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    Not a geocacher, joined to find something out

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    The opening post lacks the expected space after commas and full stops in several places. That particular grammar quirk is not present in ashnikes' contributions, so I don't think he's the OP. It must be GeoBain playing a high stakes game of call-my-bluff with himself :anibad:

     

    ( Obligatory on-topic comment: I agree that Needs Archived is the correct response, but I'd probably follow it up with a gentle email to the CO. )

    No Stickers, Labels, or Stamps allowed.

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Most of this verbiage asserting cut-and-dried interpretations of the Guidelines is just silly. They are written in English, for heaven's sake, not formal logic: they will always be ambiguous.

     

    It's more interesting to discuss what you would do in certain situations, not what loopholes in the Guidelines some hypothetical JoeCacher might be able to exploit. I assume that in KBLAST's example we all agree that things worked out okay? Good. Next!

    The geocacing.com maps are wrong!?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    tom tom may tell the coordinates to you in decimal degrees, while you may enter them as degrees + decimal minutes on the website. or something like that.
    I was once FTF thanks to a mistake like that. The published coordinates put the cache on private land. I guessed there was a DMS/DD type error, converted back, and hey presto! Now there's an idea for a puzzle cache ... :yikes:

    Micros the scurge of geocaching and maybe the end?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by I!

    I assess Mushtang's post #199 as having an angst score of 17.

    from sys import stdin
from re import split

u,score = 1,0
for line in stdin:
for word in split('[^A-Za-z]+',line.lower()):
	v = 0
	if word in set(['i','me','my']) : v = 1
	if word in set(['you','your'])  : v = -1
	if v*u == -1: score,u = score+1,v

print 'Angst score =',score

    Must resist the urge to auto-score everyone's posts for the past 24h and plot high scores ... :laughing:

    In a spin

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Rotate the locations counterclockwise until the bottom one hits a trail?

    That's the right sort of idea, but keep going until it hits which trail? I reckon there are about ten rotations that place that bottom icon on a trail, plus another five or so that place it on a road, and then of course there's the possibility that that particular cache isn't on a trail at all!

     

    Basically you need to find a rotation that puts all six caches simultaneously in reasonable-looking places. Printing out two copies of the map and joining them with a drawing pin (or, as I did, by stabbing a pencil through them) at the fixed point might prove helpful ...

    In a spin

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Not sure I follow it, but I might have to one day since you are a near neighbour I think.

    Dont give too much away as I am watching ;-).

    Not near enough that you've visited any of my caches yet! :) No matter. I checked out a segment of a possible "in a spin" series this evening; it's looking promising. If no-one else places anything in the area before Christmas, I'll set something up for the New Year.

     

    I don't see an image....
    Our hircine friend appears to be confused. :unsure: Okay there, Jason?

    In a spin

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Here's an example. When rotated by the correct amount around the yellow puzzle cache icon (the "fixed point"), the six normal (white) puzzle cache icons will be positioned over the physical cache locations. Can you work out where they should be?

     

    Apologies for the size of the image.

     

    quarksrotated.png

    In a spin

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    How about this ...

    • Each cache in the circuit is a puzzle cache.
       
    • Most (at least) of the caches are chosen to be on paths or otherwise positioned so that if you were a bit unsure of the coordinates you could look at the map and say "oh, that must be right". The "additional hints" section of the web page may prove useful ...
       
    • Each cache contains the (true) coordinates of the previous and next in the series.
       
    • The web page advises that the posted coordinates are the result of rotating the real coordinates by some fixed (but secret) angle around some fixed (and published) point! :unsure:

    To solve it, a good solution would be to print two copies of the map, punch holes in one of the maps at the posted coordinates, join the maps with a drawing pin, and rotate the holey map above the intact map until the locations viewed through the holes look natural, i.e. "must be right". Then you pick one of the locations which (possibly with the hint) looks easiest to search without dead-accurate GPS coordinates, go there, find the cache, get the dead-accurate coordinates for the next, and proceed around the rest of the series in the normal manner.

     

    Would it work, or just annoy everyone?

    Caches containing Ammo

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    The "cache every 528 feet just because" portion of the rules were taken out not that long ago to make way for power trails. The guidelines don't say anything about this now.

    Yes they do ...

    Cache Saturation

    Cache containers and physical stages should generally be separated by a minimum of 0.1 miles (528 feet or 161 m).

    I used this guideline recently to discover a cache before it was published for a CITO event on a cache-saturated hill :laughing:

    Best Caches on Earth

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks a lot all, and I look forward to hearing about some spectacular spots of the world! :)

    Glancing at your web site, you seem to be doing pretty well already in terms of visiting big iconic places. All looks a bit frenetic to me. Maybe you should consider a day or two at a slower pace on one of the UK's long distance paths, like these for example ...

    There are bound to be some caches along the route.

    Premium Member Only Caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    What is said/implied/etc from the quoted statement is that it is just as likely to be muggled.

    Claimed in your opening sentences, yes. But proved? - no - or at least not that I could tell from your hard-to-parse

    There have been an equal number of cache stories where the cacher has been either identified or there were strong suspicions in my part of the country where the cacher was a PM.

    Premium Member Only Caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    3. PMO caches do not get muggled as often. This simply is not true. There have been an equal number of cache stories where the cacher has been either identified or there were strong suspicions in my part of the country where the cacher was a PM. It seems that way in at least most metro areas. Of course the suspicions are based on either a argument or the audit logs.

    Hang on. You're saying that the 'pirate' community consists equally of private- and ordinary- member offenders? Well then, all other things being equal I would expect a PMO cache to be half as likely to be disrupted as an ordinary cache, as only half of 'pirates' can see it.

    Premium Member Only Caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I liked making my most recent caches PMO for a time to reward those cachers who are minded to give something back. Coincidentally or not, the comments and swag quality remained high for a while. I gave it a few weeks before making the caches public - it is, after all, all about the numbers.

    A new idea?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    What I like to do is leave one of my pathtags ...
    Ugh, pathtags, what a faff. They have their own website don't they? I was too impatient to log on elsewhere for the find (not one of yours, but a pathtag nonetheless). Did I miss much?
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