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Rapid logging of geocaching activity
Posted on May 26th, 2009
Here’s a quick sample of the activity logging feature of Ammotin – click the image for a full size screenshot.When you’ve been out walking all day, logging all the finds can be slow, tedious work. Ammotin will hopefully streamline this process. You can click on the caches you’ve found and write your log entry into the activity box.
In order to make the process as smooth as possible, there’s no “OK” or “Save” buttons anywhere. Ammotin will just “do the right thing”. To guard against mistakes, there’s full Undo/Redo support.
Once you’ve completed your logging, you can generate a “Field Notes” file similar to the geocache_visits.txt file generated by a Garmin Colorado or Oregon, and upload it directly to Geocaching.com. There will also be support for Greasemonkey extensions to obtain the activity logs so that if you visit the cache page in Ammotin’s browser, it can auto-populate the log form for you.
There’s lots more I want to do here – for example, given a tracklog Ammotin could create some draft activity logs for you to review and expand on. This would be useful for “power trails” where the caches are often dull and unmemorable.
Getting close to the point where you can use Ammotin to plan and log a day’s activity – yay!
7 responses to “Rapid logging of geocaching activity”
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Looking good
The one thing that annoys me is having to log my TB through every cache I log, I don’t often do power trails, but the few I’ve done have been very tedious to do 2 extra logs for each cache…
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That’s a good point. I would like to streamline handling trackables, but haven’t implemented anything yet.
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Scottpa100 May 30th, 2009 at 09:47
This is looking like a great piece of software. I like the idea of tying it in with the OpenMaps and the integrated logging. Looking forward to the V1.0 release and further progress reports on the website.
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Martybartfast June 2nd, 2009 at 10:17
This looks like just what I want to run on my Linux system. I’ve just Emailed you a field notes file from Cacheberry, which also emulates the format for Colorado and Oregon units, I hope it’s of some use.
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supranormal November 19th, 2009 at 08:40
really nicee, i was looking for this
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Would you be interested in exchanging hyperlinks?
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Edgemaster May 26th, 2009 at 12:10