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Cachly 8 introduced a long press on the map filter to quickly enable/disable the filters. Would be cool/consistent to have this for the log filtering as well.

Another voice in support of the developer. I paid for the cachly app early on (2017). I paid for map downloads (2019). I received tremendous value in return for those purchases of relatively trivial amounts. I've actually been wondering how Nic can continue his excellent support of this app which I use daily, without additional revenue. So I welcome being able to help via the new subscription. The $15/year pro subscription is a no-brainer in my mind, even though I won't be using some of the included features. The $5/year map subscription is even more of a value. I love what cachly helps me do and want it to continue!

I was also going to apply for this new keyword. I join the other two members. Or / And a keyword that count only labs. Just passing 1300 geocaches but only... 1067 "real" geocaches. Thanks

yes the personal notes in the cache listing. L4C has this function :-) I check the project GC page before visiting a challenge cache and always copy the checker's answer into my personal cache notes. I then want to insert this note automatically when logging. But I also make notes about the mystery cache that I want to tell the owner when I log it.

waiting is nice, if its not toooooo long .)

The reality is, sometimes features take longer than expected! Remember, I am not Apple, it is just me, one developer, working away to create the best Geocaching app possible. I feel it is important to let users know about upcoming features to get excited about them, and I hope they will be happy waiting for them until release.

I am considering allowing full customization of those buttons.

I understand the idea behind adding the option to “Download Cartridge” directly from the whereigo cache details screen navigate button, but is there any way to turn that off? We did an 80+ wherigo geoart today and having to tap the “navigate to cache” button then having to tap it yet again to navigate to the cache (because we had to choose an option) got really annoying after a couple of hours. If it can’t be turned off, there may be a better place to put it than in the Navigate button.

FEATURE REQUEST: Add a small semi-transparent compass to top corner of map screen when navigating to a cache or waypoint. We have discussed this before ... see "Looking4Cache" method - preferably, like L4C, the compass would be user selectable: 1. show or hide 2. small or larger 3. adjust level of transparency

Happy to have you help. Please email support@cach.ly. Thanks!

Looks like there are some strange special characters making up the apostrophe. Will fix for 8.0.9.

I would like to be able to insert user notes from the geocaching site as a keyword / variables in my logging template. Very useful for challenges. thanks

I have a standard log template that I use and it has a signature with the *|find_count|* keyword. Ideally, I would like for this to not include my adventure lab finds. Is there now, or could there be, some way to modify the value of the find_count and find_count_no_drafts keywords by a fixed value. For example, I currently have 40 lab cache finds and 151 "real" cache finds. I would like to only count the 151 caches in my signature, instead of the 191 currently listed on my geocaching profile page and obtained by the find_count keyword. If I were to find more lab caches eventually, I could then modify my offset from 40 to 40+however many more lab caches I find. TIA

Hmm, that's really weird. Because I had that behavior several times. And now I can't reproduce it. If I find out in what situation that happens, I'll let you know. Thanks for your reply.

Good suggestions. Will consider these!

No, there would be no difference for the final PQ. I hope to talk with HQ again about fixing the full data PQ issue in the future.

Online lists are not helped by turning off the Import using full data option, only PQs. I realize this is a a frustrating issue, but it continues to be a geocaching.com API bug that I have reported many times and I hope will be fixed in the future.

No, there is no way to reorder the templates currently. For syncing, I just tested on my devices and they synced right away. If you create a new template on device 1, then check on device 2, there is nothing?

My use case: I prefer to have the Export.txt file to upload my daily finds to my drafts on Geocaching.com. I do a fair amount of my caching outside of cell phone reception. I'm not really comfortable with trying to build a finished log on a phone as most of my logs not short. Thanks for steps, It actually worked in that I found it in Keep but not where I expected. However I can work around that oddity.

In Cachly 8.1 I will be adding the option to use cache type icons.

