+dlcak Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I am trying to teach by specific counties. The counties around Mass are odd shaped and don't lend themselves to searching from a point. Any ideas how? Quote Link to comment
+TmdAndGG Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 30 minutes ago, dlcak said: I am trying to teach by specific counties. The counties around Mass are odd shaped and don't lend themselves to searching from a point. Any ideas how? I'm not exactly sure what you want, but if you give me more specifics I'm happy to help! Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 County data is not kept directly on Geocaching.com. You can use a third party API partner, such as GSAK or Project-GC.com. Let us know if you'd like details about these options. Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Eventually I would like to complete the Texas County challenge. When I've sought out caches so far to complete this (usually secondary to another goal) I just look at a Texas county map and find a city in that county and kinda focus on that. It would be a real PITA if I ever decide to strike out to one of the corners of the state to knock out the counties rather than a handful here or there. Texas has 254 counties, btw. I think it would be neat to one day say I literally set foot in every county of Texas. And would I do that without geocaching and this challenge? Doubtful. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 While geocaching.com doesn't support counties directly, there are a few ways to skin the cat on this. - The search page does not have a filter to search by county, but it does recognize counties as place names. Type in the county you want, and the search will return results starting from what it thinks the center point of that county is. - If you are more of a visual searcher, use the browse map. It starts out at your home coordinates by default, but you can move it to different places or do location searches. The search bar also recognizes county names and will put you in the right area. For best results, use one of the map sources that support county borders. I prefer the Esri World Topo Map. Here's an example screen shot. - A third option, not using geocaching.com, is to go to project-gc.com and use the Map Compare tool. project-gc does support searching by county, so this will show you a map with county lines and give you search results that are limited to the county you want. For example, here is a map of all the active caches in Dukes County, Massachusetts, with the blue markers showing those you've already found and the red ones showing those you haven't. Or, if you're trying to see a map of Massachusetts that shows the total caches you've found in each county, that information would be available through your profile statistics on project-gc. Looks like you're only missing Nantucket. 3 Quote Link to comment
+K13 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Project-GC has a county map search function available for paying members of that site. I've found it very useful. Quote Link to comment
+GrateBear Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 On 8/22/2020 at 7:08 PM, Keystone said: County data is not kept directly on Geocaching.com. You can use a third party API partner, such as GSAK or Project-GC.com. Let us know if you'd like details about these options. Isn’t that info embedded somewhere? When you run the “my finds” PQ, that shows what counties you have finds in. Quote Link to comment
+GrateBear Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 In the forum for suggestions, I once posted that it would be nice to have PQ functions that would show caches by county and Delorme map sectors. That was not well received by many. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 5 hours ago, GrateBear said: Isn’t that info embedded somewhere? Yes, the county data files are "embedded" in GSAK, Project-GC, Cachly and perhaps other third party API partner applications. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 On 9/6/2020 at 8:27 PM, GrateBear said: Isn’t that info embedded somewhere? When you run the “my finds” PQ, that shows what counties you have finds in. County data does not come from the my finds query. GS does not include persist the county a cache is in for geocaches. Applications such as GSAK, ProjectGC and other can derive county data based on the lat/long coordinates for a cache. Given a set of lat/long coordinates a reverse geocoding can return a list of place names (country, state, county, even city or address). County data is not even necessarily "embedded". It could be looked up in real time. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 On 9/6/2020 at 8:27 PM, GrateBear said: On 8/22/2020 at 9:08 PM, Keystone said: County data is not kept directly on Geocaching.com. You can use a third party API partner, such as GSAK or Project-GC.com. Let us know if you'd like details about these options. Isn’t that info embedded somewhere? When you run the “my finds” PQ, that shows what counties you have finds in. That's not how it works. County information does not show up at first; GSAK has to create it using their known set of polygons. There are a few ways GSAK populates county information; for one, if you use FindStatGen,there is an option to update county information. Quote Link to comment
K-and-K Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 I could not find it in GSAK but I did look at https://project-gc.com/Statistics/ProfileStats#Maps, then chose the province Top 30 counties within region Middlesex: 1868 Hamilton: 63 Perth: 11 Elgin: 1292 Thunder Bay: 59 Peterborough: 11 Oxford: 353 Wellington: 58 Toronto: 10 Niagara: 255 Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury: 53 Algoma: 10 Essex: 183 Ottawa: 39 Lanark: 9 Brant: 111 Chatham-Kent: 35 Haliburton: 7 Peel: 101 Simcoe: 33 Bruce: 7 Haldimand-Norfolk: 100 Waterloo: 32 Hastings: 6 Halton: 73 Lambton: 26 Grey: 4 Huron: 71 Parry Sound: 15 Muskoka: 4 Quote Link to comment
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