Cache Deserts

[+crunchiespg]

i know when i first started geocaching Hereford was somewhat of a cache desert. now it has quite a few more.

 

so is there any other towns that are as empty as hereford was?

[+littlejim]

Not a town, but take a look at the Orkney Islands, just north of John O'Groats. Wonderful landscape, plenty of cache locations and only 1 traditional and 1 virtual cache when I visited in July. Looks like the Orkney needs its own Happy Humphrey

[+Simply Paul]

This map (thanks to G:UK) shows where some cache-free landscape can still be found.

 

 

As you can see, there are fairly large areas, with not so large populations, just waiting for a blue dot (for me to turn red at some stage, I hope)

 

SP

Edited September 6, 2005 by Simply Paul

[+The Hokesters]

Hey who nicked Ireland?

[+walkergeoff and wife]

It's all part of the borderless EU!

[+Kitty Hawk]

I don't normally run the full UK search like that so I've not seen it for ages, but it's packed out a heck of a lot more densely than it was just 18 months ago!

 

Interesting

[barryhunter]

See also this funky density map by Ian Rutson:

http://rutson.com/density.png

its a few months old now mind!

[Andys101 & Redfrock]

well, we live in the most south easterly tip of England, so immediately most of our circumference is in the sea; but these stats may give you an idea of just how dire it is:

 

In a 10 mile radius there are just 7 caches, 4 of which were placed this year (soon to be 5 because I have just spied a place to hide my first cache and am due to set about badgering the land owner!)

 

In a 20 mile radius there are 28 caches and in a 40 mile radius 134

 

While not exactly a desert compared to some of the places on the map, this is still really really limited! In comparison, when we were on holiday in the Peak district, the same stats were as follows

 

10 miles - 46 caches

20m - 153 caches

40m - 763 caches !!!!!!

 

I think I need to move up north, or at least to at place that isn't surrounded by sea

Edited September 6, 2005 by Andys101 & Miss Redfrock

[+Pharisee]

well, we live in the most south easterly tip of England, so immediately most of our circumference is in the sea; but these stats may give you an idea of just how dire it is:

 

In a 10 mile radius there are just 7 caches, 4 of which were placed this year (soon to be 5 because I have just spied a place to hide my first cache and am due to set about badgering the land owner!)

 

In a 20 mile radius there are 28 caches and in a 40 mile radius 134

 

While not exactly a desert compared to some of the places on the map, this is still really really limited! In comparison, when we were on holiday in the Peak district, the same stats were as follows

 

10 miles  - 46 caches

20m - 153 caches

40m - 763 caches !!!!!!

 

I think I need to move up north, or at least to at place that isn't surrounded by sea 

You don't need to go that far north. There's 120 within a 10 mile radius of my home in Luton.....

Oh I don't know though.... think I'd sooner be in the Peak District

Edited September 6, 2005 by Pharisee

[+The Hancock Clan]

Devon's an interesting place...there's absolutely gazillions of caches in the south and quite a lot in the north, but the middle bit (such as South Molton) is relatively untouched!

[+Munkeh]

thought this thread was going to be about eating ice cream whilst looking for caches

 

no marmite with it though!

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

 

no marmite with it though!

Aww, gee, No Marmite? OK, where do I complain?

[+Teasel]

Hey who nicked Ireland?

Apparently the coastline of Ireland is property of the Ordnance Survey and I have to pay them money if I want to use it. Well, that's true of the Republic - the Northerners wouldn't even talk to me!

 

If anyone has a high resolution, royalty free, known-scale, mercator projection of Ireland, send it my way and I'll add it.

[+Simply Paul]

I suggest you ask every cacher in Ireland to place caches 0.1m apart all along the coast then just dot-to-dot on the map to give you your coastline

 

SP

[+Teasel]

Or create a waymark category "Pebbles on the Beach" and we'd get it accurate to a couple of meters!

[+Skippy and Pingu]

Not a town, but take a look at the Orkney Islands, just north of John O'Groats. Wonderful landscape, plenty of cache locations and only 1 traditional and 1 virtual cache when I visited in July. Looks like the Orkney needs its own Happy Humphrey

Should be up there now doing the only 2 caches but had to cancel at the last minute. Still, my friends have gone armed with GPS and spoiler photos and are hoping to do the one and only container cache there. Hope they get the bug from the only one because if they do then there will be an Orkanian cacher and a chance of some caches up there.

[+Alice Band]

Leicester is pretty poor, but then again so is central Birmingham. Now that place is gagging for some central micro caches! Compare that to Brussels where you positively trip over them everywhere you go.

[+Pengy&Tigger]

If anyone has a high resolution, royalty free, known-scale, mercator projection of Ireland, send it my way and I'll add it.

http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.html

 

Is this site any use, seems to have coastline data on there?

 

Pengy

[+dino-irl]

Or the SMC contour maps. They have a pretty good coastal outline of Ireland. Not sure if it's much use though.

 

OSI are a shower of $?$?$?$. Our only consolation is that OSNI are even worse

[+Team Ballibeg]

Argyll and Bute not heavily covered yet.....4 within 10 miles..... but I am working on it!!

 

Dave

[+littlejim]

Hope they get the bug from the only one because if they do then there will be an Orkanian cacher and a chance of some caches up there.

I'll keep my fingers crossed - we were up for a wedding and hoped to place a Hoy cache on a friends croft, but decided not to due to circumstance. Will be back however and hope to find more caches as and when they appear!

[+davy boy]

Have just come back from one of those cache free zones in Powys,there were only a few when we started going but it is slowly improving.I think my nearest cache from LD6 was about 11 miles as the crow flies and would take about 2 hrs in the car as someone forgot to build roads up that way!!

The caches that are there though are excellent and usually good hikes.

[barryhunter]

If anyone has a high resolution, royalty free, known-scale, mercator projection of Ireland, send it my way and I'll add it.

I have a number of differnet ones (some sourced from the same place as the Contour maps), reprojected on various scales. Mainlly used for the maps on www.trigtools.co.uk and www.geograph.co.uk .

 

I've also replied off forum, but let me know what sort of format you want.

[Nediam]

Stratford Upon Avon seems pretty empty!

 

Nothing within a 10 mile radius (appox.)

Edited September 14, 2005 by nediam