>From: ShadowAce <> >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] One Degree project? >Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:26:34 -0700 > >It is a project started by some to help encourage micro spew. Mainly the >goal is to get a cache every 530 feet throughout the globe. Actually, one degree would be about 60 miles. So, that was what I was thinking... they basically want to create a 'grid' pattern of caches every one degree in all directions? Each of these caches would be titled ODS: (team name). Thus seperating all geocachers by 1 degree. Interesting idea, I must say. Quite the undertaking by the guy that started this project. I see he actually gathered something like 13,000 cache containers (are all these consistant?) and logsheets to disperse to other cachers around the world? I looked at one of these caches and I see it isnt actually at a confluence of degrees. I would think all the caches should be at actual degree confluences. At any rate, the idea is to have another geocacher find one of these caches and then take a seed cache and hide it somewhere else one degree away? I dont see anything too negative about this project. Although I do feel it promotes 'quantity over quality'. I think geocaching should be leaning toward the opposite. I mean, It's not like anyone is every going to find every single cache in Arizona! Why promote placing so many more out there? The project will, however, create some interesting locations for caches, as hiders will be forced to expand outward from the starting point. ??? Is there going to be a map posted on the web site showing the current locations of all these ODS caches? (I guess I could download all of them and open them in a Mapsource file.. that would be interesting to see). ODS: One Degree of Seperation? or OverDoSe? Scott Team Ropingthewind