New icons on the map

[+Team I Ricci]

I think the map view needs some more icons for specific caches situations like: DNF, Archieved Caches (I know they are "darker" but a red icon would do better) and Need Maintenance ones.

What do you think about it?

Edited May 6, 2015 by Team I Ricci

[+TriciaG]

Archived caches don't show up on the map. Disabled ones do.

 

Personally, I like the idea of my DNFs showing on my map, but the other ones I'm OK with the way they are. Darker works fine for me for disabled ones, and many NM logs are irrelevant (posted long ago, and the CO hasn't cleared them), so I'd rather see them on the cache page as they are now than have them show on the map.

[+Team I Ricci]

Archived caches don't show up on the map. Disabled ones do.

 

Personally, I like the idea of my DNFs showing on my map, but the other ones I'm OK with the way they are. Darker works fine for me for disabled ones, and many NM logs are irrelevant (posted long ago, and the CO hasn't cleared them), so I'd rather see them on the cache page as they are now than have them show on the map.

 

Yeah I like that DNF show up on my map, but I would like to see them in a different way instead of their normal "never logged" icon. Maybe a Sad Smiley (as opposed to the Found it one), or even a smaller version near the original cache icon, to keep the cache type on show.

[+T.D.M.22]

A sad smile? So a frown then?

 

And I disagree with putting too much info on the maps. These cache is there, and I have or have not found it yet.

All other info is available on the cache page. The maps do their jobs in showing us where caches are, and the cache pages do their jobs go of us all the info we need.

[+niraD]

I wouldn't mind an indication that I had DNFed a cache, but not at the expense of the icon for the cache's type. They already use the shape to indicate PMO status, and and the background color to indicate the NM attribute being set. I'm not sure what else they could use to indicate the presence of a DNF log.

[+Hansons in Texas]

I really like the idea of a DNF icon on the View Map. I find myself looking at the caches again when I'm working with map view, because I don't remember I DNF'd it previously. This way in the View Map I could always sort to look at just my DNF's or remove them from the screen the same way I can with my founds. I could use the Ignore feature, but I really like to keep them on my map.

[+frinklabs]

Dnf X Marks On Maps?

Blue frownies

New idea - Frownie face on the map

downed caches

New feature request(s)

DNF caches

Feature Request: Additional Bookmark Icon

Displaying "Frownies" as Well as "Smilies" in "MapIt"

Feature Request (DNF's on Maps)

Feature request - sad DNF faces on map

Misses not showing up

Showing DNFs on maps

Sad Faces on the Map

DNF Suggestion?

DNF's on the Map

Did not find frowns

blue not happy faces

last "DNF"

Found / Not Found Smilies

Map Improvement

DNF Shown on Map

New map option

Map

New icons on the map

Did Not Finds

Frownie for DNFs

A few ideas

DNF

 

Edit to add this thread to the expanding list, and to point out that this feature is in the tracking system, so not to worry:

 

It's a good ideea. I submitted the feature request to our tracking system.

 

Jeremy Irish

Geocaching HQ Staff

Edited March 17, 2016 by frinklabs

[+frinklabs]

I wouldn't mind an indication that I had DNFed a cache, but not at the expense of the icon for the cache's type. They already use the shape to indicate PMO status, and and the background color to indicate the NM attribute being set. I'm not sure what else they could use to indicate the presence of a DNF log.

 

 

How about enhancing the icons with badges instead of replacing them?

 

[+and1969]

Archived caches don't show up on the map. Disabled ones do.

 

Personally, I like the idea of my DNFs showing on my map, but the other ones I'm OK with the way they are. Darker works fine for me for disabled ones, and many NM logs are irrelevant (posted long ago, and the CO hasn't cleared them), so I'd rather see them on the cache page as they are now than have them show on the map.

 

Agree with showing DNF's as in my own experience there can be some time from logging DNF to returning to look for the cache again.

 

I would like a way to be able to view my own finds that have been archived, given that I have found new caches placed near to archived ones or in some cases in the same spot as an earlier find and it is interesting to see why the older cache was archived. Due partly to this reason (distracting from active caches) I can't see archived caches being displayed to just anyone, and in any event they are not searchable from the search facility.

 

As for caches with the NM attribute, it might be helpful if they were displayed to their owners with a different icon to the gold star. Even though as CO's we do get emailed about NM logs.