Can you be more specific? I didn't find lab related settings. I have labs on my phone, but just installed cachly on my son's phone and there are no labs. Thanks! Edit: logging out and back in cachly solved the problem...

Than please do not advertise with features which could coming but faaaaaaar way from release!

I would like to make a request to have the "Proximity" icon that shows on the main screen to have it's visibility to be controlled by a slider button in the settings. Since not all users, use the "Proximity" feature, the icon reduces the visibility of the main screen for those users. Other Cachly users that I have talked to, find the icon a distraction as they do not use the "Proximity" feature. Please consider this feature request. Thank you.

Topic solved since this morning !

I like that option as well. I wasn’t sure if that information would be available via the APIs so on-device manipulation was my first idea on how to accomplish this

I think the easiest route here would to just have a new keyword created that excludes labs.

The official app seems similar to me but maybe I'm missing your steps. There is a car icon that launches a list of navigation/routing apps and when you select one, it launches that app w/ routing directions, if the app supports routing. Cachly is the same for me once you select the Navigation icon for the cache. There is also a shortcut on the main map screen that if you long press the callout for a selected cache, you have the option to Navigate right from the main map screen without going to the cache first. See the screenshot I will attach.

Thank you for your responses. In the future I will pull the query results into Cachly before weeding out the geocaches I don't want. That will prevent a recurrence of my current issue.

If this something that you would really use? Widgets just seem gimmicky to me.

Sometimes when I'm travelling and realize I don't have an offline map downloaded that I need, I may not know how the correct map is categorized, or what it's called. I'd like to be able to look on the map and hit a button that means "download the offline map for this location".

Thanks for the suggestion, I think this makes sense to fix.

I have made this intentional to not clutter the screen. I think there could be some ways to adding shortcuts without adding additional buttons, but will have it give it some thought.

That would be a nice enhancement.

Thanks again, for everything. I really appreciate all you do. It is a sort of rare thing when a developer really addresses players concerns, and I know the community really appreciates it as well.

Thank you so much for the speedy response Nic! That seems to have done the job - Documents & Data are down to 4.8 (Offline Maps are 1.3) for an overall size of 5.24. I am hoping to get out this afternoon after work and give it a try in the field and see if it behaves itself (since it was during my usage in the field on Saturday that the strange increasing storage phenomenon occurred).

This has been fixed for 8.0.2.

No worries. There are some bugs that have arisen that we didn't catch in development, but I am working hard to get these fixed in 8.0.2.

I’ve never noticed that but I just tried and sure enough when I highlighted on my iPad, Cachly almost immediately crashed on my iPhone.

Hi @BassXX. I am sorry that you feel cheated about the new subscription model. As others said, it was done out of necessity because Cachly was losing money on the great cost of offline maps and the pay once model was not paying for the infrastructure costs. Shoot me off an email at support@cach.ly and we will make it right. Hope you have a good day.

On March 18, this was posted to Facebook, far and away the most active place for discussing Cachly - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/v9i5QJRPvmtyCrRN/?mibextid=K35XfP Betrayed? It is $5!! You didn’t get $5 worth of value since you purchased? I’m not sure where you are located and how things work in your region but I could get a new iphone from my cell carrier if I switched to their service now but I can’t, as an existing customer for 15 years of loyal service paying $200/mo get anything free. $2500/ year * 15 years = $37k paid and I don’t get anything yet someone new that paid them nothing gets a free phone . Hmmmm . The developer worked on this release for 2 years to add all the new features. During those 2 years it cost him tens of thousands of dollars in keeping the maps updated and the fees to allow the downloads you enjoyed. We are talking about $5 as your cost per year to try and help make it less of a burden on the developer who does this for us to have the best app to use in this hobby you probably spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a year. It’s really absurd we are even having this discussion.

Here's a screenshot of it in action. Long press the coordinates near the top of the page and it will offer the 3 options.

