Pocket Query Question

[+DRJDSmith]

I use GSAK for downloading my pocket queries to my GPS. I usually do a PQ using my home as my center point but now I want to also do a PQ using my work place as a center point. Can I put both PQ files into GSAK or do I need to delete one PQ to place the other in GSAK?

[+Totem Clan]

I use GSAK for downloading my pocket queries to my GPS. I usually do a PQ using my home as my center point but now I want to also do a PQ using my work place as a center point. Can I put both PQ files into GSAK or do I need to delete one PQ to place the other in GSAK?

I can use as many PQ's as you want. There's no need to delete anything. GSAK will blend them into one database that you can then sort using you home coords or the coords at your workplace, or anywhere you wish.

You can even create multiple databases in GSAK if you wanted to.

[+Markwell]

I have a group of PQs that I compile together based on date ranges and plunk them into one large database - then weed out as needed.

[AZcachemeister]

GSAK should combine the PQs with no problems.

I am curious, though...is work really so far from home that the PQ for either location won't cover both areas?

[the3gmen]

Or you could create a separate GSAK database for your work PQ.

 

Whichever way you want to group your PQs GSAK will do it for you.

[+dprovan]

I am curious, though...is work really so far from home that the PQ for either location won't cover both areas?

I'm in California, and I'm a little unusual because I do, in fact, live and work in the same PQ. My wife, though, is more typical: she works a couple PQs away, about 30 miles.

[+niraD]

I am curious, though...is work really so far from home that the PQ for either location won't cover both areas?

I'm in California, and I'm a little unusual because I do, in fact, live and work in the same PQ. My wife, though, is more typical: she works a couple PQs away, about 30 miles.

For me, a PQ for the 1000 unfound caches nearest to home reaches only 8 miles. A lot of people around here live more than 16 miles from work.

[+Totem Clan]

I am curious, though...is work really so far from home that the PQ for either location won't cover both areas?

I'm in California, and I'm a little unusual because I do, in fact, live and work in the same PQ. My wife, though, is more typical: she works a couple PQs away, about 30 miles.

For me, a PQ for the 1000 unfound caches nearest to home reaches only 8 miles. A lot of people around here live more than 16 miles from work.

Wow! For me it's 80.1 miles.

[+Markwell]

I am curious, though...is work really so far from home that the PQ for either location won't cover both areas?

My work is 16 miles from my home. If I average the latitudes and longitudes to get a halfway point, and do a radius of 8 miles, there are 1295 caches.

 

I'm not even in the most dense area of our city suburbs.

[AZcachemeister]

Point taken...I was thinking cache density might be a considerable issue.

 

Hmmm, yep...a quick check shows a PQ for me only extends 9.3 miles from home.

My problem is that (as a 'field service technician'), 'work' is not at a fixed location, and I need 2500 listings to reasonably cover the area I might expect to find myself.

[+JBnW]

In GSAK, click on Tools>Options, then the Locations tab. In the dialog box, type something like "Office, appropriate coords", then OK. Your office location will now be included in the Locations pick list towards the top of the screen. Load all your PQs into one or as many databases as needed. GSAK will sort the caches by the selection of "Home" or "Office".

[+dprovan]

I am curious, though...is work really so far from home that the PQ for either location won't cover both areas?

I'm in California, and I'm a little unusual because I do, in fact, live and work in the same PQ. My wife, though, is more typical: she works a couple PQs away, about 30 miles.

For me, a PQ for the 1000 unfound caches nearest to home reaches only 8 miles. A lot of people around here live more than 16 miles from work.

Yeah, that's about the same as for me: home PQ radius 8 miles, middle PQ diameter 16 miles, work PQ radius 8 miles makes 32 miles altogether if work is in the 2nd PQ away from home, which is what I meant by "a couple PQs away". (I was actually just counting my standing PQs, so it's nice to see my eyeball number match a numeric analysis.)

[+DRJDSmith]

Thanks for all the feedback! I'm gonna take a look at it tonight and run a couple of PQ's to see how it goes.

 

I work approx. 25 miles from my home and a typical PQ will only take me about 6-8 miles away.

 

Thanks again, all!