Re: [Az-Geocaching] Team Rankings

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 -----
From: Regan L Smith
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
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 -----
    From: Team Tierra Buena
    To: Arizona Geocaching
    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