Thank you for the answers. I’d already found it after about an hour of going around in circles. It wasn’t very prominent. I couldn’t retract my question due to awaiting registration completion.

For Live searching this isn't possible as the geocaching.com API does not support this. For offline lists, we do have this feature! When adding an attribute filter just tap the attribute again to change it to a "not" filter. Hope this helps.

Ideally, the ability to choose what to back up / sync: all settings offline lists templates filtering templates .... but mainly I'm concerned about the overall backup and synchronization between devices. For example, yesterday I had to uninstall Cachly, I downloaded Offline Lists as a backup, but I forgot about Cachly.sqlite and apart from Offline Lists, I had to set up everything from scratch, even though I have everything on my iPad, which now had a family member with and is about 600 km away from me for about 2-3 weeks, so I re-created all the templates from scratch based on the old logs for the caches that I found in the past. And also the alert settings for approaching a cache.... Actually, both backing up to iCloud and syncing would be best. The fact, as i've red here on forum, that some users don't want synch between devides and so on, it I think is no reason to deprive others of that option. Simply give the choice: Do you want or don't want backup/sync. (as a togle) I don't understand why should we do it again and again manually. I appreciate your work and the app itself is just a dream come true for me as a geocachers. The official app may just be embarrassed because it should look like Cachly, but this really, really bothers me. I'll gladly pay extra for it, even though I bought the app and the premium maps as well.

Thanks for the suggestion, we will look at add this in a future version.

Hi Nick I'm very excited about the prospect of Cachly 8.0 and what it might bring! It sounds like features are set for this update, but even so, I thought I would throw a pretty minor and unimportant feature request out there. A lot of UK multis have a check sum to check the coordinates, so if the newly calculated coordinates were N51 12.918 W000 01.553, the check sum would be 41 (5+1+1+2+9+1+8+1+5+5+3=41) It's a quick and easy calculation, but I don't know how easy it would be to include this feature built in. I've had a think about where it might fit... I always do all my multi workings in the Personal Note, then just click on the resulting coordinates to Set as Corrected Coordinates. Would it be possible to display the Check Sum at or near the top of the list when you click on coordinates stored in this section (above Create Waypoint), either next to, or underneath, the new coordinates. I have included a screenshot of a Personal Note to hopefully explain this better! Anyway, as I say, it's not a biggie, but just thought it would be a nice touch if it's easy enough to code. Thanks, RubyShoos

