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[Request] Geocaching for N9
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rog007
2011-11-11 , 09:55
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Hi Caco3,
first of all, thank you very much for our effort! It's the only geocache application for my N9 I have found. It looked pretty bad, after Till had dropped its support for Meego. I'm (or was) a CacheMe-user on the symbian plattform (Nokia E7-00). So I'm familiar with it.
I have only a few minor bugs, improvement to add:
1) The change of the online maps is (as in the Symbian version) buggy. Somehow I hardly manage to change the mapsource. First you have to change the "Map service". Terminate the application and relaunch it. Then you can select the proper "Map type", since the list will now be accorinding to the selected "Map service". Then you have to relaunch the application again. It would be nice if the "Map type" selection can be made in the same time one changes the "Map service".
Moreover, I can't to change to "Google Satellite Map" at all. The screen will stay gray and no photos will be loaded. This issue was already a problem in the symbian version. Luckily, the OSM Maps are fine most of the time.
2) On Symbian I used SmartGPX for offline caching (due to roaming or bad network coverage). It has a nice feature, where you could log your finds in the calendar. So when I returned from a geocache-trip I had just to check my calendar and could log them on the geocaching site. Pretty useful if your caching for several days in a row and aren't able to log them immediately (holiday, or because the meego browser won't let you logon to the geocache site)
3) You can't use the application offline. The original CacheMe App let you choose your Cache source. So I could switch to stored GPX (Pocket Query). Of course it doesn't show any map. But I could still use it to look for nearby caches in my stored gpx-file and read the description, hint, logs, etc. A "list View" would be extra-nice (similar to SmartGPX mentioned above).
4) Your download page (
www.ruinelli.ch/download
) won't work in N9 browser. If you select to download the file an error message appears. So I have to download on a PC, transfer the file to the N9 and install the file. Perhaps you can fix this.
That's all, for now. Due to the current season, I'm not an very active geocacher. But I'll do my best to give you feedback on the latest releases.
Greeting from Luzern
rog007
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