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I found a number of urban caches on a visit to Houston a while ago. I wouldn't have been able to find any wilderness caches while I was there, so I was happy the urban caches were about. It gave me something to do in the evening, as opposed to sitting in a hotel room. Thumbs up.

I cropped the picture Cliffy posted of the cache and threw it on my cache page as a background. I think it adds a little something to the spirit of the page. If you want to add it to your quilt cache page, just put the following at the top of your cache description: Rob.

I cropped the picture Cliffy posted of the cache and threw it on my cache page as a background. I think it adds a little something to the spirit of the page. If you want to add it to your quilt cache page, just put the following at the top of your cache description: Rob.

I put this out last evening. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=22293 Thanks for the prompt delivery of the patches, Cliffy. Did you pull some strings?

I put this out last evening. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=22293 Thanks for the prompt delivery of the patches, Cliffy. Did you pull some strings?

quote:Originally posted by SkydiverBC:Which cache page is that? http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=17841 I believe.

An exponential correlation from cache 5000 has a correlation coefficient of 0.948. Taking it from cache 11000 (December 2, 2001) and you get a correlation coefficient of 0.997. Using this second correlation, you get cache 20000 on April 20th, and cache 25000 on June 10. (Note that cache 5000 has an out of sequence date.) I graphed it too, but I'm not sure how to post that here.

quote:Originally posted by PDOP's: Just curious as to why your map shows a Canadian cache in Salt Lake City? It's probably this one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=14430

quote:Originally posted by PDOP's: Just curious as to why your map shows a Canadian cache in Salt Lake City? It's probably this one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=14430

quote:Originally posted by Lone Rangers: Ctkn eggs. Ziqfal ygk zit tbqdhst. - Lone Rangers fg hkgjstd. dgfgqshiqjtzpe lvjlzpzvzpgf epihtkl eqf jt mpyypevsz wpzi ligkz hikqltl igwtctk.

quote:Originally posted by Lone Rangers: Ctkn eggs. Ziqfal ygk zit tbqdhst. - Lone Rangers fg hkgjstd. dgfgqshiqjtzpe lvjlzpzvzpgf epihtkl eqf jt mpyypevsz wpzi ligkz hikqltl igwtctk.

Actually, I missed the first geoquilt. How is this supposed to work? Do people sign the quilt at the cache? Do they take pieces, work magic, and then return them? I think I've just about elucidated what happens from these posts, but this part still eludes me.

Actually, I missed the first geoquilt. How is this supposed to work? Do people sign the quilt at the cache? Do they take pieces, work magic, and then return them? I think I've just about elucidated what happens from these posts, but this part still eludes me.

Monoalphabetic ciphers seem to be popular. See binthair's cache at http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=16651 for example. I solved this one, even though I'm on the other side of the country. It was fun. There are many others. A helper page can be found at http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/EARLYCIPHERS/Monoalphabetic.html.

I can step up for Calgary if it isn't too late.

I can step up for Calgary if it isn't too late.

quote:Originally posted by MrGigabyte: To my knowledge, there are at least 3 copies of it... Crusin' Calgary, London Transit, Oakland Transit Crusin' Calgary has been retired.

quote:Originally posted by MrGigabyte: To my knowledge, there are at least 3 copies of it... Crusin' Calgary, London Transit, Oakland Transit Crusin' Calgary has been retired.

quote:Originally posted by mrcpu:Only Excel 2002! quote:OTHER people have claimed to use his CSV files with MapPoint. He's posting .xls files now. (Maybe they're really CSV files.) They work great.

quote:Originally posted by mrcpu:Only Excel 2002! quote:OTHER people have claimed to use his CSV files with MapPoint. He's posting .xls files now. (Maybe they're really CSV files.) They work great.

The .loc files downloaded from geocaching.com are actually XML format. You can read these into Excel directly, and then link (or import?) the Excel file to MapPoint. If you have Excel, of course...

The .loc files downloaded from geocaching.com are actually XML format. You can read these into Excel directly, and then link (or import?) the Excel file to MapPoint. If you have Excel, of course...

I just posted this cache last weekend: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=16197 It hasn't had any activity yet, but I'm hoping that's because it is -30C this week in Calgary. I figured out how to solve this using math on my own, but since I hid the cache I'm not really sure I'm right. I put a link to a page that describes how I think it could be solved. The math was found on the web (links provided). I also provided a fairly descriptive hint so you can still find the cache by using circles on a map. Presumably. A couple guys in my office are going to start geocaching just so they can figure this one out.

I just posted this cache last weekend: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=16197 It hasn't had any activity yet, but I'm hoping that's because it is -30C this week in Calgary. I figured out how to solve this using math on my own, but since I hid the cache I'm not really sure I'm right. I put a link to a page that describes how I think it could be solved. The math was found on the web (links provided). I also provided a fairly descriptive hint so you can still find the cache by using circles on a map. Presumably. A couple guys in my office are going to start geocaching just so they can figure this one out.