+De broekies Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) GAPP is a free geocache manager application that enables Premium members to browse and maintain geocaches on their local computer. GAPP is Geocaching Live enabled which makes it very easy to update your geocaches by downloading Pocket Queries or downloading geocaches by search criteria right from your application without the need to access geocaching.com. The application is intended for all user types, for the users who never used a geocache manager before to the experienced heavy data users. The application will be directly functional right after installation and can be configured to your needs. Programmers have access to the full source code to write plugins to add functionality or change existing functionality. Just try it and give here your feedback or post feature requests. Edited October 10, 2012 by De broekies Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 A new version has been released today with an exciting feature: Action Builder Now you can graphically create you decision flow and add actions to it. Very easy to create daily used tasks. Example video: Example picture: Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 A new version of GAPP is available with the option to use MySQL as data storage. see http://application.globalcaching.eu/ for more information. - Robert Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted October 26, 2012 Author Share Posted October 26, 2012 (edited) I have created a (boring and long) GAPP feature overview movie. Not all features are shown (like shapefiles or other settings), but in general you should get the idea. Maybe the most interesting part is at the end where maps are explained. E.g. the offline map support. Edited October 26, 2012 by De broekies Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 Since the introduction of GAPP, the application has been improved a lot with lots of new features. Now that GAPP is a full featured geocache manager application, actually more than just a geocache manager, it was time to improve the website and add its own English forum to it. Today the new website for GAPP has been launched: http://gapp.globalcaching.eu Feel free to visit the website and join the forum. Needless to say that it is a continuous project and we will keep working on GAPP and its website. - Robert Quote Link to comment
+radioscout Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Can GAPP export .gdb-Files that can be imported into Garmin Mapsource? And can GAPP shorten geocache names like the GSAK smart name function does? Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) Can GAPP export .gdb-Files that can be imported into Garmin Mapsource? At this moment there is no export to a .gdb file. But many features are created per request, so this feature can be added as well. But then I have a few questions to understand it. Mapsource can read GPX files. This is not sufficient? The goal of GAPP is to have an all in one application. It already has tons of features, including offline maps. Why the need to run Mapsource? Maybe it is even a better idea to implement the features you use in Mapsource in GAPP? I will first try to find the gdb fileformat specification. If that is not successful, I might do the same as GSAK does and use GPSBabel. And can GAPP shorten geocache names like the GSAK smart name function does? At this moment this feauture only is supported by the Garmin export using the Garmin communicator. But if you would like it on other places as well, please let me know. - Robert PS: A general note; GAPP supports C# scripts. This means that everyone can extend the application. But if you like to create a functionality that could be usefull to others too, then you can ask for access to the SVN repository. After creating the plugin, we can add it to the default installation so everyone can enjoy it. More information for developers can be found here . Edited March 14, 2013 by De broekies Quote Link to comment
+SKAMS Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) The POI Export-Function (i.e. useful for older etrex devices) will also shorten names if needed. It also tries to be somewhat smart in doing it. (Surely this is not exactly the same as the Smartnames function in GSAK) Here's an eample of name shortening in the POI export: If needed spaces (& non alphanumeric chars) are removed and caps is alternated to mark the next word. If the name ends on a number that is usually retained. I.e. "VeryVeryLongName IV" gets "VeryVeryLongIV" and "I didn't know a name 2" would get "IdidntKnowAna2". Names ending on "#" in this image are exported waypoints (i.e. #PK = Parking). Edited March 14, 2013 by SKAMS Quote Link to comment
