PQ's expiring...

[+Kai Team]

2) there's no way to receive just updated caches (i.e. with new logs, TB's or changed status or descriptions) - you have to get them all. In most of my PQ's (which I run once a week), over half the caches have not changed since the last PQ.

 

What's wrong with the option "Updated in the last 7 days"? Works well for me.

 

Nothing, unless more than 5 logs were written since your last update, which brings us back to point #1 (only the last 5 logs included in the PQ). My two points are interrelated - i.e., people would run a lot fewer PQ's if there was a way to insure that they would get a complete set of logs (nothing like getting into the field and discovering that the one log you don't have is the one with corrected coordinates).

 

Perhaps allowing people to choose "Updated in the last 7 days" and that choice includes all logs for the period of time chosen (7 or 14 days).

Edited September 26, 2006 by Kai Team

[+Team Ballibeg]

"What's wrong with the option "Updated in the last 7 days"? Works well for me."

 

I filter out archived caches in GSAK by looking for caches where the last GPX was over 7 days ago.

 

Dave

[+Kai Team]

Good point. It would also cut down demand for PQ's if there was some indication of when a cache is archived in the PQ GPX file. Otherwise you're left with the need to infer archived status from the cache's absence in the PQ file, which leads to greater demand for PQ's.