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<DIV><FONT size=2>Of course there is the Degree Confluence Project <A
href="http://www.confluence.org">http://www.confluence.org</A> which has been
around for about a decade. That is where a picture is taken at whole degree
lat/lon intersections and posted on their site. A little more
interesting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>There is a handy chart on their site which converts longitude
to distance; convenient when you don't have a trig calculator--need cosine
lat--along and you want to solve caches like renrod's "NOT HERE #2" instead of
walking it. If you have web access you use either<FONT size=3> </FONT><FONT
size=2>Ed Williams' </FONT><A
href="http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm">Great Circle Calculator</A> or
the FAI <A href="http://www.fai.org/distance_calculation/">World Distance
Calculator</A></FONT><FONT size=2> to get the surface distance between two
points of latitude and longitude.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=sonoralovesmommy@yahoo.com
href="mailto:sonoralovesmommy@yahoo.com">Gale</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=listserv@azgeocaching.com
href="mailto:listserv@azgeocaching.com">listserv@azgeocaching.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 10, 2006 5:25 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Az-Geocaching] One Degree
project?</DIV>
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<DIV>Ok, so for those who have nothing better to do, what is your degree of
seperation to Jeremy, or Dave Ulmer?</DIV>
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<DIV>I think Im 2 degrees away from both. I would have to check on that. Im
only going off of memory at this point.<BR><BR><B><I>Jared Ross <<A
href="mailto:jaredmross@yahoo.com">jaredmross@yahoo.com</A>></I></B>
wrote:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">There
does seem to be some confusion here. The idea behind "One Degree of
Separation" is something far bigger than geocaching and really has nothing
to do with degrees of lat or lon. <BR><BR>Some time in the 90s a game came
about known as The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Chances are you're familiar
with atleast one or two movies that has stared Kevin Bacon. It's believed
that he has been in so many movies that you can take ANY other actor/actress
and "link" them to Kevin Bacon within 6 steps (or degrees). For example I'll
use Jamie Foxx (since he was recently mentioned in another listserv
email)<BR><BR>Jamie Foxx is 2 degrees separated from Kevin Bacon. Here's
how:<BR>Jamie Foxx was in Booty Call (1997) with David Hemblen.<BR>David
Hemblen was in Where The Truth Lies (2005) with Kevin Bacon.<BR><BR>Starting
to make sense?<BR><BR>So the ODS project is an attempt to encourage/promote
this idea of the "small world phenomenon". So for a Geocaching example, I am
One degree separated from CCCooperAgency:<BR>CCCooperAgency and I have both
found Dunedin Happy Trails Travelbug Hostel in Florida.<BR><BR>I haven't
done any further searching through their enormous profile but because of my
link with them I could easily link you to CCCooperAgency with just 2
Degrees:<BR><BR>ropingthewind and AZBliss02 both found the cache "Full
Count".<BR>AZBliss02 and CCCooperAgency both found the cache "Dunedin Happy
Trails Travelbug Hostel"<BR><BR>However this really isn't difficult given
the large number of finds that they have. The goal of this ODS project is to
find a way to link a cacher with only 1 find to EVERY other cacher in the
world. (A bit unrealistic in my opinion, but whatever)<BR><BR>I hope that
provides a little more clarity. For more info on "Degrees of Separation"
check it out on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon<BR><BR>Enjoy!<BR>Jared
of AZBliss02<BR><BR><B><I>Roping The Wind
<arizcowboy@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>>From:
ShadowAce <><BR>>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com<BR>>To:
listserv@azgeocaching.com<BR>>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] One Degree
project?<BR>>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:26:34 -0700<BR>><BR>>It is
a project started by some to help encourage micro spew. Mainly
the<BR>>goal is to get a cache every 530 feet throughout the
globe.<BR><BR>Actually, one degree would be about 60 miles. So, that was
what I was <BR>thinking... they basically want to create a 'grid' pattern
of caches every <BR>one degree in all directions? Each of these caches
would be titled ODS: <BR>(team name). Thus seperating all geocachers by 1
degree. Interesting idea, I <BR>must say. Quite the undertaking by the guy
that started this project. I see <BR>he actually gathered something like
13,000 cache containers (are all these <BR>consistant?) and logsheets to
disperse to other cachers around the world?<BR><BR>I looked at one of
these caches and I see it isnt actually at a confluence <BR>of degrees. I
would think all the caches should be at actual degree <BR>confluences. At
any rate, the idea is to have another geocacher find one of <BR>these
caches and then take a seed cache and hide it somewhere else one
<BR>degree away?<BR><BR>I dont see anything too negative about this
project. Although I do feel it <BR>promotes 'quantity over quality'. I
think geocaching should be leaning <BR>toward the opposite. I mean, It's
not like anyone is every going to find <BR>every single cache in Arizona!
Why promote placing so many more out there? <BR>The project will, however,
create some interesting locations for caches, as <BR>hiders will be forced
to expand outward from the starting point. ??? Is <BR>there going to be a
map posted on the web site showing the current locations <BR>of all these
ODS caches? (I guess I could download all of them and open them <BR>in a
Mapsource file.. that would be interesting to see).<BR><BR>ODS: One Degree
of Seperation? or OverDoSe?<BR><BR>Scott<BR>Team
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