Caches Along A Route

[cad-guy]

I am planning on driving from Arkansas to New Mexico in the future, and would like to pick up some geocaches along the way. Is there a way to search a route, and then list the geocaches within say 10 miles of the route? Anybody know the best way to do this? Just a thought.

[+BlueDeuce]

If you have Mapsource, use PQs and GSAK.

 

Check this thread Caches Along A Route Instrucitons

 

Open Mapsource, (be careful not to inadvertently put any stray waypoints on the map)

select the route feature

click on your starting point

click on your ending point

watch it create the route,

click on File, Export and select mps; put the file where you can find it.

 

Open GSAK,

Create Filter (Ctrl-F); go to Arc/Poly tab

on this dialog, click on "Load from File" button

select the mps file (I get a long list of coordinates which are the nodes on the route)

select a distance from the arc (e.g. 1.5 miles)

save the filter (I have occasional lock-ups in GSAK when I use the Arc/Poly facility)

now run the filter.

Edited September 26, 2005 by BlueDeuce

[WH]

Markwell

[+RakeInTheCache]

See pinned discussion topic http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=80274

[+Markwell]

Markwell's documentation of how to use Pocket Queries, GSAK and MS Streets and Trips.

[+4agers]

Here is my contribution That I put together for some other NEO cachers.

[+Cache Viking]

If you have Mapsource, use PQs and GSAK.

 

Check this thread Caches Along A Route Instrucitons

 

Open Mapsource, (be careful not to inadvertently put any stray waypoints on the map)

select the route feature

click on your starting point

click on your ending point

watch it create the route,

click on File, Export and select mps; put the file where you can find it.

 

Open GSAK,

Create Filter (Ctrl-F); go to Arc/Poly tab

on this dialog, click on "Load from File" button

select the mps file (I get a long list of coordinates which are the nodes on the route)

select a distance from the arc (e.g. 1.5 miles)

save the filter (I have occasional lock-ups in GSAK when I use the Arc/Poly facility)

now run the filter.

Mapsource with PQs and GSAK works great and simple ... I like the simple part.

[Shoobie & the Sand Crabs]

What I do is find out when you want to stop for example a lunchtime cache. I then find the zipcode for that area. I then search that area I usually find stuff spread outwithin 5 miles of the highway just incase I get a late start or something.

[+V-I-cacher]

In Canada we started to name Caches along the Trans-Canada-Highway with

a flag in the style of "TCDN" and then the province:

"TCDNBC"

"TCDNAB"

etc.

 

Maybe you can come up with Highway-Naming-Conventions of your own?