JasonW

I got myself a paper cutter - happens to be in the shape of a Batman™ logo, but everywhere I go gets one of those punched out of the logbook now

I got myself a paper cutter - happens to be in the shape of a Batman™ logo, but everywhere I go gets one of those punched out of the logbook now

This may not be true for all jurisdictions, but in the UK such treasure hunts may fall foul of the Road Traffic Act (specifically the clause on "Motor Racing on the Public Highway") - I'm sure that treasure hunts of a similar nature were popular long before GPS (in the 1950s and 60s) and after a series of accidents involving people overanxious to get to the next clue the concept died a death. Even though the participants aren't in a head-to-head race, they are time-trialling and in the eyes of the law (here) a multiple entrant time-trial will probably be deemed a race and your drivers licence will be endorsed with penalty points (not a good thing to happen).

Food is definitely a bad idea - scented soap would also appear to attract the attentions of local wildlife as I saw at Swallowship - definitely wildlife gnawing at the cache in situ, because the plastic "sawdust" was there to be seen.

Woolworths have some "high-security" boxes - with fold down clip flaps (for want of a better way to describe them) to hold the lid on tight with a rubber seal too..... not expensive either about £1.50 for a 2 litre box (I think)

quote:Originally posted by Lazy Leopard:So anyone going to admit to being any of the (at present) unknown individuals? Well I was about to admit to being there, but BumbleBee shopped me already

quote:Originally posted by Lazy Leopard:So anyone going to admit to being any of the (at present) unknown individuals? Well I was about to admit to being there, but BumbleBee shopped me already

quote:Originally posted by el10t: What about this massively accurate (ie down to a few cm) ground-based thing that someone was telling me about, for use by surveyors etc. Does anyone know anything about it? You can read more about one method of gaining centimetre accuracy GPS here and then there is WAAS which is not quite so accurate and still very much in the development stage here Typically the surveyors grade GPS equipment is DGPS - Differential GPS - of which you can read much more here Enjoy your reading!

quote:Originally posted by el10t: What about this massively accurate (ie down to a few cm) ground-based thing that someone was telling me about, for use by surveyors etc. Does anyone know anything about it? You can read more about one method of gaining centimetre accuracy GPS here and then there is WAAS which is not quite so accurate and still very much in the development stage here Typically the surveyors grade GPS equipment is DGPS - Differential GPS - of which you can read much more here Enjoy your reading!

quote:Originally posted by Lazy Leopard: Sounds like politics... The Russians have their own military positioning system. No real harm in Europe having its own too, but I suspect some deal will be done... I think you missed some words off the end out of the bit starting "the Russians" the sentence should end "which is rapidly disintegrating as they don't have the cash to keep the constellation of satellites at full complement" The Russian system is called GLONASS, and they have a website in English here and a quick look at the system status page says they have 10 satellites in orbit, of which 1 is withdrawn, 1 is unusable and 1 has no status - not looking good for anyone trying to get a 4 satellite lock to get their position.

quote:Originally posted by Lazy Leopard: Sounds like politics... The Russians have their own military positioning system. No real harm in Europe having its own too, but I suspect some deal will be done... I think you missed some words off the end out of the bit starting "the Russians" the sentence should end "which is rapidly disintegrating as they don't have the cash to keep the constellation of satellites at full complement" The Russian system is called GLONASS, and they have a website in English here and a quick look at the system status page says they have 10 satellites in orbit, of which 1 is withdrawn, 1 is unusable and 1 has no status - not looking good for anyone trying to get a 4 satellite lock to get their position.

I've got a Magellan (or should that be Thales, after the last firmware upgrade changed the manufacturer's name) 315 - which I think is probably the only one in the UK (at least it was the last time a topic like this came up) It has a quadfiliar antenna which (in theory at least) means it should maintain lock under tree-cover better than the patch antenna on the Garmin eTrex range - never having had a Garmin side by side with my trusty Magellan/Thales I can't possibly comment

I've got a Magellan (or should that be Thales, after the last firmware upgrade changed the manufacturer's name) 315 - which I think is probably the only one in the UK (at least it was the last time a topic like this came up) It has a quadfiliar antenna which (in theory at least) means it should maintain lock under tree-cover better than the patch antenna on the Garmin eTrex range - never having had a Garmin side by side with my trusty Magellan/Thales I can't possibly comment

quote:Originally posted by Nia:Super! Sice lialo a fukal vietor ale stalo to za to. Problemy boli na zaciatku - 3 waypoint potom to uz islo dobre. Na Slovensku tolko geoskrys ako v UK nemam - tak sa posnazim a ked sa vratim nejake vytvotim ). Hudec Given the "Slovensku" in the middle, I'd guess it's been written by a Slovenian - so it's probably in Serbo-Croat, which I don't speak....

quote:Originally posted by Nia:Super! Sice lialo a fukal vietor ale stalo to za to. Problemy boli na zaciatku - 3 waypoint potom to uz islo dobre. Na Slovensku tolko geoskrys ako v UK nemam - tak sa posnazim a ked sa vratim nejake vytvotim ). Hudec Given the "Slovensku" in the middle, I'd guess it's been written by a Slovenian - so it's probably in Serbo-Croat, which I don't speak....

