These steps will help you receive a Query that will offer the most results for your chosen location. The filters are provided to refine searches as needed for different cache types, containers, attributes, etc.
- Visit geocaching.com and log in.
- Click on “My Account” in the left site navigation. Or, you can click on your username on the top-right corner of the page.
- From “Member Features” section near the top of this page, click on “Pocket Query Generator."
- Click on “Create a new Query.”
- Enter a name for the Query so it is easy to identify later. e.g. "Targets for our July vacation" or "All Multi-Caches with Travel Bugs Near Home."
- Choose which day of the week you’d like to receive the Query. You will not receive an email with the results if a day of the week is not selected. *
- Select how you’d often you’d like the Query to run.**
- Enter the number of caches you’d like receive, up to 500.
- Keep “Any Type” selected to ensure you get all geocache listings. Or click some options to filter the results.
- Keep “Any Container” selected to ensure you get all geocache listings. Or click some options to filter the results.
- Under “That,” select “Is Active” and leave all other boxes unchecked.
- In order to receive all listings, keep the Difficulty and Terrain rating unchecked.
- Scroll down to “Origin” and select the option that will offer the best center point to the location you’d like to search. If you know the coordinates to the centerpoint, this option will be the most accurate.
- Enter the radius of the area where you’d like to search.
- Leaving the “Placed During” options unchecked will offer the most results.
- Leaving the attributes unchecked will offer the most results.
- Under “In the format,” you’ll have the choice of either the GPX or the LOC results. GPX results will offer more information on the cache listing including hints and logs. If you’d prefer to receive only the coordinates to the cache location, select TopoGrafix LOC Format from the drop-down menu.
- You’re all set! Click “submit information.”
After you hit “submit information,” a link will appear at the top of the page allowing you to “preview the search.” Clicking on this link will show you all the cache listings that you’ll receive later by email in either GPX or LOC format.
* With step #6, only select the day of the week for the query to run once you see that you’ve created a properly formatted query that provides your desired results. You can only run up to 5 queries per day (by checking the day of the week), but you can test/preview the query as many times as you’d like. In other words, the online previews do not count against your daily total.
** Step #7 will offer you the chance to receive weekly emails with updated results to help keep you informed of new cache listings in this area. Clicking on the option to “Uncheck the day of the week after the query runs” will save the Query you’ve just built. You can choose to run it again the next time you want an updated list. This is handy when you’d prefer not to receive fresh Pocket Query results every week.
