ideas for enhancement

[Bruno]

Hi there i have been using the app for three weeks now (on a daily
basis - i'm on holiday) and I like it a lot.

There are a few things that would have made it even better:
1) create "trips" ... Staying at a place I would like to make several
day trps. So it would be great to create a trip like "hike to top of
mount whatever" and list the caches in order i want to find them. As I
loaded the database with 1000+ caches, i could plan several trips in
advance and save them as trips.
2) Create custom tags to use. Now it seems I can only use the pre
defined ones.
3) Preload maps/sattelite views in advance. When caching in area's
with no or little cell phone reception it would be great if the maps
could be fetched up front... I'm thinking of prperi.g a trip, and
prefetch the maps at different levels. When in the field the maps can
be viewed off line. .. If this is not possible with google maps, a
work around would be to be able to save the maps as images and view
them with an internal viewer.

Sorry if my thoughts are already listed, I m on a cell phone and it's
not.convenient all the postings.

Thanks for making this app available to the.public!

[Anders Petersson]

Hi
Thanks for your suggestions. There's a list of other suggestions at
http://code.google.com/p/geohunter/issues/list?can=2&q=Type%3DEnhancement+&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Owner+Summary&cells=tiles

1) You'd have to decide on a heuristics to judge if a geocache is on the route or not. Maybe specify a maximum deviation. But it's not very straight-forward. What you can already do is mark some geocaches as favorites (press the star on the compass page) and only show those.

2) Custom tags would be quite easy to add.

3) I did a partly completed integration of osmdroid that lets you download free maps in advance (or in real-time). I even used it for geocaching abroad last summer.  Unfortunately that was around the time when I turned to other projects and no-one has developed GeoHunter much since then. The source code is there for anyone that wants to add features.

Enjoy your holiday. :)
/Anders

[Bruno]

Just posting the below to have the full conversation archived in this
group (in case other people are interested)

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Bruno Bougie <bru...@xs4all.nl>
wrote:

>
> Hi Anders,
>
> Sorry for replying to you directly, and not in the group..had some
> technical difficulties (removed a gmail account..but cant remove it from my
> phone..requires a factory reset ) ... Anyway..below my reply
>
> Thanks.for the reply. Now that I'm rethinking it: #2 would solve my #1. ..
> I didnt mean a possibility like the route pocket query on geocaching...too
> often it comes up with caches that I don't like anyway. I prefer to prepare
> a trip manually from the map and select my own caches.
>
> So if it would be possible to create your own tags, it would solve it..the
> hand picked caches could be tagged like that.
>
> As for the offline maps.. Do you plan on releasing that (even as beta
> version) ... Or is this project completely finished.for you?
>
> Thanks again,
> Bruno
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile

Reply from Anders:

Hi
The design is made keeping the option of custom tags in mind. The
biggest
work would be to create the GUI options to handle tags.
The code for offline maps is there in open-source, however it needs
some
more work to become ready for a release.

I might integrate the code for real at some point, at least if there's
renewed interest from other developers. Now I'm focusing on a very
different
project.

Regards
/Anders