Combine Live map and Offline map

6 years ago • updated by 6 years ago • 5

I don't see any real reason (besides technical) for the user to have one Offline map and one Live map. In C:geo you choose a database and then you can turn on Live on the "offline map" as well. The offline stored geocaches have a visual indicator of this.

I would like a similar behavior in GCDroid, using one map only. Most of the time when traveling we work from an offline list/database produced from Project-GC (a GPX). In many cases logging one of those geocaches requires quite a walk. It would then be nice to on the same map, load whatever geocaches we actually are walking past, so that we can log these on our way. Today it's a lot of flipping between maps.

I therefore suggest that the "Live-button" is added to the Offline maps as well. I would prefer it with three states actually:

* Live enabled (loading caches, just as Live map works)

* Live disabled (not loading caches, just as Live map works when button is disabled)

* Live caches hidden (don't show the live caches, to reduce the noice, they are still kept in the live sqlite database)

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6 years ago

I always wanted to change how this works. I'll think about what I can do and how I would do it.

This would be solved with multiple DBs open at the same time (one of them the live DB).

6 years ago

Having an offline map is very important to me. It seems everywhere I travel there is no mobile reception. I am always switching to offline maps because googlemaps won't load. I also use other contour maps when planning remote cache navigation.

6 years ago

I think you misunderstood... this is about offline cache data vs live cache data :-)

6 years ago

I like this idea.

In a view other apps like C:geo, Locus, Cachebox, CacheSense (retired) this was implemented and works great. Standart there was the offline map and the only is started when clicking on a button. Then you have both, offline and live view.

I think there was an extra database for the livemap, that was shown, when active.

6 years ago

Maybe new caches that was loaded from livemap you can display in another color. So you can see directly what is new.

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