NEW FEATURE REQUEST: Provide toggle to display cache on map at either the posted or final coordinates

[+da Bush Man]

Geo-arts look so cool on a map... until you start solving the puzzles and correcting the final coordinates.  But you can't see the geo-art anymore until you go and find the caches, which might take a while.  But if you could toggle between drawing the caches at the posted vs. final coordinates, then you could see both!

 

A more practical example might be if you're caching with a friend, and one of you have found a mystery cache and the other hasn't.  Having the final coordinates readily available on the map makes it easy to walk to.  But once you've found it, the cache posted coordinates might be miles away and it's hard to find.  Again, having an option to toggle the map setting between seeing posted vs. finals would be greatly useful.

 

I'm surprised I didn't see anyone else asking for such a feature, as I've heard so many frustrations with this limitation over the years.  Thanks for considering this new feature!

[+barefootjeff]

1 hour ago, da Bush Man said:

Geo-arts look so cool on a map... until you start solving the puzzles and correcting the final coordinates.  But you can't see the geo-art anymore until you go and find the caches, which might take a while.  But if you could toggle between drawing the caches at the posted vs. final coordinates, then you could see both!

 

A more practical example might be if you're caching with a friend, and one of you have found a mystery cache and the other hasn't.  Having the final coordinates readily available on the map makes it easy to walk to.  But once you've found it, the cache posted coordinates might be miles away and it's hard to find.  Again, having an option to toggle the map setting between seeing posted vs. finals would be greatly useful.

 

I'm surprised I didn't see anyone else asking for such a feature, as I've heard so many frustrations with this limitation over the years.  Thanks for considering this new feature!

 

It's been requested many times over the years, though probably not very recently as there's never been any response from HQ. Around here there's no geoart, all the mystery caches are just plain old mystery caches, so reverting those to their bogus coordinates after finding them serves no purpose and is downright annoying when trying to place a new cache. The Help Centre section on hiding a cache says "Solve nearby geocaches, including Mystery and Multi-Caches, to discover hidden stages" but if you then make the mistake of finding those mysteries and multis, you can no longer see where they were on any of the site's maps.

[+MartyBartfast]

I strongly support this request, not surprising really as I asked for the same back in '22, though I was asking from a slightly different angle: 

But always worth asking again.

Edited May 15 by MartyBartfast

[+arisoft]

6 hours ago, da Bush Man said:

I'm surprised I didn't see anyone else asking for such a feature, as I've heard so many frustrations with this limitation over the years.  Thanks for considering this new feature!

 

The feature was available for a short period and was then streamlined. There were two ways to open the map. One showed always corrected coordinates and was useful to check if there is any known cache near coordinates.

 

There seems to be some administrative agenda against corrected coordinates. Fortunately, other map services do not follow this agenda.

Edited May 15 by arisoft

[+Viajero Perdido]

This is one of the friction points that keeps me from using the website map very much.  It annoys me many times a year.

 

So instead I grab the tablet, hit the sofa, and use an app (non-Groundspeak) that's had this option since forever ... by a developer that interacts with users and jumps on suggestions.

 

Groundspeak seems extremely reluctant to touch the "Browse Map" code in particular, and I have some guesses why.  I've stopped hoping for changes there, just that they keep it available ... because fundamentally it is a great map.