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  4. Caches confused after a find

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    Saving offline didn't trigger the bug today.  The other actions I regularly do are to insert the Owner Name keyword, and after submitting going back to other logs before completely backing out of the cache.  I regularly switch between live caches and an offline list.  Still working on finding a consistent trigger :unsure:

  5. No radius for letterboxes

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    It's not completely clear, but it sounds like having clues from the posted coords to the final is allowed… as long as you supply actual coords with the clues:

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    Letterbox-style clues may be used to guide seekers to the container, but only if the clues are accompanied by coordinates specific to the hide.

    https://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx

    God knows how reviewers handle proximity for them.

    Sounds like would be misleading for Cachly to both display and not display a radius, and probably best / less wrong to leave as is.

  6. No radius for letterboxes

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    12 hours ago, ZeppelinDT said:

    Letterboxes are not necessarily at the given location.  A "true" letterbox usually requires following some set of instructions to find the final cache location.  A letterbox hybrid can be set up either like a traditional geocache (where its hidden at the given location) or it can be set up like a traditional letterbox (where its NOT hidden at the given location).  You can't really tell which way any given letterbox is hidden without reading the description.

    All the letterbox caches down here are at the given coords, and from my Google (well, DuckDuckGo), that's always the case:  you can go directly to the cache from the coords on geocaching.com, or from the clues provided on a letterboxing site.

    http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=153242

  12. New offline map issues

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    Ooh, that's nice, it makes walking tracks really pop.

    Might be worth making play areas more green than aqua, as blue implies water — see screenshot with lake on left and play area on right.

    I'd like to see contour lines, but realise that could make the map too busy.

    IMG_2005.PNG

  13. Caches confused after a find

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    I haven't worked out an exact trigger, but Cachly sometimes duplicates the just logged cache to a nearby cache.  It's something like:

    1. Go into a cache
    2. Log it
    3. Back out to map
    4. Tap next cache, and it will display the name from the just logged one.  Sometimes it'll have a smiley too.

    V1.x and 2.0

  16. Open cache in Safari by default

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    Hi, currently when looking at a cache and selecting ‘View on geocaching.com’, the page appears in a portal inside Cachly and it's another step to open in Safari.

    The reason for wanting to view on the GS site, is to get the full power of both the site and Safari.

    Maybe most people, or Nic, appreciate the current behaviour; but on the chance they're all silently suffering like me, thought I'd post this :P

  17. Remember state when quitting

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    Hi, currently when iOS quits Cachly, I lose what I've been looking at.

    e.g. go into an offline list, look at the caches on the map, then double-click the home button and swipe Cachly up.  When relaunching Cachly, it will show the Live view and it's forgotten what list I was looking at.

    My feature request is Cachly remember what I was doing :)

  18. Date/Time Logging issue

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    16 hours ago, Nic Hubbard said:

    Yes, I think adding an option with a big warning about this is what we will do. Still working on the specifics, so it might not be for a little while until we release that version. 

    Thanks for everyone's input.

    Happy that it will be an option so I can stick with the current behaviour :)

    Then I can carry on seeing the date lag a day, but know the data's correct.  And sticking with the default — and popular — behaviour means better chance of GS respecting the data if they ever fix the issue.

  19. Date/Time Logging issue

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    I investigated this a few months ago:

    By downloading a GPX file of my finds, I could see both Cachly and the official app end up with the correct timestamp in the logs, represented as 'Z'ulu (UTC) time.

    Finds logged through the website are also stored as Zulu time, but the time portion is always noon PST/PDT, so 2016-02-07T20:00:00Z / 2016-06-22T19:00:00Z

    So given Cachly's current setup is correctly recording the time, I'm reluctant to see it changed…

  20. Map tile caching problem

    in General Questions

    Posted

    That sounds like a painful and unreliable way to get a map for offline use!

    I think you've got it, there's 2 steps:

    1. you tell Cachly to download (& save) the OSM map.  You only need to do this step once, and thanks to being a vector map you can download an entire state/country.

    2. you can then switch to & from that offline map just like any other map.

    I usually leave the offline map selected:  it's faster and saves data if I'm on cellular. I occasionally switch if I want to check satellite pics or see if another provider has better topography — if I have an Internet connection of course.

  24. Date/Time Logging issue

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    Same in New Zealand, it's always been like that.  The Groundspeak database stores log entries from Cachly in UTC (GMT).  I'm pretty sure Cachly is converting that back to local time when displaying the log (Nic?). The issue is that Geocaching.com just displays the raw entry, so for this far east it's usually the previous day.

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