Hi there, using tampermonkey and a script, you can solve it on the geocaching webpage directly. The code searches for 3 6-digit codes and calculates the coordinates. You'll find a button in the top left corner of the Cache-page. Unfortunately you have to click the button about three times to calculate the coordinates, insert the data into the personal notes, and correct the coordinates, but it is usually much faster than copy and paste... Install Tampermonkey, Create a new empty script and paste the source-code My source-code: // ==UserScript== // @name calc Reverse Wherigo (Waldmeister) ohne DB // @namespace http://mediastation // @match http*://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?* // @match http*://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC* // @grant GM_getValue // @grant GM_setValue // @grant GM_log // @grant GM.xmlhttpRequest // @grant GM_addStyle // @grant unsafeWindow // @grant GM.openInTab // @description calculate coordinates from WIG 6-digit codes // // // @version 1.1.0 // ==/UserScript== /*--- Create a button in a container div. It will be styled and positioned with CSS. */ var zNode = document.createElement ('div'); zNode.innerHTML = '<button id="myWIGButton" type="button">Solve Reverse WIG</button>'; zNode.setAttribute ('id', 'myWIGContainer'); document.body.appendChild (zNode); //--- Activate the newly added button. document.getElementById ("myWIGButton").addEventListener ( "click", ButtonClickAction, false ); //--- Style our newly added elements using CSS. GM_addStyle ( multilineStr ( function () {/*! #myWIGContainer { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 10px; font-size: 10px; background: red; opacity: 0.9; z-index: 1100; padding: 5px 20px; } #myWIGButton { cursor: pointer; } #myWIGContainer p { color: red; background: white; } */} ) ); function gowherei(args){ var answer= []; var AAAAAA = parseFloat(args[1]); var BBBBBB = parseFloat(args[2]); var CCCCCC = parseFloat(args[3]); //alert(AAAAAA + ' - ' + BBBBBB + ' - ' + CCCCCC); var LongVORZ = 1.0; var LatKOMP = 0.0; var LatVORZ = 1.0; var LongKOMP = 0.0; if (( AAAAAA % 1000 - AAAAAA % 100) / 100 == 1) { LatVORZ = 1; LongVORZ = 1; } if ((AAAAAA % 1000 - AAAAAA % 100) / 100 == 2) { LatVORZ = -1; LongVORZ = 1; } if ((AAAAAA % 1000 - AAAAAA % 100) / 100 == 3) { LatVORZ = 1; LongVORZ = -1; } if ((AAAAAA % 1000 - AAAAAA % 100) / 100 == 4) { LatVORZ = -1; LongVORZ = -1; } if ((((CCCCCC % 100000 - CCCCCC % 10000) / 10000 + (CCCCCC % 100 - CCCCCC % 10) / 10) % 2) == 0){ LongKOMP = (LongVORZ * ((AAAAAA % 100000 - AAAAAA % 10000) / 10000 * 100 + (CCCCCC % 1000000 - CCCCCC % 100000) / 100000 * 10 + CCCCCC % 10 + (BBBBBB % 1000 - BBBBBB % 100) / 100 * 0.1 + (BBBBBB % 1000000 - BBBBBB % 100000) / 100000 * 0.01 + (AAAAAA % 100 - AAAAAA % 10) / 10 * 0.001 + (CCCCCC % 100000 - CCCCCC % 10000) / 10000 * 1.0E-4 + BBBBBB % 10 * 1.0E-5)); } else { LongKOMP = (LongVORZ * ((BBBBBB % 100 - BBBBBB % 10) / 10 * 100 + CCCCCC % 10 * 10 + (AAAAAA % 100 - AAAAAA % 10) / 10 + (AAAAAA % 100000 - AAAAAA % 10000) / 10000 * 0.1 + (BBBBBB % 1000 - BBBBBB % 100) / 100 * 0.01 + BBBBBB % 10 * 0.001 + (CCCCCC % 100000 - CCCCCC % 10000) / 10000 * 1.0E-4 + (BBBBBB % 100000 - BBBBBB % 10000) / 10000 * 1.0E-5)); } if ((((CCCCCC % 100000 - CCCCCC % 10000) / 10000 + (CCCCCC % 100 - CCCCCC % 10) / 10) % 2) == 0){ LatKOMP = (LatVORZ * ((AAAAAA % 10000 - AAAAAA % 1000) / 1000 * 10 + (BBBBBB % 100 - BBBBBB % 10) / 10 + (BBBBBB % 100000 - BBBBBB % 10000) / 10000 * 0.1 + (CCCCCC % 1000 - CCCCCC % 100) / 100 * 0.01 + (AAAAAA % 1000000 - AAAAAA % 100000) / 100000 * 0.001 + (CCCCCC % 100 - CCCCCC % 10) / 10 * 1.0E-4 + AAAAAA % 10 * 1.0E-5)); } else{ LatKOMP = (LatVORZ * ((BBBBBB % 1000000 - BBBBBB % 100000) / 100000 * 10 + AAAAAA % 10 + (AAAAAA % 10000 - AAAAAA % 1000) / 1000 * 0.1 + (CCCCCC % 1000000 - CCCCCC % 100000) / 100000 * 0.01 + (CCCCCC % 1000 - CCCCCC % 100) / 100 * 0.001 + (CCCCCC % 100 - CCCCCC % 10) / 10 * 1.0E-4 + (AAAAAA % 1000000 - AAAAAA % 100000) / 100000 * 1.0E-5)); } answer[0]=LatKOMP.toFixed(6); answer[1]=LongKOMP.toFixed(6); return (answer); } function wig_split (wig){ const myregex = /.