hamolton Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 One of the best geocaching apps on Android, c:geo, is free, open source, and is now facing major problems because geocaching.com has taken down the old Google maps. Live maps now do not work on c:geo, and even with a work around, only show the nearest 20 caches after doing a CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, the new maps do not provide easy access to geocaches- a user on a slow connection (such as one camping in the woods) would not want to download maps that are pictures, and have to parse those pictures. The worst part is, the fix will take 2-6 weeks, and the app will never be the same again. The geocaches on the live map will be off by 50 feet, and the type of caches on the map will be unknown. It wouldn't be hard for geocaching.com to help c:geo, just reimpliment the data source that was used with old google maps. See here: http://www.cgeo.org/livemap.html Geocaching's public API is unacceptable for c:geo's use right now, although it would be great if the issues with it could be fixed. See here: http://faq.cgeo.org/#1_21 Also, if Geocaching could work with c:geo delevopers to solve smaller issues, the geocaching world would be a better place. There are some issues with current c:geo, such as having to type in CAPTCHAs for the "nearby caches" feature, and that cachers cannot see the last few logs without loading the entire cache description, that could be solved if geocaching.com changed their server. Please, hurting an open source project that over 300 thousand people use, out of your 5 million members, is not, and could not be, in anyone's benefit. I started a petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/Groundspeak-work-with-cgeo-developers-to-re-implement-live-maps# Link to comment
jholly Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 One of the best geocaching apps on Android, c:geo, is free, open source, and is now facing major problems because geocaching.com has taken down the old Google maps. Live maps now do not work on c:geo, and even with a work around, only show the nearest 20 caches after doing a CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, the new maps do not provide easy access to geocaches- a user on a slow connection (such as one camping in the woods) would not want to download maps that are pictures, and have to parse those pictures. The worst part is, the fix will take 2-6 weeks, and the app will never be the same again. The geocaches on the live map will be off by 50 feet, and the type of caches on the map will be unknown. It wouldn't be hard for geocaching.com to help c:geo, just reimpliment the data source that was used with old google maps. See here: http://www.cgeo.org/livemap.html Geocaching's public API is unacceptable for c:geo's use right now, although it would be great if the issues with it could be fixed. See here: http://faq.cgeo.org/#1_21 Also, if Geocaching could work with c:geo delevopers to solve smaller issues, the geocaching world would be a better place. There are some issues with current c:geo, such as having to type in CAPTCHAs for the "nearby caches" feature, and that cachers cannot see the last few logs without loading the entire cache description, that could be solved if geocaching.com changed their server. Please, hurting an open source project that over 300 thousand people use, out of your 5 million members, is not, and could not be, in anyone's benefit. I started a petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/Groundspeak-work-with-cgeo-developers-to-re-implement-live-maps# Do you really expect Groundspeak to go out of their way to help an application that violates their terms of use? Perhaps if C:geo would decide to use the available API it would become a non issue. But then I guess the issue would be that you will not get premium benefits for free. A very sad situation. Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Let's see the froggie's latest implementation stopped this program from violating the terms of service and scraping the website and now you want them to help the illegal program out. Maybe an amnesty program or something like that. Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 (edited) Let's see the froggie's latest implementation stopped this program from violating the terms of service and scraping the website and now you want them to help the illegal program out. Maybe an amnesty program or something like that. No amnesty for C:Geo! IBTL. Edited February 20, 2012 by Dgwphotos Link to comment
BlueRajah Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) They were scraping the maps for sometime before the changes by Groundspeak. The post that I saw online noted they had been afraid for some time that the replacement of the old maps to the beta maps would impact them. They chose not to work on that and not to work with the API. Cachers may try using other programs until this one is up and running. Groundspeak has already removed the old maps and does not intend to move forward with them. I am locking the thread, to prevent a flame war that would inevitably result, Edited February 20, 2012 by BlueRajah Link to comment
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