GCA mobile website stopped working for me

[ikkibrady]

ive been using the GCA mobile site on my iphone for a while now and it was working good enough... but suddenly its stopped. i click search nearby and nothing happens. what do i do to make it work again. ive changed nothing on my phone to make it stop working? (that i know of)
thanks

[CraigRat]

Works ok for me.

Perhaps you have turned off your location reporting services or something?

[MtnLioness]

Turn phone off, detach batteries and sim, replace all and turn back on.

If that fails, see if the app needs an update

If that fails, check settings.
If all that fails, you have a problem.

[caughtatwork]

I think I know what the problem is.
Please try again when you get a moment.
All things being equal it should be working again.

[ikkibrady]

What problem may that be?

[caughtatwork]

The problem would be at our end.

When our API went live we restricted access to stop rogue apps slurping data. We offer other ways for bulk data extraction, so we prefer those apps to use different methods.

As a result of restricting the access, I inadvertently cut off the mobile view of the caches as it wasn't a registered app.

It works for CR and I as we are admins and have permissions to everything, but testing via another account stopped access.

I think I've fixed it and tested it via a different account.

[ikkibrady]

Awesome!!! Problem has been resolved works again. Thanks heaps I can now find those pesky while out and about much easier now

[caughtatwork]

Excellent. Please always let us know if you have a problem. We're always happy to try and help.

[ikkibrady]

Will do and much thanks for the quick and speedy fixing! Really appreciated

[Richary]

I'm confused - is it an Android app I can't use, or a website I can (seeing as I have an iPhone). If it's a website what's the address (checked the earlier ones mentioned but not much joy - it wouldn't let me log in).

[pjmpjm]

I'm confused - is it an Android app I can't use, or a website I can (seeing as I have an iPhone). If it's a website what's the address (checked the earlier ones mentioned but not much joy - it wouldn't let me log in).

I'd also like to know which app you're using -- or are you simply accessing the GCA web site?

Thanks.

[JABs]

As wife of JABs yes an app I can use on my iphone would help keep him off my back

[CraigRat]

We have an API that any iphone developer can use to access our data

We wont be writing any phone, android, wp7 or blackberry apps as we don't want the hassles that come with supporting such stuff, however we are more than happy to work with anyone interested in writing geocaching apps to use the API

so far we have MTrax's GA Cacher app on Androisd that uses the API and it works just great.


Theres a sub site at http://geocaching.com.au/mobile that can be used to VIEW cache data, logging is not working yet

You MUST allow your phones web browser to send us your location or it's as useless as a box of rocks.
As it is a WEBSITE and not an APP there is no way to navigate using it of course.

[Toriaz]

Thanks, I'm testing the mobile site on my iphone at the moment. It's just given me a list of GCA caches near home, so I think it's working for me . This could come in very useful - I only use the groundspeak app to look up information & then transfer coordinates to my gps if necessary, so lack of navigation or logging won't worry me at all .

[pjmpjm]

Theres a sub site at http://geocaching.com.au/mobile that can be used to VIEW cache data, logging is not working yet.

Thanks. I've got it now.