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Most Geocaching trips start from home. The coordinates for you home make a good starting point for your locations or centerpoints. GSAK uses the locations you enter to calculate distance and bearing of the caches currently displayed in your database.

Open the options menu (Tools,Options):
Choose the location tab so coordinates for a home center point can be entered. Enter Coordinates for your Home. You can enter the coordinates in any form. The location called Home has it's own button in the toolbar, so set this home point to the location you will work from most. You can also enter any other points that you might want to use as a reference point. These points will show up in the Locations box on the main screen. When one is picked, the caches will be reordered according to distance calculated from this point. Filtering can be done using these points.

Home Coordinates

Open the options menu (Tools,Options):

Tools , Options

Choose the location tab so coordinates for a home center point can be entered.

Choose Locations Tab

The format is:

Name , lattitude , longitude
Lattitude and longitude can be entered as either decimal degrees or degrees minutes.

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Locations will show up on the main screen in the Locations pulldown. location_pulldown (116K)

Note that any geocache point in the database can be used as the centerpoint also. This option is avalable from the center point menu and also from right clicking on the cache you would like to use.

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