+ca-2-mo Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 I travel a lot because none of family lives near me. When I go visit them I always bring my GPSer with me. However I have to reenter their coordinates each time I get there. I would love to eble to have a couple of "home corrdinates" to choose from. This would also be good if you commuted to work this way you could search from there or from your home. I realize that many cachers have cooler GPSers then me and can plug them into their computer but little old me has to enter them in by hand.
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 You could really benefit from a premium membership. With it, not only would you get the pan and zoom on the maps (from your other thread), you could set pocket queries to center around You house, job, parent's house, favorite fishing hole, etc.
+The Leprechauns Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 The Waymarking.com site already gives users the ability to set multiple centerpoints. It's a cool feature and I enjoy the convenience of searching from near home and near my office. The plan would be to extend that function over to Geocaching.com as and when time permits.
Mushtang Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 (edited) Go to this page: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?acode= choose "by coordinate" from the pull down menu, and put in the coordinates for a location (there's a check box to exclude the ones you've found if you'd like). When the page comes up, add it to your favorites in your browser, and give the link a descriptive name like "Caches close to home" or "Caches close to work". Now you've got a link you can use to come back whenever you want, and it'll only take one click of the mouse. Bookmark as many different locations as you want. Edited January 7, 2006 by Mushtang
+ca-2-mo Posted January 8, 2006 Author Posted January 8, 2006 add it to your favorites in your browser, and give the link a descriptive name like "Caches close to home" or "Caches close to work". Now you've got a link you can use to come back whenever you want, and it'll only take one click of the mouse. Bookmark as many different locations as you want. That is so simple I didn't even think of it. Thanks
+shunra Posted January 8, 2006 Posted January 8, 2006 add it to your favorites in your browser, and give the link a descriptive name like "Caches close to home" or "Caches close to work". Now you've got a link you can use to come back whenever you want, and it'll only take one click of the mouse. Bookmark as many different locations as you want. That is so simple I didn't even think of it. Thanks It's computer-specific, as opposed to account-specific. You could, f course, have different default shortcuts on different computers, which are stationary at various locations. But the best would be to get a premium membership. No need for workarounds, and many other benefits.
codeman3 Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 yes i would really like that b/c i have a cabin and a house and have to switch back and forth
+5winters Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I think this would be a great feature home, work, inlaws ect. Ive tried the bookmark thing before and it keeps defaulting to a blank search screen? (with cookies on)
+dogbreathcanada Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 The Waymarking.com site already gives users the ability to set multiple centerpoints. It's a cool feature and I enjoy the convenience of searching from near home and near my office. The plan would be to extend that function over to Geocaching.com as and when time permits. Ah, right. I forgot. My geocaching.com membership fee going to support features on a site that I don't use, never will use, features that should have been developed for geocaching.com first, and then moved to Waymarking.com as time permitted.
+Jeremy Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 My geocaching.com membership fee going to support features on a site that I don't use, never will use, features that should have been developed for geocaching.com first, and then moved to Waymarking.com as time permitted. I just checked and your membership fees actually helped to pay for our Xerox Phaser 7750 copier in the office. It was only a small portion but we appreciate your help nonetheless.
+Jeremy Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 The plan would be to extend that function over to Geocaching.com as and when time permits. That is correct. We'll be adoptiong several popular features that people like on the Waymarking.com web site.
+dogbreathcanada Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 My geocaching.com membership fee going to support features on a site that I don't use, never will use, features that should have been developed for geocaching.com first, and then moved to Waymarking.com as time permitted. I just checked and your membership fees actually helped to pay for our Xerox Phaser 7750 copier in the office. It was only a small portion but we appreciate your help nonetheless. Phew. Okay. Next year I'd like my membership fee to pay for toner for that Xerox Phaser 7750. I feel like an adoptive parent now to little Xerxy (as I like to call the little rascal).
+Jeremy Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I feel like an adoptive parent now to little Xerxy (as I like to call the little rascal). Xerxy thanks you.
+dogbreathcanada Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 I feel like an adoptive parent now to little Xerxy (as I like to call the little rascal). Xerxy thanks you. God, he's really growing up. That's going to be framed and set upon my desk. Just say no to drugs, Xerxy! And stay in school!
+The Leprechauns Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 If the photocopies of Signal's butt from the holiday party were put up for sale at Shop Groundspeak, then the Phaser 7750 would pay for itself and certain members' subscription payments could be used to pay a contract programmer to migrate the multiple coordinates feature over from Waymarking. I know that I'd pay another $7.99 for a second copy.
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