Searching For Caches

[+batsgonemad and his squirrel]

How does one search for a cache in a spacific area, if the caches themselves dont tell you in what area they are and i dont mean province wise, lets say i was travelling to GP from DBN there are caches along the way but how does one locate them.

[+bear&fox]

Try Buxley's,

or you can search for town names (sometimes a town's name will be part of a cache's name. Once you have something in the right area, scroll down the cache page a little and click Search nearby caches - that should give you plenty to look at for now!

Enjoy,

B&F

[+batsgonemad and his squirrel]

thanks BF

[+Whostops]

Or you could become a premium member & run a pocket query.

Which you then use with GSAK.

 

On another note, I have suspended "All that trash". I agree with you that it is a bit too unsavoury in the park.

So I will re-think it. Maybe I'll place a micro instead of the multi.

[+QFC]

Hey, you could also use Google earth to plot the caches and then plan your route from there. GC.com provides a file that you can import into Google earth and it will then pull all of the caches from GC.com and display there in Google earth (though I think this is for premium members only).

 

Another option is to use VeZA Route Planner, we used it a little but it was much nicer to view the caches in Google earth with the terrain images.

 

The final option that I can think of it to use Mapsourse (only recently started using it ) and if you have a GPSr cable and a laptop it make caching much, much easier Though here also you need a decent set of maps.

 

Happy Hunting

Part 2 QFC

[+Baa!]

what you can also do - if you're cheapskate like us - and know your route & towns you'll be passing through is to find caches close to the town's coordinates.

 

you can get a pretty comprehensive list over here.

 

then just pop them in and find caches close to them. happy hunting

[Stefanoodle]

You don't have to be a Premium Member to import the caches into GoogleEarth. As suggested in some of the other posts, if you have a particular area in mind, you could do a search for a cache there by name and then click on the "find all nearby caches" hypertext, or better yet, if you know the approximate co-ordinates of the area, do a search by those. That will automatically include all nearby caches.

 

If you are logged in, you will be able to check each cache or all of them in their check boxes. Then download them (they will be in .loc format). This file you can then import into GoogleEarth, and all the caches in the .loc file will be displayed on your map. GoogleEarth also links the markers back to the original pages on geocaching.com, so if you see a marker near where you would like to be, you can click on the marker and it will open the cache page in geocaching.com. All wonderful stuff. I hope that helps.

 

regards

Stef

[+batsgonemad and his squirrel]

hey guys thanks for all the tips it is definitely making it alot easier to log the caches now i use map source an plot out all the caches so that i know where they all are so when im in the area i know if there is a cache nearby

 

good luck to all TB racers for next year

[+ZAteam]

Is there anything available (other than Google Earth) that will visualle show the caches in a particular area?

Something like this: www.geocaching.nl

[+Discombob]

I used to enjoy the following website, but don;t use it anymore:

 

http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/