Get a sneak peek at whats next for Permanent Hazards on our April 7th Office Hours!
These forums are specific to the Waze mobile app. Post here if you experienced a problem while using the app, have a question about the app functionality or a feature such as navigation or search.

Post Reply
Forum rules
Waze App Useful Resources

GeoCaching + Waze bookmarklet

Post 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)
seriousarsonist
Posts: 1059
Has thanked: 375 times
Been thanked: 151 times

POSTER_ID:10802295

1

Send a message

Post 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?
BrianBinkley
Posts: 8
Been thanked: 1 time
Send a message

Post 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!
gerben
Posts: 4782
Has thanked: 13 times
Been thanked: 175 times
Send a message
Nokia Lumia 920 (WP8 3.7.6 client)
Countrymanager The Netherlands
[img]https:///EcBKq[/img][img]https:///WS6zp[/img][img]https:///Y17fx[/img]https://img69.imageshack.us/img69/35/luiconring.png

Post 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!
GizmoGuy411
EmeritusChamps
EmeritusChamps
Posts: 1470
Has thanked: 339 times
Been thanked: 345 times
Send a message

U.S. based Global Champ Emeritus
U.S. Local Champ
U.S. Country Manager
U.S. Great Lakes ARC: IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
(and past GLR RC)
AM: NW OH, NE IN, SE MI
Wiki Profile
Verizon: Google Pixel XL3 & iPad "3"

Post 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.
hublander
Area Manager
Area Manager
Posts: 2346
Has thanked: 360 times
Been thanked: 234 times
Send a message
Chris (Hublander)
Rank = Mostly Harmless

I am Chris you may have spoken to Chris This is different to Chris. Not to be mistaken for Chris. Now wish my mum named me Kris

https://img.geocaching.com/avatar68/5ec ... e350b8.pnghttps://s.waze.tools/c4.pnghttps://s.waze.tools/s0125.png
AM North East London & South Essex

Post 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.
khaytsus
Posts: 863
Has thanked: 29 times
Been thanked: 68 times
Send a message
USA Country Manager
Central Kentucky Area Manager
AT&T LG G2 (AOKP 4.4.4)
Nexus 7 2013 (Cm 13.1)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/334 ... ze-500.gif

Post 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
kieranrawley
Posts: 231
Has thanked: 18 times
Been thanked: 33 times
Send a message
(I'll go for a run when I've got this little bit sorted..........)

https://www.waze.com/wiki/images/c/c6/W ... 00k_5c.png

Post 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:

Code: Select all

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
Migueis
Area Manager
Area Manager
Posts: 173
Has thanked: 32 times
Been thanked: 7 times
Send a message
https://not.against.org/am.jpg
Enthusiastic Wazer! @ Esposende

Post by Migueis
Agora com a app maps incorporada no iOS já não é possível usar esta técnica :(
Migueis
Area Manager
Area Manager
Posts: 173
Has thanked: 32 times
Been thanked: 7 times
Send a message
https://not.against.org/am.jpg
Enthusiastic Wazer! @ Esposende

Post 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
rzPhone
Posts: 14
Has thanked: 4 times
Been thanked: 2 times
Send a message