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benmwatson

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  1. There are some good ideas in here, and a healthy dose of snark, which I was not expecting--wouldn't you all WANT to have a new feature like this? The date-bound PQs are interesting, and I will probably do something like that for my home area, but let's be honest: that's a workaround for a systemic limitation. It's silly on the face of it. And do I have to repeat this technique everywhere I visit? I also don't think a 10K limit is even high enough. 100K or higher would be more reasonable for some areas. The point of my post was not really to explore the workarounds. I know they exist. I really just want the convenience feature and to gauge others' interest in it as well. Perhaps this feature is tiered? Once you find 100 caches, your PQ limit increases to 10,000. Once you find 1000 caches, it increases to 100,000. That would naturally limit these queries only to the most serious of cachers and preserve processing power. I would much rather be outside caching than on the computer tricking the web-site into giving me the data.
  2. Pocket Queries are GREAT. I love them, really. It makes it easy to get a ton of caches in an area. But it's not enough anymore. Here's what I really want to do: * One query. All of the caches in Washington state that I haven't found. Updated every week. That's it. Here's my reasoning. * With the advent of GPS devices like Garmin's 600/650, which can hold millions of caches, the limiting factor now becomes this website. * There are so many caches in many areas (like Washington, where I am), that it's difficult to have a significant geographic area in a single query, unless you spend a LOT of time tweaking the queries. * Many weekends, I just want to get in my car and drive, and see what caches are there. It's not really possible to do this without spending significant upfront planning. I have to figure out where I'm going to be, create a new PQ, download it, etc. If I just knew that my device had all of the caches already on it, how much easier would this be?! As it is now, I just don't bother sometimes. * Allow far more spontaneity in general. I know it's possible to work around these--I could create multiple queries, but figuring out how to get suitably wide coverage without getting overlapping results is next to impossible, and this is just too much work in the end. Alternative: * Generic, downloadable files that contain all caches per state/country/etc. It would contain things you've already found, but I think most devices recognize that anyway.
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