+MirecXP Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Hi helpful feature of pocket queries is modification of the unknown cache coordinates to the corrected coordinates. But sometimes I would like to generate pocket query without these corrected coordinates (e.g. the PQ could be accessed by some other people and I don't want to spoil). Is this possible? Miro Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 One option would be to just not make the PQ available to others. But unless I'm mistaken, I don't think others will see your corrected coordinates. The corrected coordinates and any notes you have added will only be seen if logged in on your account, in other words, they're just going to get a list of caches, same as if they'd run the PQ themselves . At least I think this is correct, someone who know for sure, please feel free to chime in. Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Corrected co-ordinates and user notes are only available to the user who created them. Whether it be in a PQ or while viewing a cache page online. Sharing your PQ with others is a violation of the Terms Of Service, so don't do it and there won't be an issue. If you need to create a PQ without corrected co-ordinates, delete/erase the corrected co-ordinates before creating the PQ. Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Corrected co-ordinates and user notes are only available to the user who created them. Whether it be in a PQ or while viewing a cache page online. Sharing your PQ with others is a violation of the Terms Of Service, so don't do it and there won't be an issue. If you need to create a PQ without corrected co-ordinates, delete/erase the corrected co-ordinates before creating the PQ. Actually, you can share a PQ by sharing it's URL. What you can't do is share the resulting GPX file. Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Corrected co-ordinates and user notes are only available to the user who created them. Whether it be in a PQ or while viewing a cache page online. Sharing your PQ with others is a violation of the Terms Of Service, so don't do it and there won't be an issue. If you need to create a PQ without corrected co-ordinates, delete/erase the corrected co-ordinates before creating the PQ. Actually, you can share a PQ by sharing it's URL. What you can't do is share the resulting GPX file. OK, I didn't know about sharing the URL. But, wouldn't that just run the PQ as if the second person created it themselves, thus not including the notes or user corrected co-ordinates entered by the first person? If they are included, isn't that a major loophole in the rule about not publishing puzzle solutions on a Groundspeak site? Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 OK, I didn't know about sharing the URL. But, wouldn't that just run the PQ as if the second person created it themselves, thus not including the notes or user corrected co-ordinates entered by the first person? <--- This one If they are included, isn't that a major loophole in the rule about not publishing puzzle solutions on a Groundspeak site? Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 But, wouldn't that just run the PQ as if the second person created it themselves, thus not including the notes or user corrected co-ordinates entered by the first person? <--- This one So, it appears the answer to the dilemma is to send someone the URL of your PQ if you want to share the 'results'. Case closed! Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 But, wouldn't that just run the PQ as if the second person created it themselves, thus not including the notes or user corrected co-ordinates entered by the first person? <--- This one So, it appears the answer to the dilemma is to send someone the URL of your PQ if you want to share the 'results'. Case closed! I don't think it works that was at all. By sharing the URL, you should be sharing the criteria only. Applying the same criteria to different users should give different results. Try this preview of one of my PQs. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?pq=788b6c3b-f715-449d-976b-26a5fea6d414 It is set to exclude caches found by me. I assume that when you run it, it would exclude caches found by you. When I run it, I get 121 caches. You should get 50+ more. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 So, it appears the answer to the dilemma is to send someone the URL of your PQ if you want to share the 'results'. I don't think it works that was at all. By sharing the URL, you should be sharing the criteria only. Applying the same criteria to different users should give different results. Correct. If any of the profile-specific criteria (any of the criteria that contains "my" or "I" somewhere in it) are used, the results will be different. BTW Don_J, your link doesn't work. If you want to share a PQ, it has to be the URL of the PQ edit page. Here's the URL for the regularly-scheduled PQ for my home area: http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/gcquery.aspx?guid=a3220766-e436-4cf4-a393-775351c73453 Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 So, it appears the answer to the dilemma is to send someone the URL of your PQ if you want to share the 'results'. I don't think it works that was at all. By sharing the URL, you should be sharing the criteria only. Applying the same criteria to different users should give different results. Correct. If any of the profile-specific criteria (any of the criteria that contains "my" or "I" somewhere in it) are used, the results will be different. BTW Don_J, your link doesn't work. If you want to share a PQ, it has to be the URL of the PQ edit page. Here's the URL for the regularly-scheduled PQ for my home area: http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/gcquery.aspx?guid=a3220766-e436-4cf4-a393-775351c73453 I guess the preview only works for the PQ owner. It links properly for me but when I replace the guid with yours, I get the advanced search page. Quote Link to comment
+MirecXP Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 So I have found the way to achieve modification of PQ result by using the interesting free program GAPP which I can only recommend. If someone needs it: LiveAPI / Import Pocket Queries / ... LiveAPI / Refresh / All File / Export / ... In addition I have prepared a simple GAPP script for removing "Found" flags from all caches. Sharing your PQ with others is a violation of the Terms Of Service, so don't do it and there won't be an issue. I do not think it is violation of rules if I share it with my wife. I hope Groundspeak will survive if we both pay only one PM although we use 2 accounts. So, it appears the answer to the dilemma is to send someone the URL of your PQ if you want to share the 'results'. Case closed! Right, this is the preferred option if you want to share it with some other cacher. Quote Link to comment
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