barefootguru

Nope, don't use field notes, only Cachly's draft function.  No probs, I'll wait 

For the last few weeks on my phone — not my iPad — some of my DNFs have been appearing as ticks.

This is on the Live map, though the Offline maps are having troubles with them too.

I've tried deleting, and rebuilding, the DNF database.

I don't have any pending geocache logs.

If I had to guess, I would say Cachly has somehow remembered me saving a draft DNF for those caches, and is now displaying them as a tick instead.

5:  to expand, maps aren't linked to a list.  Download Namibia and select it, and it will be used everywhere in Cachly.

6:  all user created waypoints are automatically uploaded to geocaching.com.  Select the slider for Corrected Coordinate.

Make sure Cachly is left open and showing a navigation screen — as Nic says, to save battery it only updates the location while navigating.

If you start navigating a few kms from the cache while still in the car, you should be pretty ready to go —seconds rather than minutes from my experience.

But at least with the current technology, a dedicated GPSr unit will always beat a phone — particularly if the GPS conditions aren't ideal (like being inside a metal container!)

Are the caches getting 'lost' when you leave Cachly and go to the home screen or another app?

If your device is short of memory then iOS will unload Cachly, so any caching will be lost.  You can tell if this has happened because Cachly will flash the splash/welcome/'Cachly' screen when you go back in.

On 28/03/2017 at 11:26 AM, .jpeg said:

Also the red “as the crow flies” line between your location and the target. I wish there was a way to turn them off because they are only useful if you are a crow. (joke)

Welcome to Cachly 

Having a line linking your position and the destination makes sense to me, and I've seen it used in other (non-caching) navigation apps.

You can always just back out to the main map screen and do your own navigation from there.

3 hours ago, Buckshot/MamaLlama said:

I have had trouble with the "/" before on a stats ranking page once before several years ago.  I also just noticed that I am having trouble with Project-GC with importing my stats to my profile.  That had not been a problem before.  I am wondering if the "/" is now causing all of these issues.

GC.com is surprisingly permissive in what they allow in usernames.

You'll notice a slash is used to delimit parts of a URL, and it also underpins iOS.  While programs should 'escape' the slash so it doesn't cause problems, you may well find issues in the real world because that isn't the case.

A hyphen would be a safer option.

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

Oops!  For me it's offline maps for New Zealand.

I swear I'm not that old, but the street names are often too tiny for me.

Just look at the subscription as paying Groundspeak to host the cache database, and ignore their atrocious app and questionable website design 

I've noticed a search on a GC code on my iPad will centre the map away from the found cache pin — I have to zoom the map out to find the cache.  Sounds like a known issue?

Being able to see all saved locations on the main map would work, though the downside is they wouldn't be synced across my devices.

Thanks but it's not the photo or note capability I'm after, it's seeing pins on the map for all pending locations to visit.

I always have a number of caches I'm collecting clues for — e.g. photograph a signboard at a particular spot.

When visiting an area or planning a trip, it would be really handy to see all these pending spots on the map.

Not sure exactly how this would work or locations be stored… maybe a waypoint name with a special prefix, then Cachly has option to display all those waypoints.

It makes sense to leave hint, cache notes, and attributes — in this example — grey, as there's no data.

I agree the coords & distance are hard to read, and the 'Hidden by' should probably be changed to match.

I like it   Clear what each entry is, and consistent with icons on map.

If a map pin has a sad face (DNF), then as you zoom the (offline) map in & out, the point of the pin moves around — Cachly seems to be keeping the cache centered on the hole in the top of the pin rather than the point.

I like the idea of changing the DNF to a blue dot… I realise Cachly is using traffic-light colours, but I can never remember what shade of red represents what log.

I too would appreciate a download icon instead of an arrow… that screens looks similar enough to Offline Lists that I sometimes mistakenly tap a query.  Then have to wait and delete the duplicate download.

I've needed to write a few long log entries (with line breaks) recently.  If I switch to the Preview log tab, Cachly displays the middle of the log and you can't scroll up or down as expected.

e.g. barefootguru log for GC4JTJX.  iPhone SE.

Ah, well spotted.  I have that option turned off because I can't handle the main map being zoomed and moved out of my control.

But I'd expect looking at a COs subset of caches — not on the main map — would zoom and scroll automatically regardless… in the same way as first going into an offline list.  Can't think of a reason not to?

When looking at what caches a user has hidden, the map view defaults to the middle of the North Atlantic… would be more useful if it defaulted to where the caches are :]

e.g.

1. go onto GC6JZ1R
2. tap on Hidden by RogerW1nz
3. tap Hides

2 minutes ago, barefootguru said:

Hi, Cachly doesn't seem to display my hides on the Live map?

Never mind, I found it… My Hides were excluded under Search Options — assumed those options only affected searching, not the live map in general.

Hi, Cachly doesn't seem to display my hides on the Live map?