[GeoStL] Re: Pocket Query enhancement
- From: lake_wannabees@xxxxxxxxx
- To: "Geocaching STL" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:50:22 +0000
Can you swnd me your script? I remember you guys talking about it but never
did get details.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mike Griffin" <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:36:10
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Pocket Query enhancement
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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?
>
>
>
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