+DamhuisClan Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 As of the 8th of June Google street view is available in South Africa. Has anybody spotted any geocaches via Street view? Or maybe someone logging a cache while the Google car came past? www.googlemaps.com Type in the address of the location in the top text box. Once at the address drag the orange man onto the map Where blue lines appear, there are street views available. Drop the orange man on the map, and view the street view. For a list of towns covered see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetview For instance Graaff-Reinet is not listed, but they do have street views for it. Quote Link to comment
+Rhino and Hedgehog Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Or maybe someone logging a cache while the Google car came past? We got caught by the car/camera's.... our car is parked by the cache... unlucky for us it was a DNF - MIA. All quite fun! Quote Link to comment
+DamhuisClan Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 co-ords? would like to see, or is it better not to publish them here? Quote Link to comment
+malo mystery Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 A while back I had an idea of doing a long distance cache like from Cape Town to Hermanus, that families might enjoy doing while on their way to the destination. This would make the trip more enjoyable for the little ones and thus more enjoyable for the adults too. It would work along the lines of counting objects/identifying things like : how many legs on the bridge crossing the road, how many flagpoles at the farmstall etc, anything that could be counted without having to stop. Just as well I did not go to all the trouble. Out with one idea and in with a new one. Quote Link to comment
+CapeDoc Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 A while back I had an idea of doing a long distance cache like from Cape Town to Hermanus, that families might enjoy doing while on their way to the destination. This would make the trip more enjoyable for the little ones and thus more enjoyable for the adults too. It would work along the lines of counting objects/identifying things like : how many legs on the bridge crossing the road, how many flagpoles at the farmstall etc, anything that could be counted without having to stop. Just as well I did not go to all the trouble. Out with one idea and in with a new one. No, do it! It is still a great idea and the street view certainly doesn't cover the countryside. Quote Link to comment
+RedGlobe Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 No, do it! It is still a great idea and the street view certainly doesn't cover the countryside. The street view do cover the countryside….if you turn the view left or right you can even zoom in on objects. All those cameras have a 360 view. Quote Link to comment
+Cape Geckos Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Just make them do something to prove they drove it - petrol slips or a start and end photo somewhere not covered by streetview would work... something like that anyway. Otherwise a great idea - do it! Quote Link to comment
+trevorh7000 Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Just make them do something to prove they drove it - petrol slips or a start and end photo somewhere not covered by streetview would work... something like that anyway. Otherwise a great idea - do it! No Need as if the start of the cache is in Cape Town and ends In Hermanus you might be able to do all/some of the waypoints but how are you gonna find a container in Hermanus sitting in your armchair at home? trev Quote Link to comment
+BruceTP Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Google Street view is ideal, especially when the geochecker says otherwise. Confirm your location by sight. Unfortunately, that is where the armchair caching ends - you still have to go out and physically sign the log. I shall have to go there another day... Quote Link to comment
+Henzz Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Amazing.... One can play with this for hours on end... Even spotted my own car on Blaauwberg Road... Quote Link to comment
+Cape Geckos Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 In order to see how easy/difficult this would be to utilise, I attempted to do an entire cache with Streetview this weekend and actually got pretty far. I attempted it with Bo-kaap Mosques by Discombob seeing as it uses some fairly obvious landmark types in a relatively small area and I have yet to do it so could not cheat. After a decent amount of searching and panning around I got 4 out of the 6 required answers with streetview. One of the remaining clues was blocked by trees and the last I didn't find because I knew I now couldn't get them all and will still do this manually one day (I even deleted the answers so I have to do them all again). My verdict is as follows: 1. I really love playing with Google Earth and Streetview is awesome 2. It is possible to find all the clues for a cache if the clues are large enough. This said, it is no fun at all and anyone who caches this way is completely missing the point! Quote Link to comment
+Rhino and Hedgehog Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 We had a classic the other day - solved a puzzle and checked up on street view to see the location - all fine - so on the day of going for the cache we find that we have left the co-ords at home... but where able to get to the spot by remembering where the street view postion was! Our verdict - Yahoo! Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 My wife is standing in the garden in the shot of our place! [blurred out] Quote Link to comment
+CapeDoc Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Off topic: Anyone tried the traffic info now available for Garmin? Quote Link to comment
+DamhuisClan Posted July 3, 2010 Author Share Posted July 3, 2010 My wife is standing in the garden in the shot of our place! [blurred out] Here are some more "mysteries" http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Google-...,news-7219.html Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Anyone seen Car TB's in streetview? Would be interesting to find some and discover them.... Quote Link to comment
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