Follow the instructions on the geocaching forums on how to use greasemonkey to change coordinates to clickable links to maps
After the dismal weekends weather of snow and rain, today was gloriously sunny so I put on some sunscreen (yes it was that hot and sunny) and Kristen chauffeured me around Dublin as I went and did 6 or 7 caches in the area that I had not done yet. Had a great time and saw some really nice areas and artwork. Pictures will follow on the geocaching website when I upload them from the camera. It was quite amusing to see that people had been to a lot of the caches after I had been and at one cache, 3 sets of cachers had been unable to find it. However, the coordinates were quite a way out and I had a lot more experience than they had (put together). Some of the caches were in (huge) ammo boxes which meant I was able to pass on some of the travel bugs I had brought over from the states and others were in micro caches.
Had a great time and got over the withdrawal symptoms of going a week without caching.
I now have to get my hard disk installed in the computer so I can get my gsak database onto the computer I currently have access to. Speaking of which, GSAK got updated today and this new version fixes a bug I reported in the debug processing in the macros AND it also allows you to check a pop account for gpx files and process them automatically - that is an awesome feature.
Metroparks have a nice set of maps for the columbus area including trails and things. Needs flash to view.
Follow the instructions on the uk forums on how to get a scriptlet to work that creates streetmap links from coordinates.
some excellent mapping resources for the uk can be found at Nearby.org.uk - Location Searches - Points of Interest - UK - GB and Ireland. Now all I need are some decent OS type maps for the USA.
As an alternative and addition to geocaching, there is letterboxing where you swap stamps imprints at each letterbox. Looks like there are several letterboxes in Ohio and at least one, leatherlips, I have been VERY close to.
After someone posted the link to satellite photos in america from GSAK, someone else mentioned it only worked in the states. However by adding the following lines to the gsak html options you get the locations for the uk too.
UKSatView+++=http://uk.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?lat=%lat&lon=%lon&icon=x&scale=5000
UKSatView++=http://uk.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?lat=%lat&lon=%lon&icon=x&scale=10000
UKSatView+=http://uk.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?lat=%lat&lon=%lon&icon=x&scale=25000
UKSatView-=http://uk.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?lat=%lat&lon=%lon&icon=x&scale=50000
UKSatView--=http://uk.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?lat=%lat&lon=%lon&icon=x&scale=100000
UKSatView---=http://uk.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?lat=%lat&lon=%lon&icon=x&scale=200000