Nic Hubbard

1 hour ago, ShammyLevva said:

My point exactly rragan. Having small clusters of less than 10 is indeed annoying and easily fixed by having a minimum clustering size.

This for sure is something I will take into account. My plan is to not even show clustering after a certain zoom level. Stay tuned for more details and testing.

13 hours ago, ACME WildCachers said:

What would actually happen if a user tries to show the map with clustering disabled if there ere enough caches on the list to otherwise crash the app.

It would crash Cachly.

4 minutes ago, rragan said:

Can you make it more fault tolerant so it can deal with a missing comma. Also will it accept d.mmmmm ( decimal degrees) and degrees/ minutes/seconds? This hearkens back to a general coordinate parser. 

It currently uses an iOS coordinate parser that, as you have seen, its't very friendly. Implementing the new parser hopefully will be in 2.1.

Clustering. This is a touchy subject. I too hate the idea of clustering pins on the map, and I know many do not love that the official app forces clustering of caches.

The reason for this topic. In Cachly 2.1 there have been some major performance improvements. Some users use Cachly in different ways, and some might have 20,000 caches in an Offline List. I have tested 50,000 caches with no performance overhead when loading the Offline List in list view.

However, how does one display 20-50k caches on a map? Currently trying to do this uses so much memory even an iPhone 7 crashes. Putting that many pins on a map just isn't feasible. This is where the idea of clustering come into play.

Here is what I want feedback about for 2.1:

• Offline Lists will use clustering by default if the list has more than 1000 caches.
• Clustering can be turned off for ALL lists with a warning that it might not be possible to show all the caches you want on the map, and it might be very slow.
• Offline Lists will load in List View by default and not even load pins on the map if the user doesn't want to look at it, thus improving performance.
• Other alternatives to clustering? So far, I have not gotten far with this.

Can you add a comma between the coordinates and see if that helps?

2 hours ago, CanUSeeIT said:

I have no doubt that you could make actually useful.

I do think it would be a lot of fun to build. Working on seeing when we could fit in this development.

Great idea. This is something that we are working on for our 2.1 version. Stay tuned.

2 hours ago, Rooski22 said:

It's just very hard to read the light grey text on the stark white background.

Are you meaning specifically the Hint, Cache Note and Attributes text since those are lighter grey?

Just now, dukeofurl said:

I think groundspeak has gotten around that by making a separate field for just GC codes, and then just auto-filling it those two letters when you click in there.

True. But for the sake of simplicity we use that field for multiple functions.

3 hours ago, dukeofurl said:

4) Automatic emails from Groundspeak, links in there, is there a way to make them open cachly instead of the groundspeak app?

Yes, this isn't possible because Groundspeak owns the coord.info domain, which is tied to their app, and only their app.

3 hours ago, dukeofurl said:

5) When searching for a cache via the GC number, is there a way to make it automatically think that I'm typing GC in front of the code, even though I'm not?

Since that field takes GC Code, coordinates or a location search there isn't a way to do this.

These are two sections that have distinct functionality. Live is for live caches that you load while you have internet connection. 

Offline are caches you have saved offline for offline caching when you have no internet connection or just want to save caches as lists.

Let me know if you have any additional questions. 

Thanks for the suggestion. Are you meaning in Cachly or in the forums here?

Finally fix the parsing error in that cache. The problem was an invisible unicode character, 0x1f. Hooray for invisible things.

Maybe all users should vote?

1 hour ago, woody147 said:

when I then go back to the cache I downloaded the details for a minute ago, it's now gone, and I need to use my 'three per day' limit to download it again?

That cache should be saved internally by Cachly. Let me log a bug report for this and do some testing. 

21 minutes ago, rragan said:

Yes. Export can be done from Map view but not List View because the list ordering control usurps the space. 

I also am not 100% happy with the user experience on this screen. Considering having the ... always show, and making sort one of the menu options. Thoughts?

2 hours ago, thebruce0 said:

It'd be nice if it were possible to skip invalid character errors, but that opens a whole can of development worms

My take on this is to fix the errors as they come in from users so that it isn't an issue for all other users. There are many invalid characters that we currently clean before exporting to XML, so reports like this are extremely useful.

Are you meaning when viewing an Offline List?

Excellent suggestion about adding additional error information in the error message. Here is what it will look like:

6 hours ago, rragan said:

Better yet would be to report the offending entry and continue the import with the next cache. The way you process the XML may prevent doing this. Curiously, I can load the cache in both apps and export ok. Only the import fails. 

It wouldn't be easy to skip just that cache as the XML Parser is what bails on error.

This is an XML spec error with invalid characters, so it only applies to XML and doesn't affect anything when normally viewing the cache in Cachly.

2 hours ago, rcm999 said:

I have noticed that some features in the search option are greyed out.  They are: Not hidden by users, Hidden by users, Found by username, Not found by users.

These options are not greyed out, that is just the text color of the "placeholder" text. Just tap the field and you will be able to type.

2 hours ago, rcm999 said:

Also, I am limited to 10 miles on my search radius on the map view.

Yes, sadly this is a limitation of the Groundspeak API.

1 hour ago, Lulybelle said:

i can't find a way to delete one saved, but not logged, log at a time. I have multiple finds to log which I want to do on the web, then I want to delete them as I've logged them.

Just swipe the row and it will show a Delete option. Is this what you meant?

1 hour ago, thebruce0 said:

1. Post as Log Now
2. Save to Field Notes Now
3. Save to Field Notes Later
4. Save as Local Field Note (never upload)

Did you mean having this as a list of options to choose from?

Thanks. It looks like Cachly is using a slightly different version, so that must be the issue. Will get this fixed in 2.1!

In Geosphere, are you using a custom URL to open HERE? If so, what is the URL you are using?

Welcome to Cachly! Do you just mean a feature that zooms the map in the closer you get to the cache? If so, this isn't yet possible in Cachly, but we do have it on our feature list!