+rschoolf Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 Hunting benchmarks is a great idea! It's a good fit with GeoCaching. May I suggest, if the Geocaching Team adds this level of GPS usage to "geocaching.com", that they also add "wreckchasing", too. Wreckchasing is searching out and documenting military and civilian plane crash sites. http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm http://coloradowreckchasing.tripod.com/ http://home.earthlink.net/~rschoolf/geocaching.htm Quote Link to comment
+Web-ling Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 Is there a website that lists these with coordinates? Quote Link to comment
Ron Streeter Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 ....in my hands about this very thing. It was before geocaching (so before Feb of '01 for me) and I returned the book because the descriptions were SO VAGUE as to be useless. I guess that's why finding a wreck IS such a big deal. My guess is that some of the descriptions had mentions of direction of flight, last heard from at such and such a tower...that kind of thing. Might be worth digging up again though now that gps is around. If you did find one it would be great to make it a "virtual". Then the trails would be built to it by all the cachers and it would no longer be a mystery. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost. Quote Link to comment
Jeremy Posted May 17, 2002 Share Posted May 17, 2002 We have some ideas in the works to allow this sort of thing, but it will involve an overhaul of the web site. We're basically planning to offload the "non-geocaching" items to Groundspeak proper. We're experiencing growing pains at the moment that we want resolved the right way. Excellent idea though! Jeremy Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location Quote Link to comment
+Web-ling Posted May 17, 2002 Share Posted May 17, 2002 * Highpointing * Summit Bagging Yeah, I know, there are already websites for these, but...They are pretty weak. No coords, no search engine, limited (if any) online database, etc. Quote Link to comment
+jef Posted May 17, 2002 Share Posted May 17, 2002 There aren't that many plane wreck sites, though. I was thinking about putting geocaches at or around the three near me. I like the highpointing idea, unfortunately most GPS receivers aren't very accurate in the vertical direction. Quote Link to comment
+Doug & Linda Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 There a cache near us placed at a plane wreck. Hope to make it to it soon. Quote Link to comment
dboggny Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 as a person who has been involved in the recovery of bodies from plane crashes, pardon me for thinking you all a little sick for wanting to visit a location like this. at least pray in what ever way you personally pray while you are there. dboggny Quote Link to comment
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