Pocket Queries

[benny7210]

I ran across this tip at http://www.markwell.us/pq.htm#tips

Tips and Tricks

* Geocaching.com makes it so that you can “share” criteria of Pocket Queries without sharing the results. For example, here’s the setup for the hypothetical query we just created above. Right now it only returns two caches for me. If you “submit” this query, it will become one of your saved ones. Pretty cool way to share setup.

O.K. What am I missing here???
How does this work ?? Can anyone help me out ??

[Jeremy]

Bob, what it is saying is that if you wanted someone to create a Pocket Query identical to one of yours, you could just give them the link to one of yours. The link to the query would be of the form:

http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/gcquery.aspx?guid=xxxxx

Where xxxxx is the identifier of your Pocket Query. You can figure out the links for your Pocket Queries by clicking on the name of the query in the My Pocket Query page and then looking at the contents of the address bar in your browser.

When another person goes to this link/address, they will get the Pocket Query setup page with all the same criteria (number of caches, center location, types of caches) that you originally selected. When they hit “Submit information”, they will create a new duplicate Pocket Query of their own.

Kind of a nifty “feature” that I didn’t know about. Of course you could also send them the GPX (Pocket Query results) file, but that is probably technically in violation of the terms of use of the site…

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Jeremy wrote:

Bob, what it is saying is that if you wanted someone to create a Pocket Query identical to one of yours, you could just give them the link to one of yours. The link to the query would be of the form:

http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/gcquery.aspx?guid=xxxxx

Where xxxxx is the identifier of your Pocket Query. You can figure out the links for your Pocket Queries by clicking on the name of the query in the My Pocket Query page and then looking at the contents of the address bar in your browser.

When another person goes to this link/address, they will get the Pocket Query setup page with all the same criteria (number of caches, center location, types of caches) that you originally selected. When they hit “Submit information”, they will create a new duplicate Pocket Query of their own.

Kind of a nifty “feature” that I didn’t know about. Of course you could also send them the GPX (Pocket Query results) file, but that is definitely in violation of the terms of use of the site…

Fixed.

[benny7210]

Jeremy thanks for the fast reply and the help. It works fine for sharing the same criteria with a fellow cacher… Bob

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