barefootguru

In the meantime, vote on this one  

Your phone will report the same location irrespective of what app you're using.

A phone (currently) won't be as accurate as a dedicated GPS unit, particularly under trees.  Both are bad around taller buildings.

As well as ChrisDen's advice, you should take multiple readings over different days, mathematically average them, and use that result.

Good luck!

As per first post, you can create your own caches in a GPX file.  If that's too hard, you could add waypoints to an existing random cache, and navigate to them.

Nic's already told you how to recalibrate the compass:  follow his steps 1-4 above, plus the para after that.

Are you using Navigate to Cache?  When you get close to a cache, the Compass tab is much easier to use than the Map tab.

Apple's feedback pages are explicit that your suggestion will be read but not replied to.

I'm sure Apple knows about magnetic and true north   Maybe you struck the wrong guy or were talking at cross purposes.  e.g. The iOS Compass app can be switched between true and magnetic north.

Was still timing out for me about 12 hours ago.

Apparently you can force a recalibration by turning Location Services off & on.  https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/257005/how-to-see-compass-accuracy-and-recalibrate-the-compass-in-ios-10

Apparently it's caused by geocaching.com, you just have to keep retrying.  The image downloads are for the caches that have been download.  I think Cachly could handle it better and Nik's aware of that.

When a user has added better coords to their log, Cachly adds an option to the ellipses menu to copy the coords.  Would be great if could easily use them to navigate — maybe an option to navigate to those coords, and/or ability to create a waypoint from them.  Currently I manually transcribe them to a waypoint and navigate to that.

The date might be the PQ date… whenever I download a new PQ it always goes to the top of the Offline list (as Nik says).

Tap Edit to arrange them in your desired order.

3 hours ago, Nic Hubbard said:

I have been talking with a user from Australia who has been testing this, and from his testing turning off the "Log Date Correction" option in Cachly and just logging the date normally with make dates work correctly. It seems that Groundspeak fixed things on their end and the date correction is no longer needed.

I'm in New Zealand and my Cachly logs now default to the correct day, instead of lagging a day if submitted before 19:00 (Cachly date correction is turned off).

Feels like GS is going in the wrong direction by removing what little timezone support (UTC) they did have.

Be interesting to see if they handle finds around midnight now and during daylight savings correctly.

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.

If Cachly had a shared database then if you logged in as a different user you'd see somebody else's data, which seems wrong.

I'm guessing Groundspeak won't let you access an internal ID which doesn't change?

So I think the existing behaviour is correct.

If there's no data when starting the app, you could display a dialog saying data needs to be downloaded, including if you've renamed your username? 

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.