Introducing the Powerful New Geocaching Search

Eric Schudiske on March 11, 2015, 12:42 pm

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Find More Geocaches, Faster with the New Search

We’re excited to announce the launch of the new geocache search tool. It’s faster, easier to use and helps you find the exact adventure you want—and it’s all thanks to the geocaching community. We started the upgrade by asking geocachers what they wanted, then gave Geocaching Premium members a Sneak Peek at the new tool before launch.

Now the new search is ready for prime time. Take it for a spin by searching for Pi Day events and Mystery Caches near you so you can earn your Pi Day souvenirs on March 14.

Add more features like filters and sorting in the new search by upgrading to Geocaching Premium. Check out the new search now.

And speaking of new upgrades to Geocaching.com, check out the new Hide a Geocache page. It’s designed to be more helpful for new geocache hiders and streamlined for seasoned geocachers. See the new Hide a Geocache page.

Questions? Check out the New Geocache Search Tool FAQ.

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CraigsOutside

Where’s the ability to download the search results? Am I missing this somewhere?
http://blog.geocaching.com Eric Schudiske

Good question Craig – That’s on our radar. It’ll come out of the shoot in a future release. Until then this your best option for downloading search results: http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/gcquery.aspx – Here’s a quick link for some other common questions too: http://www.geocaching.com/blog/2015/03/faq-the-new-geocache-search-tool/ Let me know if anything else pops up. Happy to help. Thanks! Eric
CraigsOutside

I’ve been using pocket queries for a long time to get started in sorting data. The current PQ search works well for when we are caching by ourselves. However, when caching with others (which happens very often), I either need to manually search each and every cache for each and every log or download logs via GSAK and hope it gets them all before I can further sort them. There are other ways to run macros to sort out finds by others, but things do become tedious in the planning process. As it is, the “new” advanced search is little more than fluff, with limited access to the results. There certainly is potential for this to be an amazing feature once fully implemented. I for one, when I submitted my opinion on the advanced search, made the ability to download the results my number one point. I do hope the future release comes out of the chute soon, so that this advanced feature becomes truly functional. Just a few clicks to get exactly what I need for a geocaching adventure with friends would be amazing.
grunt

Give me back my old search engine was able to do so much more with it like cgcode search for just one cache , coordinates in and find caches in that area. was faster than using a query. and didn’t have to use up a download for an area i wasn’t sure i wanted to go to anyway. Give me back my search engine
Martin Pilnik

It’s impossible to find caches by name any more.
Liverpool_Sam

Any idea when this’ll be rolled out please? Surely it’s quite a fundamental function to have available even in the early days of a new layout as I would have thought the majority of people would be looking at mass downloading rather than one-by-one.

I’m soon going away around the UK for a month and really haven’t the time (or, frankly, the inclination) to manually download each .loc/.gpx for each cache for each city I’m going to be in. This would have been impossible when I was overseas and reliant upon local wireless strengths. The old search was great and I could highlight and download multiple listings in only a few clicks, saving a considerable amount of time. As a Premium Member I almost feel like I have had a service removed that I’m still paying for…

Regarding the suggestion of running Pocket Queries – I have a few running but don’t find them particularly easy to set up as you need to be pretty specific on some of the criteria.

Out of interest, is there going to be a way to save the filters you apply? Some types of cache I never look for and so it would be handy to be able to save a preference/similar so you didn’t have to do the ‘apply filters’ thing each time. Just a thought.

Cheers, Sam.
FAH-Troop

I have tried the new search tool and found it to be very hard to use when you want to check on previously downloaded caches to see if they are still active. the result is very bad. I’ve entered gc codes and only told what is near to the code but not that the code is achieved. Also the filters don’t filter or they filter too much because if I enter a cache name that I know is active I get a DNF! So here is another vote to get back to what worked and not make things more difficult!
Streetstock96

This is absolute garbage. Bring back the old search and leave things alone!!!!!!

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