Searching by County

[randynmel]

Is there a way to search for caches by county? We are going to Door County later this month. I’ve tried several different approaches and either get too much (like Michigan and west side of Green Bay, or when I try a route, I can’t get the whole width of the county. It would be a heckuvalot easier to just search by county.

[RSplash40]

Not on gc.com that I know of, I think you have 2 options:

1. If you aren’t using it, pull down gsak. I know you can assign a county with a macro. I did it once but to be honest, I’m not sure how. Then do enough pq’s to cover the area.

2. Using the route – make a odd ball route, you have 500 miles to use, go up one side, down the other and then some zig-zag’s in between. Do multiple routes if needed.

–mike

[randynmel]

Thanks Mike. I DO use gsak, and hadn’t thought about that. I’ll give that a try.

[Ray]

Use a PQ specify the center at zip 49635 [Frankfort, MI]; distance 70 miles; Wisconsin caches only. Load it into GSAK and manually lop off all caches with Lat less than 44 40.000. That will leave DC only.

[marc_54140]

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Use a PQ specify the center at zip 49635 [Frankfort, MI]; distance 70 miles; Wisconsin caches only. Load it into GSAK and manually lop off all caches with Lat less than 44 40.000. That will leave DC only.

How clever, for an old retired fart …….. 8)

[Ray]

@marc_54140 wrote:

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Use a PQ specify the center at zip 49635 [Frankfort, MI]; distance 70 miles; Wisconsin caches only. Load it into GSAK and manually lop off all caches with Lat less than 44 40.000. That will leave DC only.

How clever, for an old retired fart …….. 8)

I have my moments!

[marc_54140]

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Use a PQ specify the center at zip 49635 [Frankfort, MI]; distance 70 miles; Wisconsin caches only. Load it into GSAK and manually lop off all caches with Lat less than 44 40.000. That will leave DC only.

How clever, for an old retired fart …….. 8)

I have my moments!

It’s quite a moment! Would never have dawned on me to do it that way.

I like to scroll along the GC maps, and bookmark caches.

[Ray]

@marc_54140 wrote:

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Use a PQ specify the center at zip 49635 [Frankfort, MI]; distance 70 miles; Wisconsin caches only. Load it into GSAK and manually lop off all caches with Lat less than 44 40.000. That will leave DC only.

How clever, for an old retired fart …….. 8)

I have my moments!

It’s quite a moment! Would never have dawned on me to do it that way.

I like to scroll along the GC maps, and bookmark caches.

Maybe I have saved you a minute or two.

[randynmel]

Thanks Trudy and Beast. I’ll give it a try.

[Zemmy]

The newest versions of GSAK label the counties automatically. Just add the county column and you are set.

[marc_54140]

@Zemmy wrote:

The newest versions of GSAK label the counties automatically. Just add the county column and you are set.

Hmmm. I tried that, but the column is blank. Wonder if you have to download a new PQ for it to work, or if it’s a manual field.

[bugsmasher69]

@marc_54140 wrote:

@Zemmy wrote:

The newest versions of GSAK label the counties automatically. Just add the county column and you are set.

Hmmm. I tried that, but the column is blank. Wonder if you have to download a new PQ for it to work, or if it’s a manual field.

If I remember right it said in the review of the updates that he just added a column with the name “counties” but you still had to run the counties macro to get them into the county column.

The counties macro takes a lttile bit of work to get set up. Make sure you read all of the forum at gsak about it before using it so you have all the required downloads for it and where to put them all before you run the counties macro.

[Team Deejay]

I tried to stay out of this, but that counties macro is very old. It still works, but has a lot of unnecessary overhead. To add the counties to the County column, create a text file with one line that reads:

$updated = GetCounty("y")

Save it with the name “counties.gsk”. Now go to GSAK and run it from the main menu (Macro | Run/Manage). Presto, your counties are filled. And you just wrote your first GSAK macro! When I last checked, this macro requires that the state and country field be filled (they will be if you use pocket queries), and only work for the following countries: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, USA, UK. Any other countries, you are on your own (actually I can help you, but it won’t be easy.)

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