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New Caches at an Event without a GPX file
Team DEMP replied to LSbatman's topic in General Questions
What's the garmin file that is provided - a GPX I imagine? If so, that GPX can be loaded into Cachly. You'd need the GPX file with the caches emailed to (or possibly available someplace online). With the GPX file attached to an email you can open on your phone, go to the email and view the GPX from the mail. Your phone should display it with the typical iPhone share icon present. Click the Share icon and it should show one of the options to be Copy to Cachly. Select that and it will launch Cachly and start the Import GPX process. I'm sure there are others but since the Garmin is probably getting a GPX, that same source file should work with Cachly. You can test this by sending any GPX file you have to yourself via email and going through the steps. -
There's a functioning macro on the GSAK site that should properly update the geocaching website with the GSAK approach to corrected coordinates. Apparently in the past, the geocaching website/API didn't function properly in this area but it seems to be fine now and is the preferred approach, at least to accomplish what the original poster was looking for. In the original poster's case, the geocaching site wasn't updated so it was refreshing with the original coords. It seems the original poster would like the updated coords when refreshed which would be accomplished with the GSAK macro. See http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=32407&st=0&#entry243426 on the Gsak site.
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I see it on my phone even if I go into airplane mode. Maybe you are doing what is posted here - http://www.cach.ly/support/index.php?/topic/568-pocket-queries-missing-view-on-geacaching-site/#comment-2809 ?
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Whether a cache is viewed from the Live view our Offline List view, once a cache is selected you can click the ... In the upper right corner and select View on Geocaching.com. You must first select the cache in offline view.
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@Stewj - This is a limitation on the API for drafts. You can upload multiple images if you don't first save as a draft. @Nic Hubbard - If I recall, you wanted to display a warning message when trying to attach multiple images in Draft mode. I've never seen the warning including the latest beta which I just double checked.
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I didn't quickly find a way to report this to Apple.
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The logging behavior you are looking for is the reason I switched all logging to local Cachly phone drafts and then uploaded as drafts (aka field notes) to the web site. It allows me to edit locally until I upload and then look at the logs on a real computer before I submit them. I was making too many typos and not writing out everything I wanted from my phone and this approach addressed that. Even if I have a full cell signal I still log it locally as a draft and submit it after I'm back home as a draft to the geocaching site.
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You can edit your log if you are using drafts that are saved within Cachly vs uploaded to Geocaching.com. You go to Settings /Pending Geocache Logs to edit them. If you uploaded them to Geocaching.com, you need to go to the website. I don't think the API interface that Geocaching.com provides developers like Cachly supports updating an uploaded or logged cache.
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Header Indicator Not Pointing in Correct Direction
Team DEMP replied to Sherminator18's topic in Support
The indicator seemed to work fine for me on my iPhone 6 / iOS 10.3 phone today as long as I was moving in a direction. Standing still or just starting out moving, I expect the phone isn't sure yet or reporting back to the apps a valid direction. After moving a direction for 30 feet, the direction seems to be correct. That's my experience with the direction indicator. -
My preference would be leave what is there today in the number shown in the bottom icon. Maybe if you go into Settings / Pending Geocache Logs, there's a count at the top of Found, Not Found, Note, NA, NM, etc.
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I just experienced what Beth reported. Pin drop coordinates are being set to the cache coordinates when added as a waypoint to a cache. The workflow is right but the Add Waypoint screen just needs to pre-populate with the pin coords when coming from the drop pin flow.
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I always jot down some notes and had never sent a blank draft log. Can you log a cache with no log text? Yes, I know if you had a blank draft you're not submitting it as your log yet but just wondering.
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The reason I first looked at Cachly was the poor corrected coordinate support of the official app. I never understood why the official app showed caches at the original coordinates. The latest official app update earlier this week corrected that but there's no turning back for me - Cachly is my app of choice!
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@Wigoweb - your initial question came through. There are a few duplicate posts with the same question. See some response in this thread.
