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What your daughter is seeing isn't a restriction with Cachly but a restriction enforced Groundspeak/geocaching.com. Groundspeak limits the cache type, difficulty/terrain rating caches and number of caches displayed per day. 

There are ways to get around some of these restrictions but you'll need to prep data and caches outside of Cachly and then bring caches over as offline data. At least I think that will work with a basic account. 

This was Groundspeaks way of still allowing people to play for free but in a very limited way.

I don't have one to test with but in Cachly, at the bottom of the main screen, click Trackables. Enter the code of the TB at the top and go from there.

This status update also does not count against any API limits.

For those using GSAK, it seems there's now a macro you can run, on a cache by cache basis, to update the geocaching.com site with the corrected coordinates entered in GSAK. This should allow geocaching.com, project-gc and Cachly to use those coordinates to display the cache in its adjusted location.  I started the thread on the GSAK forum after multiple individuals here and on FB were dealing with corrected coords when leveraging GSAK. 

Post in discussion thread: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=32319&st=0&#entry243332

Macro: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=32407&st=0&#entry243331

What I'm not sure yet is if someone is creating the GPX directly from GSAK, if you'll get the corrected coords if you were previously using the suggested GSAK method. It might work if GSAK is refreshed (gc.com --> GSAK) with the cache info after the corrected coords are sent to the geocaching site (GSAK --> gc.com). 

Are you using TomTom Go? If so check out http://www.cach.ly/support/index.php?/topic/140-tomtom-go/#comment-1291

I don't mind it doesn't say "No..." The red circle tells me no.

The Groundspeak API has a limit of 30 requests over 60 seconds. 

18 minutes ago, CodeJunkie said:

My corrected coords only exist in GSAK not on the mothership. There are reasons that many avid puzzlers, like myself, avoid putting final coords on the website and choose to store them offline. 

What are reasons not to do it on the site as a corrected coord? I know in the past there were reasons - are they still the same today?

When you use sites like geocaching.com, project-gc.com and apps like Cachly, how do you communicate the final coord if it's just an attribute in GSAK?  Was your GPS or a GPX file getting it out of an export macro?

I haven't had time to do anything but yes, if you update the corrected coords on geocaching.com (directly or through Cachly), it should be handled across the board including GSAK. 

Wowzer!!

Container Type = Container Size?

How is date filtering going to be handled? As an example, one might search for a cache in Jan 2001 vs a specific date such as Jan 3 2001. Also, one might look for any cache on Jan 3 regardless of year. Will the filtering support those?

For filtering by distance, will it be current location/coords only or a means of specifying a different reference point?

Is the Found & DNF filter meant if the cacher has found it or not found it vs other cacher logs types?

For consistency, Cachly's screen calls them Photos and not images. 

Is State only US State or throughout geocaching.com does State represent Province or something outside of North America?

Text searches are case insensitive?

For Numeric, not sure if an additional option is "between" which could save adding a 2nd filter of the same type. Eg Terrain between 2.5 & 4.5 vs Terrain >= 2.5 and Terrain <=4.5 . I often ignore T5 caches because by me they are boating/kayak caches.

Challenge caches are mystery caches as far as Geocaching.com treats them. As far as interfacing thru the API, I would expect nothing different. Most challenge caches have the posted coordinates as the cache location vs a mystery challenge that normally has the posted coordinates not matching where the cache is placed.

What makes it a "challenge" is you need to satisfy some requirement such as find 7 different cache types in a day or find a cache in 20 different states or find 7 caches that total more than 500 favorite points, etc. 

