What's your spread look like?

[+georgeandmary]

I remember when my find count was around a hundred or so, I used to look at the cache map with all the found caches and imagine what it would look like when I had something like 500 finds. Well, I'm there and it doesn't look much different. I expected the finds to spread further around the state but instead it just gets filled in more and more. It is getting slightly larger as time goes but over all my spread looks the same.

 

 

It's basically a circle around my home town. I expect similar patterns from the rest of you.

 

What does your spread look like?

 

george

 

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

[enfanta]

They've been posting their find maps, too.

[+georgeandmary]

But I will now.

 

george

 

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

[Moun10Bike]

The majority of my finds are centered around my home near Seattle, but I also have tendrils shooting off along major highways and Interstates. You can see clusters centered around my parents' (Spokane) and in-laws' (Coeur d'Alene, ID) homes, as well as our cabin on Priest Lake, ID:

 

 

This map shows things a little more clearly:

 

 

Green dots are caches that I've found, and blue are ones that I've hidden.

 

[+Logscaler and Red]

Rabbit Brush and some rock outcroppings. Nice driveway uo the middle with a couple curves with the house at the end. 2.5 acres on the rectangle with a slight slope of about 3-4 percent from back to front.

 

Oh, wait a minute, where you talking about cache spread? In that case, somewhere around 1,000 miles from North to South and about the same from West to East. We are hopeing to spread that out a little bit soon. I am not sure how to get the map up and running to post to the web.

[umc]

This is what my spread looks like:

 

 

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Not so sure, Somewhat new Owner Of a Garmin GPS V Received on 10-03-02

 

[This message was edited by umc on December 04, 2002 at 05:50 PM.]

[+georgeandmary]

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Originally posted by umc:

This what my spread looks like:

 

http://www.richgraham.com/folio/icb.jpg

 

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Not so sure, Somewhat new Owner Of a Garmin GPS V Received on 10-03-02

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Not your favorite cache container, your cache map.

What are you doing with all that 'butter' anyway.

 

george

 

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

[mortonfox]

The map looks a bit weird when I zoom out. Looks like I've been caching in the islands of the East Coast.

 

[+fizzymagic]

I keep track of the order I find my caches, so I can show a track of my caching. Here's the US part of it:

 

 

Doing this also lets you calculate your "caching distance", which is the length of the path that would be required to go to all the caches you've found, in order of the finds.

[+Sissy-n-CR]

 

That's what we have to choose from!

 

CR

 

[BassoonPilot]

 

It's sad to note how geocaching seems to have totally died out on Staten Island ... there's been nothing new there in ages.

[pbarr86]

Where do you get those maps? Or did you make them??

 

Paul

[mortonfox]

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Originally posted by pbarr86:

Where do you get those maps? Or did you make them??

 

Paul

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Do a search on your zip code. Then click on "View the cache map for this state". Then zoom in, zoom out or pan as necessary.

[+pizzachef]

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Originally posted by pbarr86:

Where do you get those maps? Or did you make them??

 

Paul

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Just go to your state listing of caches and click on "state map".

 

It must be nice to be surrounded by thousands of caches...we may not have too many, but the caches that are here are good ones!

-pizzachef

[+Marky]

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Originally posted by StayFloopy:

quote:

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Originally posted by pbarr86:

Where do you get those maps? Or did you make them??

 

Paul

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Do a search on your zip code. Then click on "View the cache map for this state". Then zoom in, zoom out or pan as necessary.

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For the life of me, I just can't get the state maps to work. I get the ODBC SQL Server timeout, and that just doesn't look as nice as those maps...

 

Fizzy, how do you generate your map, it looks cool. Also, feel free to generate another pivot table for us if you have the time, I'd like to see how we did this last month.

 

--Marky

"Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr"

[+georgeandmary]

quote:

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Originally posted by pizzachef:

It must be nice to be surrounded by thousands of caches...we may not have too many, but the caches that are here are good ones!

 

-pizzachef

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The key is to find an empty space and plant a seed cache. As hunters enter the area they often know of other places in the same area and hide a cache also. Etc etc... get the ball rolling.

 

george

 

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

[Dru Morgan]

I put a couple of different zoom levels to give a better idea.

I have so many finds that the server will never come up with these for me unless I first 'logout' from the page. But, I have most of the ones in a circle around my house. They are getting further away now. Luckily, so many new ones come up in Los Angeles, that by just catching the new ones, I am still at almost 5 finds a week.

 

Half my life is spent explaining to Christians why I am a deadhead. The other half is spent explaining to deadheads why I am a Christian. -Dru Morgan

[FullOn]

I used to check out my map all the time too, waiting for the day it would be filled...

 

I've got a lot more caches to find. 290 so far isn't bad though!

 

 

"I thought you said this was a quick find!" - My wife

[pbarr86]

Can't wait to get the 3 on the Vineyard next summer.