+radioscout Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Mapsource can read GPX files. This is not sufficient? It can read GPX files but the GPX export contains only CG-Codes rather than cache names. Or can I change this in the setup menu? The goal of GAPP is to have an all in one application. It already has tons of features, including offline maps. Why the need to run Mapsource? Maybe it is even a better idea to implement the features you use in Mapsource in GAPP? I use it as a fast viewer and editor. For example to remove Caches, to join different files using copy and paste, to print a map, to load the caches on the GPS device and many things more. At this moment this feauture only is supported by the Garmin export using the Garmin communicator. But if you would like it on other places as well, please let me know. It would be nice if it is available in the .gdb or GPX export. A general note; GAPP supports C# scripts. This means that everyone can extend the application. But if you like to create a functionality that could be usefull to others too, then you can ask for access to the SVN repository. After creating the plugin, we can add it to the default installation so everyone can enjoy it. More information for developers can be found here . I'm not a programmer but maybe I can learn it. Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 (edited) Mapsource can read GPX files. This is not sufficient? It can read GPX files but the GPX export contains only CG-Codes rather than cache names. Or can I change this in the setup menu? At this moment it can only be set within the Garmin Export (so, when copying the data to the Garmin GPX). I will add this feature to the GPX export too. And yes, that will be a setting. Next version will have this. At this moment this feauture only is supported by the Garmin export using the Garmin communicator. But if you would like it on other places as well, please let me know. It would be nice if it is available in the .gdb or GPX export. OK, I will add this setting for the GPX export too. Due to your request here for export to .gdb files, I contacted the developer of WinGDB3. He was willing to provide code that could do this. However, we came to the conclusion that since Mapsource and Basecamp are supporting GPX import, there is not really a need for .gdb export in GAPP. And understanding your reason, why you ask for it, it makes more sense to use the geocache name rather than the geocache code for export to GPX for Mapsource. So, if I add this setting, you should be fine, right? Next version will probably be released in a few days and will have this setting. - Robert Edited March 15, 2013 by De broekies Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted March 19, 2013 Author Share Posted March 19, 2013 A new version is available with the mentioned changes. More information about this update can be found here This link also shows 2 videos on 2 of the new features. - Robert Quote Link to comment
+radioscout Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Many thanks for implementing the feature. Is it possible to disable the annoying clustering on the map? Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Many thanks for implementing the feature. Is it possible to disable the annoying clustering on the map? No......not yet But I can make it optional if you like. For some situations you really want clustering, because otherwise the map will be too slow (eg. with 20.000 markers). Next version will have more options to control the map behaviour. Thanks for the suggestion. - Robert Quote Link to comment
+radioscout Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Thanks! That would be great. Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 The new version is ready for download. You can now set the desired behaviour of the google map marker clusterer. You can find these settings on the settings page (Plugins->Settings) Under Maps. You have the option to set the following cluster settings: - Enable clustering above # geocaches (so, under this amount, no clustering will be done) - set the maximum zoom lever for clustering - set the grid size. Robert Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 We are one month further and a lot has been added and improved. GAPP has a new file format that is super fast reducing the load time to a minimum (loading 50.000 in about 2 seconds). All changes can be found here. GAPP Quote Link to comment
+De broekies Posted October 20, 2013 Author Share Posted October 20, 2013 Ever since the last time we posted here there have been many new releases in GAPP. Download GAPP for free! Change history 2013-10-18 - V1.9.4 add: OKAPI, Import geocaches within radius add: OKAPI, Authorization added. This will add features to be implemented that requires Authentication level 3 fix: LiveAPI, Import geocaches when not PM now skips PM filters add: option to hide the OKAPI menu add: Formula Solver plugin (by superudo) add: Main screen, added Formula solver to the taskbar 2013-10-13 - V1.9.3 change: French language updated (thanks icaunais and RHCV) change: German language updated (thanks SKAMS) change: Framework now supports account name per geocache prefix (GC, MZ, OX, OC etc) (re-import