[uphillbill]

New to geocaching, enjoying it with the kids so far. Great way to get us into the woods, the kids love to trade at the caches.

We have encountered a couple multi-part mystery caches that direct you to other locations. Is there any way to map the second stage locations revealed at the initial cache point for me to see under my geocaching.com premium account? We have only found the initial locations listed for the cache and will have to complete them later. It would be nice to see them on the geocaching.com map for planning purposes. We have an older mapping GPS and could do it on it, I suppose, but not nearly as nice as the computer monitor.

Thanks for any help.

[EdrickV]

If you had a premium membership and the 3rd party program GSAK (which isn't free) you could download the cache GPX file, put it into GSAK, and add additional waypoints or (for single stage Mystery caches) corrected coordinates and could see where they are on a map. To some extent you could probably do the same thing with GSAK as a basic member using LOC files, but you would not have a lot of the benefits of having GSAK. GSAK is a very powerful program for managing a Geocache database. (I also use it to manage my NGS Benchmark databases, which can be huge by comparison.)

[SKAMS]

The only feature on geocaching.com I know of is the possibility to edit the start position of i.e. a Mystery (Pencil right to the coods in the details view).
But even that single corrected coordinate is ignored on the Map Overview and (at the moment) is not transferred via the live API (when queried with external Programs/App). At least they are contained in the Pocket Queries.

Editing / Adding Waypoints is not supported on geocaching.com. You could add a cache note containing some information.

There are some external Programs which support these Features.

GSAK was already mentioned.

There's also the free "GeoGet" for the PC which has similar abilities (including showing a map with all caches for the current filter locally).

I find the Greasemonkey Script "GCTour" useful for planning & printing out day tours. It allows to add some caches to a "Tour". Custom waypoints can also be added. Finally for this "Tour" a editable report (with maps) can be created and printed out.
GCTour not necessary needs a premium membership. It works in the Firefox browser and needs the extension "Greasemonkey".

[uphillbill]

Thanks for the replies. I bought GSAK, but have only used it for one limited use so far (which I forget what it was, now). The way I went was to use the Geocaching.com Google Earth Viewer and to just add the points to 'My places' in Google Earth.

[fuzziebear3]

You could always just enter the coordinates directly into google maps to see the location.

Once you see the general location, you can find the same area on the geocaching maps to see if there are other caches that are nearby that you might also want to find.