mikeb226

If you are ever in, or passing through Northwest PA/ Southwest New York, there is a cacher by the name of GoldSnoop. His caches are legendary in these parts, and some talk of him with bitterness and some talk of him with awe. I truly believe his caches make me a better finder and his caches are very clever for the most part. I won't lie, though, many have more than once cursed the name of GoldSnoop, and many have felt the adulation of finding a Snoop cache. He's a real nice guy, too.

I used the one you posted here. With it, I was able to generate additional fields for a master shapefile I'm creating for my area. By description, I mean the location description paragraph. I understand that the paragraphs range from a sentence to several lines of description, but I just wondered if it was possible.

Nice! once I figured out the first step, it ran as advertised. Any way to get the description to be extracted?

yeah, I'm aware that I cannot do true orthorectification with the software I have. However, I'm not in a very high relief area of Pennsylvania. Georeferencing using the road intersections has been quite successful.

http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/07/12/Geodeti...aps.aspx?Page=1

Oh yeah, Penn Pilot site is an incredible resource! I regularly download the high res images and georeference them in ArcGIS to do research. More than once it has helped find benchmarks that were described as "x feet from the corner of a field". I primarily have been using it to determine the actual path of the Erie Extension Canal, the French Creek Feeder Canal and the remainder of the Beaver Canal in Western PA. Its unfortunate they are not rectified, as it would cut down the work tremendously, but that would be quite a project. I recommend using the EarthBrowser from the USGS to retrieve aerial imagery from other time periods and other areas of the country. They are also non-rectified, but can easily be georeferenced in a GIS program.

Hello, everyone! I was out and about in the recent heat looking for the old Erie Extension Canal remnants (which I found) when I thought 'd look up the nearest benchmarks and do some hunting. As a GIS analyst for a county gov't, I use ArcGIS everyday, and was able to create a map of all the benchmarks in a two county area, which i carry around with me at all times of travel throughout the two counties ( i live in one county and work in another). Anyway, the closet benchmark to me at the time, according to my map was MB0030. Looking it up on my phone I saw this in the description: Well, curiosity got the best of me, since I was a mere 400ft away, so i decided to look anyway. Amazingly, I found it! Right where the description said it would be! Of course, it was under about 4 inches of dirt, but it was there. There are pics and a description on the gc page: http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=MB0030 This is problem a regular occurrence for all of you, but its the first time for me. Definitely something for the 'win' column.

since the wife and I are waiting a couple of weeks to buy GPS unit, we decided to try using my Chocolate phone and Verizon Navigator. It worked pretty well as we found our first cache by narrowing it down using the coordinates, but after two hours of having it constantly update, the battery was nearly dead. (we tried to find three other caches) I would say for a quickie afternoon it isn't too bad, but not for the long haul or making a day of it. It is kinda frustrating to use. WE still had fun, though.