[GeoStL] Re: Pocket Query enhancement

     Now that the PQ receipts are more reliable, it makes
sense.  I still  keep everything within 150 miles of home in
a GSAK database.  That way I  can figure out where I'm going
to cache without too much pre-planning.  I  want to go to
Rolla, I set my filter, do an export and away I go.  I have
a  GSAK macro that will create a filter for whatever number
of caches I determine  around a specific center point.  I
use that to create a gpx with whatever  amount of caches I
want to have with me and send it to my gps.  It's easy  and
painless.  
  
 
----- Original Message Follows ----- 
From: "Mike Griffin"  
To:  
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Pocket Query enhancement 
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:36:10 -0500 
 


>-
>Do you run my Mapsource script? You can easily look at a
>map of the state on  mapsource, right click anywhere on the
>map and create a PQ from that point.  If I am going to do a
>county challenge or any other caching away from home,  I
>click to set a WP in a county, go 100 miles straight north
>and right click  to create a PQ. Then it is as simple as
>connecting the dots. Everywhere you  click, you can create
>a PQ with those coords. I can do a whole state in  minutes.
> 
>Of course, if you don't have Mapsource, it is pointless for
>me to bring up.
> 
>Once I have all the data, GSAK couties macro does the rest.
>Then I can  filter just the caches I want to do in each
>county.
> 
>This sounds like a great class - "How to plan and get the
>most out of your  caching trip." Oh wait, I suggested it
>several times before, but....
> 
>Mike
> 
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kirk Yates" 
>To: "Michael Griffin" 
>Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:19 PM
>Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Pocket Query enhancement
> 
> 
>>  -
>>  Reply: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 12:43:41 PM
>> 
>>  If you're trying to identify caches in certain counties
>>  and/or caches in Delorme Map Grids, it's nice to have
all
>>  the caches in the state loaded to map.  Search on the
>>  county name, the mapping software outlines the county,
>>  and you can easily see which caches are in the county,
>where they are located, and which ones might fall on a
>>  route you're taking from county to county.
>> 
>>  I generally identify 3 per county (primary and 2 back
>>  ups), bookmark all the ones I'm interested in.  From
that
>>  point I check the bookmark list to see if any of the
>>  caches I'm watching are disabled.  If there are, I find
>>another cache in that county to watch. 
>>  Then when a trip is coming up, run 1 PQ from my bookmark
>>  list, and off I go.  I'll spend several hours putting
>>  together the bookmark list, but from that point it's
>>  fairly low maintenance.  It's a lot easier to do it that
>>  way than to try to run interactive queries for different
>parts of the state, not really knowing where the cache
>>     would fall on county boundaries.
>> 
>>  It would be a lot easier to run 1 PQ and get every cache
>>  in the state. As is is now, I play with the dates, and
>>  run 23 PQs over the next 5 days, then I'll start all my
>>  planning.  So much for getting the planning done before
>>     Father's Day.  I guess I should have started a lot
>>earlier. 
>>  Of course it didn't help much I started on it one
>>  evening, checked off 5 PQs to run and shut the computer
>>  down.  Fired up the computer the next day and realized I
>>  had checked the wrong day to run, so it's going to take
a
>>day longer now. 
>>  I like to drive so I really enjoy the all the counties
in
>>  the state and Delorme map grid caches.  Still working on
>>  all 50 states and D.C., but that's going to take quite a
>>while. 
>>>  -
>>>  Yeah, but the point is, what the heck would someone
want
>>>  20 queries a day for?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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