Nic Hubbard

Welcome to Cachly!

First off, I just want to say that Cachly is not meant to be a Geosphere clone. Things are different, and there might be a learning curve to how things are done.

However, your points are very valid, see below:

3 hours ago, AnyMules said:

With GeoSphere, I was able to import my whole GSAK database (40,000+ caches) in to the app, and while it wouldn't show them all at once (limit was 8000), I was able to use filters on the offline lists to display subsets of caches (ie, just Unknowns, just those with Corrected Coordinates, just T5 caches, only caches within X distance, etc).  I can't seem to see any way of:

- having this many caches in Cachly without it crashing when accessing a large list

Cachly wasn't built to handle 40,000+ caches in a list as it will use too much memory when importing. However, we are planning to update the database schema to handle larger numbers of caches like this. This likely will be coming in 2.1.

3 hours ago, AnyMules said:

- filtering a list to show a certain subset of caches
- hiding my Found caches if they're present in my list

We are working to add a new Filters section of Offline Lists. This will allow you to do what you are wanting. Planning this feature also for 2.1.

3 hours ago, AnyMules said:

- the "List" of offline caches doesn't seem to reflect in any way my current distance from the caches

Do you mean that the distance isn't getting updated? Or did you mean something else?

Happy to answer any more questions!

1 hour ago, Bolling said:

I'm more than willing to test. 

If you are not already on our beta testing list (I don't always know everyone's names, just emails) then please contact support through Cachly so that we can set you up. Thanks!

2 minutes ago, Bolling said:

After further investigation this problem is very repeatable. It also occurs when sorting Live cache data by distance, not just offline cache data. 

This has been fixed in the 2.0.1 beta.  Would you want to test it?

1 minute ago, Sailaboat said:

iPhone 5s (Cachly seems to think it's iPhone6,1)

iPhone6,1 is correct. That is how Apple internally labels the iPhone 5s. It doesn't mean it thinks you have an iPhone 6.

2 minutes ago, Sailaboat said:

It imported relatively quickly.  However, processing the images took well over 10 minutes.

The good news, even though it took quite some time, it didn't crash.

Are the images, imported "net new" with each GPX file processed, or is there a delta mechanism, to import only new images?

Cheers,

Mark

Let me know if you want the GPX file, zipped & sent to support.

Images are imported new each time you import a GPX file. There is no mechanism to check for duplicates since you are creating a new offline list each time you import.

Yes, please send the GPX to support. Thanks.

21 minutes ago, AnyMules said:

I had a similar issue with the new V2 version.  Importing a 43Mb GPX file from Dropbox (7606 caches) of all the caches within 100Km of my home location.

I can import the GPX fine if I don't try to get the images, but with the "Save Images" selected, it starts the import, it gets to image 440ish of around 3400 and the app completely crashes..

Can you send me the GPX file?

7 minutes ago, DSimm626 said:

Any place you can go and read about some of these features?

The full list of new features can be found on our blog: https://medium.com/@cachly/cachly-2-0-is-preparing-for-submission-to-apple-8d221ee28f99#.jcv6gnshl

Please let me know if you have any questions about them.

Thanks for the suggestion. You are right, we shouldn't be using any online data in offline mode. I will get this fixed and will consider a bug.

8 minutes ago, MrGigabyte said:

Nic, I think this is the same issue we discussed. It was based on the map refresh location I recall.  

Yes, working to fix this for our 2.0.1 release. Thanks!

This has been fixed in our internal 2.0.1 version.

Hi Michael, thanks for using Cachly!

This looks to be a bug. We will get this fixed ASAP and released in 2.0.1.

Really appreciate you reporting it!

6 minutes ago, Team DEMP said:

This is mine as well. Downloading an entire US state is quick/small.  Even when using the app and having a strong/fast cellular connection, loading the offline maps is much quicker/snappier then Google maps. 

Glad you are liking that feature! That particular feature took the most time of any feature in the 2.0 update.

Thanks Team DEMP for answering this one!

1 hour ago, barefootguru said:

Would Cachly be able to remember what view of a cache description I last used (Text/Web/Source), and default to that next time (across all caches)?

Great idea! I will get this added in 2.0.1 which will be out soon.

Images don't currently download for PQ's. However this will be added in 2.0.1 which we are hoping to submit the Apple this week.

The option will be on by default, but can be turned off in Settings for those users that do not have much space.

We are also adding two new Offline List options to delete cache images from a list, and to re-download images for a list.

4 minutes ago, barefootguru said:

My favourite feature is vector maps — have downloaded the entirety of New Zealand for the same size as a suburb before :]

It looks great, thanks for the hard work and dialogue Nic.

Glad you are liking it!

1 minute ago, ShoesBologna said:

Great job Nic!!

First class. 

 

You guys have figured out "the voice of the customer," better than anyone else. 

Thanks!

That is the goal. User feedback and dialog is key to making the best Geocaching app available. 

1 hour ago, Braillercd said:

We were wondering if there is an android version in the works. 

Not at this time. We are a very small development team, so we are focusing on iOS at the moment. 

If that changes we will be sure to announce it. 

1 minute ago, Tin999 said:

Yes, I am willing to help in translation into Japanese. :-)

Wonderful! Can you send me an email through the support option in Cachly? Then we can talk more details. Thanks!

16 minutes ago, Bolling said:

I'd say it's too soon to say if it "always" happens. I downloaded on wifi on both devices and was connected to wifi when using. Note though that the problem was only noticed with offline data. 

Thanks. I will look into this report right away and get it fixed. 

Thanks for reporting this. We had another user with this issue in the beta stage but we couldn't replicate it. 

Does this happen always? Or are there things that cause it such as not being on wifi or having no data connection?

Cachly does support other languages. We currently support French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. These are changed in Cachly based on your system language. 

Would you be interested translating for Japanese?

4 minutes ago, Tin999 said:

One thing I want is a color of temporarily disabled caches which are currently green same as other caches. I think it will be better if their color is a different color other than green. Then they can be distinguishable on the map. 

This isn't currently possible. However, disabled caches should have an X inside of them. Are you seeing this?

4 minutes ago, nastrud said:

Great job Nic! 

I absolutely love it!!!

Thank you! It was a lot of hard work, but so happy that we can share it with everyone!

1 hour ago, Kelsoboom said:

I encountered something yesterday in Cachly 1.1.7 on IOS 10.1.1 that might be a bug.  I was finding a cache that I had previously downloaded through a pocket query and which had four auxiliary waypoints as a part of its listing.  These were all accessible on Cachly through the Waypoints menu.  However during the process of finding the cache, I decided to save another waypoint of my own through the Add User Waypoint option.  After doing that, all the original 4 waypoints disappeared from the list and only the newly created one was visible.  The list heading still said there were 5 waypoints, and those waypoints still appeared on the navigation map, but the list only gave access to the one.  I was able to recreate this behavior again when I got home.

Thanks for reporting this. 2.0 will be released tomorrow morning (8am Pacific Time) and adds tons of new features and fixes hundreds of issues. It is likely this has already been fixed, but after you upgrade to 2.0 please let me know if you are still experiencing this. (Make sure to download the PQ since in 2.0 they download in a different way with MUCH more cache data.)

4 hours ago, Bolling said:

I'm a longtime Geosphere user as well. I agree it can drain the battery quickly unless the GPS turned off. One big difference between Geosphere and Cahly though appears to be in the device Privacy Settings. Cachly has the "while using app" option under location services. Geosphere has "always".

Yes, Geosphere has access to accessing your location even when you have left the app, so it could be using GPS and battery while you are not actively in the app. 

Cachly doesn't do this, and only uses GPS while the app is active.