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quote:TEAM 360Ever catch the Jeep commercial where the girl hands the guy a longitude and latitude written on the bar napkin and then they meet by some waterfall later? I wrote the coords down and they seem to be right outside Telluride. I wonder if there is a waterfall in the area? We had a whole thread about the Jeep girl: "37º 55 N 107º 41 W Jenny" and the Nissan Murano commercials with the coordinates. As far as I know, there were three of those. They only gave Degree, no minutes or seconds. So it's a pretty big area. But most of them still were not located anywhere near an area where the stuff shown in the commercial could be found. N41 W73 bookstore with Kurt Vonnegut somewhere in the ocean near CT/NY N37 W122 jukebox playing "Smoke on the Water" DeLaveaga golf course/park NE of Santa Cruz N42 W71 fishing in a suburban Bridgeport, CT neighborhood

The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension 28 deg 36 min 30.3 sec 80 deg 36 min 14.8 sec This one isn't really GeoCaching-related, but it is thread-related. Did anyone ever follow the trail of web sites and phone #'s when Speilberg's A.I. movie came out? Not sure if any of the links and/or phone numbers are still active, but it was pretty cool. Do a Google search for Jeanine Salla or Evan Chan. They had phone numbers where you'd get an answering machine. Then you could find the password to retrieve messages. I was using the free (at that time) DialPad.com to make the long distance calls.

I'm still looking for a low priced ISP Click here for Cheap dial-up. I used it while traveling with my laptop. One-time $4.95 setup fee. Then you get 10 hrs/month free. $1/hr after that up to a max of $10. So the most it will ever cost you in any one month is $10. Seemed like a pretty good, fast connection. Plenty of local access numbers - at least in the area where I was in FL. Or, if you live in MA, NH or RI (or like you said, have free long distance) these guys offer totally free access.

quote:Originally posted by wyoduckhunter:This is sort of like someone saying that they have a Hummer and a Geo Tracker for the basic stuff. You can never have too many toys. Hey, I have a Geo/Chevy Tracker! How did you know?! And do you have any hints on how I could convince the wife I need the Hummer?

Bear or bare?

Thanks for your replies. I love this community. Everyone is so helpful. Guess I'll just have to focus on some other caches in the area.

I can't believe how many people here have said they have the eTrex "yellow" AND the Vista. I have the eTrex "yellow" and I just ordered a Vista from Staples. Time for an upgrade. I'm planning a vacation and want the mapping features for when I'm driving around away from home. I had them price-match Amazon.com. Plus the $50 mail-in rebate. Plus free shipping. It's going to end up being around $225. But I'm planning on selling the "yellow" to help in justifying this with my wife.

I am from MA and was talking to my father in Myrtle Beach a few months ago. I was telling him about GeoCaching and I had found a webcam cache right on the beach. I can't find it now. I don't see it listed as archived. Anyone here remember this cache? What happened to it? I'm planning a trip down there in May and wanted to hit that cache along with a few others. Thanks!

I just saw an article in today's paper about a spot where you can put your car in neutral and appear to roll up hill. They gave the web site of http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppuk/PhysFAQ/roll-uphill.html which lists quite a few different sites. I only saw one GeoCache that mentioned this - marginally. I think these would be really cool virtuals. But unfortunately none of them are near me. Anyone been to any of these?

Wow! WaldenRun had to ask too?! Now I don't feel so stupid. Thanks. I'll have to do some math and see if that works out.

Just saw a new one at N42 W71 They're fishing . . . in the middle of some suburban neighborhood in Bridgeport.

I had posted this in the New England forum but didn't get an anwer to my question. So I figured I'd try it here. Has anyone seen this site yet? New aerial color maps of MA. I saw an article in the paper a few months ago about this, but it wasn't ready yet. Now it is. MA Color Orthos I haven't actually found any practical Geocaching use for it yet, as it doesn't allow coordinate inputs. You just have to muddle around to find landmarks you're familiar with. Anyway, my question is can anyone explain to me what the NAD83 numbers are at the bottom of these maps? It says: NAD83 meters coordinates: 175083.68 890273.65 I tried converting them at Jeeep conversion page but there's nothing that fits that formatting. From what I had read NAD83 is the same as WGS84. But I don't know what to do with these numbers.

