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Canada Caching

Post by Hoojar » 30 April 13 12:02 pm

Does anybody know if any other website supplies the 'Cache Hidden Ranges' like this site does? I am trying to prepare a database for a trip to Canada soon. All help appreciated.

Thanks!

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Re: Canada Caching

Post by mtrax » 30 April 13 12:26 pm

As you might have seen there is ALOT of caches there, surely it would be better scale down your PQ to along route or what I did pregenerate a whole bunch of GPX files for different areas then copy to GPS the previous day.

This would need some device to copy or edit your GPS files, I had a Android phone which I could copy my next days GPX file to my Dakota or with wifi create on the the fly.

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Re: Canada Caching

Post by Hoojar » 30 April 13 2:54 pm

I was hoping to 'easily' download all of the caches into a GSAK database, and then be able to transfer them to my unit as necessary.

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Re: Canada Caching

Post by LouiseAnn » 30 April 13 3:17 pm

you know there are over 100,000 caches in Canada right?
http://project-gc.com/CacheStats/topnum ... ton=Filter

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Re: Canada Caching

Post by Hoojar » 30 April 13 6:30 pm

LouiseAnn wrote:you know there are over 100,000 caches in Canada right?
Only 31,000 in British Columbia though http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=64

That's less than a week's worth of pocket queries!

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Re: Canada Caching

Post by maccamob » 30 April 13 8:06 pm

Hoojar wrote:
LouiseAnn wrote:you know there are over 100,000 caches in Canada right?
Only 31,000 in British Columbia though http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=64

That's less than a week's worth of pocket queries!
If you know where you are going to be, you can use GSAK's "Geocaching.com access/Get geocaches..." feature, centred on each of those places and out to 50km. Premium members are allowed 6,000 caches per day this way. Effectively instant PQs!

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Re: Canada Caching

Post by Hoojar » 01 May 13 11:59 am

maccamob wrote:
Hoojar wrote:
LouiseAnn wrote:you know there are over 100,000 caches in Canada right?
Only 31,000 in British Columbia though http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=64

That's less than a week's worth of pocket queries!
If you know where you are going to be, you can use GSAK's "Geocaching.com access/Get geocaches..." feature, centred on each of those places and out to 50km. Premium members are allowed 6,000 caches per day this way. Effectively instant PQs!
Perfect thank you!

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