Marbig's Woodenheads
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I have lat and long of my position and lat and long of target. Using Excel, I want to calculate direction and distance to target. I know there are web pages that do it for you. I don't need this to be extremely accurate. I am willing to use, for example, where I am that one degree of lat is 69 miles and one degree of long is 52 miles. I can subract point two from pointt one and calculate the hypotenus to calculate distance. The direction is trickier. Four "if/then" statements depeding on which quadrent the target is in? Has any done this? Share the formula?
I googled "latitude longitude distance" in advanced search in xls files only. Found THIS. Has everything you need.
Except you can't see the formulas to integrate into your own spreadsheet.....
Not quite. The file is not password protected so hidden columns are able to be accessed and formulas seen.
However the file seems to have its own formula functions in there also which would have to be used in your own file. Not sure on how to do this though.
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I have lat and long of my position and lat and long of target. Using Excel, I want to calculate direction and distance to target. I know there are web pages that do it for you. I don't need this to be extremely accurate. I am willing to use, for example, where I am that one degree of lat is 69 miles and one degree of long is 52 miles. I can subract point two from pointt one and calculate the hypotenus to calculate distance. The direction is trickier. Four "if/then" statements depeding on which quadrent the target is in? Has any done this? Share the formula?
I googled "latitude longitude distance" in advanced search in xls files only. Found THIS. Has everything you need.
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I know I am old enough and smart enough, and I really should be able under any circumstances to figure out what time/day it is at Groundspeak, especially since I'm only two time zones away ... but there are times like now -- after a week with sporadic sleep at best, and a really late night (ongoing), and PQ's to do for a trek with a new geo-friend in the morning -- that I wish I could just mindlessly look somewhere and see what day and time it is at Groundspeak. I was thinking it would be really handy to have it on the bottom of any page where users perform some kind of operation that is date/time dependent (like a PQ construction page). Then I wouldn't have to sit here for what seems like an hour, trying to figure out if I should be checking the "Saturday" square or the "Sunday" one. Might it be useful other places as well? Not sure.
Is it just me, or does someone else think it would be handy?
Happy (
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You need Instant Time Zone. A free little utility that puts any time zone you select down in your systems tray.
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Guilt
Ohhhhh, you mean actual guilt....
I thought this was a thread about G.U.I.L.T.
Grown Up Idiots Looking for Tupperware.
Belongs in this thread on acronyms.
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Mullum Trail Bike seems to be the closest reference to 'Dirt Bike' in the Croydon area
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Might be your browser. Went to your cache and there was the mapquest link. Led me to HERE.
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G'day mates!
Aussies ??
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There are only a limited number of views per day, so with looking around on Google Earth all the time and the geocaches refreshing continuously your views will run out.
Right click Geocaching Network KML in the 'Places' colum of your Google Earth. Then 'Edit'. Select 'Refresh Parameters'. There you will find an option to refresh only 'On Request'. That way you can zoom into any locale without it refreshing all the time. To refresh when you want - right click Geocaching Network KML and select 'Refresh'.
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Haven't. But would love to do it if ever had the chance. I just google earth searched San Juan, Puerto Rico and found lots of caches. Expect the other ports to be similar. If I was in your position I'd research each of the destinations. Hilly or flat. Large or small areas to cover. Length of stays. Then would determine best means of transport to use. Walking, bicycles, motor scooters or cars. After that, through online resources, make arrangements for renting selections in advance if required.
One thing I'd make sure. That I would have bigger tales to tell than those cruise passengers that went on the organised tours; ie. covering more things to be seen and done.
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As you've written it, they are the same. But I think we know what you mean.My GPSr is set at read out like Hddd' MM.MMM' but my Google earth says Hddd' MM.MMLooking at my Google Earth. There are two setting in 'options' for lat/long. But doesn't seem to be any different when I change.
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I also wonder what is so interesting about the rear of a restaurant that you would want to bring people there.
The cache is by a local resturant which I think has the world's best Onion Rings.For me that is of no interest at all.
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We're in a relatively small country town (less than 10,000 pop.). Geocaching since January this year. Trouble is we're running out of caches in our local area.
All the caches here have been set by folks living in towns close by, or ourselves. There is no-one living in this town other than us who are geocachers.
I've tried by word of mouth to get friends interested. But nobody seems to be grabbing the bait.
