+Kitty Hawk Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Finding new caches. I used to do the search from the main page using * and 'United Kingdom', This is fine, except there is no formal way of finding out if any are nearby except by entering each one and selecting streetmap. Then I found the 'filter out finds' option on my profile page and that is fine except you have to scroll through the pages to look for new caches. Is there an easier way that I've not yet found? Is there a way to have more than 20 caches on a page? Cheers Adrian Link to comment
+CuplaKiwis Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 You should be able to (though I haven't done this yet) set up a PQ to look for new caches daily. Link to comment
+kbootb Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 I've got a PQ that looks for caches set in the last 7 days. Fling that into GSAK with the 'clear all flags first - set flags when updating' option set on the import. Then run a filter for all caches with user flag set. This of course has my home co-ords as centre and ordered in distance from home. So I get a list of all caches in last seven days. You need to be a premium member for this. Link to comment
+Learned Gerbil Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Much easier - create a PQ for new caches within 100 miles based on my home coordinates in the last seven days, with a bookmark in my browser for my PQ page. Once a day I click on the bookmark, then preview the PQ. I can then view online the cache pages that appear, and using the various browser scripts etc published in this Forum I can view location maps instantly. Link to comment
+2202 Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Buy a Fugawi UK Series 2 map and then all you have to do is right button click on any area you wish to check out and low and behold it reveals all the nearest caches from the spot you pointed at. It does this by loading up the GC.com page for that area. From then on in its download to GSAK and import back into the map for the exact locations. All done and dusted in a couple of minutes. And when Fugawi sort it to do an instant download of the cache waypoints onto the map itself, then everybody will want it. Link to comment
+kbootb Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Much easier - create a PQ for new caches within 100 miles based on my home coordinates in the last seven days, with a bookmark in my browser for my PQ page. Once a day I click on the bookmark, then preview the PQ. I can then view online the cache pages that appear, and using the various browser scripts etc published in this Forum I can view location maps instantly. Whoops, I use it that way too. But generally when I want to look on Sat and Sun the server is so loaded it just times out, so Igot in the habit of relying more on the recently e-mailed version. Perhaps this weekend will be better with the new servers. Link to comment
+Birders Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 <<Bookmark This page >> Nafita's suggestion was brought up some time ago on another thread - I tried it then and have tried it just now but cannot get the map to zoom more than twice. After that it's the dreaded little white square with the red cross in it. Has anyone else had this problem and cured it please? Link to comment
+Learned Gerbil Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 I have never had a timeout doing a search, only when logging or viewing logs. Maybe I am just lucky! Link to comment
+kbootb Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 The timeout occurs when I try to get to the first page, or to 'my page'. Occasionally when trying to get to the list of PQs, generally OK once I hit preview. Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted April 29, 2005 Author Share Posted April 29, 2005 Naffita's method is ideal. Cheers for all the suggestions Link to comment
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