[GeoStL] Re: Pocket Query enhancement
- From: Kirk Yates <kirk.yates@xxxxxxx>
- To: Michael Griffin <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:19:00 -0500
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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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