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Michael reacted to Nic Hubbard in Filtering how to
Good idea. I will address this in the next release.
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Michael reacted to rragan in Filtering how to
This is not strictly filtering but I'm looking for a clever way to clean up part of an aggregated offline list. The list was formed by copying several lists to a single one. I copied Year 2001 hides, webcams, and Cache Across America all focused on West Virginia. Then looking at the map it became clear that the large cluster of caches at the East side of the state were not in range for this driving trip. That left 3 on the west side of the state. What I would love to be able to do is just put those in the Map Bounds and "Delete Visible Caches". Alas, there is no such function. My solution was to manually add those three to another list, then filter on West Virginia and Delete Filtered Caches and finally copy those three back to the aggregated list.
Any other clever way to do this? Maybe highlight those three, filter on West Virginia plus not highlighted and then delete filtered caches. That might have been one step shorter.
This is a subtle way to ask for some actions on the current visible caches in offline. Handy ones would be: Delete Visible, highlight visible, remove highlight of visible.
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Michael reacted to Nic Hubbard in Offline vs Online Map (speed comparison)
Maps are always something that we are working to make better, but they are a difficulty technology.
L4C does use the same framework as we do, but it also looks like they are doing some Open GL rendering which is much faster than rendering images. Really nice as you said.
As stated, maps are something that I continue to work on and I will have more to announce about this in the future.
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Michael reacted to Nic Hubbard in Cachly 4 crashes updating list
This is painfully slow.
I am rewriting the entire interface and background downloading for updating caches. This will be in the next beta.
I tested updating 1,000 full caches and got the following:
Basic Update: 3.8 seconds
Full Update: 39.8 seconds
It has been a while since I revisited the old code that is currently downloading/updating caches so it was time for a rewrite.
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Michael got a reaction from Btwchen in Waypoints on map
Better handling of multi caches and their waypoints is my most wanted feature. Your suggestions would be a dream come true
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Michael reacted to rragan in Waypoints on map
I dithered on my opinions on this one earlier. Having hiked for a 54 stage multi yesterday, I keenly felt the inability to spot other caches along the way to the next waypoint. Overall map view did not show the next waypoint of the multi and what opportunities might lie along the way. Getting back to the original multi to plot the current waypoint after diverting to find a nearby cache was not easy.
I think what would have served is
a setting on global map view to you show all waypoints a way to highlight a waypoint so I could spot the currently sought one quickly in map view with context about what was nearby on the way to it. This suggests waypoints could have a small set of associated data like highlight and a note field to record info for multi step field puzzles Better coupling of a displayed Waypoint to its cache. E.g. Option on Waypoint press to open the waypoints screen of the parent to see it and other waypoints. I should be able to get from a waypoint to the parent Cache to do things like see the description, hint, etc. This becomes more important with all waypoints shown on map as it also helps to determine the cache the WP belongs to. Sorry if this wandered off off into a longish list of Waypoint features but each step seemed to open up further needs.
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Michael reacted to Necro in Prompt before closing Cache Notes
Hmm... How about this:
If user changes cache notes and taps "back" -> verify if content was changed. if not. OK, nothing to do. if yes - ask user if she/he wants to save/upload the changed cache notes to geocaching.com webserver?
Just an idea...
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Michael got a reaction from Btwchen in Should offline lists and pending logs be user specific?
Hi
In my humble opinion it is correct how it is implemented now. I wouldn't change it
Greetings, Michael
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Michael got a reaction from Necro in Prompt before closing Cache Notes
I like the proposal of barefootguru: "automatically switching from 'browse' to 'edit' when you tap"
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Michael reacted to ChrisDen in Offline maps
Second question. Is the map generated when you download or is it done by you in the background?
The reason for my question is the currency of the map. If changes are made in Open street when will they appear in Cachly? I am trying to work out how often and when I should manually refresh the offline maps
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Michael got a reaction from Kyzabra in Saved locations visible in offline maps
Recently I started to use the saved locations feature and it is really very useful.
It would be very nice if the saved locations would be shown on the map when loading an offline list.
Currently the locations are shown after I saved them, but when I switch from one offline list to another the saved location pins are gone.
I have to select a saved location to see it, but I only see one at a time and nothing else.
With all saved locations visible on the offline map, I could easily see all my markers for hotels, restaurants and bars while caching
Best regards
Michael
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Michael got a reaction from Necro in Saved locations visible in offline maps
Recently I started to use the saved locations feature and it is really very useful.
It would be very nice if the saved locations would be shown on the map when loading an offline list.
Currently the locations are shown after I saved them, but when I switch from one offline list to another the saved location pins are gone.
I have to select a saved location to see it, but I only see one at a time and nothing else.
With all saved locations visible on the offline map, I could easily see all my markers for hotels, restaurants and bars while caching
Best regards
Michael
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Michael got a reaction from MrGigabyte in Saved locations visible in offline maps
Recently I started to use the saved locations feature and it is really very useful.
It would be very nice if the saved locations would be shown on the map when loading an offline list.
Currently the locations are shown after I saved them, but when I switch from one offline list to another the saved location pins are gone.
I have to select a saved location to see it, but I only see one at a time and nothing else.
With all saved locations visible on the offline map, I could easily see all my markers for hotels, restaurants and bars while caching
Best regards
Michael
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Michael reacted to Necro in Saved locations visible in offline maps
... absolutely agree - and of course (still one of my most favorite feature requests) it also would be good to show all waypoints of all caches when loading an offline list.
