NZ MEGA 2012 Presentation - GSAK 2 - Intermediate I

GSAK Presentation.This presentation of GSAK is intended to help you make a start with using this extremely useful database manipulation tool.There is way too much to learn, or teach, in the limited amount of time we have. With this in mind I have prepared some Power Point Presentations. These aids I have loaded as links into a document in my Drop Box . There are other useful links as well and they are appended to that document.One of the difficulties with teaching, or advising, how to use GSAK is the fact that it is very dynamic. As we speak Clyde will be tweaking the current version, Lignumaqua will be busy on some macro(s) or helping someone on the GSAK Forum. Kai Team will also be seeking to give helpful advice on all or any aspects of GSAK. This difficulty is also a blessing as the tweaking is constant improvement and the advice extremely helpful. By far the best way to keep up-to-date is regularly read what’s happening on the Forum. http://gsak.net/board/The Power Point Presentations cover:Sorting DBs for cachesMacros andUsing the Geocaching.com API in GSAK.My intention with these Presentations is help you to find the information you need to further develop your GSAK skills.I will make these PPPs available in my Dropbox. Please email me if you would like to get the addresses

onslowfisherman@gmail.com

GSAK Intermediate Presentation

This is where you start. Left click on “Search”

Left click on “Search” will bring up this Dropdown Menu

The options page.I suggest that you explore each of them to see what can be done. This is showing “General”

The “Dates” options

Some very useful options

Search on Logs Options

Arc Line & Polygon Shape Generation

Arc, Polygon Generation

Polygon Setup

CSV Text Copied

The Results

The Results Mapped.

Filtering on Child Waypoints

Filtering on Attributes, All or Any

“Where” Filtering

“Where” Filtering

A “Saved” Filter

My Saved Filters to Run Against Default DB. Note that ALL of these are run against a GSAK database

Filter Saved West Coast

The results of using the saved filter “West Coast”. Run against Default DB 448

Mapped using myGM3

And this shows “Display”.I like to have my displays well loaded.

Geocaches loaded into BaseCampFile->Export->

Part of the “Westward Ho” transferred as GPX to BaseCamp using the above.

Application Programming Interface

The End, for now !

Where to from here?Next we will be having a look at Macros

and, time permitting, The API –>

Application Programming Interface

with Geocaching.com

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