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dornole · Geocacher Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 359

Love the new puzzle coordinate update feature on the gc.com website. It is really nice to have maps display the puzzle where it really is, especially when there are large rivers in the way and whatnot.

However the updated coords don't seem to transfer to my iphone app (though the new "notes" feature does, and instantly). Would be nice to have updated maps on my phone . . . though it is sort of charmingly throwback to 2003 when I started caching and just drove around trying to follow the arrow it's not the safest.

Anyone have a workaround for this?

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Moe the Sleaze · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject:

The updated puzzle coordinates do transfer over if you use the "download to my GPS" button on the cache page. That's how I've used them.
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pfalstad · Geocacher Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 967 Location: Edina

They do transfer to GSAK, though. Unfortunately they are not marked as corrected in GSAK.

JJnTJ · Geocacher Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 218

And when you refresh the cache details in GSAK 8, the coordinates snap back to the posted ones.

I'll still be putting final coords in the Personal Cache Note. Unfortunately, the PCN doesn't come through in the GPX files yet, but it does come through in the cache data refresh, so I just have to copy-and-paste into GSAK's corrected coordinate box.

Also, PQs and GPX files still don't indicate whether a cache is PMO, but that information does come through in the cache data refresh.

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dornole · Geocacher Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 359

Hmm thanks Moe. Maybe this will inspire me to actually use more of the features of my Oregon (does it have maps on it??) Since I got my iphone before I had the Oregon I usually rely on its maps for the broad navigation and then pull out the GPS to close in the last couple hundred feet.