+GrnXnham Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Okay, I would like to do more of the locationless caches, but having to search through more than 500 logs to make sure I am not duplicating a previous find is rather tedious and time consuming. For example, lets say I am looking for a pink elephant statue for a pink elephant statue locationless cache. (not real just example) Nearly all the locationless caches stipulate that each location can only be logged once--in other words only one log per pink elephant statue. Is there a faster way to do a search through the existing logs to find if your pink elephant statue has been logged already? Coordinates are never exactly the same when logging these locationless caches. Even if you are trying to log a pink elephant statue that has been logged before, chances are the previous finder logged slightly different coordinates than you. Any quick way of searching here or does everyone just spend tons of time searching through all of the old logs? Thanks Dave Quote Link to comment
Jokester Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 I had this problem on a few locationless I did. I used the "find (on this page)" command, under the Edit drop down. Use that to lock down anything from its name to its location. Example if you wanted to see if someone logged a pink elephant statue in Chicago, you could put in "chicago" and it'll just zero in on those. Or let's say you want to see if the legenardy Pink Elephant Statue of Prince Ackbar was logged, try putting in something like "prince ackbar". You get the idea. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 (edited) Even better for searching: I found a water tower (actually two in the same day, pretty odd for the southwest) My coordinates were N34 something, W106 something. Well, N34 goes through other cities, but the only large city W106 goes through is Albuquerque (where I live). I clicked "show all logs", then I did a "find (on this page)" for "W 106". At each spot that was highlighted, I checked for N34. If I found one, I would look at the next 2 digits of the coords, then the three digits after the decimal. It turns out neither water tower had been logged, so I picked the one I had the better picture of. Edited January 28, 2004 by Team GPSaxophone Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 No help at the moment, but I seem to recall Jeremy posting that the new locationless pages will have mapping of all logged coords. This won't help with the very old caches that were created prior to the finder's ability to add alternative coordinates. For newer ones, it will be awesome. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 I can't find the comment from Jeremy. It is somewhat possible that someone else posted a request for this and that Jeremy never stated that this was forthcoming. Sorry. Quote Link to comment
+Cornix Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 You can use the GPS Coordinate Grabber to extract all locations from the log page. Enter the URL of the locationless cache and attach &log=y to it: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...?ID=37645&log=y Press 'Download Coordinates' afterwards. The result is a .loc file that you can convert and load into your favorite mapping program. Cornix Quote Link to comment
+BigBirdNL Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 You can also use LocLess2Loc to extract the coordinates from the page. You can use GPS Visualizer to show a map with all waypoints in the loc file on it. LocLess2Loc is also part of CacheMaps. If you start it from CacheMaps, it directly gives you the opportunity to view maps for the caches or directly go into the logfile to view the log for a specific coordinate. By using maps, you can easily identify if the location you want to log is not logged yet by someone else. Finally, you can always download the latest version of LocLess2Loc from the CacheMaps download site. Quote Link to comment
+hikemeister Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 This website has all of the locationless caches -- placed into categories to make them easier to search -- http://members.aol.com/GeocacherBB/locationless.html Quote Link to comment
+ncfinn Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Spend just ten minutes reading through the logs of locationless caches and you will easily find duplicate entries. This does not help you any, but shows how easy it is to "cheat" (inflate) with your # found caches. Quote Link to comment
+boulter Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I created this tool to solve exactly this problem. Logging locationless caches are a pain. GPS Distance Calculator It's not quite done yet. I need to do some more work in how I parse coordinates and show the headings, but it's now really easy for me to see the closest logs to my potential find. Quote Link to comment
+Cacheola Crew Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 (edited) Be sure you hit the "show all logs" button before using your browsers "find" function that was suggested in the first reply. Using the find function is good for if you are planning on going after a locationless cache, but you don't know the coordinates before going out and finding it. (example:You may know there is a castle at a certain location, but you don't know the coords. So, you enter Virginia and you will get all castles logged in VA) The only bad thing about using the find function is that not everyone puts the name of the state in their log. Or some logs have the name and some have the two-letter state abbreviation. I usually check both ways, but VA pulls up a whole lot of other words too! Cacheola Crew Mom Edited March 19, 2004 by Cacheola Crew Quote Link to comment
+BigBirdNL Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 If you use LocLess2Loc with GPSVisuaizer or within CacheMaps, you can show all logged locations on a map. Makes it easy to identify if the object you want to go to for the exact coords has already been logged. Quote Link to comment
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