+Andromeda321 Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 This is what my area looks like - I suck at puzzles - do you see what I have to work with??? We've found almost 60 so far but too many puzzles around here I wouldn't call that too many puzzles at all- I'm not a huge fan of them either, but then I moved to Europe where I often lack the language/ cultural background to boot. As an example just do a simple map search for your favorite German city- traditionals are less than half the caches usually. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Don't know if anyone has pointed this out -- been looking at maps, not reading much -- but for newer Windows machines, the snipping tool (loom in your accessories folder) is much, much, much more convenient than print screen -- you can crop what you want, and it will save it as a graphic file, not just copy it to your clipboard. Our current map (Montgomery, Alabama): My temporary map for the summer (Huntsville, Alabama): And what will be our home map come this September (Lawton, Oklahoma): Quote Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Home is in about the middle of the lower 1/3 of the map. This is roughly my home caching area. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 (edited) My caching neighborhood. Edited April 30, 2013 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 My caching neighborhood. That's a lot of green tupperware icons for a 4-time Geocacher of the Year. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 My caching neighborhood. That's a lot of green tupperware icons for a 4-time Geocacher of the Year. Because, after all, we should all be measured by how many geocaches we have found. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 My caching neighborhood. That's a lot of green tupperware icons for a 4-time Geocacher of the Year. Because, after all, we should all be measured by how many geocaches we have found. Quote Link to comment
+cheech gang Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Now that we have the entire continental US mapped in this thread, what exactly was the point of this exercise? Quote Link to comment
+GeePa Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 So many caches, so little time... Quote Link to comment
+aviatik Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Countryside north of Prague looks different than American one: My favorite area is on NE side of my HC: Quote Link to comment
+redsox_mark Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 My local area (Bath, England) Quote Link to comment
+TheBarnSwallows Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Just over 1 year of caching down, this is our local area, however we have a pretty good distance out to a lot more caches Quote Link to comment
+SSO JOAT Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 (edited) Wayyy up north. I actually still have a couple caches left to find around my hometown. And one bastard puzzle as well. It's actually all of those stars that causes me some regret. As soon as it stops snowing (hopefully soon), I have to go out and put hands on each and every one of those to do the mandatory Owner Maintenance. Edited May 4, 2013 by SSO JOAT Quote Link to comment
+terrkan78 Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Same shot, one from 2010 and one current. There's not a big difference in the number of geocaches on the map then compared to now, but the older map looks more crowded - smilies were larger back then. 2010 current Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 (edited) My caching neighborhood. That's a lot of green tupperware icons for a 4-time Geocacher of the Year. I'm more about the stars than the smileys. Edited May 5, 2013 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+AutisticMajor Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Dropbox file Dropbox links don't display here, for some reason. Nevertheless, this is my effective caching range. Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 Dropbox file Dropbox links don't display here, for some reason. Nevertheless, this is my effective caching range. You have to wrap it in an img tag Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 My caching neighborhood. That's a lot of green tupperware icons for a 4-time Geocacher of the Year. I'm more about the stars than the smileys. I applaud you, sir. Well said. Quote Link to comment
+hunter259 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Here is my area. As you can see I have plenty of work to do I think I did this the wrong way, but you can just copy and paste this into a new window of your internet browser file:///C:/Users/Matt/Geocaching%20Screen%20Shot.png We can only see this if we're on your computer... that "C:" refers to your own C drive, not ours. You'll have to upload the picture to a photo-hosting site, or to your geocaching gallery, and link to it that way. Oh! lol... sorry... If I have the chance I'll see if I can fix it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 What's with the shooting stars on that one; multis? Quote Link to comment
+ATXTracker Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 What's with the shooting stars on that one; multis? I think those are either multis or puzzle solutions, or both. Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 What's with the shooting stars on that one; multis? I think those are either multis or puzzle solutions, or both. How did you make that? Quote Link to comment
+hunter259 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 here's one ... Wow - that's awesome! How did you do that/get that? Quote Link to comment
+Annawashere Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Here's part of my map. I've done quite a bit of caching farther away, though. Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 This is what my area looks like - I suck at puzzles - do you see what I have to work with??? We've found almost 60 so far but too many puzzles around here That's alot of puzzles!! Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 (edited) This is what my area looks like - I suck at puzzles - do you see what I have to work with??? We've found almost 60 so far but too many puzzles around here That's alot of puzzles!! Yet, I'm repeatedly told that such areas do not exist. When she posted that map, I did a PQ of the area and found that it was 40% puzzles, twice that of the world statistics that Groundspeak posted during the 2 millionth cache celebration. Edited June 22, 2013 by Don_J Quote Link to comment
