Local Edmonton Caches — sample export from GeoToad

by Brad Grier on December 16, 2004

in In the life

Bril­liant Brat has devised another cool scheme to dis­play all the Caches within 50 miles of home base:

  1. set up GeoToad to build both, .html and .gpx files at a par­tic­u­lar fre­quency. This is accom­plished by call­ing GeoToad from a batch file with the nat­ive ms sched­uler in Win2k.
  2. I’ve actu­ally got two batch files, one for grabbing HTML, the other for GPX. I just add another line for each region (based on postal codes — also very cool) I want to update.
  3. also have the batch file copy the res­ult­ing files to my shared web­server space — enabling me to grab these files while away from the home computer.
  4. Load the res­ult­ing GPX file into GSAK. Then use GSAK to cre­ate a file for Map­source. GSAK is great at man­aging all those way­po­ints you col­lect over time.

This is almost like magic :-) Gotta love technology.

[UPDATE] I just found this AWESOME over­view of GeoToad.

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