So, for $2000 you can plug in N41 W73 and drive into the ocean? Is it amphibious too?! Where's Kurt? Or you can go to N37 W122 and drive onto the DeLaveaga golf course/park? Do those types of systems even give you your lat/long, or just show you where you are on the street? Can you interact with it as far as what your destination is? $2000 for it built into the vehicle or $100 for one I can carry around AND GeoCache with. Hmmm . . .

There are actually two commercials that I've seen like that with coords. One with the jukebox which I believe is somewhere out in the wilderness in the midwest, and another one with hunting down a rare first edition Vonnegut book and running into Kurt himself at the store to sign it. The coords for that one put you somewhere in the ocean between NY & Connecticut. N41 W73 (at least it allowed me to find this little bugger on lostoutdoors.com 40.99344 -72.996749) These commercials tick me off. Even if they don't put the real place it was filmed (which is probably just a back lot in Hollywood) at least make it some real site. Make it the corporate site of the company or something, so we'll at least remember who the commercial was for. If nothing else, at least it will get us geogeeks talking about the commercial. And that's all they want, isn't it, to make any possible inroad on our overloaded consciousness?!

Kinda freaky. I had logged on the computer because I was watching Buckaroo Bonzai on one of the movie stations and at the beginning they mentioned exact coords: N28 36 30.3 W80 36 14.8 ( http://jerseyguy.com/bonzai.html ) I figured with them being that exact they had to point to something. Being the geocaching geek that I am I had to look up where that was. That's when I saw the news about the shuttle on my home page. And guess where those coords are? Kinda freaked me out a bit . . .

First off, awesome resources! The simple answer to the .MMM question is .MMM is just the decimal portion of minutes - instead of figuring it in seconds. So when that hits .999 it rolls over to the next minute. 42 deg 21.500 min = 42 deg 21 min 30 sec The DDD MM.MMM seems to be the pretty much agreed upon standard here.

Is it maybe because of this: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2d622.htm?code=TA Apparently Adobe and WinXP don't play nice together.

What is ROT-13? Is the Doom-like Rise of the Triad computer game up to version 13? We really do need an acronym listing here. I've seen this ROT13 before but have no idea what it stands for. It's probably something insanely obivous, but I'm just not seeing it.

MapSource gives this info

I would go to http://lostoutdoors.com/newmap.html and put in the closest coords that you have. Then if you find the building you're looking for, you can click on it and it will give you the exact coords.

I don't think the iGPS is a standalone unit. So, unless you plan on lugging the laptop through the woods you'd probably want to look for something else. I bought the simple "yellow" eTrex and got the data cable. So I can hook it up to the laptop (also a Toshiba , my Palm or use it standalone.

>OLDER PDA = Palm III (don't laugh) >I use a Kyocera 6035 SmartPhone which has a >built-in Palm Pilot, but not sure if it has the >right interface. I LOVE my Kyocera 6035 SmartPhone! Isn't this thing the BEST? If it just had a GPS built in it would be the coolest gadget in the world! I originally purchased the eTrex yellow with the intention of hooking it up to the Palm VIIx I had at the time. The most frustrating part was that I didn't realize I needed a "null modem adapter". I just basically hooked it up to the serial connection for the charger base for the Palm (or the Kyocera for that matter). But you need a male/female adapater AND the null modem adapter. Then the reason I haven't really used it is because I haven't been able to find any decent software for a reasonable amount of money. Not to mention the 12 feet of cable I've got dangling around the whole concoction. So, yes, it's do-able, either with the Palm IIIx or the Kyocera. But is it worth it? Probably not. I hook it up to my laptop when I'm in the car. It's so cool to see yourself moving down the road on trips. Then just use the GPS for caches.

I can't stand when newspeople and presidents and nuclear scientists says nucular! New - clee - urr. Say it right! SAY IT RIGHT!!!

I can't stand when newspeople and presidents and nuclear scientists says nucular! New - clee - urr. Say it right! SAY IT RIGHT!!!