Nic Hubbard

2 minutes ago, .jpeg said:

When I first tried Cachly I was dismayed by the similarities to the “official” app, I like the compact and precise “pins” used by Geosphere better than the large Ouija planchette markers used by Cachly. Based on the facebook post, there are a lot of users who hate the pins but I'm not seeing any logical reasons why.

This is just a Cachly style which our users love. I think the pins in Geosphere feel like an old iOS style since many apps have moved away from this. I understand if it is hard to get used to something new.

6 minutes ago, .jpeg said:

In Geosphere you can change the colors of the cache pins. For example, in Cachly I usually can’t tell the difference between a virtual and a letterbox.

Other Geosphere users have suggested this. We have considered this and it is still on our feature list.

7 minutes ago, .jpeg said:

Geosphere has a very handy feature that turns suggested coordinates in logs to a hyperlink that when clicked gives you the option of creating an additional waypoint or correcting the primary one. I’ve used that a lot.

Do you mean coordinates in the log text itself, or coordinates that were submitted with the log? Do you have a GC code I can look at?

9 minutes ago, .jpeg said:

I read that filters in offline caches will be added in a later version. This would be a big help. As it is now it seems you are required to do the filtering when creating the offline group.

Yes, this will be coming in 2.1.

9 minutes ago, .jpeg said:

Not sure if this is possible in Cachly but in Geosphere the offline groups seem to all subsets of a single database allowing the user to mix and match groups as needed.

In 2.1 we will be using a unified database. So caches in one offline list will be the same database record in another list. This will be the same as "groups".

Let me know if you have any other questions.

This is a nice feature, but not one that we are likely to support right now. Cachly was built from a single user prospective so it would take a fair amount of work to change this. 

But it is on our list to consider for a future version.

This is a known issue that was just introduced recently by one of our map providers. It doesn't affect the map display at all and will be fixed in 2.1.

This has been requested by other users. We are planning to make it an option that you can turn off in Settings.

Thanks. Will do some digging into this issue.

Looking into this. Thanks for emailing me the .txt :).

Just now, Buckshot/MamaLlama said:

Before I change our username, I will try this:  I have a friend that we introduced to caching not long ago and will not mind me borrowing their account to test the premise.

Excellent idea. Let me know how it goes.

Just now, Buckshot/MamaLlama said:

If I were to take that symbol out of our name, would changing our name cause a problem with the cachly app, as that had been one of the questions you initially asked?

If you were to change your username and remove the / the only issue is that your hides will still be associated with your old username. This is a geocaching.com issue. In order to hide them from the map you will need to use one of the Search Options for "hide caches from user" and enter your old username. 

Other than this there shouldn't be an issue. You will just need to logout and log back into Cachly with the updated username.

11 minutes ago, barefootguru said:

@Nic Hubbard:  looks like his/her GC username is the same as here… could the slash be upsetting the prefs?

Very interesting observation! It actually might be causing an issue since we write the prefs to disk and a slash would cause issues with that path. Thanks for noticing this!

Sadly no, this is a limit of the geocaching.com API, and that max is something that is set on their server, not in Cachly.

6 hours ago, ShoesBologna said:

No I haven't.  Where is it? 

In the beginning of this thread. Look back on page 1.

2 minutes ago, Michael said:

maybe a refresh/redraw is enough 

Yeah, it is just a redraw issue. The radius is a separate object on the map.

Thanks Michael,

Will add this to our bug list.

I agree the current solution isn't the best. Will revisit this.

County boundaries are available in our Offline Maps. They are represented by an orange line.

But, there are other county boundaries that could be added to Live maps as well.

The 3 per 24 hours only applies to "full caches" which have the hint and description. 

Strange that it showed other cache types for a regular user. Sounds like the API sent extra data!

I like this feature as well, and have it on our list to add in a future version.

Groundspeak/geocaching.com imposes a restriction on the API that all third-party apps use (and their official app has this limitation). They restrict Regular users to viewing 3 full caches per day, which means hint and description. They also limit only seeing Traditional and Event caches.

This is NOT a limitation of Cachly, but a limitation that geocaching.com imposes on us. geocaching.com wants users to have a Premium membership, which in turn allows Cachly to display more data and raises the daily cache views to 6000.

Does this sound like what you are seeing?

Happy to help!

When you view a cache and tap the "Navigate to Cache" button you will see both the map and the option for compass.

In Cachly 2.1 we will also have a new user heading option on the current location indicator:

Is this what you were hoping for?

I will make sure to Update Cachly to work with your GPX files.

Glad the other PQs worked. I had other reports that the my finds PQ doesn't show. This looks like a Groundspeak bug. Will report to them. 

33 minutes ago, Geoboater said:

I have looked at the GPX and the data is there.  I'll send you the file in a few minutes.

I have looked over and tested the GPX file. It seems the issue is the format of the data is different than many other GPX such as ones from Groundspeak, GSAK, etc. You said this is from EasyGPS. Are there various export options?

34 minutes ago, Geoboater said:

Yes, I did receive an email from geocaching stating the PQ is ready to download.

Can you try pulling down on the PQ screen to refresh it? Are you logged in with the same account that you generated the PQ with?

3 minutes ago, Geoboater said:

After giving the file a name and pressing "import", it shows 0 records.  What did I do wrong?

You didn't so anything wrong. It should be importing all of the caches within the GPX. Two questions. Have you looked at the contents of the GPX file to make sure it does indeed contain the caches? Could you use the "Contact Support" option in Cachly and send me the GPX to test?

5 minutes ago, Geoboater said:

After running a PQ and confirming the results, I navigated to the PQ download selection under "More" and it responds "no available pocket queries were found".  Again, where did I go wrong?

Have you made sure that on geocaching.com it says the PQ is ready for download? It needs to be in this "state" on geocaching.com for it to show up as available to download in Cachly. 

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions about this or anything else. Welcome to Cachly!

This is a much requested feature and we would love to include this. However the current API that we use from geocaching.com does not provide a feature like this. Some have suggested that c:geo on Android does this, but they use screen scraping and un-approved methods that we cannot use. 

Hopefully in the future this might be added to their API.

I am still keeping the custom pin color settings option in my mind.