[+The Leprechauns]

This map is of Southwestern Pennsylvania (in orange) and Eastern Ohio/Northwestern West Virginia. You can tell that the Leprechauns live in the Pittsburgh area, but we don't have the characteristic circle of caches with a bullseye in the middle. Also note the vast cache wasteland in Ohio waiting to be filled. The caches I found there were all done in one marathon 2-day trip that went to Zanesville and Athens Ohio in the west edge of the picture as the far points. The caches there are very nicely done, there is just not enough of them.

 

 

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

Next time, instead of getting married, I think I'll just find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.

[+Mr. 0]

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Originally posted by fizzymagic:

I keep track of the order I find my caches, so I can show a track of my caching. Here's the US part of it:

 

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/45488_1700.gif

 

Doing this also lets you calculate your "caching distance", which is the length of the path that would be required to go to all the caches you've found, in order of the finds.

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Fizzymagic,

What program did you use to make that map you have there?

[+fizzymagic]

The map itself is a screen capture from Street Atlas USA 2003. It draws the lines, but I have to generate the file it uses to draw the lines. As I said, I keep track of the order in which I find the caches, so I generate the file from my local DB of cache finds.

 

Kinda looks cool, doesn't it?

[+Web-ling]

There's a huge clump around the Dallas/Fort Worth area, but another smaller clump in Austin. I've also got stragglers in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio due to the vacations I've taken over the last year.

 

[+BruceS]

I had to zoom mine out quite abit to make it show at least most of my finds. My spread is roughly 600 miles north and south and 650 miles east and west. A few fall outside of this range.

 

[+Mr. Snazz]

[+welch]

 

[+georgeandmary]

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Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:

http://www.wordplay.com/tourism/self_guided_tours/mammals/images/beaver-i.gif

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Nice Beaver!

 

george

 

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

[+majicman]

You guys and your maps!

 

You are just ASKING me to Majicman this thread, aren't you.

 

What do all of you think about carring guns while you view your maps, and which is the best monitor to use to view these maps!

 

(That ought to start a war or two - Majicmaning at its best!)

 

--majicman

My new book available now!: (http://www.mcwj.com )

[+Salvelinus]

quote:

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Originally posted by fizzymagic:

I keep track of the order I find my caches, so I can show a track of my caching. Here's the US part of it:

 

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/45488_1700.gif

 

Doing this also lets you calculate your "caching distance", which is the length of the path that would be required to go to all the caches you've found, in order of the finds.

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Your map reminded me of a scene from the movie War Games "Want to play a Game?"

 

Ouch, did I just age myself?

 

"The trail will be long and full of frustrations. Life is a whole and good and evil must be accepted together"

 

Ralph Abele

[bteague2]

quote:

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Originally posted by Salvelinus:

 

Your map reminded me of a scene from the movie _War Games_ "Want to play a Game?"

 

Ouch, did I just age myself?

 

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naw i don't think so, War Games is a great movie

 

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

[+Sluggo]

No maps, just ASCII:

 

- - - - - - - -N 47° 33.598 (North)

 

W 122° 03.809 (West)- - - W 087° 33.552 (East)

 

- - - - - - - -N 39° 32.685 (South)

 

 

North (Central Washington)

South (Central Illinois)

East (Central Illinois)

West (Western Washington)

 

Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFO's come from and what their purpose is... - -Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Director, Central Intelligence Agency 1947-1950

[BassoonPilot]

Wasn't "The War Games" Patrick Troughton's last story as Doctor Who before Jon Pertwee took over the role?

[+Shychief]

My spread follows I-5.

[+mtn-man]

I'll have to stick to the Geocaching maps.

Maybe I will do a pocket query on the caches I have found and enter it into a map program.

 

My cache map of GA shows that I live around Atlanta pretty well.

 

 

My USA map shows that I travel and definately carry the GPS.

I have hit 16 states so far and Washington DC.

 

 

Cities in the order visited are Atlanta and suburbs, Cheaha AL, Wash. DC, Bowie MD, Los Angeles, Boston, Cleveland and Columbus OH, San Antonio, New Orleans, Colorado Springs, S. Newark, Stamford CT, New York City, Minneapolis, Sterling VA, Denver, San Francisco, San Jose', FL Keys, Austin, and Pittsburgh. A couple of locationless caches show up in WA state.

[+evergreenhiker!]

I'm closing in on 350 finds. I have 4 main groupings. Basically, Columbia River gorge area, Yakima, I-90 corridor, and the greater Seattle area.

 

[+Man In The Wild]

Looks like we need to work on stretching our map north vertically a bit... Mostly caches in West Virginia with some near us in Kentucky and Ohio. Trips to Virginia, DC, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, plus the big trip WV-Denver, CO (and Cheyenne, WY)-Milwaukee, WI-WV where we found at least one cache in every state (except KY and WV which we already had.)

 

[+TinSparrow]

Here is what my national spread looked like the last time that I saved it. Since then I've drawn a line from Dallas to Albuquerque. Maybe the new map server will allow me to generate a new one.

[Micqn]

You guys and your fancy maps. Looks like a lot of good times to me!

 

Happy. Hunting.

[+Prime Suspect]

This is just the local stuff, and it's missing about 40 that have been archived since I found them.