[Az-Geocaching] One Degree project?

[Roping The Wind]

>From: ShadowAce <>
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>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] One Degree project?
>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:26:34 -0700
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>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