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I use the following frequently:
Findstats3
GoogleEarthCircles - this one plots out from your filter the 161m radius around existing caches so you can see how close you are.

I use other ones, but those are the two I use the most.

[Sky King 36]

Here's my faves and what they do...

Generating Stats:

FindGenStat3 : the tool that generates my profile on gc.com
GenUploadStats: Runs the genstats macro above and uploads to my GC profile
PSGPlugin_PinboardMap : FSG Plugins add optional features and maps to FindGenStat above

Loading GPS Receivers:

GarminCsvPoiExport-v2 : the macro that I use to load my Garmin 60csx - Don't run this much any more since I started using NeonGeo on my android so much.
GPX_by_Cache_Type : The jjreds macro that I use to load my Nuvi

Working with caches in GSAK:

Review_For_Archive_API : A macro that helps automate the process of identifying, and then moving or deleting archived caches from GSAK. Requires Version 8.
Google_Map_V3 : Generates a google map of the selected caches
HTML_Google Maps Nearest : Not a macro you "run", but rather, adds a new kind of split screen map view in GSAK


The usefulness of a lot of these depends on how you use GSAK. Some just load several PQs into GSAK, create one big export to their GPS, and then they're done with that data... the next time, they delete all the data, load the new PQs in, and repeat. This is the transient data model. I use the persistent data model. Cache data from the twin cities flows into, and then stays, in my GSAK database.

I have one big data base of about 12,000 caches that get updated by a weekly series of PQs. I use this to load my GPSes maybe once a week. I keep all my finds and notes in GSAK. I will use the corrected coords function when I solve puzzles. My finds stay in this data base, and, my hides are in it too. Periodically then I check for archived caches and move those entries to a second database called "archived".

Now, with the API and the advent of NeonGeo, I may gradually stop running PQs the way I do and rely more heavily on the API.

[Aix sponsa]

The three macros I use the most are BadgeGen.gsk, FindStatGen3.gsk, and garmin-nuvi-exportgpx.gsk. The latter is the one that is the most useful to me and the one I am most concerned about losing with GSAK 8. It loads the caches into my Garmin Nuvi so that I'm not so prone to watch my handheld GPSr while driving. Now I wouldn't do that, would I?
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost

[Sky King 36]

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