Geocaching Australia

I LOVE the new logo (figuratively speaking of course :oops: ) The flies, oh man the flies. That is so funny. I think they give the place a friendlier feeling, maybe a warning of what to expect inside. TLC, how about laying a few lantana branches, thorns and all across the logo? <p> I despise that w...

The current page is good, so any change has to be careful to be an improvement rather than a backward step.<p> The icons do add charm, I think the mockup feels a little cold because of this.<p> I think the states based pages seperating cache listings is a good idea. <p> I think the local services an...

I have a friend who worked in the directory assistance call centre for a period. The operators listen to what the caller has said when the computer decides it can't match. She has some interesting stories about people who have not realised this

Phlosten wrote:Maybe GC could have a cacher'a rating system

Do you mean like an "enjoyment" rating that cache hunters get to submit their vote on?

Effrem wrote:after all life isnt always roses.

That is why we geocache!

I'm wondering if there is enough passion and dedication amongst the aus. geocaching community to jointly write what we would consider the ultimate geocaching reference book. <p> I know there is the knowledge, experience and probably writing experitise. It could be developed open source style with so...

To check and see if your GPS is accurate and/or is affected by various means, find your nearest Survey Control Mark/Benchmark and compare the results obtained with the reference point. <p> I am probably jumping the gun here and asking before I've properly researched. I just made an attempt to find ...

The location and the journey are the two things that make a cache for special for me. I expect atleast one, if not both to be special, and I am generally disappointed if they are not.<p> We aim for the same when hiding a cache. I would much prefer an easy to find cache in a good location than a diff...

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There is, I expect a slight lag compared to UHF since the signal is going into GPRS packets. You may not even notice the delay. I don't know what the GPRS bandwith constraints are, however if you've used voice over IP (without bandwitch constraints) you'll know that the latency with digitising, seg...

We've been using a $10 mobile phone holder that attaches to the air vents by way of a clipping mechanism. No suction caps, no drilling holes, no sticky tape, no damage.<p> It worked well until the 12V power cable from the cigarette lighter got caught around a bag being removed from the car and the c...

What in fact is a "romer" ? A romer is generally a square trasnparency with a grid on it designed to be placed over the grid lines of a topographic map so that accurate coordinates can be plotted or determined.<p> They are popular with competitors in navigation events such as rogaines where the par...

Or another way:- Latitude circles are drawn paralell to the equator. They get smaller in circumference as you get closer to the pole.<p> So 1 degree (or 0.001 degree in your case) change would be a variable distance depending on how big the circle is<p> Ian Ah yes, there is more than one way to ski...

alex wrote: Not quite...one nautical mile equals one minute.

I thought so too, but was obviously wrongly corrected by an aviator that I first checked with.

I'll attempt to give a little more explanation about why at what the? (I hope I don't make any big mistakes)<p> There are 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute.<p> At the equator every 1 nautical mile east or west represents 1 second. Therefore every 60 nautical ...