[GeoStL] Re: Pocket Query enhancement
- From: "Steve Bromley" <bromley@xxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:55:40 -0500
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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