Geocaching waypoints autoload

Started by MartyMcFly89, February 01, 2026, 20:08:45

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MartyMcFly89

When I add a new geocaches, I want waypoints selected in menu loaded. But when I have a geocache already added (in a folder somewhere) with its waypoints hidden (or just some wayp. hidden, some visible, certain caches takes many days/weeks to find all distant waypoints, so by hiding some, you see where you already were and where you weren't), it loads all waypoints again.

This is problematic, because when travelling to a location, it is wise to update the geocaches, so you see if some are now disabled, or new logs on them to help you. But by updating my folder with them, it loads all the waypoints again, including those I manually made invisible (making useless me hiding them in the first place). And the searching for new caches in the area (overwriting old, but not remembering the old had waypoints hidden).

My stop-gap workaround isn't elegant, I add such cache to special folder (I named it Waypoints), then go to geocaching.com page for the cache and ignore it. This way, it isn't again when searching for new caches (because it is ignored, but is in Locus app point folder). I cannot update it though without it loading all waypoints again.


Center of Prague especially looks like Star Wars movie - laser shootout. Some geocaches have waypoints tens/hundreds of km's wide.
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MartyMcFly89

New discovery. When I
1)manually hide waypoints for a cache
2)close the app (or the app is killed by memory manager, or by restarting the device
3)open the app again
4)the waypoints load again

This is unwelcome, as there is then no point in hiding them, when it don't last.
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