Does anyone have any suggestions on promoting geocaching and maintaining anonymity?
The only thing I can think of is our local paper. However I don't want to have myself and family the centerpiece on a geocaching story. PS. If anyone suggests geocaching further afield...... If the oil price drops, we'll go out more.
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My family missed out on our summer vascation this summer due to my work schedule. We took plenty of camping and side trips but we never made it out of the state or country as was the norm. For this reason, I want to take the family on an extra-special trip next summer. Does anybody have a great getaway with good caching opportunities? Thanks for your input, MACC4
Australia. And specifically the state of Queensland in your summer. This is our winter here and the weather in Queensland (tropical climate) is perfect. Plenty of caches also. Might add, I'm a little biased.
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Some here.I have a cargo shipping container ready to be placed out, But it wont fit under the light pole skirt...any ideas?
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I wouldn't count on it. Members Only caches are last on my list of reasons why I'd recommend that someone become a premium member. Swag is swag. If you're in it for the swag, you'll eventually become disillusioned. The best swag is in new caches or in remote caches - regardless of whether they are MOC's. A few weeks ago, I left a $20 bill in a remote cache. Nobody's even bothered to visit, because there is a long drive and some hiking involved. There's a nice surprise waiting there. But put a geocoin in an urban cache, and it's like sharks at feeding time.
Reasons to become a Premium Member:
1. Pocket queries.
2. To support the Groundspeak websites.
3. Pocket queries.
4. Caches along a route.
5. Pocket queries.
6. Bookmark lists and unlimited watchlists.
7. Pocket queries.
8. Instant Notification of new caches.
9. Pocket queries.
10. Pan and zoom the Geocaching.com maps.
11. Pocket queries.
12. Custom forum title and access to the Off Topic Forum.
13. Pocket queries.
14. Members Only Caches.
15. Pocket queries.
We got premium membership for all the above reasons... ACCEPT number 14. Cannot see any reason for doing this.
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Easy to find out. Go to the most recent cache published in your area (or anywhere). Hold your mouse over the "log your visit" link at the top right. Look at your browser bar down at the bottom of your browser window and you will see the URL for that hyperlink. That link has the cache ID number. The last one in GA is just over 430,000. This would mean that the OP has found almost every cache ever submitted, even those that never made it past the approval process and all caches from day one, some of which were long gone from their locations since the OP only started caching in January of 2003.
So, what do I get? And I DON'T want a pony.
Neat little trick. Whoever plants No. 500,000 cache should get a pony for a milestone cache.
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I AM TOP DAWG! ------------------- Since I don't log online, care to prove my number is bogus?
Attitude problem..... Get over it.
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Commercial Caches / Caches that Solicit
Commercial caches attempt to use the Geocaching.com web site cache reporting tool directly or indirectly (intentionally or non-intentionally) to solicit customers through a Geocaching.com listing. These are NOT permitted. Examples include for-profit locations that require an entrance fee, or locations that sell products or services.
Solicitations are also off-limits. For example, caches perceived to be posted for religious, political, charitable or social agendas are not permitted. Geocaching is supposed to be a light, fun activity, not a platform for an agenda.
Some exceptions can be made. In these rare situations, permission can be given by the Geocaching.com web site. However, permission should be asked first before posting. If you are in doubt, ask first.
Taken from <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx">Geocaching guidelines
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I guess I'd still say it's kind of tacky... But it sounds like people are just trying to get some kind of credit for hiding the cache. Why shouldn't the hider get a smiley, or some other credit. They probably put more effort into the cache than the finders will.
I'd like to think the credit I would get for my caches would be in the logs of cachers that have genuinely hunted for them and enjoyed doing it.
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Hunted a cache today which probably shouldn't have been approved.
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You might want to try this cache. But you better have reasonable trades.I got my 11yr old son interested in this hobby so that we could spend some outdoor time together and after only scoring 17 finds so far, we're already getting burned out on this. It is not because it is not fun, it is because every find we've made so far has had pure JUNK in them for trade items.
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Copy / Pasted those coordinates into google earth and it gave me Richmond, Virginia.Ok, i am looking for a way to put in or find out where this cordinates are N37 33.1812 W077 27.67092. i have used google. but that will not show me where it is. i know that it is around Vergina. can anyone help me out. thanks. -
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Mmmmmm.