vulture1957

here's the applicable part of the category as we have been discussing: Now to the logistics: Convert your entire Geocaching handle to a coordinate. Using a telephone keypad and your Username, convert your entire Username into numbers such that: A, B or C='2' D, E or F='3'; etc. If your name is five letters or shorter, you must use the entire name and can fill in the remaining values as desired or leave them "open" for your buddy to have some leeway. You must use your regular Username, no creating new ones just for this cache! This process will generate one coord. IE: my Username 'Crusso' converts to 27°87.76'. However, "87" is larger than "60" minutes which is a problem. If this happens, as it will with some names, just add "1 (one)" to the degrees and subtract 60 from the minutes. This gives me 28°27.76'. Geocaching uses the DD°MM.mmmmm' format, which is degrees, minutes.decimal minutes. No conversion is needed on the decimal portion. My result is 28°27.76' as one coord. I can add 0-9 to the end to space it out to seven places or leave it "open" (to allow for some variance at the cache site). That coord. can be either N/S/E or W depending on how it converts.

Rose Red - those are the coords that I have been posting that I am using to try to complete this waymark. But, it says to use the letters in your name to make the waymark. I can use 8 as my first number. Then 85 for the next (adding 1 for the "over 60 minutes") . Nothing says you have to have a double-digit degree. First number in Vulture is 8. 8 can be the degrees. Not that it helps me any. Can't see that it would help many folks as single digits N/S would be at the poles. Not many Waymarkers there. I could possibly try for something in the UK. Not sure where W08 degrees runs thru.

I guess I could see about using 8 (V) as the only degree number for E/w or NS N8 85.887 or E8 85.887 -- would become 9 25.887 or 9 degrees, 26 mins 38 secs Hey, another thing. How do I get degrees symbol?

where do I input this at Geocaching.com? I don't see anywhere in my account settings.

International Space Station Sightings is possible. only 26 miles long -- border crossings! Where's In a Name. Beaches.

but you are supposed to use your Waymarking name. His name is PISA-caching, not ISA-cachingP. I won't say it's not allowed, but I'd do it starting with first letter and use the letters/numbers in order. that gives the challenge. just my 2 cents.

I just tried to look at the category description and it won't open for me. In Firefox, Chrome or Edge. Edit -- Well, duh! if I try to open the correct part of the category, it works fine. Brain fart!

as I read the info, that works just fine. A small change, but it may give enough difference to find something more interesting, would be 59 03' 14" (74 seconds is more than a minute, so add 1 to minutes and the 14 sec remainder is seconds.)

OK, tried Edge and it worked. Darn, I was going to be like my mom, 39 and change forever!

just tried it again. If I go to "Edit account details" it logs me out and asks for me to log in again, but won't take the log in. When I go back to home page, I have to log in again (and that takes OK). I'm using Firefox. I will try on Chrome or Edge.

I hit a new decade on my age and was going to change that on my profile. It asks me to re-enter my login, but just keeps asking to log in again. OK by me, I'll stay in "my late 50's". :-)

Safe Place Havens, Kroger markets,

even for the commercial categories, I try to find different and unusual instances to Waymark. Not the McD's or Subway in the Walmart. My first waymark for those is my local store, then try to find something special. (Like the closed Walmart Neighborhood store for a visit, to mark it as "Closed").

8Nuts, you seem to know a lot about this, maybe you can explain something for me. I look up a pass on HeavensAbove for me and see the ground track. If i figure out a location that is on that path and then change the "my location" to that city, the track doesn't look the same.

use the phone dial to change your handle to numbers. Vulture = 88 57.83. N/S bearings put in in Arctic or Antarctic areas, not much Waymarking at either locations! So must be E/W. East is thru Nepal, I think. West is thru US and Canada just east of the Mississippi River in US.

is there going to be a place for a seminar? Slide show of "Good vs Bad" waymarks. Discuss why this write up is poor, this one is good. Why these pictures are poor, these are good. What the reviewers are looking for.

March 10 sounds doable. Denton is only about 200 miles south. I plan on being there with my sticker and pin. Fill that grid space! I'll try to get hold of the couple of other waymarkers from OKC area and let them know.

there's a pass Sep 25 that goes over me, heading towards Chicago area. Quits being visible over Illinois. I would need players SW of Austin TX and/or NW of Springfield MO.

I'm looking for someone to play this with me. Need player from a line from around Biloxi MS to Rockford Il and north from there. If I would have thought about it, I could have done it myself going to my 40th high school reunion in '15.

I guess I'll need to get on the forums more often now. I missed this. I've been trying to find players for ISS sighting since I found it. I'm in central Oklahoma, and will be following this, hoping to get in on the waymark.

1) not an officer, N/A 3) Only if it is a completely separate visit. For example, I have waymarked items for "Military Installations". The info in the long description have information about that installation. My "visit" followed after the waymark was approved, and it had info about my visit (dates I served there, organization I was in, equipment I worked on, etc) that would not be applicable in the original waymark. Another one - I visit my mother in Florida most years. She likes me to take her to visit a large nature preserve with a boardwalk thru the swamp. First time we went, I waymarked it. The next year I did a visit. Now, am I going to visit every time I go get a drink at the local Sonic drive-in? Or every time I go shooting at the gun range I waymarked? No.

There are a few more of us now, if some of the others are still active.

I am a counselor for the BSA Geocahing merit badge. I DO give a small plug for Waymarking, as there are places that do not allow caches. I am going to write to the BSA merit badge working group and suggest that they include Waymarking on the revision to the geocaching MB. But there is no telling when a re-write might come about. Now, if Waymarking would like to get into the fray, I believe the best way would be to write an article for BSA's publications for Scouts and leaders, and let them know there is another GPS game the Scouts could learn about. Or get with them and invite them to a Waymarking conference and let them take the pictures and do the article.

I've been trying to find interested Waymarkers to do a sighting, also. I'm near Oklahoma City, OK. Need people toward Chicago area, New Orleans, Del Rio TX, or Denver. Now, I have a question. It says that players must be at least 1 minute apart, and see the ISS on the same pass. So I take it that if Del Rio waymarker sees the ISS, then I see it (about 1.25 minutes later), then someone 20 miles NE of me in Oklahoma City sees it, then another in Edmond OK, then Tulsa, then Springfield Mo, then ... We all get to log the "community sighting" as we are all more than 1 minute of flying time from Del Rio.

When I see a category, can I save my search option to always show waymarks in that category near the saved option? In other words, can I set it to always show the waymarks closest to my home location?