GSAK to PQs?

[Team Honeybunnies]

Here’s one for our geocaching tech support guys. I’m filtering out a bunch of caches for our big fall trip in GSAK, and I want to take the results and run it back through as a PQ to get updated information, as we’ll be going a month and a half from now. Do I have to go through and manually make a bookmark list? Or is there a better way? I’m talking about a list of roughly 750. I originally used the caches on a route function, but I removed all the queries after loading them into GSAK because it was kludging up my PQ queue. I know, bad idea… Help?

[ThatGuy]

@Team Honeybunnies wrote:

Here’s one for our geocaching tech support guys. I’m filtering out a bunch of caches for our big fall trip in GSAK, and I want to take the results and run it back through as a PQ to get updated information, as we’ll be going a month and a half from now. Do I have to go through and manually make a bookmark list? Or is there a better way? I’m talking about a list of roughly 750. I originally used the caches on a route function, but I removed all the queries after loading them into GSAK because it was kludging up my PQ queue. I know, bad idea… Help?

I believe PQs have a 500 limit, so that alone would say no. I’m interested in an easier way of creating bookmark lists, though. That would be an interesting way to go about it.

Is the route too difficult to recreate? Do you still have the kml for it?

[Team Honeybunnies]

Yeah, my intention was to break it down to two PQs to fit the size restriction. I don’t have the kml any longer, and the route we picked actually strung together several bookmark routes all the way to the east coast. Basically I’m begging someone to save me from myself (no comments from the peanut gallery 🙄 😆 ). I’ll go through and bookmark, but I’m trying to be lazy AND learn something. Thanks!

[marc_54140]

😉 Very tempting ……………..

[Team Deejay]

If you want to generate a bookmark list from GSAK, there is a prewritten macro out there at

http://gsak.net/board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=8877

Unfortunately, this macro can only execute one line at a time, because it is necessary to hit a button on the GC.com website for each bookmark (the Save Bookmark button), so it is slow going. Add to this the fact that bookmark lists are limited to 200 entries (I think, this has changed recently) and you have not a very good solution.

My recommendation is to rebuild your KML and recreate the caches along a route PQ. In case you didn’t realize, you can specify a Lat/Long to Google Earth to create the route, not just a city. This allows you to create very specific routings. Note that you probably will need at least 2 PQs.

Once you have the PQs, if you only want to update the caches in the list, not bring in new ones, be sure to select Database Update Options | Existing Only in the Advanced options.

Sorry for the bad news. Next time, keep the KMLs. They are only relatively small text files.

[Cheesehead Dave]

A possible solution:

Create a new database in GSAK and copy all the caches you want to do to there. Hit F6 to set the user flags for all the caches.

Create whatever PQs you need to cover the area for all those caches.

Before your trip, run those PQs and import them into the database you created above. There will be a lot of extra caches there now, but since you set all the user flags for the ones you wanted above, you can use that as a criteria to filter away all the extras that you don’t want.

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