Search For All Found

[+PG GoldWing]

Can the Pocket Query do a search for all finds for a user, regardless of distance from home?

 

As it is, there seems to be a 500 mile limit. Since we start out 500 miles north of the border, our finds in Oregon and Texas don't get included in my Pocket Query I have set up that reports my finds.

[+Stunod]

Don't select an origin (or center point) for your search...select states instead. You can select all of them by clicking the first one on the list and shift-clicking the last.

Edited April 18, 2005 by Stunod

[+Prime Suspect]

Can the Pocket Query do a search for all finds for a user, regardless of distance from home?

 

As it is, there seems to be a 500 mile limit.  Since we start out 500 miles north of the border, our finds in Oregon and Texas don't get included in my Pocket Query I have set up that reports my finds.

No, it's unlikely that you'll get all of them, because a PQ won't return archived caches. There's been a long-standing request to be able to retrieve all found caches, including those that have been archived.

Edited April 18, 2005 by Prime Suspect

[+geospyder]

I just did a pocket query last night for all my found caches (all 78 of them ). Like it was mentioned, the archived caches don't show. Something else I found - by using holding down the control key you can pick multiple states in the same query.

[+hoovman]

... a PQ won't return archived caches.

Interestingly, when I select all states and Found By Me, I don't get any physical caches that are archived, but I do get at least one virtual cache that's archived.

 

Yeah, if you're reading this Jeremy - count another request for "show all caches I found, even archived ones"

[+Stunod]

Interestingly, when I select all states and Found By Me, I don't get any physical caches that are archived, but I do get at least one virtual cache that's archived.

Are you sure it's archived and not just disabled?

 

edit: looking at your stats, I see Rock of Ages is "temporarily unavailable", not archived.

Edited April 18, 2005 by Stunod

[+Marky]

For some reason, my pocket query won't return more than 500 of my found caches.

 

--Marky

[+planetrobert]

For some reason, my pocket query won't return more than 500 of my found caches.

 

--Marky

you may need to seperate by cache type if this is a problem.

[+Marky]

For some reason, my pocket query won't return more than 500 of my found caches.     

 

--Marky

you may need to seperate by cache type if this is a problem.

How about they just create a "My found caches" special query that just works correctly without me having to do nine pocket queries to accomplish it? Nine of my 20 saved pocket queries just to get my finds? Not a workable solution.

 

--Marky

[+PG GoldWing]

As was suggested, earlier in this thread, I checked ALL States and Provinces and that worked, but the total shown in My Stats is different than that shown in the PQ search. I think what it is comes from duplicate entries for the same cache. Still trying to figure that one out.

 

I thought I could select Canada and USA in Countries, but USA isn't there.

 

Guess you folks south of the border (collectively as a group) are just a figment of our imagination!

[+planetrobert]

I got all my active found in one PQ

 

then I got all the individual gpx files for archived ones...

 

now i just get a new found PQ and merge it with the old one and that way I have it all.

[+Marky]

I got all my active found in one PQ

Do you have less than 500 in that PQ? If not, do you know some secret way to get more than 500 waypoints in a PQ? How many archived caches did you have to manually DL?

 

--Marky

[+Team GPSaxophone]

For some reason, my pocket query won't return more than 500 of my found caches.     

 

--Marky

you may need to seperate by cache type if this is a problem.

How about they just create a "My found caches" special query that just works correctly without me having to do nine pocket queries to accomplish it? Nine of my 20 saved pocket queries just to get my finds? Not a workable solution.

 

--Marky

You can seperate them by dates also. Set your first PQ for Jan 1, 2000 through whatever date would keep it under 500, start your next PQ there and go to the next 500, etc.

 

I downloaded all my finds (and did the archived ones manually, about 80 caches!)and saved it with GSAK, now I just get an updated list of finds for the past month and add it to the GPX file. It seems to keep my map updated pretty well:

 

[+Marky]

For some reason, my pocket query won't return more than 500 of my found caches.     

 

--Marky

you may need to seperate by cache type if this is a problem.

How about they just create a "My found caches" special query that just works correctly without me having to do nine pocket queries to accomplish it? Nine of my 20 saved pocket queries just to get my finds? Not a workable solution.

 

--Marky

You can seperate them by dates also. Set your first PQ for Jan 1, 2000 through whatever date would keep it under 500, start your next PQ there and go to the next 500, etc.

Yes, that is what I was alluding to in my post. It takes me 9 PQs to get my current finds, and I have to run ALL NINE to get my current finds, because I have no idea which of the PQs are affected by my latest batch of finds. Come on, is that right? I have to use up two days worth of PQs AND use up 9 of my 20 saved PQs just to be able to get my current finds? That is not a solution in my book.

 

Make it a special PQ type and make it only runable once a week or something. And make sure to include the archived caches in the special PQ. There should be some reasonable solution. Of course, since a large percentage of users have less than 500 finds, I can see why TPTB might not think this is that high on the priority list.

