Say what? Geo-jargon or gibberish?

A brief moment of silence at our GC Wizard Team Meeting – and Henrike’s eyes flashed. With a light laugh, she asked the group why we Germans would grill rabbits when caching? Astonished faces – and Henrike broke the tension. When she read the word “Hasengrill” for the first time in a hint, she had…


… but not the end of a dream

Thank you Mark! Thank you for your dream, thank you for your commitment and your guidance! Thank you for your trust and the courage to let go and listen to your health. Five years is a damn long time – and keeping the fire burning over this period takes strength. You didn’t let it show…


The End of an Era

Five years is a damn long time. If someone had asked me back then where I would be then, I would hardly have been able to answer that I would have changed jobs twice in the meantime, published a book, obtained a doctorate and found myself in the aftermath of a global pandemic. But least…


Release 3.2.0

This version again contains a whole range of new features. But above all, this version is characterized by a plethora of bug fixes. We take this as a really good sign, because the fact that you find and report bugs means two things: Firstly, you’re also using the more unusual tools and advanced settings –…


Release Version 3.1.0

Well, what can I say? We are in the software business and in the software business everything always takes longer than you originally thought. After the 3.0 release, I firmly believed that 3.1.0 would follow very quickly: The main features were actually already available and just needed to be polished and the plans were also…


Reinforcement for the Team

We are delighted to welcome Marcia aka Linsty to the team. With the words “As a thank you for your efforts in making this amazing app, I would be happy to help and translate the manual into the Dutch language“, she immediately threw herself into the work. Dear Marcia – welcome and thank you for…


The Curvy Thing

Display the shortest distance between two points on the map: Why is a curve the shortest route? Why not just draw a straight line? The answer is this: The earth is not a flat map, but a complicated body that can be described to the best approximation as a flattened sphere, a so-called rotational ellipsoid…


Checkdigits – Are you still checking?

Once upon a time … Holy Sepamaria … GC7DCXZ … what have I calculated … There must be a better way. The banks can do it too. And once again an adventurous journey to a new function began. The goal was clear: the function should calculate check digits, check numbers for correctness and calculate missing…


Problems with Apple’s World

We have just released the new bugfix version 3.0.3. Actually, it’s nothing spectacular: we find a bug or get one reported, we search and find a solution. Anger, developing ambition, childish joy. The normal emotional life of a software developer. The world could actually be so beautifully simple: develop, create a new version, press a…


Release Version 3.0!

Wow, I have to say first of all: I am really glad that this milestone has (almost) reached its end. It’s not visible to the outside world, we’ve always tried to touch on the issue through (admittedly relatively infrequent) reports, but the truth is: It was an incredible mammoth task that was initially completely underestimated…