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Pocket Query request


GroundClutter

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Currently, one can do a PQ search by zip code or coordinate. However, for the many Canadian cachers out there, may we please have a search by Postal Code? It is available on the regular geocaching search, and would be a fantastic addition to pocket queries.

 

Thank you kindly!

 

 

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I know there's a database for the center coordinates of the ZIP codes. Is there an analogous database for the center coordinates of the Canadian postal codes? (If you happened to have such a database, I imagine it would be "easier" to add them to the search, but I don't know how easy or hard it is to get it.)

 

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Is it possible? Yes. Do you have the database for him to load to make it work? Probably not. If you do a little legwork (fingerwork?) you can probably speed it up by finding such a DB, otherwise, is it possible? Yep. Does Jeremy have the DB to do it? I don't know, but I imagine if he did, he'd have done it by now? (Not to put keystrokes into his keyboard or anything.)

 

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quote:
Originally posted by ClayJar:

Is it possible? Yes. Do you have the database for him to load to make it work?


 

Clayjar the site must already have the database as it is possible to search by Canadian postal code ( as well as the UK and Austrailia )from the home page of Geocaching.com. What we're asking for is the same feature to be added to the pocket query searchs.

 

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Jeremy..

 

First, a big YAY for all your (and all the others') work in getting the forums up and running. If I wasn't already a paying member, I sure would be now. Now...let me pile more work on you... could we please have a pocket query search by postal code for us Canucks? (by the way, I totally support the "no image in the posts" thing.) There. Did brown nosing help my cause? :)

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While we're on the topic......

 

How about an easy way to center a PQ on a cache? Ideal might be a link on the cache page to generate a PQ based on the cache coords.

Still useful, and probably easier to add; add a field for the GC# to the "From Origin" section.

 

Often, I will plan my caching trips around an event, or one certain cache. After I have that starting point, I want to generate a PQ for everything in that area.

Right now I have to manually enter the long/lat, or look up the zipcode. Just entering the GC# would be much faster.

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