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I can't find the messages link that used to be next to the user avatar top right. Can someone please help me? best Indian-Jonas

While browsing the site on an iphone the first thing that happens is that the page gets gray and a microscopic popup window appears top left. Very annoying because it is almost impossible to zoom in to click the correct button on the window. I have mentioned this before... it is an unfortunate effect as iphone user... nothing has happened though. Best Indian-Jonas

Well! It seems no-one has a good answer to this quandary. * My Pocket-Query allowed for 500 caches and it summed up to 324. The reason cannot be that the potential amount of caches exceeded my limit. * Originally renderred at home before I even came to location the mentioned cache was omitted in the query, as discovered by me on location - hence my question. It is of course very hard to me to debug this self since I have already logged the cache in question. When I now render this query all my logged caches disappear since i have that filter on. I can't make that undone. The quandary is still unsolved. Some caches are not included when you make a pocket query. Who can tell which are omitted and why? This new feature recently introduced with making a list downloaded directly into the GPS seems for me a lot better since that is something I can do asap instead of waiting for my PQ to be generated - however if the selection module is the same as in rendering a PQ the error must appear even in this new procedure. I believe this is a matter for the programmers at GCHQ to address. All the best wishes. Lasse (aka. Indian-Jonas)

So now I've fiddled around with different parameters, I set the center to another place, I set the limit to 1000 (Originally it renderred 324/500) I set to show all including the ones I've already logged... every new setting renderred "Steel Arenas" along with all the other. I still can't figure out why "Steel Arenas" was omitted in my original PQ. It feels unreliable when I don't know for sure all caches are listed in a PQ. The only filter I have is for the PQ to filter out the ones I already have logged. When the PQ was first generated I hadn't logged any of the caches in the area, and certainly not "Steel Arenas" that I hadn't even discovered hadn't I watched the cache map. It is truly puzzling! Best.

Why do this cache not appear in my pocketquery? I discovered it on location while caching. I connected to the hotel wifi to log my caches, then discovered the gap. Steel Arenas PQ Fuerteventura Best greetings Lasse (aka. Indian-Jonas) ps. As I now have logged this among some other caches it naturally doesn't appear since my filte takes out caches I have already logged.

I have found my ways now - for Android it was already settled - for the iPhone I have a solution - which i of course don't mention since it seems my posts are banned as long as I don't stay on the ranch. My opinion stands fast - agreeing with hoards of other users... The Geocaching app sucks! (sorry but it really does!) Remember - All beginners wants to try it out before they start heaving money into it. Also - Many beginners are quite new to using smartphones and are definitely not prone to piping data from one app to the other like some hacker. Think of the goodwill the app would get if it lets a beginner try it out fully first... finding that this is the thing! They would soon be prone to become premium members. Most solutions here are quite complex and calls for a good habit with electronic devices. I can do it - I am used to computers and do a lot of hacking myself but my beginners are youngsters from 7 years up! They need a simple solution which as i said i have found. Best wishes... Cache is king!

I'm not understanding this part of your post. Can you explain what you mean when you say "geocaching.com doesn't have an option for Android users so far"? Hi. Well there is no option for android other than C:Geo afaik. If the official geocaching app exists for android (which i would be the last to know since i am an iphone user) it would still be using the geocaching live API, right? So it is not an alternative.

On Android... [EDIT]: Cool, I see one way to run a compass App from the Geocaching.com cache page using Safari! Install the free version of "Commander Compass". Open a cache page on the web site. Tap the "GPX File" button, and select "Open in Commander Compass". This particular method works only for Premium Members, of course. I haven't figured out how to do that for basic members. Working on it ... Get the word out... Hi! One of the most valuable answers so far! Thanks a lot! I installed "Commander Compass Lite", tried it with "GPX"-button on a cache - chose it as "Primary Target" in CCL and suddenly I had a high tech compass! The only hitch is that this only works - as you said it - when you're a premium member... so there we're back at square one. As for the beginning of this comment I don't have any problems with Android devices at all except the fact that geocaching.com doesn't have an option for Android users so far. Once again thanks for this tip! CCL will be useable in other duties anyway! Indian-Jonas

I have tested the only app among the three iPhone apps that was free - and was met with he same disclaimer for NP-users. The only way it seems is the way i mentioned before. It is - as also mentioned before - this gc live API that causes all trouble in apps since it is a restriction built into the API. I still can't see the thinking! It is illogical!

Well since those apps use the same restricted API the best way i can see as for now is copy-pasting into GCTools and use that. This is what i will recommend my adepts to do pending their decision to sign up as premium members. There is always an aspect of good-will - especially from API-makers to create an API usable for beginners giving a taste for how it really can be to go geocaching. This would surely render a greater amount of paying premium members in time. As it is now a beginner will be scared off feeling it is too much of fiddling around to make it worthwhile - getting sick and tired - and finally skip the whole business in favor of Turf (free) or other activities.

You can't be serious that we should tell our beginners to use geocaching.com to fetch the coordinates and paste them into another app that can navigate them to the spot - when we sit on an app that should be able to do this in one move! It is ridiculous!!! Effectively You recommend people not to use the geocaching app at all! What do the API-makers say to that? You tell me that i can't use an app to 'scrape' the website for info, but doing that manually is OK? I'm puzzled.

Since it is possible to view all basic caches in Safari i find it stupid and stingy not to make them viewable in the iPhone app. This is not my problem, it is the apps problem. C:Geo works just fine with all caches not being restricted to premium users. (though i can say i like the iPhone app interface a lot more, and it is very much better and userfriendly - that is once you pay premium membership) The makers should give that a good thought that the nature of the app might really scare people away from geocaching - and i sincerely don't think any of the makers really want that to happen. /Lasse aka. Indian-Jonas

This new iPhone app is completely devastating for a beginner and a would-have-been devoted geocacher. I led a guiding for beginners in which i tried to use the app for these newbies but I really had to give up! The little trip I was guiding was impossible to go unless every beginner immediately payed and engaged in a premium membership as all geocaches in the neighborhood were greygreen and thus impossible to access! These were kids in the age of 8-10, and they don't have a possibility to even decide to get a premium membership! I had no idea that it was so bad... since i am a premium member and can't see the effects for a non-premium member. Luckily some newbies had Android and had installed C:Geo (Thank god it exists!!!) so I really had to rely on them for the finding and visibility of info for the geocaches in the trip I had prepared. Another example of this stupid restriction was for my wife that doesn't have a premium membership. She went to "Omberg" in Sweden for some hiking and she had plans of taking a lot of caches. These plans were completely crushed since all caches were greygreen. She got one cache. She could have had 20 at least! Bad credits!!! Next weekend I am having another trip with geocaches that I intentionally made easy so it would be possible to go with beginners. I had a look at it with my wifes phone - and not a single cache was possible to take. Another area I also planted a series of caches is greygreen too! It is completely destroyed! Good work!!! I have spent a lot of time and money now preparing geocaches and planning guided trips to inaugurate people into this fascinating hobby, but now I realize that Groundspeak doesn't want newbies to get a taste for it. I really can't see the point of these restrictions since it all is possible to see in Safari, but You can't navigate with Safari, so - You can see the info about a geocache in Safari, and then You just have to realize that it is not possible to navigate to it using your iPhone... making you very inclined to give it all up. Was that the intention of it all??? It all seems stingy and stupid. In swedish we call it "Dumsnålt" All thumbs down for this!