+jeremyp Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Do people want something to do at the Winchester cache meet? I was thinking of an on-foot treasure hunt around Winchester based on GPS coordinates. If the answer is "yes" I'll be out on Sunday putting it together. If the answer is "no" expect Winchester to be saturated with virtual caches very soon If anybody happens to be in Winchester on Sunday and sees an idiot wandering about with a GPS, please feel free to volunteer your help or just say hello. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted March 17, 2002 Author Share Posted March 17, 2002 Four responses, all for an activity. Thusly I spent three very enjoyable hours today slogging around Winchester putting the quiz together. (Hopefully it'll take less long for others to do it). I really envy the cachers who live there now. Anyway, if you have a data cable for your GPS I'd recommend bringing it along because I'll bring a laptop with EasyGPS and the coordinates for the waypoints on it, so people don't have to type them in. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted March 17, 2002 Share Posted March 17, 2002 Coordinates of this event have been updated in the cache page to reflect the "on-the-ground" readings recently obtained. El10t Quote Link to comment
+Tim & June Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 quote:Originally posted by el10t: Coordinates of this event have been updated in the cache page to reflect the "on-the-ground" readings recently obtained. El10t Okay, Don't want to split ends here (or should that be 'Split hairs') I could not understand how we, and Mapsource had managed to get the coordinates so far out and went back to take a look (especially when Mapsource put the pub on the corner opposite with the new coordinates). The new readings take us to outside 'Toni and Guy's' unisex hair salon anout 130 feet away (on the other side of the road) and the coordinates we confirmed take us to about 20 foot from the door. Hence my comment that a blind man with a good nose for ale will find it. I guess the new meeting place could be 'a cut above the rest', or perhaps the drinks there are a 'snip' I do hope so because by that time we will be 'dyeing' for a drink though June says she will 'trim' down her drinking but above all meeting the others will be the 'highlight' of the day. Of course, June had to put her thoughts to verse : Instead of having a drink you'll end up with your head in a sink It's a salon not a saloon where we're meeting at noon The coordnates are wrong wink wink wink Oh no! I hear you all cry all I wanted was a pint and a pie but we can still have a natter the place doesn't matter and we'll end up with a cut and blow dry. Tim & June (Winchester) To cache, or not to cache. That is the question ! Oh to hell with the work. Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted March 18, 2002 Author Share Posted March 18, 2002 Hmm, well I was on the other side of the road, but directly opposite the Gaol House and the road is not 130 ft wide. The coordinates I had were actually in the next street (St Peters). I have to go back anyway to check the quiz, so I'll get another set of coords then too. quote:Originally posted by Tim & June: quote:Originally posted by el10t: Coordinates of this event have been updated in the cache page to reflect the "on-the-ground" readings recently obtained. El10t Okay, Don't want to split ends here (or should that be 'Split hairs') I could not understand how we, and Mapsource had managed to get the coordinates so far out and went back to take a look (especially when Mapsource put the pub on the corner opposite with the new coordinates). The new readings take us to outside 'Toni and Guy's' unisex hair salon anout 130 feet away (on the other side of the road) and the coordinates we confirmed take us to about 20 foot from the door. Hence my comment that a blind man with a good nose for ale will find it. I guess the new meeting place could be '_a cut above the rest_', or perhaps the drinks there are a '_snip_' I do hope so because by that time we will be '_dyeing_' for a drink though June says she will '_trim_' down her drinking but above all meeting the others will be the '_highlight_' of the day. Of course, June had to put her thoughts to verse : Instead of having a drink you'll end up with your head in a sink It's a salon not a saloon where we're meeting at noon The coordnates are wrong wink wink wink Oh no! I hear you all cry all I wanted was a pint and a pie but we can still have a natter the place doesn't matter and we'll end up with a cut and blow dry. Tim & June (Winchester) To cache, or not to cache. That is the question ! Oh to hell with the work. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
+Tim & June Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 quote:Originally posted by jeremyp: Hmm, well I was on the other side of the road, but directly opposite the Gaol House and the road is not 130 ft wide. The coordinates I had were actually in the next street (St Peters). I have to go back anyway to check the quiz, so I'll get another set of coords then too. jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Ok, I will accept that Mapsource, Pubworld and both my and Junes GPS recievers are all wrong. And yours is correct. The Gaolhouse is to the west of St.Peters Street. Therefore your readings should have been to the West of the reading which we confirmed. But in fact your readings were further East ! Easy to confirm using the coordinates. Our post was sprinkled liberally with smileys. Must you always be quite so controversial ? Have a nice day Tim & June (Winchester) To cache, or not to cache. That is the question ! Oh to hell with the work. [This message was edited by Tim & June on March 18, 2002 at 10:03 AM.] Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 In view of the fact that Tim and June are more likely to be correct than jeremyp given the number of readings they have taken I shall change the coords back to what they were - I hadn't realised they were actual measured coords because of all the discussion on pubmaster etc. Apologies to all. jeremyp - it must have been a bad reception day when you took your measurement. It will be worth rechecking the coords you have noted for the tresure hunt when you go back and test it. I will give a hand if you like. El10t Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Tim & June: Our post was sprinkled liberally with smileys. Tim & June (Winchester) To cache, or not to cache. That is the question ! Oh to hell with the work. [This message was edited by Tim & June on March 18, 2002 at 10:03 AM.] I'm sorry, my post wasn't intended to be critical of you in any way. I did say I'd go back and check. In fact you've got me a ittle worried about the quiz. If I had the wrong datum, it's going to be quite hard There is another possibility in that we took some more coordinates off Autoroute. In fact I can't remember the source of the coordinates I put into my GPS or pehaps I mistyped them (or was holding my GPS upside down ) ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 Well I don't know how it happened but I checked the position I had marked for the Gaol House in Autoroute and it was in St Peters Street. I must have typed the coordinates wrong. The position I posted on this thread was much better but still inside a building on the opposite side of the road to where the Gaol House actually is. The good news is that I checked the position of some of the locations in the quiz and they seem to be about right ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
+Silver Horde Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 Could you post your treasure hunt here or somewhere. So that people who are unable to come on the day of the meet could "follow your footsteps" when they get to visit Winchester on holiday! We have family in Winchester. Thanks Pereginus Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 This is an excellent idea - jeremyp should post it as a virtual cache after the Winchester meet. El10t Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted March 20, 2002 Author Share Posted March 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Jane8276: Could you post your treasure hunt here or somewhere. So that people who are unable to come on the day of the meet could "follow your footsteps" when they get to visit Winchester on holiday! We have family in Winchester. Thanks Pereginus Yes, it did cross my mind to post it as a virtual cache. Obviously, I'm not going to do it until after the meet And by then it will have been fully road tested by several caching teams. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
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