Nic Hubbard

Could someone explain a bit more about challenge caches to me? I am a more "casual with my kids" type of geocacher, so I have never looked into challenge caches.

Are theses regular Mystery Caches?

I am not even sure the API has an indication for challenge caches.

The most direct route is email. When you open the email and see the attached .gpx (it can be a .zip too) just press and hold on it. A screen will pop up and will show different apps. Swipe this list to find Cachly somewhere in that list. Then tap Cachly.

1 minute ago, ChrisDen said:

Phew - do people have that many caches downloaded. I downloaded 10 000 (all the active caches in my country) and the performance was such that I deleted them and stick to the pocket query idea where I just download the ones in the town we are spending the night in or 2 miles either side of our rute. Normally about 500 with a max of 1 000 on a long trip.

Yes, people do. Performance will be completely different in 3.0. We have tested an offline list with over 50k caches with decent performance.

2 minutes ago, ChrisDen said:

Any news on release dates for 2.1 and/or 3.0? The improvements in the pipeline are awesome.There is already a noticeable take up of cachly in our area, even though it is small in number of users.

I can't really give a release date for 3.0 as I would just be making it up.  It is a process. Hoping to have it done this month.

8 hours ago, ChrisDen said:

A different angle on the same issue. Is it possible for the distance to a cache in an offline list to be updated and sorted on the fly.

Yes, this is for sure something I will do. Just need to do it in a way to retain performance. Sorting a list of 20,000 caches every 10 seconds could take up a lot of processor...will work on this.

2 hours ago, vanBaarsel said:

Hej Nick,

Found anything yet?

Not yet, haven't had a chance to look into this one. Will soon.

This would be a great feature, but it would take a great deal of development to achieve this. 

I think a simple solution would be to show the user an alert the first time they download an offline list letting them know they can download offline maps. They will let them know of this possibility and would hope they will remember it for the future.

13 hours ago, rragan said:

50 is too high for my taste.

Just so I know the reasoning behind changes like this, can you help me know how a lower number is helpful in your case?

7 minutes ago, acachebox said:

I have never seen the Apple Map revert back to a north orientation while using it.

I mean. In Apple Maps, if you tap the current location button twice or three times to turn on one of the follow modes, then move the map, it reverts and takes you out of those modes automatically.

9 minutes ago, acachebox said:

Where is this setting.

If you go to the More tab, then Settings you will see an option "Allow Compass Calibration".

10 minutes ago, bloodycool said:

That wouldn't apply to offline lists though, correct? Since the full data was already downloaded?

Correct, it would not. I could build it in a way that if there is log, it will show the dots in the callout, if not, it won't.

Will bump this up in priority.

This is something that we have on our list to do.

It would be an easy thing to design, the only issue is that in order to get those 5 logs we have to retrieve "Full" caches. So each time we load caches on the map, it would use up 50 full caches, of which you only have 6000 per day. This seems like a lot, but some users will use them all. And Regular users only get 3 per day. 

So, it would need to be a settings option with the user knowing what the consequence might be of using that feature.

7 hours ago, LBT said:

don't know if it might be a map loading problem instead

Just to confirm, are your maps loading slow (online maps?) or loading of caches?

This is something that we are addressing in our 3.0 update.

11 hours ago, DavidOfTheTreePeople said:

I could use the decimal format if I change my GPS settings, but I would have to switch it back to UTM every time I use my GPS in conjunction with a topo map.  It would probably be easier for me to just look up the UTM value on the website.

I will make sure to add the UTM format to our 3.0 version of Cachly.

Here is what Groundspeak said about this:

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The My Finds PQ is purposefully excluded. The reason is that pocket query has a lot of load concerns as it has no size restrictions like normal pocket queries. Even on the website it is restricted to how often it can be run which is backed by queuing mechanisms (run at a later time), unlike how the API would interact with a mobile client, which would try to run the PQ instantaneously. 

4 hours ago, rene360 said:

Same problem on iPhone5 iOS 10.2.1. Even after restarting. 

Homecountry The Netherlands but getting random pins in Belgium and Germany

Same coordinates pasted in Maps, Waze: no problem

This issue is fixed in our upcoming 3.0 version.

1 hour ago, DavidOfTheTreePeople said:

In my version tapping location toggles between DMS and decimal format. I'm not sure if it's an open beta, but I'll have to try it out if it is.  

This is in the App Store version as well. Are you able to use the decimal format for your GPS?

10 hours ago, barefootguru said:

The last month I've noticed PQs sometimes timeout before they've completed downloading… though today's batch has been fine.  And the actual download speed has been about the same.  Nothing else to report despite regular usage.

The geocaching.com servers have been particularly slow for this, and I am not sure why...it is frustrating.

Sadly this is a limitation of the geocaching.com API. Caches are loading from thier original location, so the results returned don't take the corrected coordinate location into account if it is outside of the search range. 

This is loading Live caches? Are you using some search options?

Is this on wifi or LTE? In testing it seems very fast for me. 

If there is an issue this would be coming from the geocaching.com servers since we use their API. 

Has anyone else had this issue?

So the double logging happened when submitting Pending Logs?

15 minutes ago, vanBaarsel said:

To me, it looks as it Cachly goes to the current location on startup, does some stuff in the background (the spinning wheel), and then goes to the current location again. As if that same routine is called twice somewhere during startup. 

Looking into this. Thanks for the video. Will let you know what I find.

3 hours ago, vanBaarsel said:

No, I switched both options to off and still the same behaviour. 

Strange. And this always happens?

27 minutes ago, Bolling said:

However doesn't reach user have a numerical ID?  Can this info be tied to the ID instead of the username (can you get this information during login)?  I assume that even when you change your username this ID stays the same. 

Yes they do. Username has been what was used so if we transitioned over to user ID we would have to figure out a way to update all offline lists and user preferences to use the numerical ID instead of username.

1 hour ago, BAMBI11 said:

Then it makes sense to have multiple users in Cachly at the same time. That means that all accounts are logged in Cachly. Then you can choose what you are doing with the accounts.  There is another Geocaching app in the App Store that already is doing that. That makes sense. 

This wasn't necessarily the question here. It was only about offline lists. 

Cachly won't be supporting multiple logged in accounts like Looking4Cache does.

2 hours ago, vanBaarsel said:

Still, it seems as if cachly focuses twice on the current location. When I start the app, it zooms in to my current location. If I go to another location, while the "I'm doing something on the background" wheel is still turning, it zooms back to my current location. So, before I can go to another location, I have to wait until the wheel stops spinning. Not the behaviour I expected...

This is likely because you have the "fit to map" option on along with "Automatic Search on Start", since once the pins load it will zoom the map to fit all of the pins.

Does this sound about right?