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Wow, you’re from Amnicon Falls. Love that place.
Answer #1: Yes you can indirectly take your GC.com list and make it into a pocket query. And it’s not that complicated. What you have to do is put each of those corrected caches into a bookmark list. Then you can quickly and easily turn your bookmark list into a pocket query. To add caches to the bookmark list, you have to either A) Open each cache page and click on “bookmark” (that would take a long time if you’re adding a bunch and starting from scratch), or B) Enter the GC#’s on the Bookmark Page (as shown here).
When creating a bookmark list, you have to choose to make it public/shared or private/not shared. I have an ongoing list called “Solved but not yet found.” It’s private, so nobody else can see it. It’s good to get into the habit of maintaining such a list on an ongoing basis. Every time I solve one I immediately bookmark it to that list.
As for the GSAK database, it will automatically check the ones that have corrected coordinates when you REFRESH the database. Refreshing the database will give you the most recent logs for each cache, populate the favorites field with # of favorite votes, and show you which ones have corrected coordinates. To refresh the cache data, go to “Geocaching.com access,” then “refresh cache data,” then “all in current filter” as shown below. It may transfer your notes too, I’m not sure about that as I’ve never tried that. I don’t recall the Garmin GPSmap62s having a way to read notes but haven’t tried that either, although that’s the unit I often use. However, if GSAK does pull over the notes upon a refresh, you could print a GSAK list of the caches with the notes.
In that previous screen shot, I selected VIEW>ADD REMOVE COLUMNS to add the corrected coordinates column.
If you want to add a filter to your database so that only caches with corrected coordinates are shown, you could go to SEARCH>FILTER>OTHER and then select YES for corrected coordinates and uncheck NO. This way only the corrected caches will show up.
Using the GC .com method will show you all unfound caches that have corrected coordinates from all over the country. Using GSAK the way I mentioned will only filter what you already have in your database.
Here’s a partial screenshot of the geocaching search page:
Screenshot of searching with filters at geocaching .com
Here’s a screenshot of the corrected coordinates field on GSAK:
Corrected coordinates field in GSAK
