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If it upsets the Americans it has to be good
But seriously, 3.2 billion Euros is not much in comparison with some European projects and is probably worth the expense to get an alternative/compliment to the existing US GPS system. I believe it is designed to be compatible.
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Sorry, Northumbrian, I was trying to make the point that Geocaching has two sides: hiding *and* seeking. There is room in it for all of us.
I don't think making personal attacks on somebody who is expressing a point of view helps very much.
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Originally posted by The Northumbrian:No Jemermy, I am not suggesting any hard rules on hiding and seeking, Only to make the point that
In all fairness people should Hide caches as well , Not just find the ones that the people who properly support the hobby hide, by the look of your logs , you are an all taker but not prapared to give any thing up, if you want I can send you a parcel of stuff to hide if thats what the problem with you is, as for putting newcomers off
Well If I read your logs from a newcomers side of things , then I would be put off by your selfishness, reminds me of a kid at school who peeled oranges in his pocket .
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Sorry, Northumbrian, I was trying to make the point that Geocaching has two sides: hiding *and* seeking. There is room in it for all of us.
I don't think making personal attacks on somebody who is expressing a point of view helps very much.
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Originally posted by The Northumbrian:No Jemermy, I am not suggesting any hard rules on hiding and seeking, Only to make the point that
In all fairness people should Hide caches as well , Not just find the ones that the people who properly support the hobby hide, by the look of your logs , you are an all taker but not prapared to give any thing up, if you want I can send you a parcel of stuff to hide if thats what the problem with you is, as for putting newcomers off
Well If I read your logs from a newcomers side of things , then I would be put off by your selfishness, reminds me of a kid at school who peeled oranges in his pocket .
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Originally posted by The Northumbrian:What I was getting at in this topic was that some dont seem to be play fair , and only seem to want to find caches, if every one thought that way , then those who have only found caches would not have found find any
I think this is an unfair comment. There is no rule that says you have got to hide caches. I'd say the balance seems to be about right at the moment in that, if i never hide a cache, I can't see myself running out of caches to find in the near future. If you see hiding caches as a chore, don't hide them. But you obviously derive a lot of pleasure in seeing other people finding your caches so don't scare the new finders away from the sport by laying all sorts of onerous expectations on them.
For the record, I haven't played cricket for years, but loved all aspects of the game. The only problem was staying in for long enough to find out what batting was like
I do not shirk my round in the pub which you will find out if you attend the Winchester cache meet - by which time I'll have at least four caches to my name.-------
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Originally posted by The Northumbrian:What I was getting at in this topic was that some dont seem to be play fair , and only seem to want to find caches, if every one thought that way , then those who have only found caches would not have found find any
I think this is an unfair comment. There is no rule that says you have got to hide caches. I'd say the balance seems to be about right at the moment in that, if i never hide a cache, I can't see myself running out of caches to find in the near future. If you see hiding caches as a chore, don't hide them. But you obviously derive a lot of pleasure in seeing other people finding your caches so don't scare the new finders away from the sport by laying all sorts of onerous expectations on them.
For the record, I haven't played cricket for years, but loved all aspects of the game. The only problem was staying in for long enough to find out what batting was like
I do not shirk my round in the pub which you will find out if you attend the Winchester cache meet - by which time I'll have at least four caches to my name.-------
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Originally posted by Chris n Maria:quote:
Originally posted by Nia:2)
Sort the list of UK geocachers by:
Ranking (most found) (most placed)
Active (How recently they found or placed)
You can find some of this out at:
http://www.insidecorner.com/geocaching/stats/countries.cgi?country=United%20Kingdom
Chris
"We're not lost - we just don't know where we are"
First of all, there are plenty of ways to "find caches near where you want to be. I work out a rough position to the nearest minute of arc using my road atlas or Autoroute and then just plug it into the geocaching.com search facility. This has the advantage of filtering out caches I have already done. I also delete caches from my GPS once completed. I avoid doing caches without having the description about my person in case I need to crib the clue.
In principle I'm against league tables, but I have to admit it gave me a buzz to see myself up there at number eight
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Originally posted by Chris n Maria:quote:
Originally posted by Nia:2)
Sort the list of UK geocachers by:
Ranking (most found) (most placed)
Active (How recently they found or placed)
You can find some of this out at:
http://www.insidecorner.com/geocaching/stats/countries.cgi?country=United%20Kingdom
Chris
"We're not lost - we just don't know where we are"
First of all, there are plenty of ways to "find caches near where you want to be. I work out a rough position to the nearest minute of arc using my road atlas or Autoroute and then just plug it into the geocaching.com search facility. This has the advantage of filtering out caches I have already done. I also delete caches from my GPS once completed. I avoid doing caches without having the description about my person in case I need to crib the clue.
In principle I'm against league tables, but I have to admit it gave me a buzz to see myself up there at number eight
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I bought the GPS first and then my brother said "have you heard about that thing on the web where people hide caches and post the coordinates." So I typed GPS and cache into google and found this site.
I went out with a friend of mine - Luke - and we did Queens Oak and Cluedo 4 and then I was hooked.
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Do people want something to do at the Winchester cache meet? I was thinking of an on-foot treasure hunt around Winchester based on GPS coordinates.
