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  • Category: Geography
  • Founded: Jun 3, 2001
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3 gc_scout@... Send Email Jun 5, 2001
8:07 pm
Are you interested in more competition and teamwork in your geocaching? Is the journey more important to you than the trinkets? Are you concerned about the...
4 gc_scout@... Send Email Jun 5, 2001
8:12 pm
Geodashing Directions ... Games are published at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/geodashing. Click "Join" to register with Yahoo and follow the directions. Click...
5 Mike
kvuo@... Send Email
Jun 5, 2001
9:37 pm
How does one verify that they've visited the waypoint? how did you get these waypoints? do you even know where they are (specifically -- on private property,...
6 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 5, 2001
11:14 pm
... For now, only an email describing the waypoint and the journey to reach it is necessary. The email should contain enough detail that if someone wanted to...
7 Florian
florian@... Send Email
Jun 6, 2001
12:36 am
Just wanted to say how much i like the name Geodashing. It's great! Very good... ;-) -Florian http://www.stargazer.org/geocaching/...
8 daveulmer@... Send Email Jun 6, 2001
2:04 am
Geodashing shows lots of promise! Sounds like Fun! Developing the wapoint lists will be the real trick here. I will be working over at the GPSgames forum for a...
9 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 6, 2001
2:47 am
From: daveulmer@... ... I used random waypoint generation for the first game to get the ball rolling. But I envisioned using human-selected waypoints...
10 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 6, 2001
8:23 pm
I enhanced the HTML page of waypoints to include a link to a MapBlast map. The page is found in the "Files" section of ...
11 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 7, 2001
3:39 pm
Has anyone else examined the waypoints generated for the first game? I looked at the four or five nearest me and found that they should all be easily...
12 daveulmer@... Send Email Jun 7, 2001
4:04 pm
Yahoo, bounced my reply to your last posting saying the the gc scout@... account was not yet active. Dave......
13 daveulmer@... Send Email Jun 7, 2001
4:06 pm
Here's the reply I sent: I was thinking that Geodashing could be rolled into the Wondert scheme by simply adding a Category R for Random waypoint and give it a...
14 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 8, 2001
1:34 am
"Cache Across America" is an attempt to link a chain of Caches across America. We start on the Atlantic Coast. A finder of a cache on the east coast chooses a...
15 edhall@... Send Email Jun 9, 2001
9:19 pm
Sounds like a great idea for a new game, Scout. I looked at the database and it looks like the closest site for me is at the far end of the San Francisco bay...
16 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 9, 2001
9:42 pm
Thanks for the feedback. I expect that many of the random waypoints will pose problems of one sort or the other. There are quite a few waypoints that fall out...
17 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 15, 2001
2:43 pm
From: placeman33@... ... I hear you on that. The way the waypoints were generated was by drawing a rectangle containing the continental US, then...
18 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 24, 2001
4:05 pm
From: MarkLent60544@... ... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at...
19 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 24, 2001
4:06 pm
From: MarkLent60544@... ... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at...
20 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 24, 2001
4:07 pm
These forwarded messages were sent to the list moderator instead of the list. I am forwarding them to the list because it is apparent that they were meant for...
21 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 24, 2001
8:38 pm
From: MarkLent60544@... ... There's a basic mechanism supplied by YahooGroups. In the "Files" section of the group, I've created a folder called "Game A"....
22 MarkLent60544@... Send Email Jun 29, 2001
1:57 pm
CD-A176 has been hit. N41.3838 W-88.4925 Early this morning (6:30 a.m. CDT), I set out for the 22 mile journey from my house. Back country roads, early in...
23 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jun 30, 2001
2:41 pm
Congratulations. Let's see if your score of "one" holds up for the victory in this first edition of Geodashing. ... ...
24 Geodashing@yahoogroup... Send Email Jun 30, 2001
2:57 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Geodashing group. File : /Game...
25 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jul 1, 2001
2:02 pm
... The rules state that you must get within 100 meters to score the waypoint. Of course, you can still enjoy the hunt even if getting that close is not ...
26 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jul 1, 2001
7:30 pm
... If the closest distance was 800 ft, it will not qualify as an official hit. Because the Geodashing waypoints are randomly selected, they are often much ...
27 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jul 9, 2001
7:38 pm
I have added a map of waypoints to the Geodashing web site ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/geodashing ) that shows all the waypoints for the first game...
28 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jul 10, 2001
10:01 pm
... With a control file of coordinates stored in: http://www.geocities.com/gc_scout/Geodashing/waypoints_A.txt . (This was the tip that Buxley gave me.) Then...
29 edhall@... Send Email Jul 12, 2001
1:12 pm
I've drawn a slightly larger map of the geodash locations for Game A, although I haven't had a chance to make them "clickable&quot; yet. You can find the map at: ...
30 Geodashing@yahoogroup... Send Email Jul 12, 2001
1:16 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Geodashing group. File : /Game...
31 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jul 12, 2001
2:08 pm
Thanks for the map, Buxley. As with all your other maps on http://www.brillig.com/geocaching, it looks great. I've changed the link on the Geodashing home page...
32 GC Scout
gc_scout@... Send Email
Jul 12, 2001
2:16 pm
... That's quite a high ratio of ocean waypoints, isn't it? In Game B, due August 1, all of the ocean waypoints near land will be manually shifted to get them...
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