jtemple

I was actually browsing his cache page when you wrote back. Sounds like it was a blast! Of course, going cross country on a bike is more of a lottery dream, but what the hey, it's fun to imagine!

Sounds interesting. How did he track himself, and is there a website? --Jim

I'd like to make myself a travel bug! On my office daydream trips, I see myself bicycling across the country, with some sort of vehicle tracking device. The location would update frequently during the day, and as I travel across areas, I'd appear on the area's weekly cache update. Geocachers could find me when I camp for the evening, and keep me company! I'd have my own website: "Where's Jim right now?" (map included) "What's the weather at Jim's location?" (weather sidebar) "Jim's daily update" (weblog). Of course, I'd (obviously) be the one moving the travel bug along, which would sort of negate the purpose, but what the hey, it's my thought...

I've been entertaining a few ideas that perhaps others on this forum have some thoughts on. Let's take a hypothetical situation that you have the coordinates for a particular location, and you want to find the weather at that location. Now, plenty of weather sites can search by zip code, but none (that I've found) offer a coordinate search. Any suggestions on how this might work? I like the website Weather For You, since it has a great layout and good information. I wonder if similar weather information can be included on the cache page, along with a forecast (now you KNOW when to hunt a cache!). So lately I've been daydreaming of lottery dreams, one of which would be to bike across the country. The ideal would be to have a tracking system like Traxall Internet Tracking, so that friends/family would be able to log on to my website and know where I am (Authorized users, of course!). A nifty map would come up showing my current location and route so far. I would also want to provide a link that says "Weather at Jim's location". Herein lies the original issue of providing weather at a particular set of coordinates. This would be an automated system that I wouldn't have to update. Theoretically I would send daily messages/updates to a journal on the website. I suppose the correlary application to the bike across the country would be to link my current location to a geocache, and have the coords automatically update on the cache page. When I cross an area, the cache pops up as a new cache in that area, and local geocachers could find me (given the proper permissions, of course). It would be a cross between a hitchhiker or travel bug and an event cache (would that make ME the travel bug?). The trick would be to find me when I settle down to camp for the evening (not far from the road I'm travelling). Being the social guy that I am, I would enjoy the company. What do other geocachers think of these ideas? Feasible? Ludicrous? Fun? BOOORIIIING? Just curious. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Try this: Coordinate Translation