If the answer is "yes" I'll be out on Sunday putting it together. If the answer is "no" expect Winchester to be saturated with virtual caches very soon
If anybody happens to be in Winchester on Sunday and sees an idiot wandering about with a GPS, please feel free to volunteer your help
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jeremyp
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Do people want something to do at the Winchester cache meet? I was thinking of an on-foot treasure hunt around Winchester based on GPS coordinates.
If the answer is "yes" I'll be out on Sunday putting it together. If the answer is "no" expect Winchester to be saturated with virtual caches very soon
If anybody happens to be in Winchester on Sunday and sees an idiot wandering about with a GPS, please feel free to volunteer your help
or just say hello.-------
jeremyp
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Do people want something to do at the Winchester cache meet? I was thinking of an on-foot treasure hunt around Winchester based on GPS coordinates.
A poll will be posted. If the answer is "yes" I'll be out on Sunday putting it together. If the answer is "no" expect Winchester to be saturated with virtual caches very soon
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jeremyp
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Do people want something to do at the Winchester cache meet? I was thinking of an on-foot treasure hunt around Winchester based on GPS coordinates.
A poll will be posted. If the answer is "yes" I'll be out on Sunday putting it together. If the answer is "no" expect Winchester to be saturated with virtual caches very soon
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Personnally I like caches in interesting locations or with an interesting theme. That begs the question "what is an interesting location?" Well, for me it's somewhere with a great view, interesting scenery, some sort of historical interest, interesting architecture etc etc.
If the cache is not completely straight forward to find, that's good too. For instance if the approach needs thinking about, if the hiding place is ingenious or there is a twist in the tale (the end of Tombraider 1 is memorable for that reason).
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Think of WGS84, NAD27 etc as being coordinate systems (officially they are "datums"). WGS84 is a World Wide standard for where the prime meridian is (0 longitude), where the equator is and what shape the Earth is. All of the positions in Geocaching are given with respect to WGS84. However, if you are using a map it might use a different datum for historical reasons. For example, here in the UK, the best hiking maps are issued by the Ordnance Survey and they use a datum called OSGB36. In order for the coordinates of a position on the map to correspond to the coordinates as shown by the GPS, I have to change the GPS's datum to OSGB36 and it will make the necessary corrections.
There is an in depth discussion of all this here:
http://www.gps.gov.uk/guidecontents.asp
It's well worth reading.
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Originally posted by Moss Trooper:Just means easy to find if it is in Difficulty.. If it is in Terain should be wheelchair friendly.
Moss de Boss... Sorta
No I mean the forum rating system. Each topic can have a rating out of five stars.
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Originally posted by Moss Trooper:Just means easy to find if it is in Difficulty.. If it is in Terain should be wheelchair friendly.
Moss de Boss... Sorta
No I mean the forum rating system. Each topic can have a rating out of five stars.
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Does one star mean rubbish? Or does it mean better thannormal which is no stars at all?
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It's an ESA project. It has not been shelved so much as deferred. I think there's a subtle difference
Anyway, development is continuing in spite of the ESA members not being able to agree about anything. The official site is:http://www.esa.int/export/esaSA/navigation.html
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It's an ESA project. It has not been shelved so much as deferred. I think there's a subtle difference
Anyway, development is continuing in spite of the ESA members not being able to agree about anything. The official site is:http://www.esa.int/export/esaSA/navigation.html
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I'd say that the PC and GPS solution is difficult to use to the point of being dangerous to use in a car when you're on your own. The displays tend to be hard to read during the day and you shouldn't be looking at them when you're driving anyway. The PC itself is a bulky object which has a tendency to fly around under sudden braking.
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I'd say that the PC and GPS solution is difficult to use to the point of being dangerous to use in a car when you're on your own. The displays tend to be hard to read during the day and you shouldn't be looking at them when you're driving anyway. The PC itself is a bulky object which has a tendency to fly around under sudden braking.
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Originally posted by The Northumbrian:Jeremyp, your well out out of order with your last remark. Its idiots like you who start wars
and bad feelings on the forum, an apology would be in order here, I think that people who come out with sort of total rubbish should be removed from Geocaching.com
[This message was edited by The Northumbrian on March 12, 2002 at 12:41 PM.]
Hey! it was a joke. Hence the Smiley. I'm sorry it offended you and I apologise to anybody else who was offended. Now I reread it, especially in the context of recent events, I can understand how some people might jump to the wrong conclusions about it.
Again I apologise for the offence it might have caused.
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Originally posted by Mopar:Just wondering....
How much bandwidth DOES geocaching.com and associated sites consume in a month?
Jeremy Irish probably has stats on bandwidth, pages served, disk space used etc etc. It might be interesting for him to publish a page with that info on it. I might put the request in on the geocaching.com forum.
In my previous post, I said nothing about the creative effort that goes into a site like this except obliquely with the one word "developers". I don't want people to think I am belittling it or anything it's just that I think Jeremy himself covered the subject most eloquently in a previous reply.
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Originally posted by el10t:Should I post a list of attendees so you can all see who else is coming before deciding yourselves whether to attend or not?
El10t
[Edited so as not to cause offence] It's just like trying to organise a wedding - coming up with a seating plan in which no two feuding family members are sitting at the same table.
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[This message was edited by jeremyp on March 12, 2002 at 02:30 PM.]
Galileo: a European civilian positioning system. Do we need it?
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If it upsets the Americans it has to be good
But seriously, 3.2 billion Euros is not much in comparison with some European projects and is probably worth the expense to get an alternative/compliment to the existing US GPS system. I believe it is designed to be compatible.
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