jeremyp

Could you post a piccy of the antenna? I'd like to see how big it is. Also, does the GPSr show the position of the antenna or the GPSr? If it's the antenna, it'd be good for in cars and houses but not so good for locating caches in trees unless it's a) better at picking up the signal than the poxy Vista patch antenna and portable enough to carry around. If it shows the antenna position just think of the applications. You could place a few near your caches and have hours of fun while geocachers get confused about where they are. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Could you post a piccy of the antenna? I'd like to see how big it is. Also, does the GPSr show the position of the antenna or the GPSr? If it's the antenna, it'd be good for in cars and houses but not so good for locating caches in trees unless it's a) better at picking up the signal than the poxy Vista patch antenna and portable enough to carry around. If it shows the antenna position just think of the applications. You could place a few near your caches and have hours of fun while geocachers get confused about where they are. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

That sounds like a brilliant idea. I think the rule you should consider would be that any cache you move it to has to be on the first page of the "nearby" caches list. There's 25 per page. Last Sunday I did a cache (Another Good View) which had an object in it which would be most suitable as the "football". As for teams: how about drawing a horizontal line across the country - the teams would be "Southern Ponces" and "Northern B**t**ds". It was a joke! a joke!!! aaaarrggggh (thud). Well actually that wouldn't work, the "football" would just hover about the middle of the country. The teams would have to be distributed evenly around the country. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching [This message was edited by jeremyp on July 26, 2002 at 01:57 AM.]

The other variation on the theme is the Confluence Project where you have to visit the intersection of lines of lat and long which are whole numbers of degrees. Unfortunately, I checked their web site and all the UK ones have been done except three which are all in the sea or lakes. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Pid:Jeremy please do the article, it will be great. And I would love you very much if at some point of the interview mention Dan and Pid....Or even mention the Intergalactic Microcache, which you loved so much. How could i fail to mention the cache team that only believes in walking in a straight line no matter what fences, private land, golf courses, homicidal maniacs etc might be in the way? Intergalactic Microcache is an interesting one because IIRC I was complaining bitterly to myself the whole way there because I had to *walk* so far to get to it. In fact I'm one of those cachers for whom part of the challenge is to get the car as close as possible to the cache and thus avoid walking. Country Walking magazine should be interested in that... ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Pid:Jeremy please do the article, it will be great. And I would love you very much if at some point of the interview mention Dan and Pid....Or even mention the Intergalactic Microcache, which you loved so much. How could i fail to mention the cache team that only believes in walking in a straight line no matter what fences, private land, golf courses, homicidal maniacs etc might be in the way? Intergalactic Microcache is an interesting one because IIRC I was complaining bitterly to myself the whole way there because I had to *walk* so far to get to it. In fact I'm one of those cachers for whom part of the challenge is to get the car as close as possible to the cache and thus avoid walking. Country Walking magazine should be interested in that... ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Anybody heard of it? I received the following message today: From: Perry Cleveland-Peck Date: Tue Jul 23, 2002 09:46:26 am Europe/London To: "'webmaster@jeremyp.net'" Subject: Country Walking magazine Dear Jeremy, Country Walking magazine is currently researching a feature looking at geocaching. I have seen your web page and your achievements on geocaching.com and am keen to have a chat with you. I must admit I know little about the geocaching subject bad hope you can enlighten me. Yours sincerely, Belinda Yallop I think she must have done the google search at about the same time as i got my 100th otherwise I don't understand why she contacted me in particular. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching [This message was edited by jeremyp on July 25, 2002 at 02:36 AM.]

If you were going to do it and actually put a cache there I'd like it to be prominently stated on the cache page so that I know not to expect a great location if I choose to look for it. If the planter logs it as a find, how do you know they completely followed the instructions - how many sets of coordinates were discarded before using the "random" one that points to a convenient piece of woodland? ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by el10t:Additionally, you might find that racing across the country in an attempt to get as many caches under your belt as possible within a short time frame invalidates your car insurance. Just another point of view. Hmm, yes any type of competition that rewards driving your car at unsafe speeds is probably a very bad idea. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

