NeonGeo allows you to log caches (and trackables) directly from the mobile app. It is useful to understand the “nuances” of how NeonGeo manages logs.
NeonGeo downloads cache data into your mobile device. So one role of the “logging” function of NeonGeo is to mark the status of the cache in your device's internal database. This allows the map view to disply the proper “found” icons and moves the cache from the “All Caches” list to the “Marked Caches” list. In addition to marking the status of the cache, you may also want to do one of two things:
Create a Log Entry on geocaching.com. This is a “live” posting of your log. When you click “submit”, your log entry appears on this cache's description page on geocaching.com. It is visible to the public, and appears identical in every way to logs entered from the web site directly. Logs also allow you to post trackable actions at the cache as well, just like on the web site.
Creating a
Field Note, on the other hand, is not “public.” When you click “submit”, your comments are sent to a private “holding pen” in your geocaching.com profile called “field notes”. They are not yet log entries, and not yet visible to the public. Usually, when you return home from caching, you would go to the web site from your computer,
navigate to your field notes page, edit the entries, and then submit them to become live, public logs. A field note is not yet a log, and thus not yet a find, so your stats, and the cache's stats, are unaffected until the field note is submitted as a log.
Further, with a field note, you can decide whether to post the field note immediately, or save the field note in your device and submit them as a batch later. Logs are always sent immediately, field notes give you the choice. The local storage of field notes allows you to mark caches while not in wireless data coverage.
Neongeo allows you to create a signature, which fills in text for you (i.e. the current time, date, etc.). More information on this feature can be found on the Signatures wiki page.
From the cache description page, press your Android's “Menu” button and select Log.
A Dialog box will prompt you to select Log Geocache or Field Note.
Select Log Geocache
The dialog box collects the same type of information as the geocaching.com log entry page. Enter the log type, date, the narrative of your log, and select any trackable actions (dropping, or dipping/visiting).
Press OK to submit the log to the website.
From the cache description page, press your Android's “Menu” button and select Log.
A Dialog box will prompt you to select Log Geocache or Field Note.
Select Field Note
The dialog box appears allowing you to enter the log type, and the narrative of your note.
Press OK to save the note locally or press Upload to immediately submit the note to the website.
If you saved a note(s) locally and are now ready to submit them to the website or SD card:
In the cache description page, previously saved field notes are shown between the attributes and the cache descriptions.
To edit the field note, select the Page Icon in the lower right corner of the cache description page.
The same dialog box appears as when the field note was first created allowing you to modify it.