Munzees if applicable) add: Action Builder now has a filter Is own add: Settings folder selection at startup of the application now contains a Default button to select the applications default settings folder add: Settings folder selection in file menu now contains a Default button to select the applications default settings folder add: Settings for account names for other sites. Coupling is done by GC code prefix like GC, OX and OC add: OKAPI support plugin (support for opencaching.de, opencaching.pl and opencaching.nl) add: OKAPI, Import My Finds plugin (imports all your logs with geocaches) add: OKAPI, Import by bounding box plugin added add: OKAPI, Import by list of geocache codes 2013-10-09 - V1.9.2 fix: Query editor, operator now restored correctly after restarting GAPP fix: Warning dialog text when delete and ignore the active geocache fix: Search geocaches within a region fix for search within selection fix: Search geocaches within region for the first region in the list 2013-10-02 - V1.9.1 fix: Export to Garmin and GPX for name prefix if geocache has extra/corrected coordinates add: Live API plugin to import the geocache images (image data only) fix: GSAK import, now able to handle attributes where the Inc property has not been set fix: GSAK import, now also reads the Corrected table for additional corrected coordinates change: Trackable group, added the extra delay setting too for importing the trackable logs add: Live API, import logs of geocaches (with setting to import maximum number of logs per geocache) change: French language updated (thanks icaunais and RHCV) fix: Live API, log geocache with geocache_visits.txt now imports also the geocache with prefix correctly change: Live API, import logs of other users now supports filtering on log types 2013-09-28 - V1.9.0 change: French language updated (thanks icaunais and RHCV) fix: Copy to existing database contained an error when loading the target database file add: Framework, added Geocache Images collection to the framework add: Live API, Geocache images are now imported too (including the ones not in the listing) change: Main Window, status bar now also contains number of geocache images (imported through Live API) add: Data storage, added geocache images (default GAPP Data Storage only) change: Image grabber for offline images now also downloads the images that are listed in Geocache images data (not only in description) change: Geocache viewer, Added Geocache images at the end of the geocache description by name add: added to grab images plugin option to create a photo folder for offline usage (structure for Garmin devices offline picture viewing) add: Export to Garmin device (mass storage) now also has the option to add images 2013-09-22 - V1.8.11 fix: Live API geocaches import/update using now the correct published date (instead of creation date) change: Live API, import geocaches/update also available for non PM (lite import only) change: Live API, import notes also available for non PM change: Live API, trackable groups also available for non PM change: Live API, import My Finds also available for non PM add: RestoreDefaultSettings application added to clear all settings and data. change: If application fails to start, the user has the option to restore the default settings 2013-09-18 - V1.8.10 fix: UserWaypoints on geocaching.com (corrected waypoints) are now copied to extra coordinate in GAPP 2013-09-16 - V1.8.9 change: French language updated (thanks icaunais and RHCV) change: German language updated (thanks SKAMS) fix: Geocache collection toolbar button on main window add: Locus - addon GSAK database export plugin added change: Settings screen, increased default width of treeview fix: Google map, changing coupling to main screen now reloads the map. add: Export to GPX now includes an option to add a prefix to the name if extra coords are available (corrected) add: Export to Garmin now includes an option to add a prefix to the name if extra coords are available (corrected) 2013-09-12 - V1.8.8 add: Windows can now be set to always on top (will decouple from main window). This can be set from system menu. add: Option to set the transparency of windows that stay on top, but are not active fix: Geocoding changed from Google API V2 to Google API V3 add: Main screen added toolbar buttons for GCVote and Geocache collections change: French language updated (thanks icaunais) 2013-09-09 - V1.8.7 fix: Geocache collection fix for creating collections that contain upper case letters change: Geocache collection now highlights active geocache and if code is selected, the geocache is made the active geocache 2013-09-08 - V1.8.6 fix: OCM GPX files are now read even if Log IDs are not valid IDs. Logs with invalid IDs are now skipped. fix: Live API, Import my finds logs are now added to all found geocaches add: Search geocaches, added filter for owned geocaches add: GCVote dashboard (screen menu) add: Export to Excel, added GCVote change: French language