conradv
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Soft Coordinates, Micro, Parking Lot. I must say that cache has it all.
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In my neck of the woods are just about every state agency except DOT including military and Army Corps of Engineers. Would any of them assist me in determining lat/ long coords to a few inches with high accuracy for a meet and greet where the cachers can compare their GPSr accuracy to what is confirmed accurate?
Every time I read something like this is get the urge for the Kenaz submeter unit for my Nautiz X7. It´s about 1200 USD, 2/3 of the cost for the Nautiz PDA...
Looks like you need two... a base station and a rover?
RTK, or Real Time Kinematic, satellite navigation, which offers the same sub-inch accuracy as dual frequency systems, but at much lower cost (RTK needs a base station, rover, and correction transmission at a one-time activation fee).Either that or a base unit and Post Processing.
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Groundspeak.com, navicache.com, terracaching.com
no respect for the competition!
lol
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Well, for the funnest caches I find, I am looking for big flat rocks stacked a little strangely on mountaintops.
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Heck, I still use my Magellan ColorTrak and it gets spot-on coverage. Of course it doesn't have the fancy maps and such that all of the newer units have.
I do get a kick out of all of the "Magellan bashing" here on the the forums though.
Some people's children...
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Well, that was pretty anticlimactic.
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Sexy_Sally has indicated that s(he) was using her friend's computer who is also a geocacher to post. Considering the contents of the other geocacher's previous emails I'll give her(him) the benefit of the doubt that their writing style and pet peeves are similar because they have similar interests. However it would be helpful if his friend posted here to reveal all doubt to everyone that they are not one and the same person.
However Sexy_sally has indicated that s(he) will no longer post here, so its a moot point.
Well, that was pretty anticlimactic.
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...but I will ban the account if the person doesn't come forth on their own. But they may not care either way.
Still waiting..... lol
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Hrm... "Textiles."
Your usage of this word reminds me of the usage of the word "retard." The word itself in the original definition isn't a kind of person. "Retard" means slow. "Textile" means fabric. Both seem to be used to describe people in a derogatory form.
I'd appreciate it if you'd use "people first" language. It isn't acceptable to call someone a "retard." If someone has a disability, we call them "A person with <type of> disability," stressing the fact that they are a person first and formost, who has a disability.
It seems you are trying to make people think you are looking down on people who choose to wear clothing (frankly, I think you are a sock puppet, and I hope all your accounts get shut down) by calling us "textiles." Please use the term "people of textiles." As Flask so aptly pointed out, archaeological evidence seems to point to the fact that all cultures seemed to have clothing for the norm, I'd like to continue calling ourselves "people with common sense." Can we call you a "person with a textile deficiency?"
You beat me to it.
She comes across with a bigoted attitude with her use of "textiles"....
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I would also like to ask that if you're out caching and find a cache from another web site, and it for whatever reason violates the rules here what would you do? Would you leave it alone, or would you remove it?
What in the world does that have to do with Geocaching.com?
What would give you the right to remove something out in the world just because it is not allowed at Geocaching.com? If you are concerned with it, contact the owners of the other web site that it is listed on.
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Here's a bad scenario:
Someone visits a TB hotel frequently or walks by someone's cache on his/her morning jog. One day, the person sees the cache needs maintenance. If we were to count the NM log as a find, the person would now have a duplicate find entry for that cache. No good.
What if you are searching for a cache in a tree and only find the apparatus used to hang the cache, but the container is gone? (This happened to me at one time.) You can't claim that as a find, but you do need to post the NM log.
I'd rather keep finds and NM separate. It is also less confusing for others who have no idea NM will equal a find.
Exactly.
That and if you are dropping a TB off into one that you've already found, you can leave the NM log if needed and it doesn't count as a find.
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Here is an example of the size difference (very little). They are almost the same size. The red one is is a big longer, but the green one is a bit taller.
I have a Green Jeep TB, because it was an extra one that does not have a working TB#.
I've still not located a green jeep and now red ones are out.
The red ones look a bit like my jeep minus the peeling paint, broken heater and broken door locks.
Here's an unfound green jeep: Gem & Estelle
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I dunno, wrong Datum set on the GPS for NEFF?
That's what I was thinking....
Magellan users can have this issue. Even with the right datum.
??? My Magellan works as well as my dad's 60CX (we've tested)....
What issue?
See my post above. If you let your magellan settle (I've see this issue with the sport tracks. Newer ones may not have the 'issue'.)You won't see a problem. It's not so much a problem as it is how the GPSs work differently.
Ah. The "averaging" function perhaps. I still use my ColorTrak and find that it does fine for me, but I've been using it since they first were introduced - the "first 3-color GPS unit"... lol
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If you own any caches (or travel bugs and coins) you can adopt them from the old account to the new here:
http://www.geocaching.com/adopt
This is automated. When the cacher responds to the bot generated email asking if she wishes to accept ownership, the cache (coin, bug) is transfered to their account.
I just did this - when you (the original poster) do it, log in as your old User Name and do all of your caches and TB's, then log in as your new one to accept them.
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Looked up to see a Grizzly Bear 50 yards up the hill from me nonchalantly walking up a steep incline, he looked back at me and disappeared.
I still set the cache (after walking pretty near where I last saw him), but no one's found it yet...
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I dunno, wrong Datum set on the GPS for NEFF?
That's what I was thinking....
Magellan users can have this issue. Even with the right datum.
??? My Magellan works as well as my dad's 60CX (we've tested)....
What issue?
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Maybe GC.com needs a new Log type: "Phantom find", where you are "pretty darn sure that you are where the cache 'should be', and by gosh, I went to the trouble, so it's a find".
Theat should help eliminate the 'Toss out a film cannister that lands somewhere near the ammo can you cannot find" log.
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Maybe GC.com needs a new Log type: "Phantom find", where you are "pretty darn sure that you are where the cache 'should be', and by gosh, I went to the trouble, so it's a find".
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I could do with one to add to my latest cache hidden
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...5f-fa15e4b84977
Cheers
Alan
That's pretty cool. Did you get your request for a red jeep in on time?
Nope - not that it would do any good - cant see them sending a red Jeep to Scotland -
Ah. You could always have someone in the states get one and send it to you....
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I could do with one to add to my latest cache hidden
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...5f-fa15e4b84977
Cheers
Alan
That's pretty cool. Did you get your request for a red jeep in on time?
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Nalgene bottles work great:
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I was issued one of the Green Jeeps last year. I put it into a cache and it has moved maybe 3 times total. People snag them and hoard them. It sucks. I didn't even bother trying to get one this year.
No one's even bothered to get my green Jeep and it remains unfound...I guess the Grizzly Bear warning scared people off.
I have my doubts that it will be found anytime soon. The mountaintop Geocaches aren't very popular.
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The main purpose of PNG was to replace GIF (and TIFF LZW). PNG not only is lossless, it is open format and royalty free.
I archive all of my digital photos as PNG.
Also, a PNG is aobut 75% of the size of a TIFF image.
I do agree though that JPG is probably the best way to go for web pages, as a JPG is about 16% of the size of a PNG, but with today's huge storage capability, I would never consider archiving anything as a JPG.
Question on Puzzle Caches
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I think it would only HELP Groundspeak, as it seems the perception of GS lately seems to be (at least in what I see) that they are a bit of a "bully" when there's absolutely no reason for them to be. Dudley hit it on the head in his last post.