Release Notes (Geocaching® app: Map my drafts) - April 8, 2025

[+Geocaching HQ]

Release Notes (Geocaching® app: Map my drafts) - April 8, 2025 

 

With this release, you can now see a map of your drafts on the Geocaching® app version 9.74.0+.

 

From the list of drafts screen, select the map icon in the header to see all of your drafts on the map.

 

 

Nicole (nykkole), Product Manager, is watching this thread to answer questions whenever possible.

 

Any posts in this thread should relate to features in this release. Comments unrelated to the release may be removed. Please direct unrelated comments to other appropriate threads. Thanks!

[+PlayUsATune]

We always post as we go.  Is there an advantage in doing drafts?

Love that map idea though 😀  How cool would it be, to be able to see a map of lodged caches for a given day at anytime. 

[geoawareUSA9]

15 minutes ago, PlayUsATune said:

We always post as we go.  Is there an advantage in doing drafts?

 

Presumably, if you lacked network access to log on the spot, you could do a draft and post it later. So, yes, it has a use.

[+barefootjeff]

1 hour ago, PlayUsATune said:

We always post as we go.  Is there an advantage in doing drafts?

 

I'm not dexterous (or patient) enough to write more than one or two short sentences on a phone "keyboard", so I always do my detailed logging at home after a day's caching.

[+Mineral2]

Advantages of drafts:

• If you're out of service, you can save your draft and post it later.
• If you like uploading more than one photo with your log at a time, you can save a draft and submit it from the website.
• If you like logging your trackables (visit or drop) as you go, you can save a draft and submit it from the website.
• If you want to batch-log finds (best for power trails), you can save a draft and submit from iCaching / GSAK / or similar app.
• If you want to make more thoughtful and longer logs later when you have more time

[+CAVinoGal]

On 4/15/2025 at 3:04 PM, PlayUsATune said:

We always post as we go.  Is there an advantage in doing drafts?

 

The primary advantage for me, also stated by barefootjeff and others, is to write a better log than I can do on my phone.  I quickly note the time, and any details I want to recall later to help me remember the specific cache and then move on.  Later, typically the same day, I'll sit down at my laptop with a glass of wine and compose my logs, adding any photos I took.  I much prefer a full keyboard to trying to type things out on the phone's touchscreen.  Yes, I know you can speak the text, but I've never been comfortable with that.  Besides, it always seems to need editing anyway and it's easier for me to just type it on my computer later.  YMMV

[+Lakegal44]

This map ability is great for challenge caches. Many times I sign a log and then find I don’t meet the challenge yet. I take notes about it to save for when I can finally log it! The map helps me with details about the location and terrain. 

[+brekkcaching123]

This feature is great. It helps that way if I'm finding a bunch of caches, I can make a draft and then I can filter out all of the caches I found but never logged yet.