+TheRudderpost Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 On the page which shows 'caches listed closest to home co-ordinates' ... I see that the wee direction indicators and matching NW/SE descriptors don't actually give accurate info. They seem to assume that I live north and west of my actual location. Can anyone help me sort this out? Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Did you put your home coordinates in your profile? If so are they correct? Quote Link to comment
+TheRudderpost Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 Did you put your home coordinates in your profile? If so are they correct? I put the coordinates in and as far as I know they are accurate. It occurred to me that there might be some sort of offset sytem in place (as in Minute War) and that I have just not discovered it yet. Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I put the coordinates in and as far as I know they are accurate. So the map on this page accurately shows your home and surrounding neighborhood? Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Are you on the wrong side of the planet? Quote Link to comment
+KoosKoos Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Did you put your home coordinates in your profile? If so are they correct? I put the coordinates in and as far as I know they are accurate. It occurred to me that there might be some sort of offset sytem in place (as in Minute War) and that I have just not discovered it yet. that's creepy Lil Devil!!! How did YOU know where I live?????? Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 (edited) that's creepy Lil Devil!!! How did YOU know where I live?????? Simple. You picked up my travel bug that has a homing device embedded in it. It was a simple matter of seeing where it was when you logged the pickup. I'm building a database of many cacher's home coords this way Then I just wait for an event in your area, and send my goonies to burglarize your house while you party *That* would be creepy! Edited August 7, 2006 by Lil Devil Quote Link to comment
+Tharagleb Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I put the coordinates in and as far as I know they are accurate. So the map on this page accurately shows your home and surrounding neighborhood? Well that's the problem, he put in my home coordinates not his. Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Hey! Get out of my house!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+TheRudderpost Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 I put the coordinates in and as far as I know they are accurate. So the map on this page accurately shows your home and surrounding neighborhood? NO it doesn't. From the little that shows on that map I think it is at least several blocks away. The direction indicators think that a nearby cache is SW .45km when it is actually NW about .2km. How will I ever find the difficult ones if I can't find home ? Still hoping to find an answer Quote Link to comment
+TheRudderpost Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 Are you on the wrong side of the planet? I don't know if Iam on the "wrong" side of the planet but I am definitely on the far side Quote Link to comment
+TheRudderpost Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 Possible problem .. still no solution I see that the cordinates I input have changed ... I used degrees, minutes, seconds and they now read as degrees, decimal minutes. How do I deal with that? Quote Link to comment
+TheRudderpost Posted August 8, 2006 Author Share Posted August 8, 2006 OK I *think I get it 41* 30.347 = 41* 30' 21" because it means .347 x 60 which = 20.82 seconds How awkward Quote Link to comment
+OHMIKY Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 there are plenty of conversion scripts online - but the easiest way to deal with it is to set up your GPSr to read out the format you prefer to use. Quote Link to comment
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