Geo-chasing

[+rwtink]

Has anyone ever tried to chase someone via GPS? I know companies can track their vehicle via GPS but what about a person? I know these system are expensive and probably not practical for this. But I was thinking of something like this, each part of this would have to have two team members. The “Runner” would relay their current coordinates to the “Tracker”. The Tracker would input the coordinates into a web page. These updates would come about every 2 to 3 minutes. On the chasing team the “Dispatcher” would be watching the web page and relaying the coordinates to the “Chaser”. About every twenty minutes the Runner would stop for about 10 minutes. This would give the Chaser some time to close in. I do have some concerns about people driving their car while talking on the phone and checking the GPS. But I was thinking that the Dispatcher would play a more important role in navigating the Chaser in close. Then the Chaser would work more when the Runner stopped. This is just a rough thought. Let me know what you think.

[+Ice_man]

This seems timely...

 

Tron Lightcycles, in Real Life

 

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...&tid=222&tid=10

[+tabulator32]

A lot of factors and circumstances.

 

Are they confined to a certain area? city? county? state?

 

What type of terrain? An open field or desert is completely different from a jungle or thick forest.

 

How do you assure the runner provides accurate coords?

[+rwtink]

The terrain and area would be up to the people playing and should be defined before the game starts. I personally wouldn't want it to difficult so more people would be willing to play. As for the accuracy I don't see it being much different then the standard caching now, but I would include a discription of the runner such as wearing a Red Texas Rangers cap and a green short sleeve shirt. This way they could stand out in a crowd. But that to could depend on the players

[+Team Perks]

Get a couple Garmin Rinos...as long as you aren't too far away you can do that without the middleman.

[+Mule Ears]

Your chase idea might be the germ of a suitable event game--a hare and hound sorta thing.

[+dino_hunters]

this cache

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...98-f18a6e9e3213

 

is in the back of some guys truck, that has a ham radio transmitting the trucks current coordinates to a website. Its currently unavailable, because the guy is on an LDS mission, but he should be back in 6 months or so. The cache is based in the Salt Lake CIty area of Utah.

[+Renegade Knight]

Skydiver used to do a Human Geocache where the goal was to find him. I don't know much about the details but it seemed to be popular. He repeated it a couple of years.

[+TeamAO]

GeoStalking

 

 

If someone will follow you where ever you go, let's say "nature" catches up with you. And you decide to relieve yourself by the nearest tree. And the "GeoStalker" catches you them. Now won't that be candid!

[+TeamK-9]

There was an event cache in PA, I think somewhere near State College. I forget how exactly it ended up working, but I think the plan was that the fox would have a pre-determined set of waypoints tht they would have to go to. It sounded pretty cool, but I don't remember exactly how it worked out.

 

IV Warrior is a forum regular, and I think he was involved with the event, maybe he coule post and share some about the event...

[+treasure_hunter]

A little strange, its more like asking to be stalked!

[+TeamAO]

A little strange, its more like asking to be stalked!

Ahem.... GeoStalking

[+TeamK-9]

I found the event I was referring to earlier: Fox Hunt: Tally-Ho!

 

The cache page doesn't say much about it, but there's a forum discussion somewhere with a bit more..

 

Okay, here we go. A discussion about it in the organized geocaching forum can be found here: Fox Hunt

 

And a discussion more specific to the event itself can be found in the Northeast forum, here: Cross Post: Fox Hunt

[+Pork King]

GeoStalking

 

 

If someone will follow you where ever you go, let's say "nature" catches up with you. And you decide to relieve yourself by the nearest tree. And the "GeoStalker" catches you them. Now won't that be candid!

Actually that is HOW the VC stalked our boys in Viet Nam. Apparently, they would follow trails of the "white stuff" to track troop movement (didn't the GI's carry a collapsable shovel??). After this was discovered, the Army switched to camo TP.