*?([0-9]{6}).*?([0-9]{6}).*?([0-9]{6})/; let wig_value = myregex.exec(wig); return(wig_value); } function coordtotext(coord,my_type){ if (coord<0 && my_type =='N'){my_type='S';} if (coord<0 && my_type =='E'){my_type='W';} coord=Math.abs(coord); var my_grad=Math.floor(coord); var my_dez=(coord - my_grad) *60; my_dez=my_dez.toFixed(3); var my_text = my_type + ' ' +my_grad + ' ' + my_dez; //alert(my_text); return(my_text); } function ButtonClickAction (zEvent) { /*--- For our dummy action, we'll just add a line of text to the top of the screen. */ var udo_GC_Name=btoa(encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById("ctl00_ContentBody_CacheName").textContent)); var udo_GC_id=btoa(encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById("ctl00_ContentBody_CoordInfoLinkControl1_uxCoordInfoCode").textContent)); var udo_GC_tupel=wig_split(encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById("ctl00_ContentBody_LongDescription").textContent)); var udo_coord=gowherei(udo_GC_tupel); //alert(udo_GC_tupel); //alert(udo_coord[0]+' - ' +udo_coord[1]); var mylat=btoa(coordtotext(udo_coord[0],'N')); var mylon=btoa(coordtotext(udo_coord[1],'E')); //alert (mylat + ' ' + mylon); var udo_GC_desc ='Lat (dec) ' + udo_coord[0] + '\n'; udo_GC_desc +='Lon (dec) ' + udo_coord[1] + '\n'; udo_GC_desc +='coordinate ' + atob(mylat) + ' ' + atob(mylon) + '\n'; udo_GC_desc +='calculated '+ Date() + '\n'; udo_GC_desc +='tupel ' + udo_GC_tupel[1] + '-' + udo_GC_tupel[2] + '-'+ udo_GC_tupel[3] + '\n'; var my_gc_coord = atob(mylat) + ' ' + atob(mylon); document.getElementById("viewCacheNote").click(); document.getElementById("cacheNoteText").value=udo_GC_desc; document.querySelector(".js-pcn-submit").click(); document.getElementById("uxLatLon").click(); document.getElementById("newCoordinates").value=my_gc_coord;// + ' ' + atob(mylon) ; document.querySelector(".btn-cc-parse").click(); document.querySelector(".btn-cc-accept").click(); } function multilineStr (dummyFunc) { var str = dummyFunc.toString (); str = str.replace (/^[^\/]+\/\*!?/, '') // Strip function () { /*! .replace (/\s*\*\/\s*\}\s*$/, '') // Strip */ } .replace (/\/\/.+$/gm, '') // Double-slash comments wreck CSS. Strip them. ; return str; } sometimes it also gets dates, then an old-school copy & paste has to be done... Please take it, as it is, no warranty, no guarantee that it will run correctly. I calculate all Waldmeister WIG with this tool. hth Udo

Hello, just wondering if there would be any possibility for cachly or navigation to a cache to be able to be connected to the Apple CarPlay I asked on Facebook page also and a couple of others like the thought of it too. Would it be at all possible? Thanks in advance for your time and considerations regards Maattmoo

Would love to see Cachly support CarPlay. While I usually tell Cachly to use Apple Maps to navigate, it would be great to also be able to show the Cachly map with caches directly on the car's screen. Would be useful when gathering a number of caches in an area, rather than setting up Apple Maps to navigate to each one; and also when there's no cellular reception.

When viewing a Live or Offline list, a mileage indicator is shown. Is there a way to provide a compass, which indicates both bearing and mileage from current location to the cache location? I have attached the screenshots of Looking4cache. This feature is quite useful. Thanks.