As suggested [*], I create this as a separate new topic.
The following problem occurs when using the live geocache map of the geocaching4locus plugin. When I zoom in on a map, on the location of a "corrected coordinate" (the location of a solved mystery geocache, which was entered on geocaching.com), the waypoint icon on the map disappears when the "original coordinate" (the geocache location before it was corrected) moves out of bounds of the current map on the current zoom level.
This behavior makes sense, since the live map only loads and displays geocaches that are visible on the current map view. However, a corrected coordinate may be 2 miles away from the original location. The caches are loaded according to their original location, and thus the corrected location is not shown if the original would not be shown.
A possible solution could be to either load all geocaches that are up to 2 miles out of bounds of the current map (that is the maximum distance that GC.com allows between the bogus location and the actual geocache), or to cache loaded points, such that a corrected location should have once been loaded and displayed on the map, and stay on the map as long as locus pro is running.
I would think that the latter is most practical to implement. Just have a buffer for loaded points on the live map.
My current workaround is to store every solved mystery locally before I start hunting it.
The same problem 
Good day balloni,
I think it will be same problem as I dicussed some time ago in different topic, but I never get final answer from Arcao.
I'm worried that geocaching4Locus is able to only get caches, which original coordinates are visible on the map. And after these caches is downloaded from geocaching.com server, Geocaching4Locus obtain final corrected coordinates. So if in your case, original location of cache is out of screen on some zoom, it won't be visible.
@Arcao may you confirm it?
Good day balloni,
I think it will be same problem as I dicussed some time ago in different topic, but I never get final answer from Arcao.
I'm worried that geocaching4Locus is able to only get caches, which original coordinates are visible on the map. And after these caches is downloaded from geocaching.com server, Geocaching4Locus obtain final corrected coordinates. So if in your case, original location of cache is out of screen on some zoom, it won't be visible.
@Arcao may you confirm it?
Hello menion
thanks for your answer
your guess hit the point,
if location of original cache location is out of map view, corrected cache icon disappear ....
puh it shouldn´t
Hello menion
thanks for your answer
your guess hit the point,
if location of original cache location is out of map view, corrected cache icon disappear ....
puh it shouldn´t
Yep, it shouldn't. Unfortunately it is just another of many long time known and reported problems of groundspeak API ... :/
Yep, it shouldn't. Unfortunately it is just another of many long time known and reported problems of groundspeak API ... :/
Hi guys,
sorry for later answer. Unfortunately I have to confirm what @Menion wrote. G4L search Live map geocaches by original coordinates (inside the map bounding box). There is no way to search them by corrected/computed coordinates. So it can happen that corrected/computed coordinates are inside map bounding box, original outside and opposite way. This can cause unexpectedly hiding / showing POI on the map if Locus Map use corrected/computed coordinates instead of original one.
This is unfortunately feature, not a bug. :(
Hi guys,
sorry for later answer. Unfortunately I have to confirm what @Menion wrote. G4L search Live map geocaches by original coordinates (inside the map bounding box). There is no way to search them by corrected/computed coordinates. So it can happen that corrected/computed coordinates are inside map bounding box, original outside and opposite way. This can cause unexpectedly hiding / showing POI on the map if Locus Map use corrected/computed coordinates instead of original one.
This is unfortunately feature, not a bug. :(
Unfortunately expected.
Thanks for confirmation Arcao!
Unfortunately expected.
Thanks for confirmation Arcao!
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