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[+Harleyhikers]

I'm very new to this geocaching mallarky and enjoying it immensely.

I would like to go further afield in a certain area, e.g. a town.

But I can't sus out how to get caches in a given area, only from a post code.

Can anybody help.

 

Thanks

 

Marty

[Leoness]

You may find this map useful. Be aware, though, that it may take some time to load!

 

And welcome to the sport/hobby/addiction!

Edited December 5, 2004 by Leoness

[+Harleyhikers]

Thanks Leoness

[+yorkstan]

There is also this. Just type in the post code and you will get the nearest caches.

[+MarcB]

If you register with the geocacheuk flash map site you can get it to show your finds/hides

MarcB

[+MoonHerb]

If you click 'Hide and Seek a Cache' on the front of the Geocahing.com main page, you can put in Latitude and Longitude to perform a search.

 

If you go to either www.streetmap.co.uk or www.multimap.co.uk, you can get lat/long by clicking a location on the map.

 

Combine these two and hey-presto ! Caches close to whichever location you choose (town or country).

[+Kitty Hawk]

This is the same site as Leoness pointed out.

 

Using the advanced search hereyou can specify a town, or a postcode and a radius and it will bring up a useful map with dots for each cache.

 

The speed of download is mile squicker this way, if you use a radius of say 15miles than using the map of the whole country.

 

You can also see caches near each other for bagging more than one in a go and can add trigpoints if that grabs you as fun.

 

Over time you will probably combine all of these methods of researching potential areas and if you become a premium member of Geocaching.com you can download the waypoints and show them on Autoroute or similar programs. I think you can do this from geocacheuk as well, but I'm not sure.

 

Good Luck

[+Harleyhikers]

Thanks to you all for your help I can't beleive the response.

 

Thanks again

 

Marty

[+Kitty Hawk]

Good job you posted in the depths of winter at the beginning of a month. In the summer and at the end of the months we're all out caching.

[Deego]

Good job you posted in the depths of winter at the beginning of a month. In the summer and at the end of the months we're all out caching.

I wish

[+Flyfishermanbob]

Another tool you can use ----

 

on any cache page ...below Additional hints and above on-line maps :-

 

Find...

...other caches hidden or found by this user

...nearby caches of this type

...all nearby caches

 

Choose ..all nearby caches ..and get a new list centred on the cache you are looking at ...

 

But the best visualisation has already been given... GCUK.

 

good luck.