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  • 07/28/2013 at 1:43 pm #1734223
    Grandma & Grandpa

      Gram and I are looking at an international trip late this fall. As part of the preliminary planning we are looking at caches. One particular challenge has caught our eye, but I’m having trouble assembling the needed data.

      We are asked to list a find in each of many concentric rings of distance, starting at our home base, in 10 kilometer jumps. The catagories are 10-20 km, 20-30 km, 30-40 km, etc. all the way out to about 600 km.

      There’s got to be an easier way to mine this data than manually scrolling through lotsa geocaching.com pages! Hopefully some of you well versed in techy solutions will be able to offer us a step-by-step tutorial. I’ve toured some of the various knowledge bases and forum archives and have not found much.

      Thanks a lot. cYa, Grandpa Jim

      07/28/2013 at 2:38 pm #1971189
      Team Deejay

        It doesn’t sound like they picked ranges that match your profile, so you will need to use something like GSAK to filter your list of finds by distance.

        07/28/2013 at 4:21 pm #1971190
        Trekkin and Birdin
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          If you have gsak, there is a macro for “the well traveled cacher” that may be helpful.

          On a side note…enjoy your travels!

          07/28/2013 at 7:21 pm #1971191
          Lacknothing
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            @Gram and Gramps wrote:

            Gram and I are looking at an international trip late this fall. As part of the preliminary planning we are looking at caches. One particular challenge has caught our eye, but I’m having trouble assembling the needed data.

            We are asked to list a find in each of many concentric rings of distance, starting at our home base, in 10 kilometer jumps. The catagories are 10-20 km, 20-30 km, 30-40 km, etc. all the way out to about 600 km.

            There’s got to be an easier way to mine this data than manually scrolling through lotsa geocaching.com pages! Hopefully some of you well versed in techy solutions will be able to offer us a step-by-step tutorial. I’ve toured some of the various knowledge bases and forum archives and have not found much.

            Thanks a lot. cYa, Grandpa Jim

            What is the GC number of the challenge cache?

            The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.

            07/29/2013 at 1:27 am #1971192
            Grandma & Grandpa

              GC3TR3M

              The Well-Travelled and Aged Cacher Challenge: WA

              A cache by Grahame Cookie

              07/29/2013 at 2:55 am #1971193
              labrat_wr

                would it help to change your distance preference on your GC account to Metric?

                Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

                07/29/2013 at 3:10 am #1971194
                Lacknothing
                Participant

                  @labrat_wr wrote:

                  would it help to change your distance preference on your GC account to Metric?

                  That is exactly what I was thinking and it is simple enough to do. Depending on your GPS type, you should be able to change it on there also. I was recently in Canada and changed my GPS to show Km instead of miles.

                  The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.

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