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All I have to say on this is that if anyone finds the following TB's offensive, feel free to do to them what BalkanSabranje does to the the one he's having problems with. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=82237 http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=78159 Yes, these are BalkanSabranje's TBs. I'm sure he'll understand that you've destroyed his TB's because you were offended by smurfs and Thomas Bernhard. BTW: Anyone that censors TB's is no better than the SS.

Here's some VB code I've found that will do the distance calc: ' ***************************************************************** Public Function Geo_Dist_Between(Long1, Lat1, Long2, Lat2, Units) ' V1.0 ' ' Compute the gedesic distance between two Earth surface ' coordinates to an accuracy of about ±50 meters. To get ' this degree of accuracy, this function takes into account ' the spheroidal flattening factor of the Earth rather than ' assuming that the Earth is a perfect sphere. ' ' The arguments (Lng1, Lat1, Lng2, Lat2, Units) are the longitudes ' and latitudes of the two locations expressed in degrees and the ' units to be used for the computed distance (km, mi, nmi). ' ' Where: km = Kilometers, mi = Miles, nmi=Nautical miles ' ' Positive longitude is west and negative is east. ' ' The default coordinates in the demo interface are for the ' U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. and the Paris ' Observatory in France (Observatorie de Paris). ' ===================================================== ' Function written by Jay Tanner - Based on the mathematical ' method of H. Andoyer. ' ' References: ' ' International Earth Rotation Service, ' Annual report for 1996 (Observatorie de Paris, 1997) ' ' Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes pour 1950 (Paris) pg.145 ' ' ===================================================== ' ' Constant to convert degrees into radians Const k As Double = 3.14159265358979 / 180 ' Flattening factor of the earth Const ff As Double = 1 / 298.257 ' Auxiliary working variables Dim C As Double Dim D As Double Dim F As Double Dim G As Double Dim H1 As Double Dim H2 As Double Dim L As Double Dim O As Double Dim R As Double Dim S As Double Dim W1 As Double Dim W2 As Double Dim SG As Double Dim CG As Double Dim SF As Double Dim CF As Double Dim SL As Double Dim CL As Double Dim U As String Dim UF As Double ' Read output units (km, mi or nmi) ' and set units factor for conversion. U = LCase(Trim(Units)) UF = 1 If U = "mi" Then UF = 1.609344 If U = "nmi" Then UF = 1.852 ' Compute auxiliary angles F = (Lat1 + Lat2) / 2 G = (Lat1 - Lat2) / 2 L = (Long1 - Long2) / 2 ' Compute sines and cosines of auxiliary angles SG = Sin(G * k) CG = Cos(G * k) SF = Sin(F * k) CF = Cos(F * k) SL = Sin(L * k) CL = Cos(L * k) W1 = SG * CL: W1 = W1 * W1 W2 = CF * SL: W2 = W2 * W2 S = W1 + W2 W1 = CG * CL: W1 = W1 * W1 W2 = SF * SL: W2 = W2 * W2 C = W1 + W2 O = Atn(Sqr(S / C)) R = Sqr(S * C) / O D = 2 * O * 6378.14 H1 = (3 * R - 1) / (2 * C) H2 = (3 * R + 1) / (2 * S) ' Compute the angle between the points on a ' synthetic sphere connecting the two points. W1 = SF * CG: W1 = W1 * W1 * H1 * ff + 1 W2 = CF * SG: W2 = W2 * W2 * H2 * ff ' Return the distance between the given locations in ' the units indicated by the units factor UF Geo_Dist_Between = D * (W1 - W2) / UF End Function '******************************************************** I've tested this by comparing the results of the cahce search on GC.com and the distance is within a tenth of a mile. Enjoy.

I would suggest making your cemetary cache a puzzle cache that uses information from various headstones that lead to the final cache, which would be outside the cemetary.

Thanks for all the info. One other thing I'm going to do is that I will be placing a cache in my yard for others to come get, but I will also use it as the starting cache of each "set" of caches I go to and the ending point for the same set. This will give me a more accurate tracking of milage.

Hi all. I've decided to make my truck a TB and place it in and then take it out of the caches I go to. I'd like to do this to all the past caches I've found, but I'm not sure on the best way to do this. I'm worried that cache owners won't like me posting notes that say "Just posting a note so that I can track my milage". Any suggestions?

Things that make me enjoy geocahing: 1) The thrill of finding that micro after being one second from giving up. 2) Finding that rare peice of swag that I really want, but others might find useless. 3) Seeing my brother on his butt while tring to get down a steep hill.

I use an AmbiCom's GPS Navigation Receiver CompactFlash Card in my iPaq 36xx with GPS software that I've written.

Feedback sent to the Public Affairs department as a complaint via their web site.

I think it would be better to ask people to not take more than one or two TB's from a hotel than to say "1 for 1 trade only". This way you can hope to avoid a geocacher taking all the TB's from the hotel, but allow them to take a few.

I'm going to buy a compact flash GPS for my iPaq so that I can go totally paperless.

I think that the desires of the TB owner override the desires of the cache owner. After all, the TB is the one with the goal and the cache is just a place to stop over for the TB.

Call me a super geek. I'm in the process of writting code for my PDA and compact flash GPS that will show me where I am and have the data from Geocahing.com caches so that I can be 100% paperless and only have to run one program.

Thanks SparrowHawk. I didn't even think of making a goal to get near airports. I was definately going to put a tag that told people what it wanted to do, but I wasn't sure if there were any caches in Japan. Maybe someone that knows someone going to the Auto Show will take it for me.

I'm thinking about making a travel bug with the goal of the TB making it to the Tokyo Auto Show. The show occurs once a year in October and I don't mind if it doesn't make it to the 2004 show. Does this sounds like it has a chance of actually happening?

My answer is fairly simple. I borrowed someone's GPS over the holiday to see if I would enjoy the game. I was able to get 17 finds durring my two weeks and until I either borrow the GPS again or buy one of my own, my numbers won't be getting any higer. But one of those two things will happen.

I'm the database administrator for the legislative branch of North Carolina.

Thanks for the picture, ChurchCampDave. Now when my friends tell me I'm a geek, I can always refer them to that picture. All I have is the 2 cup holder in the dash of my GMC Sierra. Phone is in one cup hole and the GPS goes in the other. Good thing there is another cup holder between the front seats or I would have to go thirsty.

The only other cacher's I've run into were a group of kids riding their scooters on a trail around a lake. The cache was off the trial and the kids had found it just two weeks earlier. The good thing was that the kids were also Geocachers and they didn't tell me where the cache was. I saw them as I was leaving the park and they asked me if I had found it. They seemed happy for me when I told them I did.

Killdozer Smurf I like that name.

I would wait until the cache was replaced, go back and refind the last part and then log it as found.

Hi all. I've got an iPAQ 3600 series PDA with the compact flash sleeve. I've been looking at various CF GPS's, but I can't seem to find one that allows the user to enter a Long. and Lat. as a point to go to. Does anyone know of any that allow this? Thanks.