+TheNomad Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 I tried to do a PQ for locationless caches, and only came up with a handful. I even specified a search radius of 10,000 miles in the hopes of getting a lot of locationless caches. Unfortunately, I only came up with about 30. Is there any reason for this? Link to comment
Keystone Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 Yes, there is a reason for this. Link to comment
+Hemlock Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 To be more specific. Link to comment
+Doc-Dean Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 I tried to do a PQ for locationless caches, and only came up with a handful. I even specified a search radius of 10,000 miles in the hopes of getting a lot of locationless caches. Unfortunately, I only came up with about 30. Is there any reason for this? Don't bother with PQ's for this... You did not mention if this is for use on a handheld or not... If not, try This Site - Catagorized Locationless Caches If so, A better solution is to use Plucker (or similar program) and point it to the same site. Set your link depth to 2 otherwise it will take forever and generate a very unnecessarily large file. Link to comment
Keystone Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 DocDean, you're assuming that a handheld device is the only use for pocket queries. A PQ of locationless caches in GPX format can be used in Watcher to keep track of which locationless caches you have and haven't found, to search for keywords, to set ignore lists for those you'll "never" find, etc. I'm sure there are other uses. Link to comment
+Doc-Dean Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 DocDean, you're assuming that a handheld device is the only use for pocket queries. A PQ of locationless caches in GPX format can be used in Watcher to keep track of which locationless caches you have and haven't found, to search for keywords, to set ignore lists for those you'll "never" find, etc. I'm sure there are other uses. I am not ruling out PQs but you are unable to get ALL the locationless caches in one gpx file. or at least I have been un-able to... Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 I am not ruling out PQs but you are unable to get ALL the locationless caches in one gpx file. or at least I have been un-able to... See IV Warrior's post as referenced above by Hemlock. There used to be a way to create a query that would get all of the locationless in the world in one PQ, but it required editing the HTML of the pocket query form to include "United States" in the list of countries (and you had to know what value Jeremy uses for United States.) I don't know if that hole was closed up or not. For as little as the list of locationless caches changes, at least for the moment, you might as well just do two PQs and merge them with Watcher or GPSBabel as IV Warrior suggested. Link to comment
+Doc-Dean Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 I am not ruling out PQs but you are unable to get ALL the locationless caches in one gpx file. or at least I have been un-able to... See IV Warrior's post as referenced above by Hemlock. There used to be a way to create a query that would get all of the locationless in the world in one PQ, but it required editing the HTML of the pocket query form to include "United States" in the list of countries (and you had to know what value Jeremy uses for United States.) I don't know if that hole was closed up or not. For as little as the list of locationless caches changes, at least for the moment, you might as well just do two PQs and merge them with Watcher or GPSBabel as IV Warrior suggested. Since you are limited to a 500 mile radius, it will take several PQ's to get the whole country covered... Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 Since you are limited to a 500 mile radius, it will take several PQ's to get the whole country covered... You don't have to specify a starting point or a radius. You can also do a PQ for a single state, or for all states. Read the thread that Hemlock and Keystone Approver pointed to; it tells you all the steps you need. Link to comment
Keystone Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 (edited) I give up. Fuzzy, do you give up? EDIT: Nope, Fuzzy didn't give up. Edited December 22, 2003 by Keystone Approver Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Just wanted to mention, you may not need to do 2 queries to get all the locationless caches. See mine and Beatnicks posts in that other thread. Link to comment
+TheNomad Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 Thanks guys. That's just the information I was seeking. I suppose, for whatever reason, I needed to select all states and provinces before I got the locationless list. That took care of me! Link to comment
+Doc-Dean Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 I stand corrected! Always learning, love it! Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 anybody notice that you cant find locationless caches on the site anymore? the link for them is gone. just pointing it out, Link to comment
+Hemlock Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 When I go to the advanced search page, I still see this: "You can also view all locationless caches in alphabetical order." Link to comment
Jeremy Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 "You can also view all locationless caches in alphabetical order." Thanks Hemlock. I missed that query. Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 ahh, i missed that one. thanks Link to comment
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