GSAK Macro’s

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

I am sitting around with not too much to do this morning and started to look at some macros from the macro library. I found a pretty good one called Cache Raid.

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=1447&st=0&#entry34487

It sorts out caches in a saved filter and will give you a list of caches by distance to the center point. I have never really used the macro’s a whole lot except for the ones that come with GSAK v.7. These are pretty useful tools.

Has anyone else found any that they think are quite useful? Maybe we can share them here along with any other GSAK tips and tricks.

[greyhounder]

I would like to hear more about this, and macro use in general. I’ve browsed the macros, but just don’t have a clue about what to do with them.

Great topic!

Bec

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

I am still playing with this one. But it looks interesting. I best go out and find some to see if I can make it work.

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=7946&st=0&#entry49345

[hogrod]

I use this macro to load my geocaches into my 60cx as custom POI’s instead of waypoints. you can have unlimited POI’s which are all stored on the data card instead of internal memory like waypoints. you also can have a much longer waypoint name and note with these than when using normal waypoints.
I still load my custom POIs with garmins custom POI loader software, but this macro separates everything for me into cache types, ect. which makes searching on the unit much nicer.

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?s=07a34ea248ff760c6c8c38d50021d0cb&showtopic=3172&st=0&#entry32637

[SammyClaws]

I use the filters to select a group of caches that we are going to hunt, then the Google Earth macro to plot them. I can then use Google Earth to decide where I might park, or paths to follow or even the best streets to get there. As good as City Navigator is there are times will bring you close but have you stopping in the middle of I-94 for the cache.

Today we hit 26 waypoints in Burlington that were very close together, I printed the Google Earth map and took that with us to help with the Navigation.

So far the only thing I am missing from GSAK is the cache attributes, and I have not looked at the GPX file to see if they are in there.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

I am still playing with this one. But it looks interesting. I best go out and find some to see if I can make it work.

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=7946&st=0&#entry49345

This one works pretty slick as a quick way to log your finds. Just takes checking the found caches in gsak before running the macro. I wonder if there is a way to sync gsak with cachemate to do this for me? Anyone?

[Jeremy]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

This one works pretty slick as a quick way to log your finds. Just takes checking the found caches in gsak before running the macro. I wonder if there is a way to sync gsak with cachemate to do this for me? Anyone?

Jim, yes you can import your Cachemate finds into GSAK. This is a great feature that I use all the time… just mark the caches found in Cachemate while you are out in the field and then sync up when you get home.

This help document describes the details about what has to be done to get this to work (hopefully you can avoid having to know about these details using the macro below). Basically the CM2GPX utility is used to generate a GPX file from the Palm database, which can then be loaded into GSAK:

http://gsak.net/help/hs40000.htm

I wrote a simple macro to automate this process many moons ago. It looks like someone else has come up with a better / more complete macro to handle the Cachemate -> GSAK import.

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=6874&st=0&#entry41246

[SammyClaws]

[/quote=”Team Hemisphere Dancer]This one works pretty slick as a quick way to log your finds. Just takes checking the found caches in gsak before running the macro. I wonder if there is a way to sync gsak with cachemate to do this for me? Anyone?[/quote]

Maybe its just my GPS, but on ours you can inidcate whether a cache is found or not. Then I retrieve the waypoints into GSAK and it updates them in the database. So we dont even have to use Cachemate.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Thanks I didn’t know either of those 2 tricks. I was always logging straight out of Cachemate. Now I will have to find more caches to try this out. At least its a nice day for that.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

@SammyClaws wrote:

[/quote=”Team Hemisphere Dancer]This one works pretty slick as a quick way to log your finds. Just takes checking the found caches in gsak before running the macro. I wonder if there is a way to sync gsak with cachemate to do this for me? Anyone?

Maybe its just my GPS, but on ours you can inidcate whether a cache is found or not. Then I retrieve the waypoints into GSAK and it updates them in the database. So we dont even have to use Cachemate.[/quote]

I tried this technique today but when I made the field notes GC>com didn’t recognize them. So I checked off in the database and moved on. Still a lot faster than the old way that I was doing. Now I have to get that Jeremy macro way to work. Looks Like I have to find more tomorrow.

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