updated (thanks RHCV) add: Geocache collection plugin added (these are bookmarks that are not related to geocaching.com bookmarks) add: Action Builder, added In collection filter 2013-08-31 - V1.8.5 change: Action Builder, Waypoint counter now has extra option to count the geocache itself also as waypoint add: Action builder, the geocaches can now be sorted before going through the flow add: Backup and restore database option change: default setting for showing or hiding top panel of Cache list and Google map is changed to manual add: GCVote plugin added. Import votes and added filters for the Action Builder 2013-08-20 - V1.8.4 change: Log geocache form changed position of controls so all will be visible, also on small displays add: Repair database files option in case loading fails change: stack notification messages vertical fix: Live API, import geocaches now assignes extra coordinates if User Waypoint is present with corrected flag fix: Action builder, days agao published now ignoring time (only full days) add: Action builder, add condition Waypoints counter fix: GPX import, Cito events are now marked as Cito events add: Cache list, added Waypoints column indicating number of child waypoints change: Cache list, automatic expand and collaps top panel change: Google maps, automatic expand and collaps top panel 2013-08-11 - V1.8.3 fix: iGeoKnife export now fills the corrected table also (for corrected coordinates) change: Garmin export using communicator now uses geocaching.com url to javascripts fix: corrected log date for logging trackables change: if after importing geocaches geocaches are ignored, a dialog will be displayed to inform the user 2013-08-03 - V1.8.2 fix: export to GPX or Garmin, fix for cutting off geocaching name length fix: Google Map, re-opening window after closing will now reload the map change: Google Map, an info window will now be shown when the active geocache is changed (selected or all only) 2013-08-02 - V1.8.1 fix: Action builder, dates are restored correctly (not reverting to current date) add: Export to iGeoKnife added fix: Google Earth map now places the geocaches on the corrected coords if available add: Export to Garmin using Mass storage now also has the option to limit the length of the cache name 2013-07-24 - V1.8.0 add: OSM map integrated in Google Maps. You can now switch between both maps types. add: Offline map integrated in Google Maps. You can now switch between both maps types. change: Google Map, optimize loading speed for selected or all geocaches (IE 8 or higher) 2013-07-19 - V1.7.13 change: Live API, import geocaches now shows an error message if Live API call fails. change: Live API, import geocaches from bookmarks now shows an error message if Live API call fails. change: Live API, import Favorites now shows an error message if Live API call fails. change: German language updated (thanks SKAMS) add: Action Builder, counters are displayed at each connector and input to show the geocache counter passed that point change: Main window, Google translate geocache description is now opened in internal browser if this option is set in the Geocache Viewer change: Live API, update geocaches decreased batch size to 30 add: Live API, update geocaches now has an option (setting) to automatically unselect the geocaches that are updated 2013-07-13 - V1.7.12 add: Main window, added google translate option in the toolbar with option of 4 languages fix: Ignore geocache filter, bug in filter by geocache owner fix: Action builder now uses date part only for date comparison (e.g. Published date) add: Action to Clear Flagged. This will clear the Flagged markers of all or selected geocaches 2013-07-06 - V1.7.11 Live API, geocache batch logging now adds delay to prevent speed limit errors change: Action to delete and ignore geocaches does have a progress bar now fix: Live API, batch log geocaches when opening trackable panel, the panel has the correct size now change: French language updated (thanks RHCV) 2013-07-02 - V1.7.10 fix: OSM maps now places all geocaches om extra coordinates if available change: Live API Import geocache, dialog window now adds scrollbar if window is too small (low resolution screens) fix: LiveAPI, log geocache/trackable does not check on PM anymore due to the fact that Basic members can also log through Live API fix: Automatic select new geocaches now does not select all geocaches when you open an existing file fix: Live API, log date correction 2013-06-26 - V1.7.9 add: Cache list, added presets. Easy to create presets and switch to other preset fix: Google map, also found geocaches now are placed on extra (corrected) coords if available add: Export to Excel now has two extra fields. Extra coordinate (presentation) and Auto coords (Custom if available else original coords) fix: Live API, import my finds 2013-06-23 - V1.7.8 change: Main window, menu items are disabled when not applicable or cannot be performed at that moment add: Log viewer, added option to