MnGCA

Pear Head · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject:

Good point RT. I guess I'm not changing things after all.
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Hmm...

GeoPierce · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject:

Paklid · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

I don't understand a lot of what the techies write in here. I suspect that others are in the same boat. I have been able to make pocket queries work well for me though. For those of you newish to the game that haven't tried pocket queries (I believe you need to be a premium member with geocaching.com), it's pretty cool to have all the caches organized with something like GSAK (geocaching swiss army knife). You can get a whole bunch of caches loaded into your computer for vacations or like many of us, to keep tabs on every active cache in the state of Minnesota. Once they're in GSAK, it's real easy to filter as you desire and download whatever you want into your GPSr and PDA (for descriptions). Anyway, I now need 12 pocket queries to pull all active Minnesota caches (we have a limit of 500 for each query). I've named them Minnesota One, Minnesota Two, etc.

Here's the way I set up Minnesota One:

The dates I used for the twelve queries are shown below:

I included a plot of number of active caches versus the number of days to accumulate that many caches. It's a snapshot of this week. There have been many more caches active at one point or another over the last seven years in Minnesota, but right now we're closing in on 6000 active caches at the same time. We're also just 17 days away from the 2500th day since Alvin's Phone Line (Minnesota's first cache) got published.

If you look at the plot, you'll probably notice that it's some sort of exponential. I was about to curve fit it and see what the equation was, but then I readjusted my plastic pocket protector and retaped my glasses and decided to let it go. I'm pretty sure that my mere mentioning it will force someone out there to find the equation. What the plot shows me is that we need more Surfer Joes. I do remember Mountain Man needing to approve caches a couple times a week. Doesn't Joe average more than one approval session a DAY?
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Pear Head · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

Paklid · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject:

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Well, rickrich's scripts say 8 queries but it doesn't equate out to 5900+ caches?

Pear Head · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject:

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

I upgraded the script geo-pqs uses (geo-newest) and I'm rerunning it. We'll see how that works out.
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Sad state of affairs.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Guess I needed to upgrade Wink

Grey Wolf and Wild Rice · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:06 am Post subject:

Paklid · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:30 am Post subject:

I just use GSAK to filter based on the date of the last GPX update. Since only active caches get pulled, the inactive and archived ones drop off the filtered list. I have to keep updating the filter date (after each new set of queries get uploaded to GSAK), but that takes a couple seconds to do.
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Surfer Joe · Minnesota Reviewer Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 199

Paklid · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:

No that's not it at all. The trend makes it look like soon Surfer Joe will be doing nothing but sitting in front of the computer processing new listings by the handful.

The only way Surfer Joe could be faster is if he used ESP and approved caches before they get submitted.
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