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If your personal note of a cache contains valid coordinates (e.g. N50 10.123 E010 34.876
) c:geo will automatically create a waypoint from it in the waypoint tab of this cache.
If for example this is the content of your personal note:
c:geo will automatically create this waypoint for it:
Subsequent coordinates in your personal note will also be transferred to a waypoint in the same way and the waypoint name numbered accordingly.
If the waypoints of a cache already contain the same coordinates as found in your personal note, c:geo will not create a new waypoint for these coordinates as it assumes them to be an unnecessary duplicate in this case. Two coordinates are consideres “same” in this sense when they are identical written in Geocaching standard Decimal-Minute Format (e.g. N50 10.123 E010 34.876
)
Normally c:geo will define the waypoint type for coordinates found in the personal note as Reference Point
, however you can use keywords in your personal note to enforce another waypoint type being used.
You just place one of the following keywords in front of the coordinates:
Icon | Waypoint type | Keyword in personal note | ShortId in personal note |
---|---|---|---|
Parking Area | PARKING | P | |
Question to Answer | PUZZLE | X | |
Stage of a Multi cache | STAGE | S | |
Trailhead | TRAILHEAD | T | |
Reference Point | WAYPOINT | W | |
Final Location | FINAL | F |
c:geo will recognize the following keyword formats as waypoint type identifiers (all of them case-insensitive):
Additionally localized waypoint type names (in the language you are using c:geo) will also work, however as c:geo is available in many languages we only list the English keywords here.
As an example look at the following personal note which uses some variants of the above to create waypoints for different types:
which then automatically creates these waypoints for you:
Perhaps you noticed that up to now waypoints were created with default names like e.g. Personal Note 2
.
If you want to create or edit waypoints from personal note while also specifying name and/or user notes, you have to use the following advanced syntax:
@[<prefix>]<name> (<waypointTypeId>) <coordinate> “<user note>”
Such a format is only recognized when it begins with a @
at the beginning of a new line. The following content is parsed:
@
and the coordinate is considered to be a part of the waypoint name, except when it is in parenthesis ()
@
is directly followed by square brackets []
, then the content of these brackets is considered to be the prefix of the waypoint you want to edit“
(in same or next line), then everything between this ”
and the next “
is considered to be part of the waypoint's user note (including line breaks). If the coordinate is not followed by ”
but has additional content on same line, then this content is considered to be the waypoint's user noteThe geocaches waypoint list is modified with this information as follows:
In case a waypoint is modified, the following rules apply: