+careygang Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Hi All It's been a while (several years) since we've posted here in the Forums, but a Message Centre arrival last night, regarding one of our Multi-caches has prompted me... Incoming Message read: Regarding RAF North Witham - Twyford Woods (GCVMXJ): Could you please send the coordinates for 2 and 3 using What3Words? I am trying to teach my daughter how to use a multitude of navigational aids while maintaining a fun and enjoyable day out. Thank you. To which I politely replied: I have no idea how I can or could even do that. It you know how to do it, feel free to do so. and the conversation continued... Please use this website as you know the coordinates. Thank you. https://what3words.com/products/batch-converter So now I'm thinking, What on earth? If they want to use What3Words, they can do their own conversions. My Response: Well here's the thing..... Since you have the ability to convert a set of Coordinates into What3Words, I suggest that you .... A - Give your daughter the What3Words for the initial coordinates B - When you have found the 1st Stage and obtained the details, you can use the same facility to convert the coordinates for Stage 2. C - Repeat B at the 2nd Stop to find the the 3rd stage together. That way I know you've not just cheated and gone direct to the Final Cache and you'll have had a wonderful day out together. Oh, and that What3Words convertor doesn't work with the coordinate format used on geocaching.com Kind regards They then came back with: Thank you. We have already found the first clue which gave us the coordinates for the second clue; however I cannot get the coordinates to convert to What3Words. Do you have the coordinates in DMS and not digital degrees please? So they knew that decimal coordinates couldn't be converted on What3Words, but sent us the link to use it.!! I'm about to send a final response telling them that if they want to mess around with What3Words, that's entirely their concern, not mine. They can easily find a website that will convert Decimal to Deg/Min/Sec Has anyone else had such strange incoming messages, to all intent and purpose simply asking for a way to bypass the stages, whatever the 'excuse' given?? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Hmm, never had anything like that. On the one hand it almost sounds like they're fishing hoping you will give them the co-ords that they don't have. If I was you I'd message them back pointing them at https://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/ which has the tools to convert between all the co-ordinates formats and W3W. Quote Link to comment
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