-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" <kirk.yates@xxxxxxx>
To: "Michael Griffin" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?****************************************For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes to your account, including unsubscribing from thislist, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw Missouri Geocaching land use policies --> www.MoCache.net MoGeo Forums -->http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php
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