remove selected logs add: Package manager, added option to download files (but not install) add: Cache list, added hints column 2013-06-16 - V1.7.7 change: German language updated (thanks SKAMS) change: Added X-UA-Compatible tag to the Google Earth html add: Log images thumbnail overview with filter options 2013-06-13 - V1.7.6 fix: Garmin Export using GGZ, now creates the ggz folder on the device if it does not exists fix: GGZ export now uses corrected coordinates in index file if corrected coordinates are present add: log photo's can be downloaded for offline use (available within settings) 2013-06-09 - V1.7.5 add: Google Earth map added add: Quick selection to select geocaches with log images fix: Live API, log images are now importered too add: Action builder, added condition # Logs add: Action builder, added condition # Log images fix: Batch logging using c:geo txt or garmin geocache_vistis.txt file, now not adds other selected geocaches add: Log image viewer 2013-05-28 - V1.7.4 change: removed option to disable plugins fix: Automatic startup now executes after all plugins handled ApplicationInitialized fix: Automatic startup now executes plugins in selected order fix: Automatic startup, when opening settings the order is maintained change: when updating the GAPP from within GAPP, GAPP is killed instead of closed. change: Export to Garmin now has the option to select the GPX version change: Chat, automatic retry on connection failures (max 3 times) change: Action lists does not show the seperator - anymore 2013-05-26 - V1.7.3 add: Import GGZ files add: Export to GGZ add: Export to GPX, added option to add personal notes to description add: Export to Garmin GPSr (Mass Storage), added option to create GGZ file add: Export to Garmin GPSr (Mass Storage), added option to add personal notes to description change: GPX creattion now adds extra empty line between personal notes and description add: Export to GPX, make waypoint file optional (settings) add: Export Garmin POI, added option to export only the active geocache fix: Deleting geocaches warning now uses the correct warning text 2013-05-23 - V1.7.2 change: French language updated (thanks RHCV) add: option to copy geocaches to another database add: option to add geocaches from another database 2013-05-21 - V1.7.1 add: cache list, added row numbers add: cache list, added column geocache type in text so it will be sortable on cache type add: cache list, added Delete to context menu change: cache list, pressing Delete key wil delete the active geocache add: Export to Garmin using mass storage, option to use the database name as gpx file name add: cache list, added tooltips for Selected, Flagged and Type column 2013-05-17 - V1.7.0 add: Cache list, added a setting to disable automatic sorting to improve performance (available through settings dialog) 2013-05-15 - V1.6.14 fix: Open areas, removing custom waypoints now actually removes it. fix: Open areas, displaying only Mystery geocaches with corrected coordinates fix: Open areas, some waypoints caused map not to be shown add: Google maps, added setting to show also the name of the geocache in the tool tip add: Main window, added tool bar icon for Open areas 2013-05-14 - V1.6.13 fix: Geocache viewer, use local images if available setting now saved and restored fix: Geocache viewer, suppressed script errors fix: Google maps, suppressed script errors change: improved performance of deleting geocaches and logs change: GAPP Data Storage, improved performance for search for empty space fix: cache list, selecting geocaches does not refresh the complete list anymore and is now faster add: Geocache log (single), added event log types change: Internal browser, create pq series now has the option to automatically activate the PQ fix: Log geocache (single) made panel automatic scrollable for very small screens add: Open areas map 2013-05-11 - V1.6.12 add: Main window, added toolbar for the Action sequence removed: Removed the coordinate backup plugin due to the fact that the Live API now provides coordinates for archived geocaches too fix: Geocache viewer, prevent trying to update viewer at startup while not visible changed: Scripts plugin, removed the option to select another folder change: German language updated (thanks SKAMS) add: Added option to create seperate settings folders to create profiles add: added command line option /f that forces the selection settings folder at startup. With this you can create a new settings folder for factory settings. fix: simple cache list now displays custom attributes correctly change: French language updated (thanks RHCV) 2013-05-06 - V1.6.11 add: Excel export, added Hints field add: Export to Garmin, added option to set the Hints in the desc field of the GPX (will show as note on older GPSr) add: Export to GPX, added option to set the Hints in the desc field of the GPX (will show as note on older GPSr) fix: Geocache type icon for CITO event was missing. Added the icon to the setup