 

Heck, if it were possible to just filter by my find log date, I could cope with it. Then I would just need to adjust the starting date to be the date I last ran the PQ and I would pick up all my most recent finds. I could use GSAK to merge them into my found caches DB and it would only take one PQ.

 

--Marky

[+Moose Mob]

Marky,

 

If all your finds did come in a single PQ, I think they would need to deliver it with a semi truck.

[+IV_Warrior]

Heck, if it were possible to just filter by my find log date, I could cope with it.  Then I would just need to adjust the starting date to be the date I last ran the PQ and I would pick up all my most recent finds.  I could use GSAK to merge them into my found caches DB and it would only take one PQ.

 

--Marky

There is a "Found in the last 7 days" option in the PQ's. So, you'd only have to do the 9 PQ's ONCE, and manually get the archived ones, one at a time, then just run a "found in the last 7 days" querry weekly, and merge it into your offline "found" file.

 

Although, with the number of finds your talking about, I suppose it's possible that more than 500 of the caches that you've found at some point in time could be found by SOMEONE in any given 7 day period....maybe you'd need to run it more than once a week....

Edited April 20, 2005 by IV_Warrior

[+Hemlock]

In the cache- and cacher-rich area where Marky lives, I'd bet at least 95% of the caches are found every 7 days. That parameter is pretty much useless. It's almost like saying "give me every cache."

[+sbell111]

I think that an 'all finds' PQ has very limited utility.

 

Once you run it once, you have all that you need. Any additional finds can be culled from one's regular PQs and saved to a 'my finds' file.

[+Marky]

I think that an 'all finds' PQ has very limited utility.

 

Once you run it once, you have all that you need. Any additional finds can be culled from one's regular PQs and saved to a 'my finds' file.

Did you read the part above where I ranted about how it is impossible for me to get all my new finds without running 9 PQs? I understand it has limited utility, but I would like a solution that doesn't eat up nearly half of my allotted PQs just to keep an active list of my finds. There is no way for me to "cull" my finds without running the 9 PQs. Do you have some method that I'm not aware of?

 

If they added a "You've found in the last 7 days" or a "You found in this date range", I could easily get by. Any other current solution involves me manually doing something and I refused to do anything manually.

 

--Marky

[+Marky]

In the cache- and cacher-rich area where Marky lives, I'd bet at least 95% of the caches are found every 7 days. That parameter is pretty much useless. It's almost like saying "give me every cache."

Yep, I tried doing a PQ for "Caches I found" and "Caches found in the last 7 days" and it maxed out at 500. It would probably be an easy thing (in relative terms of easiness) to add a "Caches you found in the last 7 days" to that list of the "That (and)" section. Maybe I should lobby for that rather than the "all my cache finds" query.

 

--Marky

[+sbell111]

Did you read the part above where I ranted about how it is impossible for me to get all my new finds without running 9 PQs?  I understand it has limited utility, but I would like a solution that doesn't eat up nearly half of my allotted PQs just to keep an active list of my finds.  There is no way for me to "cull" my finds without running the 9 PQs.  Do you have some method that I'm not aware of?...

I read it, yawned, and moved on with my life.

 

Sure, it takes nine PQs to get all of your finds. It also takes a long irritating process to then individually download gpx files for those caches that have been archived. You have to go though this long irritating process exactly once.

 

After that, you get all your caches in your regular PQ of unfound caches. You merely have to save the ones that you find to your file of found caches. Some people have weekly 'found' PQs. I don't find find these to be useful since you can't order those by 'found' date and you will miss those caches that have been archived prior to this PQ running.

Edited April 20, 2005 by sbell111

[+Genius Loci]

So those who've requested this don't feel alone, I'd just like to add my vote in favor of this proposed enhancement!

 

As others have stated, I would also very much appreciate the ability to obtain a .GPX file of all my Found caches (including those archived).

 

Thanks for listening.

[+tozainamboku]

In the cache- and cacher-rich area where Marky lives, I'd bet at least 95% of the caches are found every 7 days. That parameter is pretty much useless. It's almost like saying "give me every cache."

Yep, I tried doing a PQ for "Caches I found" and "Caches found in the last 7 days" and it maxed out at 500. It would probably be an easy thing (in relative terms of easiness) to add a "Caches you found in the last 7 days" to that list of the "That (and)" section. Maybe I should lobby for that rather than the "all my cache finds" query.

 

--Marky

I run a PQ for "Caches I found" and "Caches found in the last 7 days" every week and it doen't yet max out at 500 I was suprised at Hemlock's comment that at least 95% of the caches are found every 7 days. (I don't live in the same cache rich area as Marky but we need to keep it pretty cache rich here as well to prevent the San Andreas Fault from getting out of balance and causing the "big one") Its a very small percentage of caches I've found that are found every week. Perhaps because I like to find more 3+ terrain caches. My numbers are not as high as Marky's though, so I suppose as I find more I'll have the same problem as him.