A challenge cache is now one that provides a way to validate the challenge has been met through a script at Project-GC usually by a link placed on the cache page.  You can sign the log and claim a find on the cache if you meet the requirement and find the cache. You can always sign the log but you can't claim it as found on gc.com until the challenge criteria is met. 

http://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?map is where you can find them and the site tries to pre-determine which you qualify for. Use https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC40H0A_frankenstein-challenge as an example. The coordinates for that cache are the coordinates of where the cache container is located. You can see a link in the cache page on the right side to the Challenge Checker on the PGC site. Sometimes they are just in the body of the cache page. If you click it, you are taken to the PGC site ( http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC40H0A/11154 ) and you can run the checker for yourself and see if you qualify. The output from the checker will tell you yes or no and usually show you the info you might need to paste into your log to prove to the cache owner you qualified for the challenge.

Just an idea to consider. What I do for challenge caches which I qualify is I update the posted coord on GC.com with the same coord. GC, Project GC and Cachly treated is corrected coords. This trick shows a triangle in Cachly even though the coords are the original. 

I use Project-GC for seeing what challenges as I qualify for and then update the coordinates on the gc.com site for the challenge cache.

There's no distinction between a solved mystery and a qualified challenge, but the indication would show it might be worth going after.   Just a thought you could do in the interim if a more permanent solution was coming. 

Why use UTM on your GPS as the standard for Geocaching is WGS84? If you create a cache on geocaching.com aren't the coordinates provided in WGS84 format?

Anyway, you can more easily get to the geocaching.com page from Cachly without having to separately launch a browser, go to geocaching.com and search on the GC code. Instead, with the cache selected, click the 3 ... in the top right and select View on Geocaching.com and it should launch that cache in your browser.

14 minutes ago, Vividrogers said:

is it possible to add to a log a bit of text that is always the same and always there (just like an email signature)

for eg "logbook signed as VR because I'm lazy"

Yes you can! On the main screen click the 3 ... in the bottom right and go into Settings. Scroll in settings until you find Log Text. Click into that and whatever you write here will be posted to your log.  You can also click the 3 ... in the top right of the Log Text screen, select Insert Keyword and you'll see a list of shortcuts to add. 

I'm not a "trackable" guy but I think what you want is ... when you are creating your log, scroll to & click Trackable Drop/Visit. On that screen, click the 3 ... in the top right and select All Visted. 

Those work for you?

My Finds is not accessible/downloadable via the API. It's not a Cachly restriction but a restriction through Groundspeak. You can download it on your own and transfer it if you want though it is a little bit of an oddball PQ file. 

14 minutes ago, BAMBI11 said:

from my understanding some users have two nicknames / accounts. Perhaps they go Geocaching in a group or want to log the same Caches. Not everybody is using an iPhone and they want to log all together. Then it makes sense to have multiple users in Cachly at the same time. That means that all accounts are logged in Cachly. Then you can choose what you are doing with the accounts.  There is another Geocaching app in the App Store that already is doing that. That makes sense. 

When you have to log out and log in with another account the user dates should not be accessible from the other user. So it is fine as it is at the moment.

 

Through the API you can only be logged in to one geocaching.com account in any application I've used. I can understand supporting multiple users - one logged in at a time. I don't see a need or priority to have 1 Cachly app supporting teams (2+) of individuals. 

What app is supporting multiple users logging concurrently?

It seems appropriate that what is downloaded under 1 logged in user account isn't visible to a different user account on the same device.  

Are these users individuals that used a different program prior to cachly that treated the files as application and not user specific? They just need to learn how it works under Cachly. I don't feel it should change. 

bcuadrado - This restriction by Groundspeak is also why they were so keen on decommissioning the "old" official application that didn't impose the same limit on basic/non-premium subscribers. 

Any GPS in NYC as well as other areas with tall buildings will struggle with what they call multi-path signals. I don't think a phone is any more susceptible to it than a traditional GPS but I'm not a GPS expert.

In my informal use of both an iPhone and a traditional GPS (Oregon 700), being used at the same time is the accuracy difference between the 2 is no different from the accuracy difference between 2 folks using a traditional GPS standing side by side. 

