Deneye
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basic navigation stuff....
Given a lat & long coordinate, how can i calculate a second lat & long coord knowing a distance traveled and direction?
eg: N 30° 32.768
W 100° 45.222
distance travelled: 15.25 Km
heading: 145°
...what are the endpoint coordinates?
I've found online calculators that can calculate distances and directions given sets of waypoints, but i can't seem to put my finger on one that can answer my question...if need be though, i'm pretty good with a handheld calculator
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Bc Geocoin
in Canada
But there are always new collectors coming into it all the time, right?There might not be any initial demand in the months immediately following the issuance of the collectible, but a year or two down the road, you'll start seeing new collectors who would love to get their hands on the coin.
True.
Ok, you've sold me.
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maybe sweeten the deal by prefilling with swag, log books & pencils.
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Good job on the flick! Keep them coming!
(my old blue & white is jealous!)
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Bc Geocoin
in Canada
no worries though. I'm still in for my half-dozen.
I'm Canadian and need to fill my patriotic appetite anyway I can
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Bc Geocoin
in Canada
Also, some of these large orders are for very 'high density' areas, such as California, where a 100 coins would disappear very quickly into cachers hands. I would suspect they would be more coveted because they would be hard to get hold of in caches.I would take buy a few, they would be great trade items when doing caching on vacation outside of BC.
but if every cacher has one in hand, you aren't going to get much for your trade. That was my point.
The trade value will be gone because the covet-factor doesn't exist.
I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong. I just thought it'd be kinda cool to be able to travel someplace with something that someone may want but it seems like anywhere I might go, i'll bump into someone who will already have one
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I've been to a remote area twice looking for a cache and still haven't found it. It's a 200km round trip. And of course i've spent more than 5 minutes looking....I'm due for my third trip in another week or so.
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Wait a minute, what was my point again?
I know there was something positive coming....
Your point was that we have twice the land area and only a tenth of the people....
...making the hiding & finding a lot more fun!
(Jeez...we could send a handful of Jeeps up north and no one would ever hear from them again...)
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Bc Geocoin
in Canada
as with anything collectable the more there is of it the less valuable it is.... do we really want to saturate the market with orders of 60, 80 or 100+ coins per head??
Just a thought...
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A few of the Sasquatch Stomp hides have decent hikes and some great views.
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incase the other thread is lost BC Geocoin I'd like to reiterate my desire for a half dozen.
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Bc Geocoin
in Canada
you can count me in for half a dozen.
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Back in my younger years I took on the nickname of Grinch. Grinch is like the anti-Santa Claus and it fit me at the time, and had a nice ring to it. It helped me to name my non-startup company of SouthPole Software too...which never saw the light of day
(Santa lives up at the North pole so it only goes that Grinch would be at the South)That nick stayed with me for over a dozen years until I started bumping into too many other Grinchs. So I took on a couple other different nicks, all of which I still use today on occassion.
DenEye, pronounced Den Eye -- the way it is purposely spelled, is a play on my name of Dennis. I could have gone with Deni but then folks would be calling me Denny and I didn't want that.
So that's the short of it.
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" 1. ELIGIBILITY: The Jeep 4X4 Geocaching Challenge (“Contest” or “Promotion”) is offered and open only in the 48 contiguous United States or District of Columbia to natural persons age 18 and older who are legal U.S. residents and have a valid driver’s license as of the date of entry."
Does this mean that test tube babies of legal age are not eligible either?
nor any of our clones.
i say we gather up the TBs and hold them hostage until they let is play.
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And if you don't want the formula but still want to run the calculation, try this place:
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Etrex Summit
because it is what i have...
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Here's a friend's Jeep about 20 feet in front of me on a trail we were on a couple weeks back. Not cache related, but maybe I'll make it so in the future.
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One thing I learned about discussion boards, forums, newsgroups, SIGs...whatever you want to call them...years ago was that t doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, you'll piss someone off somewhere.
So just go with it. Do what you want. say what you want and don't ever worry one whit about what others think. It's the only way to survive the internet.
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I liked what i saw and have it bookmarked for future use...kudos!
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I think it also has to do with the matter of convenience....which i think would explain the urban saturation. I'm new to this as well, and I'm finding that I'm more inclined to travel hundreds of kilometers to the-middle-of-nowhere to find caches that aren't in some city park.
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Try this for a quick & dirty hack...
take the coordinates that you want to check and convert to decimal degrees
ddd.ddddd instead of the usual ddd mm.mmm ...and to do this, take decimal minutes and divide by 60 and attach to the degree so that 121° 51.235 would become 121.8539°
Then go to a cache page and click on the map that is provided...you'll see that the location box of your internet browser contains a set of decimal coords...replace them with your coords and hit return. The map should refresh with your coords pinned at center.
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did you take a picture?
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.....and Matthew Broderick was still a young pup!
He's still a young pup...
(I hope i'm not showing my age..
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Calculating A Waypoint?
in General geocaching topics
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Thanks, but it's not accurate enough. It's hard enough trying keep it still enough to hold a bearing, let alone trying to push a button to lock it there for a projection. If the distance I need to cover was only a few hundred meters or less, then this is the method i'd choose...but since i have to project over about 11,000 meters, it won't even get me into the ball park i'm afraid.
which is why i'm looking fo the mathematical answer.
To the rest, thanks muchly for the help. It's a fascinating discussion and I appreciate the help. I'll check out those online links and get back to you.