Waypoints & Coordinates

Waypoints are extra points tied to a cache — parking, trailheads, puzzle stages and your own additions. This page covers entering coordinates, the formats Cachly supports, and projecting a new coordinate from a bearing and distance.

Cache vs. User Waypoints

• Cache waypoints were added to the cache by its owner — parking, trailhead, reference points, and the stages of multi-caches.
• User waypoints are ones you add yourself: a solved puzzle final, a better parking spot, or where you actually found the container.

Add a user waypoint from a cache’s Waypoints section (toggle User/Cache at the top, then tap +), then enter its coordinates. Two shortcuts fill them instantly: Current Location uses your GPS position, and Geocache Location copies the cache’s own coordinates as a starting point; the cache’s code is shown for reference. Turn on Is Corrected Coordinate to make the waypoint the cache’s corrected coordinates — the spot Cachly navigates to instead of the posted location; corrected-coordinate waypoints have a fixed title, so the Title field is disabled for them. The ⋯ menu next to any waypoint offers Duplicate, Translate with Google, Copy Waypoint Text, Copy Coordinates and Set as Corrected Coordinates — the last makes that waypoint’s location the cache’s corrected coordinates in one step. Your user waypoints can also be inserted into the cache’s personal note as Name: coordinates lines, so solved stages travel with the note to geocaching.com.

Show All Waypoints on the Map

Cachly can show every waypoint of every cache in a list at once. When enabled, tapping a waypoint on the map opens a callout with its details and draws a line back to its parent cache, so you can see at a glance which cache a stage or parking spot belongs to. For live lists this requires full cache data (Settings › Caches & Waypoints › Full Cache Data); offline lists already have it, and an Offline Lists Only option can limit the display to offline lists.

Waypoint Types & Pins

Each cache waypoint carries a type that sets its map pin; your own user waypoints are shown in blue and can be tapped to read their description. When a cache has more than one waypoint of a kind, its pin adds a small bar with the waypoint number — P0, P1 for multiple parking waypoints, for example.

• Parking
• Trailhead
• Reference Point
• Final Location
• Physical Stage
• Virtual Stage

Coordinate Formats

The same point can be written several ways. Cachly’s coordinate picker offers five input formats, switchable any time from the ⋯ menu — your choice is remembered for next time:

Entering Coordinates

The picker keeps entry fast and unambiguous. In the standard DDM layout you set the hemisphere (N/S, E/W) with a tap, type the whole degrees, then type the decimal minutes yourself — so the decimal point lands exactly where you mean it. As soon as you change a value from where it started, a red Updated badge appears next to the format label so you can see at a glance that you’ve edited the coordinate. The ⋯ menu offers Reset Coordinates, which returns every field to the value the picker opened with.

Coordinate Projection

Many puzzle and multi-caches give you a starting point plus a bearing and distance (“go 145° for 308 m”). Cachly’s projection tool calculates the destination for you. Open it from the Tools section of the Add Waypoint screen (Project Coordinate); it projects from whatever coordinate is currently in the waypoint’s picker, so set that first — the Geocache Location or Current Location preset, or a coordinate you typed. Then fill in:

1. Direction — the bearing in degrees from North.
2. Distance — in the selected Unit: Meters, Kilometers, Feet or Miles. The unit defaults to meters or feet to match your distance-unit setting.

The Result updates as you type, so you can check the coordinate before tapping the checkmark (Done) to apply it to the waypoint. The Scratch Pad below is a working area for pasting the raw bearing-and-distance text from a puzzle; it isn’t saved with the waypoint.

Saving a Location

Cachly can save locations — coordinates you want to keep handy (a parking spot, a campsite, a search center). Saved locations can be reused as search centers or starting points for projection.