+emurock Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 (edited) HAPPY HOLLOWEEN TO ALL INDIANA GEOCACHERS(and well all geocachers )!!! Star Ditto!!! Edited October 31, 2007 by emurock Quote Link to comment
+jtbrady01 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Question is who's going to get the most candy or caches today? Quote Link to comment
Pokagon Nature Center Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Those who know me know I'm a big GIS geek. While exploring some new layers that have become available, I saw the cemetery layer. I've been playing with how many were in each county, in case anyone's curious. A lot of dead people around Bloomington. For a new geocoin, anyone want to guess how many state recognized official cemeteries are located in the state of Indiana. Guess within 10, only one guess per day, my word is final. No counting dots on the map! Quote Link to comment
+emurock Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Those who know me know I'm a big GIS geek. While exploring some new layers that have become available, I saw the cemetery layer. I've been playing with how many were in each county, in case anyone's curious. A lot of dead people around Bloomington. For a new geocoin, anyone want to guess how many state recognized official cemeteries are located in the state of Indiana. Guess within 10, only one guess per day, my word is final. No counting dots on the map! 8,112 Quote Link to comment
Pokagon Nature Center Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 No, too high. Quote Link to comment
+markz68 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 No, too high. $1.00 Quote Link to comment
+jtbrady01 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Those who know me know I'm a big GIS geek. While exploring some new layers that have become available, I saw the cemetery layer. I've been playing with how many were in each county, in case anyone's curious. A lot of dead people around Bloomington. For a new geocoin, anyone want to guess how many state recognized official cemeteries are located in the state of Indiana. Guess within 10, only one guess per day, my word is final. No counting dots on the map! 1737 Quote Link to comment
+Random Find Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Those who know me know I'm a big GIS geek. While exploring some new layers that have become available, I saw the cemetery layer. I've been playing with how many were in each county, in case anyone's curious. A lot of dead people around Bloomington. For a new geocoin, anyone want to guess how many state recognized official cemeteries are located in the state of Indiana. Guess within 10, only one guess per day, my word is final. No counting dots on the map! Okay, our 16yr. old says 2,336. Quote Link to comment
+dougsmiley Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 (edited) going lower and saying 900, bob.. er i guess it's drew now. Edited November 2, 2007 by dougsmiley Quote Link to comment
+501_Gang Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Hmmm........ Er........ I gotta do it......... 501!! Quote Link to comment
+TEAM RETRIEVER Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 2,005 (lucky year for me). Quote Link to comment
Pokagon Nature Center Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 clear the screens... everyone's too low now. Hey Daryl, there' more than 501 ISQs out there! Quote Link to comment
+501_Gang Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 clear the screens... everyone's too low now. Hey Daryl, there' more than 501 ISQs out there! I had to try it though! 5001? Quote Link to comment
Pokagon Nature Center Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 8,112 No, too high. 14,442 Quote Link to comment
+Cpt.Blackbeard Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Since you cleared the screen and I didn't cast yesterdays vote until this morning can I pick again? If so I'll choose 5280 Quote Link to comment
Pokagon Nature Center Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I guess. It may take awhile so I suppose you all can take two guesses a day. BTW, no one is even near it yet. Quote Link to comment
+DutchBoy Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 My prediction is 3398 DutchBoy Washington, IN Quote Link to comment
+501_Gang Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 New day, new guess... 1294 Quote Link to comment
+Ravenhwk Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Those who know me know I'm a big GIS geek. While exploring some new layers that have become available, I saw the cemetery layer. I've been playing with how many were in each county, in case anyone's curious. A lot of dead people around Bloomington. For a new geocoin, anyone want to guess how many state recognized official cemeteries are located in the state of Indiana. Guess within 10, only one guess per day, my word is final. No counting dots on the map! 3,425 Quote Link to comment
Damn Hook Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Well talk about a small world. I attended North East Elementary School. My parents lived in the neighborhood until their deaths in 2005. Yes, there are quite a number of caches in the area and I think there are 3 within easy walking distance of North East. But don't sweat the move. Greenwood is not that far and there are cool caches south of Franklin, too. I was caching in Edinburgh and Amity today! I'm getting use to it. A lot of our neighbors at the old house were stuck up and very rude. It's not like here. I see one around here, talk for a minute and go on our way. Over there, it was dirty looks and any chance they got try to listen in. We only have 1 of those here. I lived over on Spring Dr. Drove through there, they are about to tear up all of that area like they did with Northern Park a few years back. That'll be a huge mess. I got out just in time LOL.. But.... John and I went and found 3 more tonight. I think we're pretty good at this stuff after dark. Although we didn't plan for it. It was light out, could see just fine then all of a sudden, it was dark. Franklin Trail #2 and 3 plus the one at the Greenwood Park mall while picking up John's g/f. John and I have Sprint and upgraded to the Ultimate Power Vision packages. John's phone is supported for the Geocache Navigator GPS. So we had that tonight! My phone isn't supported. But, I do have another GPS program that works, I just can't enter in my own coords. Going to find one that does. Pretty cool. Saves us from buying a GPS and it's a lot cheaper. We're hooked now and will be out in force tomorrow. I'd love to come tomorrow but I have some things going on and won't be able to make it. We'll just have to meet everyone at the next one! Joah Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 Because there are about 100,000 cemeteries and burial grounds in Indiana, it is not possible at this time to document each grave marker, inscription, and name. from the DNR website Wulf Quote Link to comment
+dougsmiley Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 6,666 On a side note, the trackable Indiana Geocoins arrived today! Hopefully receive the non trackables within a couple days and will start shipping them out. We got the "IN" prefix. Quote Link to comment
Pokagon Nature Center Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 If we were exploring all believed cemeteries, burial grounds, mounds, and graveyards in Indiana, then it would actually be over 100,000. In fact our cemetery happy caching friend from Bippus would be correct at 125,000! 125,000 boggles my mind; that's over 1300 per county! Searching "how many cemeteries in Indiana" online will bring the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology site to the top of the search engine. A brief synopsis of the registry program, in which the GIS data was produced, is mentioned there. For those really interested in the details of the program and what information has been collected from these sites you can go to: Creating a Spatial Database for Indiana’s Cemetery and Burial Ground Registry From this data set, began in 2000, This magic number has been identified and recognized on the DHPA registry.... CYBret was too low, but emurock was too high today. No one has been been within a couple hundred of the number registered. Makes for interesting discussion of large and diverse subject of our Hoosier heritage. Quote Link to comment
+Team Shydog Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 On a side note, the trackable Indiana Geocoins arrived today! Hopefully receive the non trackables within a couple days and will start shipping them out. We got the "IN" prefix. Doug, You might want to post that info on the thread in the Geocoin Forum as well. They can be a ruthless bunch over there and the more info given the happier they are. So did everyone get a chance to go out caching in Indiana this weekend? I didn't Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 3936 Wulf Quote Link to comment
Pokagon Nature Center Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Foks are getting closer. Emurock's guess is still to high. Next report I will tell who's the closest Quote Link to comment
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