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rragan

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  1. A list that keeps the last n caches I have looked at the details screen for. Tapping an entry from the list would open that cache (including retrieving it from the API if it is not current). On a mobile device this "return to an earlier state" is very handy.
  2. A way to have selected settings get initial values from user defaults. For example, I almost never want to see caches I've already found but that is the default and there is a reluctance to change this I've been told. Initial load and Reset should apply the user defaults. I don't know which settings are really interesting and I'm sure a list will evolve. Mine would start with - show user found caches - default number of caches to retrieve. 50 is too high for my taste and takes longer than I like. Let me choose a smaller number (or some might want larger) - not likely to happen but let me choose colors for cache pins by type
  3. Capturing this in the feature list as I've suggested it by email and I see others raising it in the Support forum. This would be a search mode where only caches visible in the map view area are found. I believe the API may limit this to 100 square km so an error is needed if the view area is larger than this. This is super useful to focus searches along a route or to avoid a power trail in the vicinity.
  4. Yes, Airdrop from another app (Geosphere). Maybe GS sends it twice but I doubt it as I've dropped to other apps ok.
  5. When I am importing and want to add the imports to an existing list, I have to type the list name carefully and exactly or else I will create a different list accidentally. Provide a button that pops up existing lists and let me choose one to add them to. This eliminates a source of error.
  6. Importing a zipped GPX file seems create two import Windows. I use one and then cancel the other but does not seem right
  7. Look at GC5FC5N in Google, Apple and Apple Flyover modes. Zoom in as far as you can and look at the distance scale for the map.
  8. Please support landscape orientation in addition to the current portrait mode.
  9. I checked another location - GC5FC5N and a random one in NJ but both let me get down to 39' with flyover. However, out in a field in the Kanas, GC48262, I only get 100' but Google Sat view lets me reach 50'. So it looks like not all areas have the same resolution.
  10. This is more of an observation than a question. In the past I thought that Geosphere Google Satellite view had better resolution than what Cachly showed (although this could be due to stretching bits and not seeing anything new). Since Google Maps use is broken on Geosphere with iOS 10, this became an incentive to switch to Cachly. With the new distance scale in both apps I was able to compare quantitatively. Cachly best resolution Apple Sat: 100 ft Apple Flyover: 39 ft Google Sat: 50 ft Geosphere best resolution Apple Sat: 100 ft Google Sat: 50 ft initially but bit stretch down to 30 ft. This tells me Cachly is showing all the resolution Google sat view has to offer I had not noticed the Apple Flyover option until I heard you on the Geocache Talk podcast. I am now blown away. It has the best resolution of any satellite view options.
  11. Yes and link the screenshot to the cache via the feature being discussed.
  12. One of my reasons for offline storage would be to capture the most zoomed in sat view tile before going offline. Do you figure that violates Google term of service?
  13. I like the sharing aspect but would they be on any device that had synced with the cloud? I'm concerned about viewing the image in offline mode.
  14. Navigate to cache. Drop pin. Create as Waypoint. My confusion is due to the pin and the waypoint blue circle both being present. I clicked the pin and did Remove and the waypoint circle remained. The wording "Create as waypoint" made me think the pin would become a waypoint but there seem to be two entities there.
  15. There are times when I'd love to store an image with the personal note but GS does not allow this. I could stash it in a note log but if the image is a spoiler that's not good. If it could be stored with other cache images but only local to the device, that seems a possibility. Maybe I could finesse it by storing in an offline log but there is a risk that might get uploaded by accident. I guess I could store it in a cloud photo service and link from personal note but that is getting fiddly. Leaving it on the camera roll on the phone is the best I've got but no way to tie the photo to the cache.
  16. Just noticed removing waypoint leaves the blue circle. Thes waypoints were not targeted.
  17. If I am navigating to a cache and drop a pin on the map and set it as Target then navigation will go there. If I then remove the pin, the navigation line still points to the now vacant spot. Shouldn't target revert to the active cache being viewed?
  18. This may seem like a silly feature but I already use the short version of copy the code when pressing the title bar a lot. When documenting qualifying finds for challenges, three things are usually needed: code, title, date found. I was thinking a long press on the icon on the detail page could put something like GCxxxxx title mm/dd/yyyy on the clip board. The only issue might be the date format but if you have the one localized for the device that would be fine or perhaps the ISO format. Then all I need do is long press and paste into wherever the qualifying info goes. If not, yet found then omit date.
  19. I imported an archived cache. The map shows it with an X in the center of the pin. If it is a found archived cache I just see a smiley face -- maybe ought to have an X on top of it? I guess there is the general question of icon treatment when archived and when disabled.
  20. I don't see any visual distinction between an archived cache and a temporarily disabled one. Can you do something to make this more apparent on the map, the callout and the cache details page? Now and then I have to do something with an archived cache and I also keep some track of them as places for a new hide in our cache saturated area.
  21. Offhand I can't think how pin color in map view would be key to understanding a support problem. I'm not suggesting changing the full icon color. Can you explain how it would help resolve an issue?
  22. I would like an option to personalize pin colors. I didn't find a key telling me all of the existing ones but they seem to be mostly different except for Wherigo and Mystery which look pretty similar. I don't view this as high priority but it might aid those with varying degrees of color blindness. For what it's worth, I have reassigned colors in Geosphere which has 14 choices for 13 cache types (earth is brown so that color is a good cue for an Earthcache to me). I notice also that non-cache waypoints have their own icons to distinguish them like a checkered flag for Final. Something to think about.
  23. Most often my corrected coordinate is not in separate Lat and Long parts. Rather it looks like N37° 23.212' W122° 16.922. That's typically the format Certitude wants for validation and the format it writes to the personal note for you. It is a pain to take the two parts and spin the wheels to enter the value for the two parts. Entering the full form would help a lot I know this means you would have to parse a coordinate in one of several possible formats but logic to do this need only be written once and there are several places in the app that can then take advantage of that code for other features.
  24. There are 2 things missing from the List view that I enjoy in Geosphere. One is the live directional pointer telling me which of the next list entries would be best to seek next since they are in the same direction. Another is the owner/location which is an option. You can see either the owner or the location. Knowing the owner can influence which I choose to do from the list. I typically keep it set to owner because location always shows California, USA which for local search at home never really varies. When traveling or viewing offline lists the location can be more interesting than the CO. Fitting these into the current UI without more vertical real estate, which I would not like, is tricky. I don't need the line with the difficulty, terrain, size headings but I can see how this would help a beginner. Changing these to a D, T, S and putting them on the same line as the rating would free up that space but would risk being somewhat more obscure. The number of trackable's in the cache is mildly interesting but more often than not just shows zero. Removing that or omitting it when zero wouldn't really buy much space though. I don't have an answer for this but maybe you're UI designer can think about it some. The directional arrow would require live display though. Sent from my iPad
  25. Exactly. My Geosphere Street View bookmark is defined as: comgooglemaps://?center=[LATITUDE],[LONGITUDE]&mapmode=streetview And sharing a cache link via SMS is sms:&body=[WAYPOINT]
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