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AnyMules

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  1. The workaround I use for this is to copy the text from the cache descrition and paste it in to the cache note - then I can just edit and add the extra info where I need to without needing to swap back and forth.
  2. The whole "Benchmarking" thing seems to be very US orientated. So not a lot of use for this in any other part of the world. Many of the similar things for other countries appear to be listed as "Waymarks" though, but the Waymarks also include rubbish such as your local fast food outlet so isn't anywhere near as exciting. The waymarking web site is just as bad for trying to find and log them on as well. Perhaps groudspeak need to consider a big revamp of these other things, and perhaps a merge of them all in to a single source (ie - make them all "geocaches" but have a different cache type for the Benchmarks/Waymarks). They'd probably have to do a lot of work pruning out some of the rubbish though, I know that there are landmarks that have many "waymarks" for the same thing. Not to mention that geocaching.com is very anti-advertising or promoting other companies or products, yet a Waymark can be for your local McDonalds so there's a bit of a conflict there they'd need to resolve.
  3. I've heard a lot of positive reports about Geeoh Live from Android users around here.
  4. For me, it was pretty much like this (which is my usual caching behaviour): 1) Using Cachly in offline mode (with offline maps if that makes any difference, but probably not) 2) Find a cache and log a Found, visit a TB or two, then click Save at the top of the screen. 3) Repeat the above a few times, perhaps closing the app and using other apps, or putting phone in standby with power button while walking between them. 4) After logging a few, open up the Pending Logs, and there will be one without the same info as the rest (missing Date, Log Type, Message).
  5. I'm also facing this issue, and relatively frequently. I had it happen three times today. the only way to fix the cache with an issue is to delete the log and then recreate it. Any attempt to edit the log that has lost the data causes the app to crash.
  6. Maybe I'm missing what you're trying to explain, but when logging a cache, there is a ... menu at the top right corner of the Inventory screen where you can then select "All Dropped Off", or "All Visited".
  7. I'd also made a similar comment in another thread a while ago on a similar topic.. Being able to see all the waypoints for all the caches, along with the actual cache locations, and all the relevant 161m circles. was always a useful feature of one of the older apps I used to use - especially when out and hiding a cache - you could make sure you were not putting it in a place where there was a physical waypoint of a multiocache (assuming one has the waypoints available in their database of course). Being able to toggle these on for such an occasion would be useful. Similarly, having a lot of the waypoints appear on the map can also help show you places you may need to visit in the area you are currently caching in that belong to another cache elsewhere. We have a few multi caches around where I am that have waypoints scattered all over the city, or some that have many stops along interstate roads over 100s of kilometres. It's a real pain when you find out you've driven past one where you needed to collect some information as the waypoint didn't appear on the map at the time.
  8. I'll add another vote to this old post and the request to have this altered. I use Cachly almost 100% in Offline mode (using offline lists and the offline vector maps). One of the things I find annoying is that every time I launch the app, it opens to the "Live" screen and I have to swap it each and every time to the Offline screen/list. It would be great to have a setting to allow a change in this behaviour so that users could select which screen I wanted to come up as default if they didn't want the "Live" screen every time.
  9. Cachly displays GSAK notes when a GPX file containing them has been imported, however the text is all squashed up and shows as a single, wrapping, line of text. Is it possible to have Cachly preserve the line breaks that may be in the GSAK note. This would make the readability of the note much easier
  10. A third party developer doesn't have access to the Groundspeak databases to be able to check that the entered coordinate is correct for any of the existing caches. If you could just make an API call to get the final location of a cache, then puzzles wouldn't be much of a challenge at all. For any new caches, having cachly being the only way to check a coordinate restricts too much of the population of cachers (all those that don't have an Apple device), so there wouldn't be any point in doing this either and excluding the majority of the geocaching community. With many checkers already in existence (Geochecker, Geocheck, Certitude, or Groundspeak's own one), there are plenty of existing checkers for a CO to chose from, and not a lot of point in @Nic Hubbard spending time developing yet another one, taking his time away from fixing other more important things with the app which benefit a greater proportion of the Cachly users.
  11. AnyMules

    FTF bug?

