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The map files are now rather small for each state so it looks like for you the combined offline maps for Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana would be under 150mb and a one time (or at least very infrequent) download. I live on a state border and have NJ, NY, PA, CT loaded and if I travel I download the state I'll be in or cross through. Works well enough for me.

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.

Hi, in V2 when selecting a Pocket Query, Cachly downloads it to an Offline list… but there's no options associated with this. When downloading (say) Bookmarks, Cachly asks about full/lite/pictures. What gets saved when saving a PQ offline?

There have been very long threads on the GC forums about this. Because I'm only 3 hours different from the timezone GC uses, and I don't normally cache at night let alone the wee hours of the next day, it doesn't impact me. Even so, I followed along on the discussions. What I can guess from all the info is that the API expects time passed to it in UTC/GMT but for some reason, the GC processing switches it to PT (Pacific Time) which means if you are logging on a different day, from the PT day, it shows as a different day it was logged. If you were in London which is currently 8 hours ahead of PT, you'd want to advance the time of the log by 8 hours so it showed as London's day vs GC's day or log after 8am London time and it would show the same day. If I have the info accurate, I can understand Cachly's reluctance to purposely code against a really poor implementation that GC decided to go with and use that assumption to timestamp logs. I have posted in the GC forum threads that it seems head scratching to me why GC refuses to just store logs as GMT, if they aren't already, and show date/time to be user specific based on time zone. I don't see any reason, and they have never responded in public, why they "fix" this behavior.

The rendering speed on a 5s is currently pretty slow for high zoom levels. We are working to fix the performance of offline maps for older and newer devices.

Thanks everyone for fielding questions when I was gone on Sunday. As stated, downloading offline maps is the way to go. Then you never have to worry about pre-loading tiles, you can just save your caches offline and go!

Downloading PQs don't have any options because it will automatically download "Full" caches which do not count toward the users daily download count. So that is a good thing. In 2.0.1 it will also automatically download images, but there will be a new option in Settings to turn that off if you don't want that to happen.

The green dot shows the list that is currently loaded into memory. This can help speed things up if you have a huge list and you want to navigate away and then return to it.

Glad to hear it's on the list. Thanks for the quick response as usual.

What's also really amazing is the level of customer support Nic gives to Cachly. It's just great to see how he responds so quickly and then sometimes goes a step beyond. One example is when a new user was confused about setting up an account. Nic responded quickly with info about signing up at geocaching.com, but then he went a step further and made a pinned topic about it. (I did do a cache run this weekend and didn't open my old standby app, Geosphere. Cachly performed the job flawlessly).

My most recent experience was GCZQ02. I had previously logged it as a DNF, and all the other caches in that immediate map area were logged as finds.