+James0116 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Hi, we can’t seem to find any benchmarks is Australia on the geocaching website, even though there are survey markers all around Australia we were wondering if there was any benchmarking in Australia or is it only accessible in 2 countries, if that is the case, can we start benchmarking in Australia or is this only reserved for North America, thanks, James0116 Quote Link to comment
+outdoorsoccer Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 9 minutes ago, James0116 said: Hi, we can’t seem to find any benchmarks is Australia on the geocaching website, even though there are survey markers all around Australia we were wondering if there was any benchmarking in Australia or is it only accessible in 2 countries, if that is the case, can we start benchmarking in Australia or is this only reserved for North America, thanks, James0116 Hi, I believe you can list the benchmarks that you find in Australia on the Waymarking website. There is even a category already created for that purpose. Good luck and let us know how your BM adventures turnout. Take care, ODS 1 Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 https://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=f3b5d2a8-9cbb-4d0a-9d55-519f2aed7cc0 https://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=18b359b3-84e5-42f9-bbcf-c40ae533c962 1 Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Through Waymarking, you can do benchmarking in dozens of countries. 1 Quote Link to comment
Lynx Humble Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 14 hours ago, James0116 said: Hi, we can’t seem to find any benchmarks is Australia on the geocaching website, even though there are survey markers all around Australia we were wondering if there was any benchmarking in Australia or is it only accessible in 2 countries, if that is the case, can we start benchmarking in Australia or is this only reserved for North America, thanks, James0116 Benchmarking on the geocaching website is a USA only thing. None in Canada. They introduced it in 2000 because there was so few geocache and never updated the database since. They don't even give smiley. Like others said go take a look at Waymarking. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, James0116 said: Hi, we can’t seem to find any benchmarks is Australia on the geocaching website, even though there are survey markers all around Australia we were wondering if there was any benchmarking in Australia or is it only accessible in 2 countries, if that is the case, can we start benchmarking in Australia or is this only reserved for North America, thanks, James0116 I log trigs on an Australian site. They have other things too, but it's mainly the trigs that interest me. The site has been around for years. I am not sure if I should list the site here on this site. A couple of trigs I have logged. The church steeple is one too. Edited October 6, 2020 by Goldenwattle 1 Quote Link to comment
+James0116 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 Thank you everyone for your help I have taken your feedback on and will use what you have said, I am also going to contact Geocaching HQ for the possibility of benchmarking to be added to the Waymarking website st people can add benchmarks if they are available in their own country, then people can collect that they have done a benchmark and get the special icon on their profile statistics thanks James0116 2 Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 1 hour ago, James0116 said: I am also going to contact Geocaching HQ for the possibility of benchmarking to be added to the Waymarking website st people can add benchmarks if they are available in their own country, then people can collect that they have done a benchmark and get the special icon on their profile statistics Maybe you misunderstood, there already is the category in Waymarking. Waymarking is owned by Groundspeak I guess, but it's not geocaching. 1 Quote Link to comment
kayakbird Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 23 hours ago, Lynx Humble said: Benchmarking on the geocaching website is a USA only thing. None in Canada. TH0878'DESCRIBED BY INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION 1911 (CHS) TH0878'ABOUT 2-1/2 MILES NORTHWEST OF INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY MONUMENT 554, TH0878'IN SE 1/4 SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 1, RANGE 22 W, SECOND MERIDIAN. THE TH0878'STATION IS ON THE MORE SOUTHERN OF TWO PEAKS ON A PROMINENT RIDGE. TH0878' TH0878'STATION MARK--A CAIRN OVER A BRONZE DISK MARKED---U.S. AND C.B. TH0878'SURVEY---SET IN CONCRETE. I have a several year old tabulation that lists several more north of the Medicine Line north of Sheridan County, Montana. Should be a couple of previous threads on this subject. Seems like there are a few Down East also. MEL Quote Link to comment
