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Post by cachem8 » 18 December 15 12:06 pm

Am new to GCA and am unsure what the deal with dragonZones is - what are they? (and anything else to do with them)
Cheers :P

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Re: dragonZones

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Re: dragonZones

Post by caughtatwork » 18 December 15 12:23 pm

Choose wisely :griffin

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Re: dragonZones

Post by ziggiau » 18 December 15 1:17 pm

Took me ages to work it all out cachem8 but I slowly came to grips with it and reading that wiki entry will help heaps.

Also take a look at your own dragonZone page - http://geocaching.com.au/my/dragonzone/ and the dragonZone leaderboards - http://geocaching.com.au/dragonzone/ - to see all the action.

And as C@W says, choose wisely :cerberus

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Re: dragonZones

Post by cachem8 » 18 December 15 1:51 pm

Now I know what they are, the question is, who to choose? :-k :griffin ? :phoenix ? :cerberus ? :minotaur ?

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Re: dragonZones

Post by caughtatwork » 18 December 15 2:02 pm

:griffin :gnome :griffin :weepingangel :griffin :frog :griffin

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Re: dragonZones

Post by cachem8 » 18 December 15 3:16 pm

Actually thinking of :griffin as it controls my area.

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Re: dragonZones

Post by caughtatwork » 18 December 15 3:22 pm

You should choose :griffin because everyone else sucks.

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Re: dragonZones

Post by spatialriq » 18 December 15 5:31 pm

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Re: dragonZones

Post by Sol de Lune » 18 December 15 8:15 pm

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Re: dragonZones

Post by Sol de Lune » 18 December 15 8:53 pm

cachem8 wrote:Actually thinking of :griffin as it controls my area.
Which area is that?? And don't forget that can change over a weekend....

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Re: dragonZones

Post by Richary » 18 December 15 10:01 pm

This could interesting (not for me but C@W and Craigrat) and the NSW government has just announced forced mergers of council areas, in the Sydney area we are going to from I think 43 to 25 councils, with other amalgamations occurring in country regions. So all the boundaries will change for the areas we use for DZ. It probably won't happen for a year, but could well affect zone ownership.

I have no idea where you get the boundary files from, or how quickly the new onse will be available.

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Re: dragonZones

Post by cachem8 » 19 December 15 10:33 am

Richary wrote:This could interesting (not for me but C@W and Craigrat) and the NSW government has just announced forced mergers of council areas, in the Sydney area we are going to from I think 43 to 25 councils, with other amalgamations occurring in country regions. So all the boundaries will change for the areas we use for DZ. It probably won't happen for a year, but could well affect zone ownership.

I have no idea where you get the boundary files from, or how quickly the new onse will be available.
Yeah, the areas will be a lot bigger soon and most (if not all) will have different names. The dragonZones are going to become larger... :roll: #-o

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Re: dragonZones

Post by Sol de Lune » 19 December 15 10:58 am

cachem8 wrote:
Richary wrote:This could interesting (not for me but C@W and Craigrat) and the NSW government has just announced forced mergers of council areas, in the Sydney area we are going to from I think 43 to 25 councils, with other amalgamations occurring in country regions. So all the boundaries will change for the areas we use for DZ. It probably won't happen for a year, but could well affect zone ownership.

I have no idea where you get the boundary files from, or how quickly the new onse will be available.
Yeah, the areas will be a lot bigger soon and most (if not all) will have different names. The dragonZones are going to become larger... :roll: #-o
Do we need to change our/the boundaries? If we can keep them as they are......well and good.

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Re: dragonZones

Post by ziggiau » 20 December 15 8:03 pm

I just read about my local council merger (blah blah whatever) and my thoughts turned to dragonZones too :cerberus. I've looked at some zones that are so huge that it would take a massive effort to have a swing to another clan :cerberus.

I know electoral boundaries are ever changing, but they are roughly balanced so they have a similar sized population base. Could this be an option for boundaries in the future? :cerberus :cerberus :cerberus :cerberus

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