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10/23/2005 This free utility does two things. It lists duplicate finds/entries, and it lists finds near any set of coordinates. |
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 Out of a total of 1430 finds for the cache Log a Lion these 12 are near Houston, Texas. The list shows how many miles the find is from your chosen coordinates |
 Out of 1430 finds for the cache Log a Lion, this list of 109 are duplicates. The list shows how many feet apart the coordinates are |
You must be connected to the internet while using this utility. You enter the URL for the Locationless Cache you want to analyze. Then, when you arrive at the screen shown above you choose which kind of analysis you want to do by clicking either the Find Nearby or the Find Duplicates button. Find Nearby will ask you for the coordinates you want to check, then it will list the existing finds/logs near those coordinates. Find Duplicates will locate duplicate log-entries -- logs where two people have claimed the same find. At the end of the Duplicates listing it will list logs that either don't give coordinates for the find, or that give coordinates the program cannot decipher. If the cache has a lot of logs it can take a minute or so to run (even longer on an older computer) . Once it's complete you can Double-Click on any item in the list, and go to its associated web log. REMEMBER THIS!! you will find it very helpful, and many people never realize you can do this. It will also take you to a map showing the location of the coordinates for the find/entry. To map the coordinates, highlight the entry you want to map then look in the Stuff Menu or Right Click on the list. In the Preferences Menu you can set your Home coordinates. You can also change both the distance used for duplicate matching and the distance for determining which finds are nearby. It remembers your Home coordinates and your latest working coordinates and your custom distances
Click Here if you want to be notified of updates. Caution: Duplicate matching is based on
coordinates that are less than 500 feet apart. Two different qualifying items
within 500 feet will cause a match even though they aren't duplicates.
In the example above it's common to have a pair of lion statues, one on
each side of an entryway or monument. Each is a different lion, yet
they're only a few feet apart.
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