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Hidden Geocaching.com feature(s)!

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Recently I was curious to see how many Geocaches were location within various radii of my home. Geocaching.com can readily shows you the number of caches within a certain radius of a zip code, but does not visibly have that feature to do the same for set of coordinates, such as from around your home.

If you look at the URL (address) generated by Geocaching.com for the Zip code search, you will notice that the last parameter is the distance from the Zip code. For example the number of GeoCaches within 10 miles of a zip code would have the code "&dist=5" at the end of the URL.

The good news is that you can "manually" append that same code to the end of the URL generated by a coordinate search, it will provide similar results.

Here is the URL for the GeoCaches around Lat 41, Lon -83:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?origin_lat=41.0&origin_long=-83.0

Here is the same URL for only those GeoCaches within 5 miles of Lat 41, Lon -83:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?origin_lat=41.0&origin_long=-83.0&dist=5


I'm sure there are plenty of other areas within Geocaching.com where you can perform similar non-supported features.

As I find them I'll post them somewhere.
Last edited by GizmoGuy411 on Wed 2005-07-27, 05:03:16, edited 1 time in total.
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