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Filter on attributes

Ralf 5 years ago updated by Brian Lang 4 years ago 17

Attributes are important info about caches and it should be possible to filter caches based on these. Both positive and negative attributes should be considered. And it should also be possible to filter based on their presence or not.

1. Show all caches with "tree climbing" attribute

2. Show all caches with "not tree climbing" attribute

3. Show all caches without "tree climbing" attribute

4. Show all caches without "not tree climbing" attribute

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filters would need complete rework in terms of design... attribute list is crazy long and would not work well with design as it is.

one can imagine endless ideas....


lets call all attributes of a cache A1...An and the rest are Am....Az

A1 present AND NOT Az

A1 OR A2 present

A1 AND A2 present


generally filtering is a basic task and as such I could filter anything you can dream of.

Bigger challenge is to present that filter in a UI so that the user can configure it....


That being said: I really want to add it...

Das fehlt mit tatsächlich auch öfters zum filtern. 

finde ich auch super. da ist dann aber ganz schön viel zu klicken. :) 

Under review

lange liste ;-)

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Da braucht es definitiv den Button "alle ein / aus" und "Alle umkehren" :)

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Solche umfangreichen Filterfunktionen sehe ich nicht in der App gut aufgehoben sondern weiter in der Erstellung von PQ am PC. diese PQ kann dann sehr einfach mit der App importiert werden.









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I don't know what others normally do, but I never take my PC with me and generate pocket queries out in the field. That is too much trouble for me.

There  is  a   PQ  APP  in  the    Play  Store.

Das ist wirklich viel zum klicken. Könnte man das vielleicht in Kategorien zusammenfassen? Also NC oder generell Klettern, Wasser (Boot, tauchen...)? Dann ist die Auswahl Caches in der Datenbank schon mal eingeschränkt.

Perhaps it is much, but still it is solved nice and simple in other apps

Of course, I do not take my PC in the field. :-)


 But I prepare my tours either on the PC and fill the app with the generated PQ. At Attibute, I do not only pay attention when I am at the cache, but I also prepare myself before the tour, because I already have to know at home if I have to pack a boat.

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There are apparently different ways of doing this. I hardly do any planning on my computer. I generate a huge gpx file for a large area and use this on my phone for a week or two. All planning is done on my phone.

I would love this feature.

This feature is the main reason I miss the app I used on iPhone.. :) They solved it nicely with a list of the names of attributes and not the picutres and you could check multiple attributes and select AND or OR as how they should be counted, it was great!

Out at the MINGO madness event, being able to filter for caches with the field puzzle attribute was spectacular for finding the gadget caches out of all the ones around.  With the new caches being published we had to do this to the live map.  We had to use another APP!  

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filters would need complete rework in terms of design... attribute list is crazy long and would not work well with design as it is.

one can imagine endless ideas....


lets call all attributes of a cache A1...An and the rest are Am....Az

A1 present AND NOT Az

A1 OR A2 present

A1 AND A2 present


generally filtering is a basic task and as such I could filter anything you can dream of.

Bigger challenge is to present that filter in a UI so that the user can configure it....


That being said: I really want to add it...

Cachly seem to have reworked their attributes filter (or the design is different for phone and tablet since I don't have an iphone anymore), but it used to be that the filters opened a new view, there you could select either "rules" or "attributes". Selecting attributes gave you a list of the attributes and you could click on those you wanted to include in the filter, clicking rules you could select things like "must include all", "exclude all" or "contains at least one" or something like that, so basically AND, NOT, OR. 

I'm thinking something similar could be done within the current design, clicking "attributes" in the filters box could give a new "page" of the box where attributes could be selected and maybe some buttons for and/or/not? I'm thinking that step one is to be able to do some basic filtering for attributes, like find all caches with fieldpuzzle or all challenges for example, the more advanced configuration would be icing on the cake but even without that icing I'd still want cake. ;) 

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My suggestion would be to start with simple AND filters and worry about the OR filters later. 
Pocket Queries and the Geocaching Search (as seen below) all use AND filters. The grid (below from geocaching search filters) doesn't allow for the negative attribute filters, but I suspect GHQ will add them in due time.