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Not 100% clear on what you mean about an offline list being updated. I'm a beta user so I've been using the 3.0 release for a while so not sure what you experienced today. Did you happen to update Cachly in the last 2 days with the new 3.0 release or your iPhone auto updated it? If so, it could be that 3.0 handles offline lists differently and this was a one-time update of that info. Regarding the corrected coordinates and GSAK, I have to again make an assumption you'd need to confirm. That assumption is you use GSAK Corrected Coordinate field and you generated the GPX you loaded into Cachly from GSAK. If that's the case, the corrected coordinate is handled differently in the GSAK approach vs the Geocaching.com approach, and when you updated the cache from geocaching.com, there was no corrected coordinate there. This GSAK corrected coordinate approach goes back years as geocaching.com had issues with corrected coords and GSAK provided their own solution. I brought this up to the GSAK community and it seems you can run a macro that will update geocaching.com with the GSAK corrected coordinate so geocaching.com and any update (individual ot included in a larger GPX) generated by geocaching.com should handle it as you'd expect. The new macro on the GSAK site is at http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=32407&st=0&#entry243331 / http://gsak.net/board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=243426 I hope some of the above helps.
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Might you want to call out ... Basic Geocaching.com member restrictions do apply. They are not Cachly restrictions.
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Once 3.0 was released, I edited my earlier 5 star review so it now shows tied to the current release.
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In the Europe Offline Map Download list there's North Europe and South Europe that might cover the area you have in 1 download or all in 2 downloads but they are large files 1GB-1.8GB each.
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The waypoint is just for you - your user account. You can remove them if you want by swiping the waypoint to the left and selecting Delete or adjust it by swiping left and selecting Edit.
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Gary - if you need any help creating a gpx file to import into Cachly, let me know. Maybe I can help, though I'm traveling the next couple days. Team DEMP (aka K2DSL)
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Swipe the list name left and select Delete.
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When you launch Cachly it defaults to live view. Click Offline at the bottom to open your lists saved on your phone. I've been traveling the last few days without cellular service available in the area and when I launch Cachly I'm not asked to log in but it goes to Live view and tries to display but won't. Just click Offline and open your offline list. Make sure you also downloaded offline maps.
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There was a lot of very vocal feedback on the geocaching.com forums. I mentioned in my first post there are ways to get around some of the constraints, and with you being a premium member, you can create a pocket query and have her download it to her device and use that offline download vs the "live" view. My understanding is that she will still be able to see all of the caches in the Pocket Query/PQ/GPX you send her. Just make sure, if you are filtering out caches you found already in the PQ and she hasn't found them, they wouldn't be in the downloaded PQ. If you are going out together but just logging the same caches under separate accounts, then I'd expect your PQs are fine for her. You can also do things like create an offline list yourself within cachly and then share that offline list with her through email, etc. vs create a pocket query ahead of time. Because I am premium, the above is my understanding but not something I've done. If you try the above, do it ahead of time and make sure she can view the offline caches for all the D/T and cache types you will go after.
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Your daughter using the basic (free) geocaching.com account will only see traditional caches. There's nothing in Cachly causing this - it's how Groundspeak treats basic members. If you want access to the same caches as you have, you need to upgrade her to Premium membership too. She would see the same caches using the official Geocaching app. Your daughter can see those other caches on the web site, but not the smartphone app including geocaching's official smartphone app. If you log out of your premium account for a moment or open an incognito browser window and go to https://payments.geocaching.com/?upgrade=true you can see the difference between Basic (free) and Premium (paid) memberships. At the top you'll see icons that show All D/T and cache types are available to both via the web (monitor) but not for basic/free members on the smartphone. The smartphone icon is only listed under premium.
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You are a premium member and your daughter is a basic member so Groundspeak doesn't enforce the same restrictions on you that your daughter's basic account has to operate under. You can see any cache type, and D/T and view a lot more (1000's) of caches per day from within the Cachly (or official geocaching.com) iPhone app. If you want to reset your search criteria to make sure there's no filter in place, on the main Cachly screen click the gear icon on the right of the search box and in the Search Options screen that is displayed, click Reset in the top left. You can then adjust any settings again vs the default that the reset selected.