import this GPX file into your GPS device or app and start geocaching immediately! https://tomrichter.dev/gpx-builder How do I do this in the free Geocaching app? I haven't found a way to import a gpx file to it. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 30 minutes ago, K13 said: How do I do this in the free Geocaching app? I haven't found a way to import a gpx file to it. Sounds about right. Groundspeak's free Geocaching app is pretty limited. Quote Link to comment
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