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I’ve been playing D&D for going on ohh.. 10-12 years now. Dunno if it has anything to do with why I like Geocaching. *shrug*
RangerBoy,
The Artful Dodger in Governor Dodge State Park is a hoot! It was our first cache and took us a good 8 hours to complete. So just a healthy suggestion, you may want to plan for some time on that one if you choose to seek it. I’d suggest it, the park is very beautiful and most importantly the cache is a very good challenge
Nick
of The CacheseekersSounds like a bribe to me
In either case, it looks like I will be able to attend.
Nick
of The CacheseekersWe just got a call from one of our parents that it was going to be on air tonight. Too bad that we don’t get Channel 6 as we’re in Madison 😛
Hopefully they’ll be able to tape it. And if one of you catch, would we be able to get a summary?
Nick
of The CacheseekersSorry to hear of the frustration. I know the feeling, I’ve been there.
Hackers are the main reason why I use FreeBSD for any of my servers It’s not made out of swiss cheese, and I love how it logs EVERYTHING that happens.
Glad to hear that things are wrapping up. Hopefully the script kiddie grows up or finds another server to poke at.
Nick
of The CacheseekersConsidering we have an image “album” up on our website, is it possible to just link to it instead of uploading all of the images?
Just a random thought of the day.
Nick
of The CacheseekersWell, I certainly hope it doesn’t come to that. I just was directed to an article at spacedaily.com concerning the degrading of signals:
http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/030318154133.7p1uva5u.htmlThese are however, fears not facts. So lets hope they just stay a fear
Nick
of The CacheseekersI assume that Jeremy recieves a lot of e-mail, but how long do you suppose it would take for him to reply to my question concerning this?
I think maybe i’m just a little impatient for a response… but I thought i’d ask anyways hehe
Nick
of The CacheseekersYup, that is pretty much what I did with GeoBuddy and ExpertGPS, just with one quick action. ST&T is very useful
I like this GPSBabel, I can use it on my FreeBSD box now
Yeah, for the most part the archived/disabled caches would not be removed from the .est file. What we do, is open up the file and go look for the caches that are around the area where we will be and then go to geocaching.com and save/print the page of the caches that we may go to so we have updated info. And it’s nice to see where all the caches are. If you go to our website and click Wisconsin Caches we have a screen shot of all the caches in WI as of yesterday afternoon. I try to update it at least once a month with all new data.
Nick
of The CacheseekersSweet, it sounds like you found a one step shop for converting into S&T. What we currently do is merge multiple loc files using GeoBuddy and then exporting into loc and csv files.
I’ll still put together a how-to on what we do… But i’m definately checking this other software out.
Now, my next question concerning this is, would it be against Geocaching.com policy to have available on a website a .EST (Streets and Trips data file) containing all of the waypoints within say a 300 mile radius from Madison? (I have this created already hehehe)
I figure, after spending as much time as I did downloading the waypoints and importing them etc it may be useful to others if I shared this file.
Nick
of The Cacheseekers
http://www.cacheseekers.com[This message has been edited by cacheseekers (edited 03-10-2003).]
That’s interesting. I had updated with the navigation bar wizard thing they have and it said that my site passed the test earlier this week. I didn’t change any of the code on the webring site or our page and I just ran the test again and it passed. But now the red thumbs down is gone.
Strange how things work
Thanks for the tip, I’ll be keeping an eye on this to see if it is some strange fluke.
Nick
of The CacheseekersIt’s great if you have a laptop you can bring along your trip. We hook the GPSR up to it and ‘watch’ the little car on the map go as we drive It’s great for trip planning, and adding stops as your driving and then creating a new route instantly. We also found it useful to update the construction data before you leave, it’ll save you time in by passing construction zones.
It’s also great when your hungry and want to know what kind of restaurants are near your present location
Nick
of The Cacheseekers
http://www.cacheseekers.comI would suggest to anyone that doesn’t use any mapping software to grab this while the deal is going. Streets and Trips has been invaluable in our cache hunting and normal travel experiences.
And, if anyone is interested I can put together a little how-to on downloading, converting and importing waypoints into streets in trips so that you don’t have to manually enter them in
Nick
of The Cacheseekers http://www.cacheseekers.comGood to hear
Sounds great! I look forward to reading the article.
This sparked a question for me, has anyone attempted to generate interest of our sport in local media? I know that http://www.channel3000.com has a submission address for story ideas. With how WGA is working with the DNR I wonder if it would be good to try to get some of the local news stations to cover the story. Or even local newspapers. I wouldn’t think that the DNR would dislike any GOOD media attention that may be brought to it from this, but I guess there is a chance. With all of the bad things happening with the DNR this could be a “little nugget of gold” to help the DNR look good in the publics eyes.
That and it may inform geocachers in Wisconsin of the WGA if they haven’t heard of it before (strange if that..), and get the aquanted with rules and regulations for our state. And of course hopefully generate more interest in Geocaching
I dunno, just some thoughts. I’d be willing to take some report along on a Geocache I’m thinking that The Artful Dodger by Artopsy http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=22619 would be a great first hunt as it worked to get us hooked into Geocaching
Nick
The Cacheseekers http://www.cacheseekers.com[This message has been edited by cacheseekers (edited 02-27-2003).]
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