Guest Choberiba Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 This is a Spin Off Thread, you know.... Like Joanee loves Chachie. Anyway, I'm thinking that steveor lives near Addison. Quote Link to comment
Guest kablooey Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 So, since we know that steveor lives in Evanston, how far is Evanston from Addison? Also, oddly enough, my mom was wondering last week, just where does Hasbro live. So, I'm wondering whether you did come to a determination on that. :-) Quote Link to comment
Guest Choberiba Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 [Hasbro] Even though he's been to five of the caches I've hidden, I still felt it was a little odd to include him (her?) since they hadn't posted to the thread. You did so I did you. [how far is Evanston from Addison?] What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Actually, it would appear that I'm about 18 miles off at 63° [This message has been edited by little green men (edited 15 January 1993).] Quote Link to comment
Guest regoarrarr Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 All right - where do I live? Quote Link to comment
Guest Watson Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by regoarrarr:All right - where do I live? Helsinky? Quote Link to comment
Guest Choberiba Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 regoarrarr: All right - where do I live? Monfort Heights East? Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 We actually had some fun with this type of talk over on Geodashing. Bunkerdave posed the question "What was the closest random point to your home." To which I gave two sets of coordinates and a general bearing, with distances calculated to 0.01 miles. I indicated that given those two pieces of information, one could come pretty close to an approximation of my front door. The two radius would, however, intersect in two places - a third set of coordinates and distances would be helpful to narrow down the location. I gave it and also a fourth for redundancy (is any of this starting to sound familiar yet?) These guys had ariel shots of my home within a matter of hours. These guys are good... quote:posted in Geodashing by geogromitActually I only original two dashpoints that were closest to your house and I was able to triangulate 2 positions in your area. I did this by converting the coordinates of the dashpoints to UTM and the distances to meters. This made it fairly simple to calculate your position. The point that that I chose appeared to be in the middle of your street. The other appeared near a small lake. I guessed on the northside of your street. From the precision of your distances that you had given, I knew your house should have been within 50 feet of that point. Good work Daniel. BTW, the aerial photo is from mapblast. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 But more on topic... I just calculated my "average position" and discounting my finds in Tennessee and Georgia and including archived caches and my caches. My average is 6.79 miles from my door. And here's the Twilight-Zone-Like fact: these average coordinates are in the county forest preserve that had the first cache I ever found, only 1.78 miles from the cache's coordinates. Unfortunately, the cache is archived and the forest preserve now prohibits caching. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 But more on topic... I just calculated my "average position" and discounting my finds in Tennessee and Georgia and including archived caches and my caches. My average is 6.79 miles from my door. And here's the Twilight-Zone-Like fact: these average coordinates are in the county forest preserve that had the first cache I ever found, only 1.78 miles from the cache's coordinates. Unfortunately, the cache is archived and the forest preserve now prohibits caching. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest brokenwing Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Choberiba:Less on topic Who is this? Clayjar, of course... ------------------ Brokenwing http://www.cordianet.com/geocaching Quote Link to comment
Guest Choberiba Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 brokenwing: Clayjar, of course... Sure nuff, now who is this? Quote Link to comment
Guest brokenwing Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Choberiba:brokenwing: Clayjar, of course... Sure nuff, now who is this? Another easy one... Markwell. ------------------ Brokenwing http://www.cordianet.com/geocaching Quote Link to comment
Guest ClayJar Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted in an image by Choberiba:I'm just glad this all fit in one region Are you meaning to imply that I need to spread out my caching a little more? Quote Link to comment
Guest ClayJar Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted in an image by Choberiba:I'm just glad this all fit in one region Are you meaning to imply that I need to spread out my caching a little more? Quote Link to comment
Guest kablooey Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Choberiba:[Hasbro] Even though he's been to five of the caches I've hidden, I still felt it was a little odd to include him (her?) since they hadn't posted to the thread. I guess "they" might be appropriate. Hasbro has one of only two successful logs on my Ichabod Crane cache, and it refers to "we" multiple times. Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 16, 2002 Share Posted January 16, 2002 I like this kind of map a little more than the ones you guys are using. Took me about 10 minutes; but then again, I've got all the data already. Just needed to build the query. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest SwampBuggy Posted January 16, 2002 Share Posted January 16, 2002 Markwell: "I like this kind of map a little more than the ones you guys are using." What software did you use? Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Tiger census online. Same one Jeremy uses to catch the little square map on the cache page. For quite a while (from December through maybe last week) it's been very touchy about responding. I sent the census webmaster a very diplomatic e-mail asking what the heck was going on and why this "wonderful tool" wasn't responding. Two days later, the site responds like a dream. Coincidence? You decide. Unfortunately, the website for the instructions in how to do it is apparently down. But the response of the map from the backdoor is great! OK People, we tracked Logscaler to his roots. Let's try another. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Tiger census online. Same one Jeremy uses to catch the little square map on the cache page. For quite a while (from December through maybe last week) it's been very touchy about responding. I sent the census webmaster a very diplomatic e-mail asking what the heck was going on and why this "wonderful tool" wasn't responding. Two days later, the site responds like a dream. Coincidence? You decide. Unfortunately, the website for the instructions in how to do it is apparently down. But the response of the map from the backdoor is great! OK People, we tracked Logscaler to his roots. Let's try another. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest glenn95630 Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 You could run my data if you want. My mental picture looks like the dots should cluster fairly well, especially the hides. Glenn Quote Link to comment
Guest regoarrarr Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Yeah yeah try me, try me!! :-) How close can you make it? Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 p://members.aol.com/_ht_a/marklent60544/myhomepage/Geocaching/markwellcachemain.htm" TARGET=_blank>My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt [This message has been edited by Markwell (edited 18 January 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest regoarrarr Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Yep - close enough - I'm a bit west actually of Exit 8, normally I use Exit 7 but Exit 8 probably is just as close coming from the north. Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 OK - I used the hides and averaged their coordinates, using the oldest hide (in orange) twice, figuring that was twice as likely to be near home. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 OK - I used the hides and averaged their coordinates, using the oldest hide (in orange) twice, figuring that was twice as likely to be near home. ------------------ Markwell My Geocache Page Non omnes vagi perditi sunt Quote Link to comment
Guest martinp13 Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 You can plot mine, chucking out the east and west coast finds. I added another state over the weekend (Arizona)... only one cache, but a GREAT "idea find". ------------------ > Martin Magellan 330 (1.56/WAAS enabled!) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo ! Quote Link to comment
Guest martinp13 Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 You can plot mine, chucking out the east and west coast finds. I added another state over the weekend (Arizona)... only one cache, but a GREAT "idea find". ------------------ > Martin Magellan 330 (1.56/WAAS enabled!) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo ! Quote Link to comment
Guest Ramness570 Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 Thats neat! Can you guess where I live... ------------------ Team Ramness570 Brian, Christine & TabascoX Senior Member Southeast Xterra Club Geocaching since October 2000. Quote Link to comment
Guest logscaler Posted January 29, 2002 Share Posted January 29, 2002 Yes. Yes they can. You will need a lot of aluminum foil hats and suits before and after this is over. If they take the challange. Experince talking. Quote Link to comment
Guest blscearce Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Ramness570:Thats neat! Can you guess where I live... Quote Link to comment
Guest blscearce Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 Since turnabout is fair play, here's Choberiba: Anywhere close? [This message has been edited by blscearce (edited 31 January 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Choberiba Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 Looks like you're about a mile or two North. Those crooked looking streets tell me that this is hilly terrain. I'm a flatlander, living where men are men and sheep are nervous. Quote Link to comment
Guest Ramness570 Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 quote:Originally posted by blscearce: Insert pic of atlanta here... wow! pretty close a little SE of there Thanks for the map I see I went quite out of my one for one hunt... ------------------ Team Ramness570 Brian, Christine & TabascoX Senior Member Southeast Xterra Club Geocaching since October 2000. Quote Link to comment
Mike Chmi Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 Wow that's really cool. Would anybody be willing to plot mine and take a guess (Choberiba actually may already know) or tell me how I could do it myself. I'd love to have a nice map of all the caches I've found. And would be curious where you'd place me. Thanks Mike Quote Link to comment
+gnbrotz Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 quote:Originally posted by mikechim: Would anybody be willing to plot mine and take a guess Rough estimate: Near Erie, PA (nothing averaged yet) quote:Originally posted by mikechim: tell me how I could do it myself. I'd love to have a nice map of all the caches I've found. And would be curious where you'd place me. Check out http://tiger.census.gov/instruct.html for a tutorial on creating your own maps. Drop me an e-mail if you need/want more help/info. Greg N 39°54.705' W 77°33.137' Quote Link to comment
+blscearce Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 quote:Originally posted by mikechim: Wow that's really cool. Would anybody be willing to plot mine and take a guess (Choberiba actually may already know) or tell me how I could do it myself. Yours is very hard because your found caches are spread out so far. But my guesses are: TIGER map service is very useful, but it's only as good as the data that is fed into it. Quote Link to comment
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