blahginger Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 I would like to have an eBook listing of all of the locationless caches. I am having trouble getting a query to return all of these at once. The problem stems from the fact that you are required to input a starting origin and that the maximum radius to search for is 500 miles. The nature of locationless caches do not lend themselves to this sort of query. Does anyone have any suggestions? ____________________________ The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. - Colette Link to comment
+Markwell Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Couldn't you just have it be anywhere within 12,255 miles (or 19,721 km)? The furthest point on the globe from your location (the exact opposite side of the planet) should be that distance. This should catch them all. Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
blahginger Posted July 31, 2002 Author Share Posted July 31, 2002 Unfortunately the distance will be reset to only 500 miles when you submit the query. ____________________________ The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. - Colette Link to comment
+Markwell Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 The same thing could be said for the Planet of the Apes type caches. If I want to capture just those, I better be able to expand my search radius to more than just 500 miles. What really needs to happen, and I'm not sure how it would happen, is that you could expand the search radius to encompass the globe, but you'd max out on the number of caches. The trick is that the caches below the "max" would have to be the closest in proximity. In other words, if some numbskull were to make their radius 12000 miles, and they selected ALL caches (having reset the 100 cache number to 500), only the 500 closest caches would show up. Elias? Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
+Markwell Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 The same thing could be said for the Planet of the Apes type caches. If I want to capture just those, I better be able to expand my search radius to more than just 500 miles. What really needs to happen, and I'm not sure how it would happen, is that you could expand the search radius to encompass the globe, but you'd max out on the number of caches. The trick is that the caches below the "max" would have to be the closest in proximity. In other words, if some numbskull were to make their radius 12000 miles, and they selected ALL caches (having reset the 100 cache number to 500), only the 500 closest caches would show up. Elias? Markwell Chicago Geocaching Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 The results page for any search you do has a link near the top that says "Also search for [locationless caches]" Here is the link it provides: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest_cache.asp?LTYPE=12 Like any search, it only gives you 25 at a time, but there are currently only 175 listings. Link to comment
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