Searching by State/County

[+KJcachers]

I would love to find a way to do a search or PQ by state/county. I like the idea of finding all the caches in my county and then moving on to the neighboring counties and so on. Anybody have any ideas how I could do this besides ZIP codes or a radius search out from my home coordinates?

 

Stat Maps by county would be cool too for those of us that don't leave their home state much.

[+Arndtwe]

The "hide and seek a cache" page has this option.

[+Arndtwe]

Also, on the "Pocket Query" page, near the bottom is an option to search by state.

[+The Leprechauns]

My current geocaching quirk is "coloring in my county maps" which I get by uploading my All Finds Query to It's Not About the Numbers. Here is an example:

 

 

That website will also break down your finds and tell you which county each one is in, on handy lists. It uses the same county border data that also supports a GSAK macro. The macro will take the caches in your GSAK database, tell you what county each cache is in, and put that info. in a new column. See the macro forums at GSAK.net for details.

 

County mapping is fun!

[+StarBrand]

There is no county search tool as users did not select a county during setup and it is difficult to map out exacting coordinates for the irregular lines that comprise a county. Although some programs approximate the counties - they are not exact.

 

Radius searches work well and then plot out the caches on some mapping program that shows county borders is the best advice I have.

[+sodajerk]

There is a micro in GSAK Click that adds counties to user data 2. You can then sort and query on that field. Texas has 254 counties so it is very handy.

 

It is a little bit of work to set up first time but I was able to do it.

Start Here

 

Good luck

Edited December 14, 2007 by sodajerk

[+KJcachers]

There is a micro in GSAK Click that adds counties to user data 2. You can then sort and query on that field. Texas has 254 counties so it is very handy.

 

It is a little bit of work to set up first time but I was able to do it.

Start Here

 

Good luck

 

thanks! sounds like what I am looking for so now I just need to find an hour or so to work through it.

[+trainlove]

I would like to remind TPTB that monitor these posts that it would be great for ALL searches to return a distance and direction for the 20/page caches a search returns. Search by state does not, you have to click each and every cache to see how far it is.

 

If you are logged in you have a location defined, all searches, reguardless of whether or not they are 'Location Based' should do this.

That includes looking at cache finds by another user and so on...

 

Edited to add, this is more and more important depending on just how big your State is.

Edited December 15, 2007 by trainlove