(Bar) Pub finder feature also would be great
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Michael got a reaction from Kyzabra in Found cache count in Live view
Hi
It would be nice if there would be a count of the caches found in the Live view.
Thanks, Michael
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Michael got a reaction from Nic Hubbard in Found cache count in Live view
Thanks Nic! Never saw that number before
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Michael got a reaction from Attila_G in Waypoint details visible in 'Navigate to Cache' mode
Hi Nic
I would be great if the waypoint details (description) would be visible in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode.
This cache for example has the following waypoints with a task you have to solve at each waypoint (counting things in this case):
But in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode I can't see what I have to do at a certain waypoint, e.g. 'Stage 1':
So I have to switch back to the cache detail page and lookup the task of the waypoint.
Seeing the waypoint description directly in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode would be much easier
And the killer feature would be that I could see the waypoints not only in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode, but already in the normal map view of an offline list (switchable on/off).
With this feature I could see on the map if I walk past a waypoint of a multi cache where I have to do something, while going to get a traditional cache
Or even planning the optimal route to solve several multis at the same time
Thanks for your great work and best regards
Michael
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Michael got a reaction from DerLakaiMS in Waypoint details visible in 'Navigate to Cache' mode
Hi Nic
I would be great if the waypoint details (description) would be visible in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode.
This cache for example has the following waypoints with a task you have to solve at each waypoint (counting things in this case):
But in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode I can't see what I have to do at a certain waypoint, e.g. 'Stage 1':
So I have to switch back to the cache detail page and lookup the task of the waypoint.
Seeing the waypoint description directly in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode would be much easier
And the killer feature would be that I could see the waypoints not only in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode, but already in the normal map view of an offline list (switchable on/off).
With this feature I could see on the map if I walk past a waypoint of a multi cache where I have to do something, while going to get a traditional cache
Or even planning the optimal route to solve several multis at the same time
Thanks for your great work and best regards
Michael
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Michael got a reaction from abnorMali in Waypoint details visible in 'Navigate to Cache' mode
Hi Nic
I would be great if the waypoint details (description) would be visible in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode.
This cache for example has the following waypoints with a task you have to solve at each waypoint (counting things in this case):
But in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode I can't see what I have to do at a certain waypoint, e.g. 'Stage 1':
So I have to switch back to the cache detail page and lookup the task of the waypoint.
Seeing the waypoint description directly in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode would be much easier
And the killer feature would be that I could see the waypoints not only in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode, but already in the normal map view of an offline list (switchable on/off).
With this feature I could see on the map if I walk past a waypoint of a multi cache where I have to do something, while going to get a traditional cache
Or even planning the optimal route to solve several multis at the same time
Thanks for your great work and best regards
Michael
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Michael got a reaction from Necro in Waypoint details visible in 'Navigate to Cache' mode
Hi Nic
I would be great if the waypoint details (description) would be visible in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode.
This cache for example has the following waypoints with a task you have to solve at each waypoint (counting things in this case):
But in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode I can't see what I have to do at a certain waypoint, e.g. 'Stage 1':
So I have to switch back to the cache detail page and lookup the task of the waypoint.
Seeing the waypoint description directly in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode would be much easier
And the killer feature would be that I could see the waypoints not only in the 'Navigate to Cache' mode, but already in the normal map view of an offline list (switchable on/off).
With this feature I could see on the map if I walk past a waypoint of a multi cache where I have to do something, while going to get a traditional cache
Or even planning the optimal route to solve several multis at the same time
Thanks for your great work and best regards
Michael
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Michael reacted to Necro in Improve download dialog during update of offline lists
Not sure if this already was requested: While updating an offline list, cachly tells me "Downloading Caches" and shows the infinite circle animation turning and turning around. If the offline list contains lots of caches (updating them might take several minutes), the user does not know if there is some progress / what exactly is happening at all. It would be great to see some kind of progress bar or the like; e.g. "Updating Caches - 100 of 2685 completed". UI doesn't need to be refreshed after every single cache but maybe based on the amount of caches stored in the offline list (1000 caches = update every 100 caches successfully updated).
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Michael got a reaction from ChrisDen in Current location indicator not hidden behind caches
Hi
It would be nice if the current location indicator would not be hidden behind the cache symbols, e.g. like this:
Here you can hardly see the indicator in the middle and it gets completely hidden when zooming further out.
I hope its possible
Regards, Michael
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Michael got a reaction from Necro in Current location indicator not hidden behind caches
Hi
It would be nice if the current location indicator would not be hidden behind the cache symbols, e.g. like this:
Here you can hardly see the indicator in the middle and it gets completely hidden when zooming further out.
I hope its possible
Regards, Michael
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Michael reacted to Nic Hubbard in Log icons on map popup
I do have this on our list for offline lists. Just need to design how it would look.
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Michael got a reaction from Bolling in 'Update Caches' option in offline list view
Hi Nic
I think it would be nice if the options that are available if an offline list has been selected (like 'Update Caches' or 'Download Cache Images') via '...', would also be selectable in the offline list view when you drag the list to the left and select 'Options'. So you wouldn't have to select an offline list and then do something, instead you could do these tasks already in the list view
Thanks for your good work!
Michael