GSAK – Wisconsin Geocaching Association

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11/11/2015 at 10:52 am #2044393
hack1of2
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While playing around with GSAK today I saw that 1,842 of the caches we’ve found since we started in 2010 are now archived, a little over 28%. Although that’s somewhat useless info, what is useful is that I also discovered that there are 32 puzzle caches we’ve solved that we haven’t looked for yet. Glad I played around with GSAK today. Looks like I’m going to find some mystery caches this afternoon!
11/11/2015 at 3:12 pm #2044396
sandlanders
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No GSAK for this Mac user, but the new search on GC can find all of the caches you have corrected coords on by applying the filters “I haven’t found”, “I don’t own”, and “Have corrected coords”. 68 for us, but some of those are from traveling that I didn’t get to do or ones that someone mentioned that I looked at and solved. We need to take yet another trip to the Hayward area, plus one or two to Madison.

And then more puzzles come up…
11/11/2015 at 3:50 pm #2044398
Trekkin and Birdin
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I have started saving corrected coordinates in the space on the cache pages, but I didn’t know I could do that. Thanks!
11/11/2015 at 6:02 pm #2044403
hack1of2
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sandlanders wrote:

No GSAK for this Mac user, but the new search on GC can find all of the caches you have corrected coords on by applying the filters “I haven’t found”, “I don’t own”, and “Have corrected coords”. 68 for us, but some of those are from traveling that I didn’t get to do or ones that someone mentioned that I looked at and solved. We need to take yet another trip to the Hayward area, plus one or two to Madison.

And then more puzzles come up…

Thanks Pat! Searching on gc dot com for unfound caches with “corrected coordinates” showed me a few more that I hadn’t caught, including a WalkingAdventure cache 287.2 miles away. Road trip!
11/12/2015 at 5:13 am #2044415
Walkingadventure
So we live about 130 miles apart now?…hmmm, time to guess your whereabouts. I should try this is see what I have overlooked over the years.

Following the signals from space.
11/12/2015 at 6:26 am #2044416
dmnrec
I’ve tried figuring out how to filter the corrected coordinate caches on GSAK, and have yet to do so… I also just looked on gc.com to do it, but I’m not seeing “Have corrected coordinates” for a selection…. is this choice suppose to be when you are creating a new query? Can someone walk me through how to do it with GSAK, or using just gc.com? (though I’m more familiar with GSAK).
11/12/2015 at 7:58 am #2044417
sandlanders
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This has nothing to do with queries but it uses the new search feature on http://www.geocaching.com

First, make sure you are logged in. The home page has green words at the top that say Learn Play Community Shop. Go to Play, click to get the drop down menu, and the first item is Find a Geocache. Click on that to get Search page, which says “Search the millions of geocaches worldwide.” Click the outlined box below that says “Add Filters.” When that shows up, way over to the right are options for many things with little circles to click. Click on the little circle that says “I haven’t found” and then click on “Has Corrected Coordinates.” You can also click on “I don’t own”, too, just in case you have used corrected coordinates on any of your own cache pages. Then go to the bottom left of the filter page and click on the Search box outlined in green. This should give you your results.

The results will be in a list, but the total number will be at the left above the list. You can also map the results (to the right above the list) to see where everything on your list is located.
11/12/2015 at 1:04 pm #2044424
hack1of2
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Here’s a partial screenshot of the geocaching search page:

Screenshot of searching with filters at geocaching .com

Here’s a screenshot of the corrected coordinates field on GSAK:

Corrected coordinates field in GSAK
11/12/2015 at 1:20 pm #2044425
hack1of2
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In that previous screen shot, I selected VIEW>ADD REMOVE COLUMNS to add the corrected coordinates column.

If you want to add a filter to your database so that only caches with corrected coordinates are shown, you could go to SEARCH>FILTER>OTHER and then select YES for corrected coordinates and uncheck NO. This way only the corrected caches will show up.

Using the GC .com method will show you all unfound caches that have corrected coordinates from all over the country. Using GSAK the way I mentioned will only filter what you already have in your database.
11/12/2015 at 3:34 pm #2044434
Walkingadventure
Thanks for the help with the new filter. I found 3 in Hawaii I forgot so I gotta go…

Following the signals from space.
11/12/2015 at 4:28 pm #2044442
sandlanders
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That’s where some of ours are, too! Road trip!
11/12/2015 at 4:48 pm #2044443
labrat_wr
So how do you bypass the distance filter on gc. Com

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11/12/2015 at 5:57 pm #2044445
sandlanders
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Use the old search or a PQ? 😉

Actually, you can just type in “Wisconsin” or some other region and add filters accordingly.
11/13/2015 at 7:25 am #2044458
dmnrec
Thanks hack1of2… using gc.com, I was able to bring up my list of corrected coordinates (more than I thought I had, lol) and I had already done what you suggested for GSAK.

A couple of questions… for gc.com method, is there a way to take those results to create a query so I could transfer it into GSAK as it’s own database?

Using GSAK for it, it seems like I have to go through the database myself and check off which caches have corrected coordinates… that information doesn’t transfer over from my gc.com query directly… is that correct? Along those same lines, is it possible to transfer over my personal notes for a cache in a gc.com query to GSAK, so they come up on my GPS when I’m out? I use a 62S.
11/13/2015 at 8:58 am #2044459
hack1of2
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Wow, you’re from Amnicon Falls. Love that place.

Answer #1: Yes you can indirectly take your GC.com list and make it into a pocket query. And it’s not that complicated. What you have to do is put each of those corrected caches into a bookmark list. Then you can quickly and easily turn your bookmark list into a pocket query. To add caches to the bookmark list, you have to either A) Open each cache page and click on “bookmark” (that would take a long time if you’re adding a bunch and starting from scratch), or B) Enter the GC#’s on the Bookmark Page (as shown here).

When creating a bookmark list, you have to choose to make it public/shared or private/not shared. I have an ongoing list called “Solved but not yet found.” It’s private, so nobody else can see it. It’s good to get into the habit of maintaining such a list on an ongoing basis. Every time I solve one I immediately bookmark it to that list.

As for the GSAK database, it will automatically check the ones that have corrected coordinates when you REFRESH the database. Refreshing the database will give you the most recent logs for each cache, populate the favorites field with # of favorite votes, and show you which ones have corrected coordinates. To refresh the cache data, go to “Geocaching.com access,” then “refresh cache data,” then “all in current filter” as shown below. It may transfer your notes too, I’m not sure about that as I’ve never tried that. I don’t recall the Garmin GPSmap62s having a way to read notes but haven’t tried that either, although that’s the unit I often use. However, if GSAK does pull over the notes upon a refresh, you could print a GSAK list of the caches with the notes.
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