package change: Loading plugins in a fixed order add: New plugin that enables the user to set properties of selected or all geocaches at once 2013-05-02 - V1.6.10 change: French language updated (thanks RHCV) add: Geocache viewer now has option to show the additional wayponts add: export to GPX, setting to add additional waypoints to description add: export to Garmin, option to add additional waypoints to description add: Main window, added Recent databases to File menu for quick access of previous used databases add: Settings dialog, added a button to clear the Live API authorization fix: Munzee import now does not assign a city name add: Multiple account support for easy switching between accounts change: Internal browser, saving pocket query settings will not overwrite setting with same name instead of creating a new one Quote Link to comment
+globalcaching.eu Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Maybe you have noticed it, but during the last months the updates for GAPP were smaller and less frequent. It is not that no work has been done thought. The current version of GAPP is great (hope you don't mind me saying that ;-) . It has a lot of features, is very flexible and has the option to ignore (not save) the changes you made. However, not all users have the same way of working and would like to see things differently. With the experience of the current GAPP and with the knowlegde of what other users might like, a new version is being developed at this moment. Before I continue; the current version of GAPP will not be replaced and will continue to be developed. The new version will run next to the current version, because it targets different users and it has a complete different look and feel. Some aspects of the new GAPP (GAPP SF as I call it, SF stands for Small Footprint) - only 1 executable - uses far less memory - no save button. everything is saved and restored after next start. - main screen layout is less scattered - multiple databases can be loaded at once (and copy/paste between then) There is a small preview of the concept: And of course, this is open source and you can follow it on GitHub https://github.com/GlobalcachingEU/GAPP The project of the new application is GAPPSF The plans are to get GAPP SF at the level of GAPP and from there on adding new features to both version. - Robert Quote Link to comment
+globalcaching.eu Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Nice review on geocachingpodcast.com on GAPP (watch the video version on the podcast, 15 minutes from the start) : http://geocachingpodcast.com/gcpc-episode-375-gapp-globalcaching-application/ Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Just curious if GAPP is still being actively developed? I hadn't used it in a while and tried to use it to import my finds. For the past couple months, it has not worked. I get the error messages noted below, even after authorizing the application with my geocaching.com account. Quote Link to comment
+StefandD Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 The developer decided to stop on march 1 2019. Reason: it's too much efford to rebuild GAPP (and all the website functionality) to the new Groundspeak API. This might be the first sign of the shutdown but it also can be a temporary thing. Meanwhile, a lot of users are willing to take over some/most/all of the services 4geocaching.eu provides. To be continued. More info (in Dutch) can be found on the forum of 4geocaching.eu. Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 1 hour ago, StefandD said: The developer decided to stop on march 1 2019. Reason: it's too much efford to rebuild GAPP (and all the website functionality) to the new Groundspeak API. This might be the first sign of the shutdown but it also can be a temporary thing. Meanwhile, a lot of users are willing to take over some/most/all of the services 4geocaching.eu provides. To be continued. More info (in Dutch) can be found on the forum of 4geocaching.eu. Thanks for the update. I mainly use it just as an intermediary to get my finds into Excel. Was able to import a My Finds gpx into GAPP, and then export to Excel from there. Seems like that will work for a while despite the loss of the API. Would be great to see it developed further, although I suppose it has to compete with GSAK. Yeah - I tried the forum and saw it was all in Dutch, so figured I'd try here before relying on Google Translate to help me with that forum. Quote Link to comment
+StefandD Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 The developer announced GAPP will not be adapted to the new API. Quote GAPP kun je nog steeds blijven gebruiken. Echter, de Live API functie verdwijnt en er is geen ondersteuning/ontwikkeling meer op het gebied van GAPP. Translation: Quote You can still continue to use GAPP. However, the Live API function disappears and there is no support / development in the area of GAPP. 1 Quote Link to comment
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