GeOrg 1.1.0 released!

We just released the latest version of GeOrg!

It’s now available via Android Market and contains a lot of features that people have asked for. The documentation will be upgraded within the next few days to highlight and explain some of the new features and there’s also a changelog-page coming up. Until then there’s a rough sketch of changes listed here. If you encounter any bugs, please feel free to contact us

Happy geocaching 🙂

On our way to GeOrg v1.1.0

Today finally Donut arrived on our G1 and we just did some tests to check everything is allright. If you have any problems, as always: feel free to contact us.

One word of warning, though:
Donut resets all your CacheDBs, Waypoints and Settings. So if you are on the verge of a geocaching hike, you better have the GPXs prepared or postpone the update.

Other than that we are hard at work here at ranitos to bring you the new version of GeOrg. We’ve had a lot of feedback during the last days and we thank you all for your ideas, opinions and even a complete review, wow! 🙂

While we are crushing the last bugs, throwing in the last features and than move on to beta-test we’d like to share our current changelist for 1.1.0 for you to shorten the time 🙂

Features:

• Offline Maps (Tilepacks)
• Waypoint averaging (experimental)
• Waypoint projection
• Street navigation
• Terrain map (experimental)
• Find Nearest without connector takes the poor man’s approach to things (opens geocaching.com in browser, clicking on a Google Maps-url inserts data into GeOrg)
• Highlight geocaches containing travellers in CacheDB-List
• CacheDB and WaypointDB now remember the last scroll-position and return you there
• CacheDB is now automatically resorted if sorted by distance and you change position (configurable)
• First filter (more to come): Filter Founds/Not founds
• Mark Cache as Found from the CacheDetails-Page
• Slightly pimped compass
• Import Zips from SDCard
• Import Multi-GPX Zips
• Report after import
• CacheDetails shows inactive headers so you can see at once that the cache doesn’t have hints, travellers or spoilers

Bugs:

• Removed some database-leaks
• Low-Memory warnings
• Slightly changed behaviour of the virtual keyboard
• Fixed problem where travellers where incorrectly displayed in wrong caches
• Travellers date is now date of GPX, not time of import
• Layoutproblems in the Find Nearest page
• Fixed a problem where whitespace was incorrectly removed from cache descriptions
• Import now isn’t impacted by the screen-saver or pressing Home anymore
• Reserved SQLite-Names are not allowed as CacheDB-names anymore

Just released bugfix-version 1.0.2

Thanks to two users who sent in crashreports from within GeOrg we were able to nail down a bug that crept into version 1.0.1. (Btw, it was the first time the crashreport-feature was used in production, those stacktraces are really helpful)

Now the GPX-Import from mail attachments should be working again. I hope we haven’t caused any inconveniences.

First update for GeOrg brings support for travelbugs and geocoding

This morning the first update for GeOrg has seen the light of the android market :-). The documentation will be updated soon.

• Travelbug/Coin-support
  As some of our users asked for it, we implemented a basic support for travellers. Bugs and Coins will now be read from a GPX-file and displayed at the suitable Geocache’s Cache-Detail-Page. There’s also a date telling you when you imported the traveller, so you can judge how current the information is. You can jump to the TBs homepage at Groundspeak by clicking on it.
  The GPX doesn’t let us see if it’s a coin or at TB, though – so there’s one icon for both.
• Geocoding
  You can now enter coordinates by address using Google’s geocoding-API. When entering a waypoint or telling the map to pan to a new position you get a new address-search-button opening a new dialog. Enter an address there like “Wallstreet NY” and you get the coordinates for the place.
• Added Setting to prevent Detail-Page to follow external links
  Some of you have expressed concern about pricey mobile data-rates in their area. There are some greater features still to come later, to help you – but this was an easy one: With GeOrg 1.0.1 you can stop the Cache-Detail-Page from loading external pictures from the web. Pictures already in your cache will be displayed, though. You can delete your cache from within android’s “Manage applications”-Settings.
• Squished several bugs and made minor tweaks
  Most importantly if you live in one of the three quarters of the world that have an S- oder W-“prefix” in front of their coordinates, these coordinates are now displayed correctly. 😉
• Tested with 1.6
  Though we haven’t yet received the OTA-update, we have tested GeOrg with android 1.6 in the emulator. It works, even on WVGA and QVGA.

Work on the next release has already begun, until then we wish you Happy Geocaching with the new release, thank you for giving us feedback and please continue to do so – that way we can bring you the features you really need.

Release – GeOrg is on the android market!

After a hard sunday’s work on our homepage, we are finally ready for GeOrg’s release. The application is now available on the android market. We hope you have as much fun going geocaching with GeOrg as we had developing it.

Finished beta-testing

Since yesterday there are no open issues left for release. Now we only have to get the site up and running and it’s publish time!