Bill93 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Each country may have a few across the border, but it seems their data bases don't overlap. Even though the BM at Father Point is the reference for all of our NAVD88 elevations and has an NGS PID, you can't get an NGS data sheet for it. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 There actually are at least one or two in Canada. I'm a little surprised how hard it is to find a list of benchmarks IN the GC database with coordinates in Canada. OG0225 and TH0829 are two, for example. There seem to be a number along the Canada side of the US border as well, I believe. I was curious about that long ago, but never pursued doing any official type of research... but they do exist in the db! 1 Quote Link to comment
+elyob Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 In the benchmarks categories of Waymarking, you can see many cross-border examples. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Waymarking has many. But the ones listed in the GC database are few and far between - but they're there. Quote Link to comment
kayakbird Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) Hi All, A somewhat connected sub-set would be PID's south of the Medicine Line that were placed by the Geodetic Survey of Canada: My ten year old GSAK download shows 15 in Montana placed by 'GSC'. The only two that I got to have standard US Coast & Geodetic Survey brass caps. TK0419'DESCRIBED BY GEODETIC SURVEY OF CANADA 1922 TK0447'DESCRIBED BY GEODETIC SURVEY OF CANADA 1923 Was hoping to find one of theirs. There is Mexican brass in Nogales, Arizona. kayakbird Edited October 20, 2020 by kayakbird spelling 1 Quote Link to comment
foxtrot_xray Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 On 10/20/2020 at 2:10 PM, kayakbird said: Hi All, A somewhat connected sub-set would be PID's south of the Medicine Line that were placed by the Geodetic Survey of Canada: My ten year old GSAK download shows 15 in Montana placed by 'GSC'. The only two that I got to have standard US Coast & Geodetic Survey brass caps. TK0419'DESCRIBED BY GEODETIC SURVEY OF CANADA 1922 TK0447'DESCRIBED BY GEODETIC SURVEY OF CANADA 1923 Was hoping to find one of theirs. There is Mexican brass in Nogales, Arizona. kayakbird Interesting - decided to run some queries on my database (which is from the begiinning of September of this year) - There are 256 stations that were monumented by GSC, and total of 366 that they've reported on. There are 155 in AK, 2 in ID, 37 in ME, 10 in MI, 9 in MN, 15 in MT, 34 in ND, 3 in NH, 21 in NY, 11 in VT, and 9 in WA. 205 datasheets do not have a 'Mark Logo' entered in. 9 are marked as CGS, 33 are marked as GSC, and 19 are marked as NGS. Quote Link to comment
foxtrot_xray Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 When I was running the above numbers, I noticed something strange, and found out I had a bug in my database. I fixed it, and reimported all the stations, and found something interesting: Of all the publishable stations, 10 have a "MONUMENTED" or "FIRST OBSERVED" (code of "S" in the NGS database) by the "GEOCAC" agency. ONE is legit, DM5588, actually named 'GEOCAC', the special one set back in 2009. The rest are odd ones: Quote EZ6426JV6118KU3929LW4049LW4497LW5135LX5725MY3831MZ1524 All have an entry similar to: Quote EZ6426 STATION RECOVERY (UNK ) EZ6426 EZ6426'RECOVERED UNK EZ6426'RECOVERED AS DESCRIBED. Quote Link to comment
kayakbird Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 (edited) foxtrot_xray & all, LW4049'CRANBERRY BOG ACCESS ROAD NEAR THE SE CORNER OF THE BOG. THE EAST FACE LW4049'OF THE STONE HAS A CARVED B AND THE WEST FACE A CARVED M. LW4049'THE STONE IS A CORNER MARK OF THE BARNSTABLE AND MASHPEE TOWN BOUNDARY Looks like they did a lot of work to get PID's, with datasheets, for some obscure boundary corners; but never added them to the game tabulation. kayakbird Edited November 3, 2020 by kayakbird add an s Quote Link to comment
+Goldenwattle Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 (edited) On 10/6/2020 at 2:50 PM, James0116 said: Thank you everyone for your help I have taken your feedback on and will use what you have said, I am also going to contact Geocaching HQ for the possibility of benchmarking to be added to the Waymarking website st people can add benchmarks if they are available in their own country, then people can collect that they have done a benchmark and get the special icon on their profile statistics thanks James0116 Why not join the Australian site? All the trigs are listed for you to find and log. Plus NZ trigs were recently added. Plus there are other things to find. Edited November 3, 2020 by Goldenwattle Quote Link to comment
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