GeOrg version 1.1.7.6
As the Android Froyo-release is currently being rolled out all over european HTC Desires (we just got our OTA), here’s a GeOrg release that supports being moved to SD.
Don’t get fooled by the numbers in the application-settings, though. GeOrg uses symbolic links to link CacheDBs on your SD-Card to internal storage. That way they don’t use the precious internal storage, but the settings-app still counts the CacheDB’s size as if it belonged to internal memory. Waiting for 2.3 to fix that 😉
Happy geocaching!
BirdBox 1.0.0
Last friday we finally published our second app on the Android Market. The ‘BirdBox’ contains voices and pictures of the 100 most common german birds and aids you in identifying them, managing your sightings and even features a quiz. As the app is relevant for Germany, Switzerland and Austria only, it’s available only for german market-participants and the site and app are written in german. Here’s the scoop for our german readers:
Am letzten Freitag haben wir endlich unsere zweite App auf dem Android Market herausgebracht. Die BirdBox zeigt Euch die hundert häufigsten Vögel Deutschlands mit Gesängen, Rufen und Bildern. Ihr könnt Vögel anhand von Merkmalen, die Ihr beobachtet habt, suchen und bestimmen, Eure Sichtungen als Wegpunkte verwalten und Euer Wissen in einem Quiz testen. Die Anwendung kostet 2,50€. Wenn Ihr mehr wissen wollt – schaut Euch die Webseite der BirdBox an.
That said – back to work on 1.1.8 🙂 Happy caching!
GeOrg version 1.1.7.5
Fixed a bug for low-density-devices (like the Tattoo), where the date/time-dialog (e.g. when entering Field Notes or using the SunMoon-Solver) was not fully displayed. Due to the size of the widgets in that dialog I introduced a small scollbar for these devices.
GeOrg version 1.1.7.4
Another bugfix. If you encountered sporadic inconsistent behaviour between different pages of the app (varying Found-Count, locationprovider, etc.), this bugfix is for you 🙂
Back to working on the next feature release – Happy caching!
GeOrg version 1.1.7.3
This bugfix release contains some smaller fixes for the Field Note-system, especially the Found Count. Also, GeOrg now recognizes your timezone correctly and uses that in the Field Note-export. Make sure you use the same timezone in your Groundspeak profile or else your Field Notes might suffer from jet-lag 😉
Happy caching!
GeOrg version 1.1.7.2
GeOrg 1.1.7.2 is ready and has just been uploaded to the Android Market. Please find the detailed list of changes and fixes is available in the Changelog. The most relevant changes are:
- Field Notes:
The main effort for this release has gone into providing a Field Note-System that not only lets you mark caches as found/dnf, but also tracks the time of the found and saves optional comments, you might want to enter. Later you can export all your Field Notes from a separate menu to your SD-card or as an email-attachment (the latter requiring Android 2.0+) and upload them to Groundspeak to complete your logs.
A more detailed description of the process will be added to the manual soon.
- GPS-compass:
Some of you have asked for switching between the magnetic and the gps-compass. The gps-compass takes its data from the gps-provider. Whenever you are moving, the gps-provider tracks your heading and this is, what is used in the compass. You can configure a threshold speed – below that speed, the magnetic compass is used, above it, the gps-compass kicks in.This feature might make sense for you, if you want to use GeOrg in your car or if you are unsatisfied with the performance of the magnetic compass in your device. Be aware that the gps-compass can only provide useful data when you are moving. If you are standing still (and have configured the threshold to 0 km/h or mph) it won’t work.
- Fast scroll CacheDB:
In bigger CacheDBs, scrolling used to take some time. With the fast scrollbar, you can nearly instantly reach the bottom of your 2K CacheDB.
The next release will still be a 1.1.7.x-version and will contain extended connector-support and more solvers. Stay tuned 🙂
Have fun with the new release and please contact us if you have any problems or feature requests.
GeOrg version 1.1.7.1
This update contains fixes for several smaller issues, some of you were having with 1.1.7. For a detailed list of fixed bugs, please visit the changelog.
Happy GeOrg-Caching 😉
GeOrg version 1.1.7
We just released GeOrg 1.1.7 on the Android Market. As always, the detailed list of changes and fixes is available in the Changelog. These are the main features in this release, tough:
- Additional Waypoints:
You can now add/edit/delete your own additional waypoints. Additional waypoints imported via GPX are unchangeable, but you can duplicate them to make changes to the duplicate. Also you can switch association of waypoints from one cache to another and even make them global waypoints. - Day-Theme:
GeOrg now supports a black-on-white “day-theme”, so you can better read the display in the sun. You can change the current theme in the display-settings. There’s also an “Auto”-setting that make GeOrg switch between the night- and the day-theme when the sun sets/rises. (please note, that due to an android bug the Settings-Page always remains white-on-black in android-versions > 1.6) - Sat-Status-View:
The sat-status-display has gotten a graphical overhaul. If you prefer the old (x/y)-display you can revert to that in the Settings. - Directional icon:
Like what you are used to from geocaching.com – you’ll find a small compass display next to most distances now that gives you an idea as to in what direction a waypoint is in. - Create waypoint on map:
In the Positions-menu in the map you can now enter a mode where you can create a waypoint by touching the map at the position you want the waypoint to be created at. - SunMoon-Solver:
Tells you when the Sun and the Moon rise/set, where they are, how far they are and other geek-stuff. Useful for example if you want to find out when to meet for a night-cache (civil-dusk would probably be a good time)
The next things we’ll work on are Filters and Field Notes. Happy caching with GeOrg 1.1.7 and as always: contact us if you have any problems or feature requests.
GeOrg version 1.1.6.6
Another bugfix for the current release. With 1.1.6 you got the ability to enter comments for geocaches. We have now been made aware of the fact that these comments get deleted, whenever you re-import that geocache, either with a connector of by importing any GPX that contains that geocache. That was not the intended behaviour and it’s fixed with 1.1.6.6.
We are sorry for any inconveniences this might have caused you 🙁
Ok – back to working on 1.1.7 – Happy caching!
GeOrg version 1.1.6.5
Another update for 1.1.6 while we are still working on 1.1.7.
We have had a report about problems when selecting caches on the map on a Nexus One device: In many cases the detail-bubble would point to the wrong cache, making it hard to select the right one. This update should fix this issue. Also deactivating the screensaver for compass & map previously didn’t work for OpenStreetMaps. And … finally, trying to import a zip with no GPX-files or a whole directory without GPX-files shouldn’t cause crashes anymore.
Happy caching! 🙂