You could solve the distribution problem by weighting the score each cache gives you based on some function of its average distance from all the other caches. So maybe doing 10 caches clustered in Hertfordshire would score the same as doing the one cache that was placed in Norfolk. Also, you could have each participant automatically score for their own cache. This does two things: first it handicaps the participants in densely clustered areas. i.e. the guy on the Northern tip of Scotland who has to drive nine hours to get to any other caches gets a head start (unless he decides to place his cache in Hertfordshire). Also it gives an incentive to the Herts cachers not to place their caches together in a cluster as they get extra points for placing their cache away from the centre. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

If you type the coordinates in by hand you'll need to have the datum set right, but the PC serial communication protocol uses WGS84 exclusively. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

If you were on a bridleway you had every right to be there. I don't think you have to be on a horse. The difference between a footpath and bridleway is that horses (and bicycles) are allowed on bridleways as well as people on foot (IANAL). Even if you were trespassing and they had shot you, rest assured it would still have been illegal for them to do so. You'd die with the satisfaction that they probably would be going to prison This sort of thing is one reason why I don't cache at night. The problem is even worse in the US. There have been threads on the general forums about cachers accidentally coming across illegal stills and drug making plants. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

If you were on a bridleway you had every right to be there. I don't think you have to be on a horse. The difference between a footpath and bridleway is that horses (and bicycles) are allowed on bridleways as well as people on foot (IANAL). Even if you were trespassing and they had shot you, rest assured it would still have been illegal for them to do so. You'd die with the satisfaction that they probably would be going to prison This sort of thing is one reason why I don't cache at night. The problem is even worse in the US. There have been threads on the general forums about cachers accidentally coming across illegal stills and drug making plants. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Firstly, whatever datum your GPSr is set to, the download from the PC always uses WGS84. So if you have your GPS set to OSGB36 when you download the coordinates from geocaching.com it doesn't matter. Secondly, I agree with the previous poster. The easiest way to get the Streetmap map is to use the link at http://www.roblisa.com. It always seems to point to the right place. If your using a real OS map, set your GPS to OSGB36 while using it. One slight gotcha that has confused me once or twice is that with a lat/log position you quote the latitude first (i.e. how far North or South you are) but with OS grid references you quote the Eastings first (i.e. how far east or west you are). ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Apparently you just put the relevant background HTML tags in your description. Technically this produces illegal HTML when the page is served up, but most browsers - well IE and Mozilla based ones anyway cope with it. I'm not a web author, but Tim & June and Pid could tell you the details. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by jeremyp: quote:Originally posted by el10t:Jeremyp and Subarite are on the photo-sequence equivalent of different time zones. I was going by the number that appeared in the URL of the full sized image. The first picture was numbered "0" on that basis which is entirely natural for me as a C programmer BTW, that picture of me is historical in that Queens Oak was my first ever find. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by jeremyp: quote:Originally posted by el10t:Jeremyp and Subarite are on the photo-sequence equivalent of different time zones. I was going by the number that appeared in the URL of the full sized image. The first picture was numbered "0" on that basis which is entirely natural for me as a C programmer BTW, that picture of me is historical in that Queens Oak was my first ever find. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have placed caches I have done. A full list is here: http://jeremyp.net/geocaching/100up.html. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have placed caches I have done. A full list is here: http://jeremyp.net/geocaching/100up.html. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Thank you. If I really hurry I might be able to beat Tim and June to 200. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Thank you. If I really hurry I might be able to beat Tim and June to 200. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by el10t:Jeremyp and Subarite are on the photo-sequence equivalent of different time zones. I was going by the number that appeared in the URL of the full sized image. The first picture was numbered "0" on that basis which is entirely natural for me as a C programmer ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by el10t:Jeremyp and Subarite are on the photo-sequence equivalent of different time zones. I was going by the number that appeared in the URL of the full sized image. The first picture was numbered "0" on that basis which is entirely natural for me as a C programmer ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I did all 9 SP caches in about 3 hours. They are all in one park though. On the other hand, I did eight today and there was three hours of driving involved. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

When I was in Jordan I thought there couldn't be any caches so I didn't bother checking until I got back. Not only did I discover there were two but I had been within 10 minutes walk of both. One of them scuppered my idea of a virtual cache at Petra. Glad to see you're back. I've been busy while you were away. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching