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  1. Thanks for everyone's help on this. RobertLG
  2. I haven't been able to find anything that discussed the following: I wish to design a "cache" that instead of having a physical can/book/pen the finders will triangulate a location by using two or more coordinates given or revealed. By using these coordinates a final location will be presented. By going to this final spot clues are gathered and then emailed to me as proof that the location was found correctly. Not sure about some of these things, but figured you experts could set me right. So, I need to know (1) is this kind of hunt permitted here and (2) assuming the email thing works, how would the finds be recorded? Still a new idea for me and I will appreciate some constructive observations and advice. RobertLG
  3. Thank you very much. You have all been very helpful. I appreciate the simplicity of making the coordinates a decimal first. And I also needed the direction of borrowing - that was where I was having troubles. How many "antipodes" are there? I think I can count at least three (using my coordinates of N46º 28' by W122º 56'): Same northern hemisphere - same latitude/opposite longitude. N46º 28' by E57º 03') Same western hemisphere - same longitude/opposite latitude. S46º 28' by W122º 56' "True antipode" exact opposites - opposite latitude and longitude. S46º 28' by E57º 03' I'm sure I don't have the above antipodes quite right, but I think they are close. What do you think? RobertLG
  4. Anyone know how to accurately calculate antipodal coordinates? Antipodals are the opposite coordinates, either in the same northern or southern hemisphere, or the exact opposite side of the earth. I have discovered that to determine the antipodal degrees of longitude you simply subtract your degrees of longitude from 180. However, I am having trouble getting my light-weight mind around part of that process, and especially how to determine the minutes and seconds of longitude. For example: The longitude I'm working on is 122º 56' 44" If I subtract the 122º from 180º I get 58º Now, to get minutes and seconds, am I supposed to subtract 56' 44" from 60' 60"? If so, then it appears that I'm supposed to end up with 04'16" of longitude. If I have this right, then the antipodal of 122º 56' 44" would be 58º 04' 16" HOWEVER, I would think that since my first figure, 122º is a full 122 degrees, and Then there are very nearly another sixty minutes of the next degree, wouldn't the exact opposite be something closer to 57º 04' 16"? Hmm. I'm losing it now. Help? Does anyone know how to make a simple spreadsheet for this? Thanks for any help. RobertLG
  5. Thank you Ryan, for your willingness to help. A lot of effort went into getting the Bug and niece together. But alas, it was not to be. Still, the world spins on. RobertLG
  6. Thanks for the suggestions. I will consider the ideas offered. And thanks for the link to the Children's Stories page. I have NO intention of playing their game of submitting and waiting, and waiting, and waiting... My story will be on the Internet, and published there by myownself. RobertLG Oops! This was supposed to be posted to my previous post. Sorry for any confusion.
  7. I am working on a story for young people, and have been thinking of developing one of the woodsy characters as one who goes around his home pond taking lat/long readings and carefully recording them. This would not be the main character. Just another one of the locals. I would prefer that the coordinates around this pond be unreal - not traceable to anywhere real. It is an imaginary pond, in an imaginary world. But I'm not sure I can pull it off, since anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with lat/long could "locate" the "pond" if I used standard coordinates. Does anyone have any ideas for giving "real-looking" coordinates that lead to nowhere? If I have to, I will consider using real coordinates. But if so, it would then help to locate a real pond, an attractive one. The pond I have in mind would be perhaps no bigger than 100 feet across, or even a bit smaller. It would have an inlet, and an outlet (preferably a beaver dam). It would have a deep part, and shallower areas, with maybe a small sandy beach. Ideally, my pond needs to be in the country, away from the roads and buildings. It may be that there is a pond that meets most of my needs. If so, it would be great to see some pictures of it, AND if it is used, I could use the real coordinates of some of its features. Are there any here who might have seen some sylvan ponds fitting some, or most of my needs? Thanks ahead of time for any help. RobertLG Please excuse me if I also post my request to each of the regional groups.
