Where Are Your Finds?

[+Team GPSaxophone]

It's been a while since the last thread on mapping your finds. I know I have a more impressive map now than I did then. Let's see yours!

 

[+Team GPSaxophone]

To make your own the easy way, you'll need to be a premium member.

 

Make a new pocket query (call it "finds" or whatever). Select 500 caches (if you have more than 500 finds you'll have to do more than one PQ). Select each type of cache except locationless (these will show up in strange places on your map if you do), but don't select "all types" or it will include locationless automatically. Select "that I have found" and select States/Provinces. Scroll down to US:Alabama and click on it. Scroll to the bottom, press your "shift" key and click on US:Wyoming. All states should now be colored blue. (If you have more than 500 finds, select fewer states for each PQ) Leave the other settings as "none" and choose to output in GPX format. Zipped files work best and don't trigger virus software (some email providers don't like GPX extensions). Choose the current day of the week and then submit your PQ.

 

When it shows up in your inbox, download it and run it through Spinner.

Go to Keenpeople.com's GPX Maptool. If you're not a member yet, sign up. (You can list your stats there, too!) Select your GPX file (the one now labeled spinner.gpx) 640x480 resolution and center your map at 35 lat and -98 long in order to show the lower 48. (Sorry, this won't work for outside of the US) Click on "create map."

To post the map here, you'll need to upload it from your My Cache Page or have your picture hosted somewhere else. Put the IMG link in your post and you're done!

[+9Key]

Those red dots make it look like you dripped blood from St Louis to New Mexico.

[+carleenp]

Oh dang, way too complicated for me right now. How about this? Caches found in Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Illinios, Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia?

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Sorry, Keenpeople doesn't allow me to select blue dots

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Oh dang, way too complicated for me right now. How about this? Caches found in Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Illinios, Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia?

You can select individual states if you want. Press CTRL and click on each state. There's not that much to it, really, give it a try.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Actually, if all of your finds are in the same general area, you can select a radius of X miles instead of selecting states. It takes 3 PQ's for me to do it by radius and some are missed or they overlap. You also need to give the lat/long or your zipcode for radius queries. Selecting all states is much easier.

[+9Key]

Here's my 700+. Neat idea - thanks!

 

Edit - updated map image.

Edited January 18, 2004 by 9Key

[+fizzymagic]

It doesn't look very good after the geocaching image munger got hold of it, but:

 

[+Eagles61]

Here are my 200+ finds. Does not look nearly as good as I thought it would. Guess I have to get out and find another few hundred.

 

[+IV_Warrior]

Here's mine.

 

[+SamLowrey]

Bah, mine are all within 300 miles in Texas - not worth it. But others are interesting. Where is Moun10bike?

[+JMBella]

Not too impassive I really need to work on this...

 

Anyone else notice That the keenpeople stats can't be put in the field anymore. Or is it just me?

Edited January 18, 2004 by JMBella

[+Team Trail Walker]

My question is slightly off topic but is somewhat related. When getting a PQ list of found caches, the list is short 3 caches that are now archived. I can't find a way to include them into the PQ list. Any suggestions?

[+IV_Warrior]

Right now, sit back and wait. Not really anything you can do. However, in this thread Jeremy states that one of the changes to the PQ's will be that you can get archived caches that you have found in a PQ.

[+rickrich]

Here is my GIANT scrollable/clickable map of Twin Cities caches I have found. Don't bother unless you have a broadband connection and a lot of memory on your computer. It takes about 60 seconds to load. The actual cache locations are slightly off due to the Tiger Map Server doing strange things at very high resolution. This is a proof of concept and was made with my geo-map command line tool.

 

The caches I have found are in monochrome, the ones I haven't found are in color.

 

http://linuxtrade.0catch.com/mngca/big.html

 

-Rick

Edited January 18, 2004 by rickrich

[+CYBret]

 

Anyone wanna take a guess at where I live?

 

Bret

[+RocketMan]

Here is mine:

 

 

Edit: This is missing Hawaii and the Caribbean

Edited January 18, 2004 by Rocket Man

[+kbraband]

Here's mine. My finds in Ohio and Indiana don't appear for some reason unknown to me.

[+RocketMan]

Here is a more detailed version:

 

[+garri]

Here is mine:

[+bigredmed]

Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and California.

 

(Via minions: Washington State)

[+Peztone]

So much easier if you live in the UK, maps generated Here

 

[DiverMan]

Here is a more detailed version:

 

What tool did you use for this?

