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Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:08 am
by seriousarsonist
That works brilliantly! thanks very much :)

Would be nice if Waze would integrate waypoint additions from external sources, or even the geocaching api... we'll just have to keep asking...

Thanks again
Pip

(purplecoat on geocaching.com)

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:01 pm
by BrianBinkley
I love that you found a solution for the native iOS geocaching app, but I almost exclusively only use Geosphere. One of my few complaints with Geosphere is the lack of driving navigation to a cache location. Do you foresee the ability to take what you did with the native app and do a similar integration solution for Geosphere?

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:41 am
by gerben
davipt wrote:
seriousarsonist wrote:... but I'd also say linking it with FourSquare is also pretty low priority, a lot of the foursquare georeferences are hopelessly inaccurate. ...
Not quite that "hopelessly inaccurate" over here, but I'm also a SU2 at Foursquare ;)

Now more seriously, what is really missing from Waze (and a lot other apps), is accepting coordinates on the search field, and be smart with the parsing of different coordinate formats. Only Google does it right. Even worse because waze does know about the coordinates via the waze:// uri.
IIRC, wazing to coordinates is possible, but Waze uses a different format than most other applications. Try switching the lat and lon, it should work!

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:09 pm
by GizmoGuy411
davipt wrote:
gerben wrote:
davipt wrote: ... {quote reduction}...
Now more seriously, what is really missing from Waze (and a lot other apps), is accepting coordinates on the search field, and be smart with the parsing of different coordinate formats. Only Google does it right. Even worse because waze does know about the coordinates via the waze:// uri.
IIRC, wazing to coordinates is possible, but Waze uses a different format than most other applications. Try switching the lat and lon, it should work!
Too hard to do with copy/paste on the iPhone, forget it :P
A slight trick I use is to copy it then paste it twice. Then I delete the first and last coordinate half, which results in the lat and lon reversed. Still a pain... I agree!

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:49 pm
by hublander
I have a tomtom that I can put custom POI's on it. Sadly the newer Tomtom's don't do it. I wish I could work out how to do custom POI's in waze. Or it might be a case of learning to write code so I can do it for myself.

I know a few Geocachers who like the old tomtom custom POI's so as you are driving along you can see there is a geocache there. With my Tomtom I can see what type of geocache is there. So if we could do this then do geocaches which are drivebyes and my favourite Church Micros would be easier.

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:06 am
by khaytsus
I used to be able to directly navigate from the Android app Locus, but now I just get a search for the cache name and not the coordinates :-\

Still not sure which app is doing it, but Google navigation works so I'm thinking it must be Waze.

GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:31 pm
by kieranrawley
I tried to get Waze to link to geocaching 3 years ago so well done for taking the bull by the horns and getting it to work!


It's a bit better/worse (delete as required) again today

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:23 pm
by Migueis
davipt wrote:Hello all,

As a Wazer and Geocacher, I felt the need for some kind of integration between the two, so I could pick up a cache and tell Waze to go there.

What I got so far works on iOS and with the official Geocaching client, but I'm willing to help other cases.

- open safari and open any webpage
- add the page as a bookmark, call it something ("Waze"?). At this point one can't change the location.
- open the bookmarks list, edit the bookmark, and change the location to the following text:

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javascript:l=document.location.href;l=l.replace(/.*?(@|%40|%2540)/,"");l=l.replace(/.*?(-?[0-9.]*,-?[0-9.]*).*/,"$1");alert(l);document.location.href='waze://?ll='+l;
Then what I do is the following:
- on the Geocaching client, pick the cache I want to drive to, and click on the "open on external map", which will open Safari and maps.google.com
- click on safari bookmarks and the waze bookmark
- an alert will show the "lat,lon", just in case, to ensure the value was parsed correctly (waze crashes if this value is incorrect btw)
- waze will open with a marker at the cache's coordinate. click on the marker and drive there. Or manually pick a road nearby in case it's a cache with no access by car ;)

Feedback is welcomed.
Amazing

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:55 pm
by Migueis
Agora com a app maps incorporada no iOS já não é possível usar esta técnica :(

Re: GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:09 pm
by rzPhone
davipt wrote:
seriousarsonist wrote:... but I'd also say linking it with FourSquare is also pretty low priority, a lot of the foursquare georeferences are hopelessly inaccurate. ...
Not quite that "hopelessly inaccurate" over here, but I'm also a SU2 at Foursquare ;)

Now more seriously, what is really missing from Waze (and a lot other apps), is accepting coordinates on the search field, and be smart with the parsing of different coordinate formats. Only Google does it right. Even worse because waze does know about the coordinates via the waze:// uri.
Waze accepts the "geocaching format" of coordinates pretty well. Just leave the " ° " away:

for
N xx° xx.xxx E yy° yy.yyy
try
N xx xx.xxx E yy yy.yyy