+tweetiepy Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 This is what my area looks like - I suck at puzzles - do you see what I have to work with??? We've found almost 60 so far but too many puzzles around here That's alot of puzzles!! And some of those smilies are found puzzles. I've been trying to solve those puzzles, even gave some to my retired mom to work her brain out and help me out. It's gonna be a long wait to get those. We're up to 90 found caches so far...Plodding on Quote Link to comment
+TheWeatherWarrior Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 This thread needs MOAR! Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 This thread needs MOAR! Pretty easy to tell the areas of town in which I live and work... Quote Link to comment
+Fugads Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) My home area, Las Cruces, NM. Edited September 25, 2013 by Fugads Quote Link to comment
+bflentje Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Can you figure out where I live? Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Mine looks like this now. Still a lot of the world I haven't seen, but I am getting there. Slowly. Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 (edited) This is a fun topic as I never noticed that map feature! We save the ones near home for our streak of over 2 years so haven't found them all yet but like to leave them for the few days we don't travel far away. This is close to our area. This is just one of the other areas we often find ourselves caching about 50 miles from home. This is the map we like as when you see the smilies on the map they were not at all found on the same days. Mostly 1 or 2 a day so there is a lot of travel between. This is a close up but you can see we have pretty much filled in the whole bay in strait lines between caches and have gone over 43.771 miles in just strait lines bettween caches and often I drive a hundred miles or so and end up finding on right next to one I found the day before. Edited November 17, 2013 by WarNinjas Quote Link to comment
+Shmitty Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I love this topic. I'd post mine, but there are only about 10 caches that I don't own within 15 miles of my house. There are about 100 I own though :-). Quote Link to comment
+Armsey Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 (edited) East of England Not sure how to make this bigger!!! Edited November 18, 2013 by Armsey Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Mine looks like this now. Still a lot of the world I haven't seen, but I am getting there. Slowly. I'm really impressed by that cluster in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That must have been a looong paddle. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Mine looks like this now. Still a lot of the world I haven't seen, but I am getting there. Slowly. I'm really impressed by that cluster in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That must have been a looong paddle. Or it could be Hawaii. I'm curious what Fizzymagic used to create that map. I'd like to see what my world map looks like with large red dots on it. Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I'm really impressed by that cluster in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That must have been a looong paddle. Or it could be Hawaii. It is Hawaii, of course. I'm pretty sure briansnat was joking. I'm curious what Fizzymagic used to create that map. I'd like to see what my world map looks like with large red dots on it. I used TOPO 9.0 from Delorme. I think with some effort you could get the GPSVisualizer site to do it using Google Maps. Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 There's about 15 caches that I can easily get to in town. I usually cache locally just a few times a year. I mostly just cache on trips, anymore. Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Can you figure out where I live? Nashville, TN? Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Can you figure out where I live? Nashville, TN? No,no, no. Albuquerque. Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Can you figure out where I live? Nashville, TN? No,no, no. Albuquerque. Oh, darn, missed that. Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Can you figure out where I live? Nashville, TN? No, no, no. Albuquerque. Oh, darn, missed that. What can I say? Ya really gotta work on your map reading skills, jholly. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I'm really impressed by that cluster in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That must have been a looong paddle. Or it could be Hawaii. It is Hawaii, of course. I'm pretty sure briansnat was joking. I knew he was joking. On the other hand, someone *has* paddled to Hawaii from California (Monterey, specifically) . A guy named Ed Gillet did it (solo) in 1987 in a 21 foot kayak. It took him 63 days. Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 East of England Not sure how to make this bigger!!! As crazy as it it sounds, you have to take the /large out of the url. (a known issue for a number of years) Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Mine looks like this now. Still a lot of the world I haven't seen, but I am getting there. Slowly. I'm really impressed by that cluster in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That must have been a looong paddle. Or it could be Hawaii. I'm curious what Fizzymagic used to create that map. I'd like to see what my world map looks like with large red dots on it. And, after reading about all of your World travels, I'd like to see it as well. Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I'm really impressed by that cluster in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That must have been a looong paddle. Or it could be Hawaii. It is Hawaii, of course. I'm pretty sure briansnat was joking. I knew he was joking. On the other hand, someone *has* paddled to Hawaii from California (Monterey, specifically) . A guy named Ed Gillet did it (solo) in 1987 in a 21 foot kayak. It took him 63 days. OT, but how do you keep 63 days of food and water in a 21 foot kayak? Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I'm really impressed by that cluster in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That must have been a looong paddle. Or it could be Hawaii. It is Hawaii, of course. I'm pretty sure briansnat was joking. I knew he was joking. On the other hand, someone *has* paddled to Hawaii from California (Monterey, specifically) . A guy named Ed Gillet did it (solo) in 1987 in a 21 foot kayak. It took him 63 days. OT, but how do you keep 63 days of food and water in a 21 foot kayak? Apparently he didn't. He originally planned to make the crossing in 40 days and eventually ran out of food. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I did this with GPSVisualizer. I wish I could make the icons smaller but couldn't seem to get it to do so. Quote Link to comment
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