Nic might have a different perspective, but those are the 2 options that are allowed over the API. I don't think the API provides a way to respect specific data elements so if you get the full cache, any filtering would need to occur on your iPhone and by then, it's already been transferred. So just download the info when you have a decent enough connection before going offline. 

When you are typing your log entry, there's a + in the bottom left of the screen surrounded by a dashed box. Click that and you'll be prompted to choose a photo from your camera library or take a new photo.

Is that what you are looking for?

No worries and no shame at all !!!

There's an annual or monthly recurring member ship option. Once you subscribe on the geocaching.com website, if after a couple of minutes it still doesnt show you are are premium on the site, log out and log back in. Once the Geocaching.com site shows as premium, I suggest logging out in the Cachly app and logging back in there too.

Good luck!

There is no Cachly membership, only a geocaching.com membership. There's no Cachly user account in the app, only a geocaching.com account.

If you purchased a premium membership  on geocaching.com, you will have full access on the site and be able to view unlimited caches through Cachly. Did you buy a membership on geocaching.com and provide your credit card info or Paypal info? If not, you still have a basic free account. If you paid, then log out and log back into your account on geocaching.com and see if it shows you as Premium at https://www.geocaching.com/my/ . On the top right where it shows your Finds and Hides, above that it will show Premium Member. 

If geocaching.com shows you as a premium member, log out of your account in Cachly and then log back in and you will have full access to caches from within Cachly. 

Try this...

Go to settings of the main map screen by clicking the ... in the bottom right and selecting Settings from the next page. 

In Settings scroll to where it shows Fit to Map and uncheck it so it doesn't show any green.  Click the back arrow in the top right. And then click Live in the bottom left. 

Now taking an action on the main screen shouldn't try to fit you and everything loaded on the map into the screen view.

I was able to replicate this situation. 

Here's what I experienced regarding GC code GCRYD9. Cachly shows 2 waypoints under the Waypoints Cache tab and 1 waypoint under the Waypoint User tab. Unfortunately, I can't attach the GPX or ZIP of the GPX files used to test but if Nic wants him I can email them to him. 

Test 1: I exported GPX of this file from Cachly and loaded into GSAK. There was a warning message on GSAK loading that the GPX file is in an old format (1.0) and in order to import attributes, etc you need to be 1.0.1. This seems do specifically to the GPX line at the top of the Cachly exported GPX so maybe an adjustment for this, unrelated to child waypoints, needs to be done in a future update.  No child waypoint was imported. 

Test 2: I modified the Cachly exported GPX file from Test 1 changing just the GPX value at the top with what Geocaching.com exports. This suppressed the warning message but no child waypoint was imported.

Test 3: I exported a GPX of this cache from geocaching.com for me that has a child waypoint added. I imported this GPX into GSAK and it shows a child waypoint. 

The differences are the GPX header and that Cachly didn't export the child < wpt > into the GPX, at least from what I can see. 

Cachly Export GPX Header:

<gpx xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
     version="1.0" 
     creator="Cachly" 
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 
                         http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd 
                         http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0 
                         http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/cache.xsd" 
     xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0">

Geocaching GPX Header:

<gpx xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
     version="1.0" 
     creator="Groundspeak, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.groundspeak.com" 
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 
                         http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd 
                         http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/1 
                         http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/1/cache.xsd" 
     xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0">

Missing GPX Waypoint included in GC GPX export but not Cachly GPX export:
 

  <wpt lat="41.046467" lon="-74.20315">
    <time>2009-03-24T18:49:13.37</time>
    <name>S2RYD9</name>
    <cmt />
    <desc>GCRYD9 Stage 2</desc>
    <url>https://www.geocaching.com/seek/wpt.aspx?WID=7eb638d3-8249-43f1-9c0a-68aec82154d6</url>
    <urlname>GCRYD9 Stage 2</urlname>
    <sym>Physical Stage</sym>
    <type>Waypoint|Physical Stage</type>
  </wpt>