  8. Hello again, Slinger 91 Yes, I know you would help. But you are, indeed, some distance away. BTW, don't give up on me. I will yet make it to your caches. I've been quite busy. RobertLG
  9. One more time: This little Travel Bug, called "Water Bug" has had a hard time meeting up with its owner's niece. The niece lives in the Seattle/Tacoma area. The Travel Bug is currently believed to be hiding in Seattle's "Kite Hill" cache. The TB needs to find its way to the "China Lake" cache - and then parked, until the niece can retrieve it. Any help is appreciated by the Travel Bug's owner, and uncle to the niece. I am nobody, but was axed to help. RobertLG
  10. Thanks to all who considered helping. I was told that JAR has already picked up the Bug and will take it north. It should have been placed in a Seattle/Tacoma cache 9-19-02. RobertLG
  11. I have a cache roughly mid-way between Portland and Seattle. You might enjoy a break at about that point. The time it could take from offramp, to cache, then back to onramp should take only about 15 minutes. I-5 Drive Break RobertLG
  12. Travel bug 303066 will be placed into the I-5 Break cache (GC63D4) today. This cache is a quick find just off I-5 mid-way between Olympia and Longview. The bug needs to make its way to any viable cache in the Tacoma/Seattle area soon. A visitor from back east will want to take a relative to retrieve it. Thanks for any help. RobertLG
  13. My first expedition to locate "benchmarks" was yesterday. I carefully printed out the 5 nearest ones to home, phoned my friend, and headed out. FIRST: We couldn't find the first one (presumably a 5-inch brass cap). It may be forever gone, or it's buried under huge flower pots. No big deal. SECOND: The second one (5-inch brass cap) was very easy to find. It was glued or cemented to the footing of a railroad crossing. We photographed it and moved to the third one. THIRD: Quickly arriving at the conclusion that the GPS and the given coordinates are very nearly useless for these searches, we started paying more attention to the Official History section of our print-outs, and spotted our first "witness post". The witness posts we have seen so far have been made of plastic, and are roughly 3 inches wide, maybe a 1/4 inch thick, and once buried are long enough to stick 3 or 4 feet above the ground. At first I figured maybe this was what we were supposed to find, but after moving old grasses around we found a pipe or rod pounded into the ground, and it had a yellow plastic cap on top with "LS 16980" stamped into it. (While we were uncovering these two items I couldn't help notice that within a foot or so of the pipe there was a concrete "fence post" at the corner of two fence lines. I don't know if this was put up by the NGS people or by the land owner, but we just don't see many concrete fence posts here. I looked but didn't see anything on this post.) FOURTH, and FIFTH: The last two tried were a wash. We easily enough found the plastic witness posts, but nothing else. It was a very hot afternoon and we decided to put off the search until a cooler day. AND we resolved to bring some tools next time - machete, shovel, metal rake, and maybe a metal detector of some kind. MY QUESTIONS: Are ALL the "benchmarks" 5-inch metal caps, or can a "benchmark" be a metal rod, or just a witness post? Now if someone happens to say that a benchmark can be a metal rod (my datasheet for the 3rd search above says, "Marker Type: metal rod Setting: stainless steel rod") why then does the Official History mention, "ACCESS TO DATUM POINT IS HAD THROUGH A 5-INCH LOGO CAP"? What are we supposed to take pictures of and count as a found benchmark? a benchmark - whatever that is? a witness post? a metal rod? a plastic cap? or ONLY a 5-inch brass logo cap? Thanks for any clarification. RobertLG
  14. Hello Fluffette. If you are coming up on I-5 please consider taking an I-5 Break - hint, hint. Copy and print out my cache (GC63D4), and let me know how it went. RobertLGs cache page RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  15. Hello Fluffette. If you are coming up on I-5 please consider taking an I-5 Break - hint, hint. Copy and print out my cache (GC63D4), and let me know how it went. RobertLGs cache page RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  16. Hey! I like it. Great idea. If no one minds, I might want to do something like it here in SW Warshington. RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  17. Hey! I like it. Great idea. If no one minds, I might want to do something like it here in SW Warshington. RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  18. I have been planning on creating a cache that would require a laser pointer and some mirrors. The dark of night would be great for it, but I suppose it might work in daylight too. I've been trying to find some cheap models that use one AAA battery, as opposed to those that use the small hearing-aid battery. Used pointers would be alright. RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  19. I have been planning on creating a cache that would require a laser pointer and some mirrors. The dark of night would be great for it, but I suppose it might work in daylight too. I've been trying to find some cheap models that use one AAA battery, as opposed to those that use the small hearing-aid battery. Used pointers would be alright. RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  20. Thank you Markwell for your links. I checked them back quite a ways. I will have to re-read them at another time, and will continue to do what I've been doing a while longer. (I'm buried in work right now.) RobertLG
  21. Thank you Markwell for your links. I checked them back quite a ways. I will have to re-read them at another time, and will continue to do what I've been doing a while longer. (I'm buried in work right now.) RobertLG
  22. Ok. I plunk my zip code in the box and click. I get a nice long list of caches nearest me. I want to visit them all. So I click one cache at a time, copy the text, go to my word processor, paste the text, go back, click the next cache, copy the text.... and so on until I have something like a manageable 10-15 pages of instructions in my word processor. I print them out, and that is kinda good. But there are so many more caches on the list - and it took a long teadious time. Isn't there a slicker, neater way to get the instructions of most or even all the caches in a given radius? Yes, I read about the EasyGPS but from what I read you have to have cables (and I don't) and stuff, and I am still not sure what I would end up with if I had the program AND the cables. I mean, does this program display all the instructions of all the selected caches on the computer screen? RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  23. Ok. I plunk my zip code in the box and click. I get a nice long list of caches nearest me. I want to visit them all. So I click one cache at a time, copy the text, go to my word processor, paste the text, go back, click the next cache, copy the text.... and so on until I have something like a manageable 10-15 pages of instructions in my word processor. I print them out, and that is kinda good. But there are so many more caches on the list - and it took a long teadious time. Isn't there a slicker, neater way to get the instructions of most or even all the caches in a given radius? Yes, I read about the EasyGPS but from what I read you have to have cables (and I don't) and stuff, and I am still not sure what I would end up with if I had the program AND the cables. I mean, does this program display all the instructions of all the selected caches on the computer screen? RobertLG I make and sell stuff I'm not allowed to tell you about.
  24. Many have stated, rationally I believe, that geocaching is supposed to be fun. Having to navigate through words of definitions like lawyers is not fun. I make crafts to supplement my income. One of them has to do with lat/long. I would dearly love to have every geocacher, hiker, pilot, and sailor on the planet visit my web site. But to keep the keepers of geocaching happy (and some of its players), I have kept the mention of my business at the barest minimum. I frankly disagree with having to keep silent about my small business, but will continue to do so to keep peace. However, if another site is established that is willing to accommodate entrepreneurs, I will be quick to take advantage of it. RobertLG
  25. Umm. How about adding a third category: Found the Site but not the Cache. That way the searcher can feel that the search was not entirely fruitless. RobertLG
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