+terratin Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 I'm looking to plan a caching trip and wonder if an online mapping solution exists that creates the best route from a given starting point to a bigger number of cache coordinates. if you just drive from A to B and back to A again it's easy to plan a route, but if you wanted to visit a large number of ECs around your area then it's more difficult to find the optimal route. I've found something that accepts addresses, but caches rarely have an address, plus you have to find the nearest address to start with as well. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 [...] I've found something that accepts addresses, but caches rarely have an address [...] Please give the name and link of what you stil found. It's not fun to suggest workflows that are still discarded. Hans Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 [...] I've found something that accepts addresses, but caches rarely have an address [...] Please give the name and link of what you stil found. It's not fun to suggest workflows that are still discarded. Hans There are a couple of websites that seem to do something like this with addresses (just google "shortest route finder"), but those don't help me. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 [[...] There are a couple of websites that seem to do something like this with addresses (just google "shortest route finder"), but those don't help me. I know about some sites and I know how to google. That doesn't let me know what you are discarded. Hans Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 [[...] There are a couple of websites that seem to do something like this with addresses (just google "shortest route finder"), but those don't help me. I know about some sites and I know how to google. That doesn't let me know what you are discarded. Hans Look Hans, I briefly looked at a couple of websites, entered various coordinate formats and found that none of them understood them. Thus I closed them again. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 (edited) Is it really that diffcult to name those sites? Even the GCcode of some of those caches that you'd have issues with are welcome. And please give a clue on what you mean by "many" caches. 10, 20, 50 or more? Hans Edited May 30, 2017 by HHL Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 Is it really that diffcult to name those sites? Even the GCcode of some of those caches that you'd have issues with are welcome. And please give a clue on what you mean by "many" caches. 10, 20, 50 or more? Hans yes, I cannot name those websites because my browser crashed and lost the browsing data from before that. I'm looking at around 20-30 earthcaches around Edinburgh. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 OK. I downloaded some Earth caches into GSAK and created this TSP route with the help of a GSAK macro: Hans Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 (edited) Oh wow! What kind of macro is that? I just installed GSAK yesterday to have a better overview over EarthCaches in general, and EC challenges that require counties and classifications per country and other odd things. Thus I'm still a beginner, but maybe I can get this to work. Cool! But this is indeed more or less the bath of ECs I was thinking off. Need to play a bit more to see if it makes sense to add certain ones or omit them for a later time. Edited May 30, 2017 by terratin Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 The macro is called CacheRoute3.gsk Hans Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 Again Hans, this is fantastic! A quick success story with GSAK is all I needed Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Again Hans, this is fantastic! A quick success story with GSAK is all I needed Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Glad that it fit your needs. Hans Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 Again Hans, this is fantastic! A quick success story with GSAK is all I needed Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Glad that it fit your needs. Hans Yes, it does! Gives me a good idea what happens if I remove a few caches here and there. By just removing 4 from my database the route would go from 200 to 150km. Not bad. The route needs some more optimising as there are a few odd things in there, but it's brilliant. And I have an actual project for GSAK instead of just dumping data into it Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 If you are generally interested in creating routes or preparing an itinerary then this macro Create Multi-Step Route might be of interest for you. ;-) Hans Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 The macro is called CacheRoute3.gsk Hans Now that'll come in handy. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted May 31, 2017 Author Share Posted May 31, 2017 If you are generally interested in creating routes or preparing an itinerary then this macro Create Multi-Step Route might be of interest for you. ;-) Hans Thanks a lot. I'll have a look at it tonight. I just came back from a long trip last weekend and was a bit annoyed that there was no clear way of knowing how long it would take to do detours for about 14 Earthcaches near that route. The original 5hrs drive had turned into 10 hours in the end Quote Link to comment
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