[GeoStL] Re: Pocket Queries
- From: "Erik Didriksen" <bige@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:39:11 -0500
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I've not come across too many recently archived caches, but I'll be sure to
run a recent PQ before I go out to Idaho (end of this month, actually).
Between the S&T mapping, offline HTML generated from the .gpx via URL on the
waypoint in S&T and having the HTML in plucker on my palm, it's working
pretty well for me.
You are VERY CORRECT, however, that it would be nice to have a better PQ
system than we've got, however I think the current system is probably
sufficient for >70% of the people that use it, as they're not hopping from
place to place so fast that they can't run the PQ's quick enough.
Just my $0.02.
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Everman
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:32 AM
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Pocket Queries
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> I've been travelling all over the midwest for the last week, and the only
> way I've found to do it is to run PQ's for cities along the route, and to
> use GSAK to get everything within the area that you specify. It helps a
LOT
> if you export the waypoints to a mapping program like Streets and Trips or
> Mapsource - very useful in determining which waypoints you want to use to
> draw your arc/line with.
>
> Other than that, there's no good way to do it that I've come across.
>
> Erik
That is exactly what I did for a recent trip to New Orleans (big
cities -> GSAK -> S&T), but I wound up swamped with data I couldn't
use (and didn't want to delete one cache at a time). I also missed
spots in between the large cities.
Since I have daughters in Portland and L.A., it would be nice to run
one or five queries to both get the caches, then later verify they are
still active. It only takes one or two hours wasted in Bumluck, Idaho
looking for a cache that was archived two weeks ago to make a person
wish for a better system.
I'll try a variation of what Rich suggested on an upcoming trip to
southern Ohio.
Geo Jim
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