Here is a question for the group. Why are teams
ranked by the total number of caches found? Would not a more valid metric be
Score (Totals of Difficulty and Terrain Ratings of Found and Hid, as defined
by azgeocaching.com)? Suppose that there were 1005 locationless caches
located in Arizona. If one logged all 1005 locationless caches (I am not
ragging on locationless caches, just an example) and only those 1005
locationless caches they, per definition, would be the top AZ geocaching team.
The top spot could feasibly be had without cracking
open a single ammo can or peering into a still minty fresh altoids
tin! Okay, now replace locationless with virtuals or 1/1 urbans,
a more viable possibility. Does that really define the top caching team?
Maybe it does. Clearly some folks prefer and/or
are limited to urbans or ammo cans or locationless or puzzles or
whatever. Don't get me wrong. I am very impressed with the routine 30+ finds in
a day. I have yet to find more than 10 or 15 in a day. Though I have on
several occasions spent a full and exhausting day only to find 5 or so
caches. Also on several occasions I have spent days-on-end only to find one
cache.
Personally, I would like to see the top team
ranked in terms of Score. I think that it gives a more well-rounded view of a
teams ability. Of course that is only my opinion. What do the rest of you folks
think?
-Rob (Wily Javelina)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:03
PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] After You've
Logged all the Locationless Caches, Try This
the newest Arizona cache is in those
lines
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:36
PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] After You've
Logged all the Locationless Caches, Try This
Maybe I’m the last one to have heard about this, but
I just came across http://wwmx.org/. The
World Wide Media eXchange is a Microsoft experimental project that, among
other things is working on identifying digital photographs by location. One
way they’re doing that is by providing a free download on this site that
will let you automatically add coordinate information to your digital pix by
either dragging and dropping them onto a map or by uploading track data from
your (currently only Garmin) GPSr. It then identifies the location of the
photo by comparing the timestamps in the track log to the timestamps in the
photo data. There’s lots of other stuff like that in this site as
well.
I haven’t tried any of it, and I’m certainly not
endorsing any of it , but the site is worth a look.
I thought there were a number of interesting ideas
there.
Steve
Team Tierra Buena