pocket querie ? town only

[+LECTRAGLIDE]

Anyone know if it is possible to do a pocket querie of a single town . I try to narrow the field by miles but thats not exactly helpful. It seems to be somewhat difficult to figure out what town some caches are in .

Many times the cache info does not say what town its in .

I went to cache over the weekend that the owner was not sure what town it was placed in .Very close to

border .

Thanks

[+Arndtwe]

You could choose to search by zip code, and make the radius an approximate distance of the cities radius. Other than that, I'm not sure how to...

[+Prime Suspect]

Anyone know if it is possible to do a pocket querie of a single town . I try to narrow the field by miles but thats not exactly helpful. It seems to be somewhat difficult to figure out what town some caches are in .

Many times the cache info does not say what town its in .

I went to cache over the weekend that the owner was not sure what town it was placed in .Very close to

border .

Thanks

Nope. Except for country/state PQs, they're generated outward from a single coordinate.

[+StarBrand]

No - the borders of towns are ever shifting boundries. No way to tightly define them.

 

Thge search tools here work best with a radius search. However, you can plot the caches out on a map and visually see which ones are within the borders on that particular map.

[saopaulo1@hotmail.com]

Try searching X miles from the center of town.

[+the hermit crabs]

Try searching X miles from the center of town.

That will only work for round towns

[+Prime Suspect]

Try searching X miles from the center of town.

That will only work for round towns

You'd think it would work here, but it doesn't.

[+the hermit crabs]

Try searching X miles from the center of town.

That will only work for round towns

You'd think it would work here, but it doesn't.

[+Too Tall John]

Try searching X miles from the center of town.

That will only work for round towns

You'd think it would work here, but it doesn't.

Yep, nope....

 

 

To the OP: Just curious why you care what town a cache is in? Is it just curiosity? Or something else?

[+Prime Suspect]

Try searching X miles from the center of town.

That will only work for round towns

You'd think it would work here, but it doesn't.

Yep, nope....

 

 

To the OP: Just curious why you care what town a cache is in? Is it just curiosity? Or something else?

He wants to make sure he doesn't violate the court order.

[+DavidMac]

Try searching X miles from the center of town.

That will only work for round towns

You'd think it would work here, but it doesn't.

 

No, maybe it doesn't work there, but it does work fine for Polkville, North Carolina.

 

To the OP, I see that you live in a New England state. The northeast is a little different than the rest of the country in that just about every piece of land is divided into a town or township, the borders of which bump up against other townships. The rest of the country isn't set up that way; instead, city limits are ever changing as communities grow and expand. A vast majority of the landmass in the US isn't within the boundaries of a city or town, once you get out of the northeast (I think Pennsylvania is set up the same way).

 

I once had a really confusing conversation about this from a colleague in Connecticut. I was referring to some sampling locations that I had visited in a southern state, and she wanted to know what town they were in. I said that the sites were so many miles from such-and-such a town, and her reply was yes, but what town were they in? This went on for a minute or two before we each realized where the other was coming from.

Edited February 27, 2008 by DavidMac