Wisconsin DeLorme Challenge

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Team B Squared wrote:

That web page is too cool. I did notice that it marks pages as found for Michigan caches. It might be something to look at.

Could you please send me an example?

[Johnny Cache]

Great job Dave. Very impressive.

[Team B Squared]

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

@Team B Squared wrote:

That web page is too cool. I did notice that it marks pages as found for Michigan caches. It might be something to look at.

Could you please send me an example?

Ok, upon further review, it does only have Wisconsin caches, it is just that they were being displayed as being in Michigan on my map page….

Notice pages 91 and 99a. Those were primarily what I was looking at. I didn’t notice that none of the other Iron Mountain caches we had done were not showing up. Now that I look at it closer, I can see that it is filtered down to only Wisconsin phsyical caches (I can see that the virt we found in Oconto is not there either). This was strictly a case of me opening my mouth before thinking. 😳

I still think that this is way cool, and that you have done a great job on it!

[Cheesehead Dave]

I tried to get permission from DeLorme to use their map, but they wouldn’t give it. This is the best one I could find, but the proportions aren’t exactly what the DeLorme map is, so the positioning is off in spots.

The cache placement map is more for “entertainment purposes only.”

[GOJeepers]

I can’t wait to get home and figure out which pages I have done! Looks like I am going to have to make some road trips soon. Thanks for putting this together….

Sara

[LightningBugs Mum]

Cool – 22 pages!

I find it highly motivating to have a goal when caching. I’ll be in SW WI in October – if I plan things correctly, I should be able to knock 6 pages off then!

It will still probably take me quite a while to complete, but it will be fun trying. Dave, you come up with the best stuff!

[bnb]

This is cool enough that it may be the incentive I needed to enter in all my unlogged caches from the past year+ just so I can use it. Great work and thanks!

[Team B Squared]

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

I tried to get permission from DeLorme to use their map, but they wouldn’t give it. This is the best one I could find, but the proportions aren’t exactly what the DeLorme map is, so the positioning is off in spots.

The cache placement map is more for “entertainment purposes only.”

Yeah, having a background in GIS I figured it was a scale issue(plotting points onto an unreferenced map), I just didn’t look at it that closely when i originally posted my question/concern….as before, my bad. I really like the website, it is very nicely done. I would be very proud of it if I were you!

[Coastiegirl04]

For page 57, is anyone going to place one there, Cuz i have already scoped the place out and have a place to hide one, but i just want to make sure no one else is already hiding one there yet

[Jeremy]

You can now enter your completed DeLorme maps on the WGA site as well. Read this news article for more information. The only real reason to list them here is so you can have them shown along with your other region stats (county, state, country finds).

@Team B Squared wrote:

I really like the website, it is very nicely done. I would be very proud of it if I were you!

I second this opinion. It is definitely an excellent site… the maps just blew me away.

Dave, have you ever considered becoming a webmaster for the WGA site? I know you are using the same technologies for the DeLorme site as are used on the WGA site so you’d be familiar with what we are doing here, plus there is always a long laundry list of ideas that are just waiting to be implemented. (I’m asking this publicly to try to shame you into helping… :twisted:)

[Jeremy]

@Coastiegirl04 wrote:

For page 57, is anyone going to place one there, Cuz i have already scoped the place out and have a place to hide one, but i just want to make sure no one else is already hiding one there yet

I was going to find a place for one (or at least see if there was a place to hide one) on page 57, but I didn’t make it up there last weekend… and I probably won’t be able to get there until Labor Day weekend. So I’d say go ahead and hide one.

(But please do not put it in the water a couple miles offshore! :D)

[Coastiegirl04]

@Jeremy wrote:

@Coastiegirl04 wrote:

For page 57, is anyone going to place one there, Cuz i have already scoped the place out and have a place to hide one, but i just want to make sure no one else is already hiding one there yet

I was going to find a place for one (or at least see if there was a place to hide one) on page 57, but I didn’t make it up there last weekend… and I probably won’t be able to get there until Labor Day weekend. So I’d say go ahead and hide one.

(But please do not put it in the water a couple miles offshore! :D)

Though i have the resources to put on out in the water.. *sign* but I won’t just to be nice to you all 😀
What is a surprise in that silver of land there are two parks.. guess i should go now and place this cache..

[shine_like_a_star]

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

Generate a GPX file of all your finds

😳 Er, how would one go about doing that? 😳

[Jeremy]

@shine_like_a_star wrote:

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

Generate a GPX file of all your finds

😳 Er, how would one go about doing that? 😳

Run a “My Finds” Pocket Query.

If you are a premium member of geocaching.com, click on “My Account” in the main menu, then click on “Build Pocket Queries” under Premium Features. At the bottom of the screen that appears, there is a section titled “My Finds”… click on “Add to queue” to have a My Finds PQ generated and sent to you.

The file that gets emailed to you is a zip file… you need to unzip it to pull out the GPX file that Dave’s DeLorme tool needs.

[edit]Looks like you are not a premium member, so the first step would be to pay your $30… or you could figure out the map pages you’ve completed by hand (I did it in about an hour) and enter them into the WGA site.[/edit]

[Lostby7]

I have 19 pages…boy it sure feels like a whole lot more…

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