Not an online site, but my mate's dad must have a mental map of the British Isles based on navigation by licensed premises..... he once gave me directions to a little village in Co. Galway (from Newcastle) entirely by reference to pubs..... I could ask him to cross-index with OSGB if you like

Not an online site, but my mate's dad must have a mental map of the British Isles based on navigation by licensed premises..... he once gave me directions to a little village in Co. Galway (from Newcastle) entirely by reference to pubs..... I could ask him to cross-index with OSGB if you like

What do you mean it wasn't a race ?

What do you mean it wasn't a race ?

That man Moss Trooper deserves a medal about the size of the pizza I'm about to eat! Didn't dare stop all day, so the picnic was out of the question Aside from slight difficulties introduced early in the proceedings (co-ords lead to the middle of a field full of the Devil's own horses) the rest of the days events were very much dictated by MT giving us the runaround Was lucky enough that I guessed the resectioning part of it without actually doing the resectioning - but I don't suppose many will know that it's there! Had to backtrack - but the cache area is compact enough that this only delayed us slightly (all the time worrying that the Relic Hunters were about to overtake and get the wine ) To the Relic Hunters - you have no idea how many cars the same colour as yours there are out there, but I'm scared of all of them and I'm always looking over my shoulder worrying that you're about to overtake and get there first I'm pretty much sold on the idea of doing something similar - but different in a new locality - though where that is I don't know yet What else can I say ? A Grand Day Out

That man Moss Trooper deserves a medal about the size of the pizza I'm about to eat! Didn't dare stop all day, so the picnic was out of the question Aside from slight difficulties introduced early in the proceedings (co-ords lead to the middle of a field full of the Devil's own horses) the rest of the days events were very much dictated by MT giving us the runaround Was lucky enough that I guessed the resectioning part of it without actually doing the resectioning - but I don't suppose many will know that it's there! Had to backtrack - but the cache area is compact enough that this only delayed us slightly (all the time worrying that the Relic Hunters were about to overtake and get the wine ) To the Relic Hunters - you have no idea how many cars the same colour as yours there are out there, but I'm scared of all of them and I'm always looking over my shoulder worrying that you're about to overtake and get there first I'm pretty much sold on the idea of doing something similar - but different in a new locality - though where that is I don't know yet What else can I say ? A Grand Day Out

Oh yeah, and when I went looking for my first cache there were 10 in the UK as a whole - those were the days when the closest one was a 90 mile drive away

Oh yeah, and when I went looking for my first cache there were 10 in the UK as a whole - those were the days when the closest one was a 90 mile drive away

I'd seen a guy in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland with a GPS and at the time SA was still very much on - so his GPS was showing altitudes of -100ft while on a ferry between Ardnamurchan & Tobermory (Summer Only) - so at that stage I wasn't overly impressed by it..... Then about 9 months later I saw an article on the BBC News website (link above) and had a bit more dig into the subject, discovered that the deliberate error (aka Selective Availability) had been reduced to zero and that spurred me into buying a(nother) piece of electronic gadgetry, to go with the metal detector, the PDA, laptop, etc. Within 24 hours of getting home with the GPS, I was off to Edinburgh to leg it up Arthur's Seat to Capital View (sadly it was retired before Moss Trooper could get there ) - the initial success definitely made a difference - not sure I'd have been as hooked if it had been a failure! It's taken me places I didn't know there were places and back to places I'd not been to for years - but most of all it gets me out of the house with a purpose, rather than aimless wandering around.

I'd seen a guy in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland with a GPS and at the time SA was still very much on - so his GPS was showing altitudes of -100ft while on a ferry between Ardnamurchan & Tobermory (Summer Only) - so at that stage I wasn't overly impressed by it..... Then about 9 months later I saw an article on the BBC News website (link above) and had a bit more dig into the subject, discovered that the deliberate error (aka Selective Availability) had been reduced to zero and that spurred me into buying a(nother) piece of electronic gadgetry, to go with the metal detector, the PDA, laptop, etc. Within 24 hours of getting home with the GPS, I was off to Edinburgh to leg it up Arthur's Seat to Capital View (sadly it was retired before Moss Trooper could get there ) - the initial success definitely made a difference - not sure I'd have been as hooked if it had been a failure! It's taken me places I didn't know there were places and back to places I'd not been to for years - but most of all it gets me out of the house with a purpose, rather than aimless wandering around.