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As a weekend amateur landscape photographer I find it hard to actually plan ahead.

I am searching for a programme / app to make a list of all the places I wish to visit and photograph.

I would also like to have the facility to enter searchable notes & keywords.
e.g. The following day weather forecast is for mist. I enter 'mist' into the search & locations with that term are shown.

Does anyone know of an app at all that can do this?
or use varying apps to the same end?

Many thanks to everyone.

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James
 
Nice idea. Invent something.... :p

I'm not sure anything exists tbh. I have loads of places saved on Google Maps but that's more for planning more of a 'road trip' day out. All my local places are stored in my head in all fairness.
 
If you just want a list then any editor, word processor, spreadsheet, etc. If you want a map then you can add "pins" to lots of mapping apps, OS, Google Maps, View Ranger but they probably won't be searchable. You can upload overlays to things like Google Maps and Bing Maps.

If you want things in "near-by" order then if you save the grid ref. of the location in ENENENE order in say a spreadsheet and then sort on that column you will get things sorted by closeness. E.g. the grid reference 29011 84835 would be stored as 2894081315
 
Ive just started using Evernote on a tablet for work purposes more or less in the way you describe.

It syncs to a cloud and the free version has a set amount of data per year, there is a premium version.
Its like a note book, you give a note a title and can then add text, photos, charts. There is a search function that i have just tried by searching the 3 notes i currently have for potato and it listed 2 of the 3 notes that contained the word - i manage a Garden centre and its potato buying season. I dont need the syncing so looking into whether it can be turned off but have just logged into the desktop version to test the search function.
 
Excel has search/filter functionality, it will take some data entry to get everything in there but once done you can just filter each column for whatever you want.
 
I think though this is rather complex.

For UK locations I have in the MetOffice App the places I would like to go

I just check them the day before to see if any forecasts work

in MetOffice I have

Glencoe
Broadford - nearest to Loch Cill Chriosd
Sconser - nearest to Sligachan
Staffin - nearest to Quairiang
Lochinver - nearest to Loch Druim Suilaradin
Grangemouth - for the Kelpies
Rhayader - for the Elan Valley

Just check and see if the forecast works for the place and type of shot you want to take. If I see the forecast that I like, I then check in Yr.No and Meteoblue to make sure it is on.

In Yr.no and Meteoblue I have presaved all my non UK locations like Chamonix, Nerin, Torla, Laruns, Gavarnie, Benasque, Passo Rollo, Chambord, etc
 
James_H said:
I am searching for a programme / app to make a list of all the places I wish to visit and photograph.

I would also like to have the facility to enter searchable notes & keywords.
e.g. The following day weather forecast is for mist. I enter 'mist' into the search & locations with that term are shown.
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Are you looking for an app that will search both the weather forecast for your saved locations and match it against your criteria for that saved location or are you just looking for a searchable list that you might want to photograph Loch Ard in misty condtions (e.g.) and it would flag that up when you search on mist?

The closest I've seen to this would be the clearoutside app- it has some bugs, is intended for astronomers/ astrophotography but looks to aggregate, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, dark skies, cloud, fog, visibility, temperature, precipitation and type, likelihood of frost, wind, humidity, etc for the next few days. It lets you save favourite locations. If your web development skills are up to it then it lets you embed the code into your own site, I don't know if it would be possible to link that in with google maps so that when you clicked on the saved point it brings up the relevant forecast (my web development skills aren;t up to it)



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