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It does include photos, but not where you'd expect. When you click the "Read More" button to show the entire description, there are actually two different views: "Text" and "Web" (controlled by buttons at the top of the description). The Text view - which unfortunately is the default one - doesn't have any images or formatting. You have to manually change it to the Web view to see those. That's true enough - to a point. You can indeed see photos on the Web tab but but only if you're on-line which is useless for many people when they are out of mobile or WiFi range, which around where I live is about all the time. Furthermore even if you can get a phone signal, you are using up your airtime quota. Whereas the classic App had the facility to save the whole lot to an offline mode which could be done at home on WiFi and then used when out caching in remote places without the need of any connection. I think it hasn't been well thought through for an "in-the-field" sport.

When I open a cache on the new App, half the screen space is taken up by three dials for Difficulty, Terrain and Size. Now these are indeed important and interesting but they really don't need so much screen space when other more useful information could be displayed. Someone has just gone all weak at the knees at their ability to create cute little bouncy dials. Just give us the data without the fussy ornamentation.

Agree - it's just clumsy and requires extra work from the cacher who might already be walking around in the bush and doesn't need a fussy interface to deal with as well. Also, the "About" with "description" and "read more" no longer includes photos like the classic App's "Description" did - an amazing omission since the photos are often a key part of the caching information and need to be viewed as the text is being read.

It should not even be a question - yes or no. The obvious answer is YES. OCM or OSM have become essential to cachers in remoter or unusual locations where the bog-standard road maps are not at all helpful. I am also an enthusiastic bush-walker and always take the time to trace my steps with my GPSr and then download the trace to OSM/OCM. There is a long distance Geocaching trail around here and the traces I've contributed to OSM are the only way parts of it can be logically followed, unless you are poring over a paper topo map. The tracks are unavailable on the "new" App but can be found on the "classic" App with its OSM/OCM option. Which is why I and many others stick with the classic App. It's surprising to me that something so half baked as the "new" App can be launched and to add insult to injury the "classic" App is no longer available nor do links point to it.

I also find it quite a "bug" and an "bugbear" to alwsys have to come back to the computer and re-date the finds which have been made and logged on my iPod touch or iPhone App in Australia. The system always presents US West Coast (Seattle) date, even on the computer log-in. At least when using the computer keyboard you have a choice to modify the date - or, if you are cunning, you make your logs late in the evening Australian time, by which time Seattle has switched to "our" date. Even better would be for the logs to be made using "device time" in the case of iPod/iPhone. As a second-rate fallback, the device should have a facility for the user to set the date of the log as does the computer log panel already. More and more in-field devices are being used for geocaching so this is a problem which needs a bit of urgent attention from Groundspeak.