Geocaching PQ Route

[+FitzgeraldFamily]

Okay, so you can already customize a route to find caches along a route and tweak what attributes to include or exclude, etc. through pocket queries but what would it take to add a feature to the geocaching google maps to plan a route for your day over geocaching, Now you either have to go to one and find the next nearest cache with your GPS which may actually be near but in any direction or write down the order in which to do them. I suppose it could be as simple as adding route points on the map but perhaps there could be a application that automatically knows you want to knock as many out in a southern direction and wont have you back track or ping pong across the same road...

[+Chuy!]

I've only done this once, but it did work out. I believe I opened MapSource and created a track (maybe a route) and saved the file as a .gpx file. You can also create a route in Google Earth and save the route as a .kml file.

 

After that, upload the file in the Routing page, whereupon, you can create a PQ.

[+Chamma]

GSAK has a macro that will do this. I think its called cacheraid, it will pick out which ever cache you start with and go to the next closest without repeating.

 

Cabear

[+Markwell]

Streets and Trips will also do it with optimizing stops on a route.