Routing

[rubeeslpr]

We are going on a road trip, and want to know if there is a way to enter our route and have the caches along the way indicated.

[Cathunter]

I think GSAK is the only program that does this well. You can make a line of two or more waypoints along your route and then set a distance from that line that you want all caches to be shown.

Another alternative is to download several pocket queries based off locations within the vicinity of your route.

How far you are going and what the cache density is along the different sections of your route will be a factor, as most GPS units only allow 500 wayoints to be stored. Having a laptop along with gpx files of all the area you may go is my preferred way.

[Cheesehead Dave]

The last trip I took out east, I created several Pocket Queries that covered the territory I would be travelling through. I then opened up all those queries in ExpertGPS. I went to the Topo view and traced the approximate route I would be following. I selected all the caches within a few miles of my route and deleted the rest. I then took the waypoints I had remaining and uploaded them to my GPSr.

Streets and Trips will also let you find points within a certain distance from your route, but there’s no GPSr upload ability. It’s useful if you have a laptop you can bring with you on your trip, however, as it does let you plug your GPSr into your laptop and it will always show your current position on the map.

[jthorson]

There was a recent post on the geocaching.com forum with pictures and steps that work for both Garmin Mapsource routes and Magellan Mapsend routes. This is the best description on how to do it I’ve seen. Requires GSAK.

I prefer the ‘second method’ as outlined in
the post.

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