GSAK Tip - Elevation

I received a question about my Geocaching stats and the elevation information that was listed. In the past I had used the macro GetElevationUSA to pull in the elevation data but recently came across a note that it had been integrated into GSAK itself. As of 8.2.1.40 there is a native elevation lookup under the Database option in the menu. It is towards the bottom of the list and is named "Update Elevation..." it will then prompt you if you want to only check caches without elevation information or all caches in the current filter. It can take a bit of time if this is the first time you are running it, are working off a slow internet connection or if there are many caches in the filter so just hang in there. After you have populated your database it won't take so long after that. To take a look at what clyde has put into this feature go over to the gsak forum tracking this feature http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=23659&st=0&#entry175757 where there is an explanation of how it all works and the way that it stages the information and uses crowd sourcing is pretty cool. Once you have your elevation populated in your database it will be used in the BadgeGen macro as well as the FindStatGen macro. You will have to turn on the report for FindStatGen for it to show. Just click the option button after starting up the macro then click the elevation button on the right side check the boxes and off you go. I hope this tip helps you get a little more out of GSAK.