... I always saw the game as supporting different "themes." One game would use random waypoints, one game might be parks, another might be cities or maybe ...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 12, 2001 10:22 pm
... I take this as a second vote for the use of random waypoints in Game 2. Any other opinions? ...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 13, 2001 2:04 pm
From: Jack Frickey ... That's three votes for another game of random waypoints. They are certainly easier to generate. :-) Now, for another question. How long...
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Ed Hall
edhall@...
Jul 13, 2001 2:37 pm
Having new, randomly-placed waypoints every month sounds good. Do you think you'd be able to generate them in such a way that no two waypoints would be within...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 13, 2001 9:21 pm
... OK. I'll use a simple estimator to keep the programming and computation time down. The minimum distance needs to depend on the number of waypoints used. I...
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MarkLent60544@...
Jul 14, 2001 5:31 am
... Ah, but aren't you taking the same randomness out of the equation that we are all praising? What's the difference between moving the waypoints that are on...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 14, 2001 10:49 pm
... Fair enough, but there's random and there's random. For the first game, I used a system where I laid a 30x15 grid over the US and put a waypoint "randomly";...
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jwf@...
Jul 17, 2001 4:35 pm
(2nd try to post this message) Nicholas Scarlett and I visited this point (GD-A385 N39.6205 W-116.6948) on Sunday 7/15/01. We had intended to do our visit on...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 17, 2001 4:45 pm
Awesome. We have our first official "hit" of a Geodashing waypoint (GD-A385). And what a hit it was, from the report of the adventure. Thanks for letting us...
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jwf@...
Jul 17, 2001 5:20 pm
Here are a couple other thoughts on this subject. You could average out the problem of where home is with respect to the grid placement by choosing a random...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 17, 2001 6:21 pm
JWF, that's a good suggestion to randomize the origin of the grid to make it fair for all home locations. That handles that problem nicely. I generated a few...
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Dwayne Crow
deathb4aol@...
Jul 23, 2001 7:33 pm
Just discovered Buxley's site today (great job, took the idea right out of my head!), and in turn found the link to Geodashing from there. Wish I would have...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 23, 2001 9:31 pm
Thanks for the feedback. Next game will have about twice as many waypoints. After that, who knows?
PS This email is being sent wirelessly from a sailboat off...
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jwf@...
Jul 24, 2001 7:11 pm
I have a few pictures of A385. What is the procedure for posting them and in what format would you like them? How many and what subject matter would you...
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Geodashing@yahoogroup...
Jul 25, 2001 3:11 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 A/Down...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 27, 2001 3:17 pm
So far, the only discussion about photos suggested that a photo be submitted that could 'prove' one reached the waypoint. Exactly what that would be would...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 31, 2001 1:18 am
Geodashing game 1 ends at midnight PDT on July 31. All waypoint hits must be reported by that time to count. And, with a grand total of one hit reported so...
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Ed Hall
edhall@...
Jul 31, 2001 3:05 pm
I noticed a few weeks ago that the San Francisco Bay Area's lone 'dash location, GD-A429, was up in Fairfield. It looked like it was fairly easily accessible,...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 31, 2001 3:25 pm
From: Buxley ... Congratulations. Buxley comes out of nowhere on the last day of the first 'dash to pull even with Jack Frickey, each with 1 (count 'em, 1)...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 31, 2001 3:33 pm
Geodashing is still in its infancy, with only 41 players subscribed and a lot less than that active. But I'm hoping it'll grow. As for teams, it's up to the...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 31, 2001 7:02 pm
I realize that the map on the Geodashing page is not very usable right now. You can't click on a waypoint and have it bring up details for the waypoint. I...
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David Wallentine
dwallent34@...
Jul 31, 2001 7:17 pm
If Ed Hall is Geodashing, I would think there will be clickable maps any day now. :) How 'bout it Ed? ... === message truncated === ===== David Wallentine ...
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Peter Scholtz
peter@...
Jul 31, 2001 8:23 pm
I'd like to participate, but we're in South Africa, so you'll need to generate waypoints for the whole planet ... Regards Peter Scholtz Biometrics.co.za ...
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MarkLent60544@...
Jul 31, 2001 8:32 pm
Actually, what I did initially was look on Mapblast and found the outer coordinates of the area in which I'd be willing to drive for a Geodash. How far...
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Steven Honkus
shonkus@...
Jul 31, 2001 8:38 pm
If you want to try a new twist on geodashing, try it with ‘live’ data from moving vehicles. We have a demonstration Web Fleet page with vehicles equipped...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 31, 2001 9:21 pm
... I think that's an inevitable step in the not too distant future. I hope you can hang on until we get the mapping system improved that would let us expand...
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dwallent34@...
Jul 31, 2001 9:48 pm
That is essentially what I just did, too. It won't do me any good, but I learned the tricks for the next game, so as soon as the waypoints are up, I will be...
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GC Scout
gc_scout@...
Jul 31, 2001 10:09 pm
The waypoints for Game 2 will be available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Geodashing approximately 6 AM PDT, August 1, 2001. ... Scout...
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brother_of_karamazov@...
Aug 1, 2001 3:21 am
Perhaps this has been covered but could you post the coords to the database with delimiting such that I can sort by lat and long in a spreadsheet? I brought...
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brother_of_karamazov@...
Aug 1, 2001 3:26 am
I can still sort since the letters in front of the coordinates are the same. It will sort alpha-numer. --Duh!...
