[Az-Geocaching] One Degree project?
Trisha Brasher
trisha at brasher.com
Mon Jul 24 22:46:21 MST 2006
Awhile back I wanted to put caches at degree confluences in the area, and found that it is not that easy. There are a couple degree confluences up this way (Yavapai Co....So Coco Co) that you can't easily get to....one is on the VERY PRIVATE LAND of the Luis Maria Baca Float (#5) NW of Camp Wood at N 35 W 113 (we can't even get permission to cross their property for searches!) and the one in Sycamore Cyn looks like it would require climbing equipment, or suspension in thin air! N35 W112.
Trisha
Lightning
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Creepin' Jeepers - Geocaching 7/01" <creepinjeepers at cox.net>
> To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] One Degree project?
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:49:02 -0700
>
>
> Of course there is the Degree Confluence Project
> http://www.confluence.org 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.
>
> 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 Ed Williams' Great Circle Calculator or the FAI World
> Distance Calculator to get the surface distance between two points
> of latitude and longitude.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gale
> To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] One Degree project?
>
>
> Ok, so for those who have nothing better to do, what is your
> degree of seperation to Jeremy, or Dave Ulmer?
>
> I think Im 2 degrees away from both. I would have to check on
> that. Im only going off of memory at this point.
>
> Jared Ross <jaredmross at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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)
>
> Jamie Foxx is 2 degrees separated from Kevin Bacon. Here's how:
> Jamie Foxx was in Booty Call (1997) with David Hemblen.
> David Hemblen was in Where The Truth Lies (2005) with Kevin Bacon.
>
> Starting to make sense?
>
> 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:
> CCCooperAgency and I have both found Dunedin Happy Trails
> Travelbug Hostel in Florida.
>
> 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:
>
> ropingthewind and AZBliss02 both found the cache "Full Count".
> AZBliss02 and CCCooperAgency both found the cache "Dunedin
> Happy Trails Travelbug Hostel"
>
> 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)
>
> 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
>
> Enjoy!
> Jared of AZBliss02
>
> Roping The Wind <arizcowboy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >From: ShadowAce <>
> >Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> >To: listserv at 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
>
>
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