To answer VentureForth's question about a free alternative, well, I was lucky enough to get a stable, running, free copy of MapPoint 2001 in the summer of 2000 at a programmers conference. Someday, I'll probably end up accidentally munching my data files, or hitting some kind of limit in MapPoint, and going to pocket queries. That's come in particularly useful when someone replaces an archived cache, making it really easy for me to tell where it was in relation to the original. I have tried the pocket queries, and got reports of caches I've found and caches I haven't, but that excludes caches that have been archived (something I like to be able to keep tabs on). To answer Markwell's 'why?', the main, honest reason is that I started this before pocket queries were available, and its the intertia keeping me there. "I'm sure she would have been thrilled to find so much pooh in a little metal box." (The red line through Seattle and the vertical black lines are remnants from a geo-hot potato game I was running.) Each mark is hyperlinked to the cache's page. Then, every time I find a cache, I change it's icon from a purple X (my default) to a green/white check mark. Those open easily in Excel 2002 (or with some work in Excel 2000), which can then be imported directly into the map as push pins. loc file for each 25 (since they come 25 to a page). About once a month, I manually go through the 'new caches in Washington' page, and create a. I used the map page when I first started out, but found it faster and easier to maintain my own map in MS MapPoint (I have 2001 beta, but I bet MapPoint 2000 could do it, and maybe even Streets & Trips).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |