+RufusClupea Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Why is there no United States or USA in the country choices? Quote Link to comment
+GeoTrekker26 Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Too big. Look for the state you are interested in. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 1 hour ago, GeoTrekker26 said: Too big. Look for the state you are interested in. ...or select all the individual states to effectively get the same as if you had United States as an option. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 2 hours ago, RufusClupea said: Why is there no United States or USA in the country choices? Germany isn't there either. As for "why", it's because there are so many caches in these countries. If those countries were easy options, people would be too tempted to use them even when they didn't need to, causing significant load on the PQ servers. As I posted above, you can multi-select states to get the same result, but the impact is lower because most people won't take the time to do that. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 6 minutes ago, The A-Team said: Germany isn't there either. [...] Sorry to say, but that's wrong. Hans Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 9 minutes ago, HHL said: Sorry to say, but that's wrong. Hans Interesting. I was sure Germany wasn't offered as an option. Do you know if it has always been an option, or if it was added more recently? Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 4 minutes ago, The A-Team said: [..] Do you know if it has always been an option, or if it was added more recently? No. Unfortunately I can't say for sure. Hans Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 The PQ functionality was designed many years ago at a time when a far higher percentage of the world's geocaches were hidden in the United States. Querying for all caches in Germany or the Czech Republic in 2003 wasn't an issue of server resources, but a search across all of the USA would have been. At that time, there were far fewer hamsters, and some of them were rather sickly. They've since passed on. 1 Quote Link to comment
+RufusClupea Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, The A-Team said: ...or select all the individual states to effectively get the same as if you had United States as an option. I wasn't aware that was an option. I'd tried that before, and selecting subsequent states cancelled out the first state selected. It isn't exactly intuitive (or explained anywhere that I recall), but I finally figured out that one has to press CTRL to select additional states. That accomplishes what I wanted, so thanks for the hint. Edited September 9, 2017 by RufusClupea Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 (edited) 5 hours ago, RufusClupea said: [..] It isn't exactly intuitive (or explained anywhere that I recall),[...] It's exactly the same way you'll select files in Explorer (or in Finder). Shift-click/Shift-click for selecting files (here: states) in a row or Ctrl-click/ctrl-click for selecting files not in a row. Not really rocket science that should be explained in detail. Hans Edited September 9, 2017 by HHL Quote Link to comment
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