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  • Category: Geography
  • Founded: Jun 3, 2001
  • Language: English
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I posted 4 files for the Game 2 waypoints. They are in the following format: Garmin MapSource Ozi Explorer Street Atlas 8 G7toWin (text csv) Rick....
2 Aug 2, 2001
12:46 am

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If anyone would like to put on a team member I would be interested. I'm located in North Carolina near the Virginia border. I could hit a lot of the waypoints...
1 Aug 2, 2001
12:38 am

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How about a picture of your GPS readout once you are within the required distance of the waypoint? Kinda hard to fake that... Feedback?...
8 Aug 1, 2001
11:53 pm

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I have released an improved map for Geodashing waypoints. It's still not clickable down to the individual waypoint, but it should go a long way to helping...
2 Aug 1, 2001
11:42 pm

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I would be interested in joining a team if anyone has room. I'm in North Carolina on the Virginia border and could get to some of the waypoints in NC and...
1 Aug 1, 2001
11:21 pm

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After the miserable showing of my last Geodashing efforts, I felt the need for redemption. I joined "Team Trailblazers" (did we agree on that name...
1 Aug 1, 2001
8:56 pm

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What Datum are we using WSG-84?...
3 Aug 1, 2001
5:47 pm

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What Datum are we using?...
1 Aug 1, 2001
3:41 pm

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Hey All. This sounds like a blast, and I'm ready to get a team together. I am from Central Wisconsin. I've got 5 confluences found in the state, and about...
1 Aug 1, 2001
12:59 pm

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Game 2 of Geodashing has begun. It will run from August 1-31, 2001. Game 2 has almost 500 waypoints, none over the ocean. This amounts to approximately twice...
1 Aug 1, 2001
12:45 pm

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Game 1 of Geodashing is closed. The winners, in a tie, are Jack Frickey and Ed Hall, each with a score of 1 (count 'em, 1) waypoint reached. Markwell gets...
1 Aug 1, 2001
12:41 pm

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I can still sort since the letters in front of the coordinates are the same. It will sort alpha-numer. --Duh!...
1 Aug 1, 2001
3:26 am

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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...
1 Aug 1, 2001
3:21 am

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The waypoints for Game 2 will be available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Geodashing approximately 6 AM PDT, August 1, 2001. ... Scout...
1 Jul 31, 2001
10:09 pm

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If Ed Hall is Geodashing, I would think there will be clickable maps any day now. :) How 'bout it Ed? ... === message truncated === ===== David Wallentine ...
5 Jul 31, 2001
9:48 pm

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... 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...
1 Jul 31, 2001
9:21 pm

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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...
1 Jul 31, 2001
7:02 pm

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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...
1 Jul 31, 2001
3:33 pm

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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...
3 Jul 31, 2001
3:25 pm

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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...
2 Jul 27, 2001
3:17 pm

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... 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 ...
9 Jul 23, 2001
9:31 pm

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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...
2 Jul 17, 2001
6:21 pm

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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...
1 Jul 17, 2001
4:45 pm

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(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...
1 Jul 17, 2001
4:35 pm

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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: ...
3 Jul 12, 2001
2:16 pm

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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...
2 Jul 10, 2001
10:01 pm

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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...
4 Jul 1, 2001
7:30 pm

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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,...
3 Jun 24, 2001
8:38 pm

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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...
1 Jun 24, 2001
4:07 pm

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From: placeman33@... ... I hear you on that. The way the waypoints were generated was by drawing a rectangle containing the continental US, then...
1 Jun 15, 2001
2:43 pm

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