After a somewhat longer breather, owing to the decline of Windows Phone / Mobile, the journey continues towards the iPhone. maaloo geocaching is being redesigned, with fresh technology under the planks. The main focus lays on the target platform Apple iPhone. Potentially, it could also run on Android and Windows Universal App – but maybe later. Lets focus on iPhone.
When will it happen? Look forward to late spring 2019 over again …
geocaching.com is changing its API to access its data to another technology. That would be a major change to the app. Due to the decreased importance of Windows Phone / Mobile and the resulting reduced user base, the effort for this migration is too high and is therefore not carried out.
The maaloo Geocaching app will not be able to communicate with geocaching.com after 1 May 2019. We regret the move, but we have no influence over the decisions of geocaching.com.
After 1 May 2019, you can only use the offline functionality of the app. You can import pocket queries (GPX-files) and use them without online connection.
The same happens for the geocaching functionality of maaloo Outdoor.
I hope you enjoyed the app so far and will have it until 1 May 2019 or maybe even beyond.
C’est un tutoriel très agréable, montrant de nombreuses fonctionnalités de maaloo Geocaching.
Merci à Anthony!
v2.9.4.0:
This update offers 2 new filters for Geocaches. The Cache-Size and the Min-Favorite-Points filters.
The selection of all sizes automatically includes the Unknown-size.
The other new features are the fast map and themes switcher, introduces with the v2.9.3 of the Outdoor version.
Updates v2.9.4.x – Bugfixes
v2.9.4.1:
v2.9.4.2:
You can add the Geocaching App features into the Outdoor 8 App and leverage the Outdoor 8 App to a Multi-Outdoor-tool. Geocaching and Outdoor in one App… awesome!
You must have been purchased the Geocaching and the Outdoor 8 app. Open the Geocaching App and press the Unlock button in Info / Apps. This will enable the Geocaching-features in the installed Outdoor 8 app. The amount of available Geocaching features depends on the version of the Outdoor 8 app vs. the Geocaching version. But normally both apps are close together.
The former Geocaching/Outdoor-InApps will be not available anymore.
If you have only a Basic account at geocaching.com, this app (and all other Live-API depentend apps) will get limited results by the geocaching.com Live API.
The limitations are:
You must buy a Premium account at geocaching.com to have full access to the Live-API-features.
If you buy the app you do not get a Premium account of geocaching.com included.
After an upload of a local log the log date at the geocaching.com website differs in some hours. The reason is the timezone of your local log date differs from the timezone of the geocaching.com Servers. The Servers are located in Seattle USA (UTC-7).
The cache logs on the website are shown only with the date not the time. But if you are located in e.g. europe and you write your log early in the morning, the hour offset (e.g. Germany UTC+1 to USA UTC-7, difference 8 hours) will result in a day before on the website.
This is not nice but the API of geocaching.com gets the log date converted to UTC as required.
In a next version you can set an optional offset for the hours, which will be added before the upload to geocaching.com. You decide if the date at geocaching.com is shown correct or the date in other apps is correct.
