GC.com Pocket Queries – when are they made?

[PCFrog]

Back ground info:
I have a PQ set for Mondays for the area around my house. I do this so if I decided and can go caching during the week I have an updated list. I went caching this past Sunday, (02/05/06) and logged 3 caches in around 5-6 pm. I received my PQ Monday at 2am yet the caches I did on Sunday are not marked as found in the PQ.

So why is this?

Anyone know the deep secrets of the PQ server?

[Team Deejay]

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Originally posted by pcfrog:
Back ground info:
I have a PQ set for Mondays for the area around my house. I do this so if I decided and can go caching during the week I have an updated list. I went caching this past Sunday, (02/05/06) and logged 3 caches in around 5-6 pm. I received my PQ Monday at 2am yet the caches I did on Sunday are not marked as found in the PQ.

So why is this?

Anyone know the deep secrets of the PQ server?

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The direct answer to your question is that PQs start running at 2AM CST in the order determined by when each was run last. So your weekly queries will run before everyones daily queries, but after the queries that have never run before. But I don’t think that is the issue.

If you have your PQ set up to retrieve caches that you haven’t found, and you load the PQ into GSAK (or any other management program), the caches that you have already found will NOT be in the pocket query, so they will NOT update in GSAK, and they will still show up as not found. This is because you told the PQ to give you information on caches that you haven’t found, and obviously the ones you just found are not in that set.

To remedy this, you have 3 choices:
1. Manually update GSAK with your finds. (right click the cache, select cache status, and set to found).
2. Change your pocket query to include caches you have already found. If you live in a cache dense area or have already found the 500 nearest caches, this won’t work so well, as you will not continue to expand your radius of available caches and eventually all you will get is the caches that you have already found.
3. Use the “Create a PQ of caches I have found” option on the PQ page and import this PQ into GSAK along with your regular pocket query.

I use option 1, but option 3 is the most elegant. Unfortunately it takes two steps. I just don’t find caches fast enough to need it. (Maybe I need a faster car….or faster boots….or faster teammate…)

[This message has been edited by Team Deejay (edited 02-06-2006).]

[Cheesehead Dave]

4. If there’s just a couple caches you’d like to update, you can go to those cache pages and click on the GPX download link which will give you a GPX file with a single cache which you can use to update GSAK or whatever you use. That’s fine for updating one or two but not dozens.

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