[+RocketMan]

Here is a more detailed version:

 

What tool did you use for this?

I imported a PQ into Microsoft Streets and Trips.

[+drtmn]

I thought I would jump in on this one

 

 

My finds somewhere around 250

[+1setter]

Here is a different look for you done with Arcview GIS.

 

Edited January 19, 2004 by 1setter

[+OurWoods]

 

Looks so small. But each dot represents an adventure.

[+gnbrotz]

 

and benchmarks

 

Edited January 19, 2004 by gnbrotz

[+welch]

Ok, lets see the maps for BruceS, Glenn, and maybe Squemish!

 

Edit:

Ok finally got my map made, very cool feature. Never used that before, thanks SaxMan!

As has noted archived caches do not show up. There should be two in WA, and at least one more each in NE, and WY. I've also never been to LA, but thats a different problem...

Edited January 19, 2004 by welch

[+fizzymagic]

Actually, the map I want to see is WorldTraveler. I think he has the longest geocaching distance extant, although there are other international travelers that are up there.

[+maleki]

Here's mine.

[+drtmn]

Ok, lets see the maps for BruceS, Glenn, and maybe Squemish!

yeah, I would love to see Squeamish's. That guy has been all over the place, but so has BruceS.

[+cachew nut]

Uh oh, fly in the ointment. I followed the directions to the letter, but after creating the map, it looked like I was missing a state or two.

 

Further investigation revealed that if a cache you found was archived, it doesn't show up in the pocket query.

[+Woof!]

 

752 finds, 4 states

[+Corp Of Discovery]

Heres mine:

 

147 caches, 14 states, Washington D.C. and Canada.

[+Brian - Team A.I.]

/me thwaps Sax on the noggin'.

 

Dude, I was gonna go home and go straight to sleep after work. Now, I have to do this first! BTW, when are you sending me answers for Fundamental Flaw?

[+Divine]

Sorry, this won't work for outside of the US

And you said this on the third last line of your post. I had done every step until I read that. Well, I should've guessed that anyway. And read the whole post carefully first..

[+bitbrain]

It doesn't show the caches that have been archived, but here's my map.

 

 

475 Finds spread across TN, MS, AL, AR, MO, OR, WA. Got one find showing in CA, but that's a moving cache.

[+CWL]

Mine...

Edited January 19, 2004 by CWL

[+WildGooseChase]

Here you go. That dot in Idaho is acutally 10 caches.

[+Stump]

I was just playing with Tiger maps this weekend and created this:

 

 

Haven't been on a trip since we started geocaching so not ready for an entire country map yet.

[+Markwell]

I'll play along...

[+DirtRunner]

 

This has all my finds minus those archived.

 

Not bad I guess.

DirtRunner.

[+Markwell]

Anyone care to hear about a 2 year old topic? Back in January of 2002 we were musing on the fact that based on people's finds and hides, we could pin down their approximate home location.

 

I used the idea that people would probably start caching with caches close to their home, so I would take their first 5 or 10 finds and weight them a little heavy - and come up with an average of their location. I would also do this with their placements (this was before the restriction on vacation caches).

 

Results were scary.

 

Interesting that this cycled through in January again. Maybe that shows that it's too cold to actually GO caching - so we just have to think about it and think about it and think about it.

Edited January 19, 2004 by Markwell

[+Halden]

All in Ontario (Northern and Eastern) and one in New York State (just outside Lake Placid)

[+Right Wing Wacko]

I normally have a dynamic version of this up on my personal web page, but I've been doing so much geocaching lately, that I have not had time to maintain the server so it's down

 

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Anyone care to hear about a 2 year old topic? Back in January of 2002 we were musing on the fact that based on people's finds and hides, we could pin down their approximate home location.

 

I used the idea that people would probably start caching with caches close to their home, so I would take their first 5 or 10 finds and weight them a little heavy - and come up with an average of their location. I would also do this with their placements (this was before the restriction on vacation caches).

 

Results were scary.

 

Interesting that this cycled through in January again. Maybe that shows that it's too cold to actually GO caching - so we just have to think about it and think about it and think about it.

That is a bit scary, but then, I'm not worried about another cacher finding my house. At our last event, I passed out my coordinates so others could come by and view my Christmas light display.

[Moun10Bike]

Here's mine:

 

Pacific Northwest:

 

US (lower 48):

 

World:

[+PSUPAUL]

 

Here is mine, I don't know how I got that one out in UT!

 

edit typo

Edited January 19, 2004 by PSUPAUL