    It might not happen often, but it probably should be accounted for when looking at the code for this sort of thing - what about something with a corrected coordinate, that is waiting for a FTF, but you have also logged a DNF on. I had one of these the other day
  12. I've seen that on some caches where they have a final waypoint listed with a N000 00.000 E000 00.000 coordinate (there's a multi near me which does this - GC569ZP) even when I have put in a corrected coordinate.
  13. Trackables aren't currently managed off-line - they're always on-line, so don't work at all when you're in an off-line mode with no phone coverage. This is one of those features that I'd love to see implemented, so that you can log/visit/drop off a trackable when off-line. There have been some other threads about this before such as: http://www.cach.ly/support/index.php?/topic/695-offline-trackables I'd also like to see something along the lines of a "visit list" which could contain just a sub-group of the trackables in the inventory that could be visited instead of having to add them individually, or "add all" and remove the ones you don't want to visit.
  14. Perhaps there could be an option for an upload of a cache note to be handled similarly to a pending / offline cache log. So that the cache note can be edited and go in to a pending list that could be reviewed before approving the upload. I too have been caught out a couple of times where I've written a huge note, then not had it save/upload, losing all that I'd written. I use this a lot when doing earthcaches where I copy and paste the questions in the the cache note, then fill in my answers under the questions while in the field. Saves switching back and forth to the cache description screen.
  15. As @Bolling pointed out, Cachly isn't designed to be a Mystery Checker, and would not know the final coordinates to all the caches to be able to check for a right answer or not. Groundspeak has recently introduced a new checker on to their web site that COs can chose to use if they don't want to use one of the others that are available out there. Some of the third party ones can show you who has entered the correct coordinates if you allow them to).
  16. I'll add a +1 to this request - it would be good when you open an offline list for it to automatically show your current location as the centrepoint. I use the offline mode for almost 100% of my caching with the app, so when I open my main list, I'd love it to be showing me the caches around where i currently am.
  17. I've always had trouble trying to work out what the size of the cache is, especially in bright light - the small circles are really hard to pick out being grey on grey. That being said, the circles in beta18 seem to be a bit easier to read - I'm not sure if a change was made there or not. I'd love for the coordinate to be bigger / bolder / blacker / whatever to make them more easily visible - especially when it's a corrected coordinate and you're trying to read it out to a caching companion. The tiny grey on grey is very hard to read. I'd really love to see perhaps a config switch to turn on/off a "high contrast" display mode to give a more black and white, or a darker colour than the washed out greys. That, along with a larger font size and less unused/white/grey space / dynamic type support / anythign to make it easier for those of us with visual impairments to see what's on the screen. Here's some links to some similar threads: http://www.cach.ly/support/index.php?/topic/487-readability http://www.cach.ly/support/index.php?/topic/295-dynamic-type-support http://www.cach.ly/support/index.php?/topic/458-size-indicator
  18. As mentioned in other threads, it'd be great for it to also show all the waypoints as well on the map (with perhaps a toggle to turn it on and off, as it's not always required) - and, for physical waypoints (ie on a multi) to also have 161m circles. This would help greatly when hiding a new cache and making sure you're well out of the way of any neighbouring cache parts.
  19. I'd add my support to the request to have 161m circles on physical multi waypoints. This becomes important when planning to hide a geocache and seeing where all the physical waypoints are located on the map along with all the other hides in the area.
  20. Apple maps are very wrong in lots of places around me, showing roads where none exist (and never have). The maps on the Tom Tom are marginally better, but the Google and OpenStreet Maps are significantly better.
  21. I've asked a similar question before to try to get the visibility of some of the text improved. I struggle some times even on an iPhone 7 Plus to see the text and symbols in Cachly.
  22. I've seen that happen in most applications that use the compass, especially when entering or exiting the geomobile, it's not just a Cachly thing. To get it to work better when this happens, I usually hold my phone out and twist my wrist around a few times so the phone gets to all sorts of orientations and this often helps to get things back on track.
  23. The macro mentioned by @Team DEMP above has been updated to Version 3 in the last day or so to upload the corrected coordinates from your current GSAK filter list. http://gsak.net/board/index.php?s=0fb96b9025932651f9500f49cbaa2606&showtopic=32407&st=0&#entry243386 I ran it last night with 5000+ caches in the list - it took a number of hours to complete, but now all my corrected coordinates are now on geocaching.com. In response to @CodeJunkie's comment "When generating a shared PQ / List of caches to send to others I don't always want the corrected coords included." - you can do this with your GSAK export by selecting the "output original coordinates' check box.
  24. I (and a few others I've spoken with out in the field) am having some problems trying to see, especially in bright light conditions, what size a cache is on the app. The similarity in the colour of the light grey unfilled circle (for the smallest size in particular) is very hard to see, so that the next size up (as pictured) is often hard to tell which is which when you can't see the screen easily in the sunlight in particular. Could the size circles be in a darker colour, or a different colour, or even an additonal indicator (XS, S, M, L, ?) added next to them - there's plenty of room there so those of us that have difficulty seeing which is which when they're so small can see what size they are more easily? I've even upgraded to the iPhone Plus to get a bigger screen, but still have issues determining the difference between these small dots.
  25. As long as it has an OFF option - it's hard to be stealthy at some locations if your phone is going BING.
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