July 21, 2007
Ohio Delorme Challenge
The Ohio Delorme geocache requires a visit to each cache in the Delorme atlas for Ohio but only visits after the cache was placed will count towards the cache find. Once a cache has been found on each page you then get the co-ordinates for the final cache hidden somewhere in Ohio.
With the aid of a KML file, the recent finds pocket query, GSAK and Google earth it is quite easy to work out which pages you need to do.
First download the Ohio Delorme KML file from the main cache page, GCZ554. Next download Google Earth (if you don't already have it already. Finally you want a .loc file of all your finds since the 2nd of December 2006 when the cache was placed. The easiest way to do this is to download your latest finds into GSAK, then using the filters set State=Ohio, Found=Yes, Date=On or After 12/2/2006. I saved the filter as Delorme so I can run this whenever I need to check my status.
In Google earth open the KML file and then open the loc file to see the caches appear in gridlines for each page. You may want to turn off extra options and layers such as road names, community uploaded content etc. This will give you a cleaner picture. 
The picture above shows the gridlines and the picture below shows my found caches so far. I've actually found quite a few other pages but unfortunately they were before the cache was placed so they don't count.
So far I've found pages 45-48,55-59,65 and 67-69
Meanwhile TeamJNLe4 completed all the pages yesterday and now just has to go for the final cache - congrats Jonathan!
July 20, 2005
Cachebag website
Cachebag's website is now fully functional and it looks like a nice product. It will be interesting to see if any other photos of cachebag make it to flickr.
July 9, 2005
Geocalc
GeoCalc is an excellent tool for converting locations and also for measuring distances and projecting waypoints. It solved a particular puzzle cache for me in about 2 mins as opposed to about 2 hours using Microsoft Street and Trips
June 16, 2005
Keyhole and caching.
Wow - by using the google keyhole software and gsak it is possible to extract data from gsak and create a kml file to import and see a satellite overview of all the caches.
You just need to save the custom export field as
"C:\Program Files\GSAK\GPSBabel.exe" -i gpx -f "c:\program files\gsak\temp\babel.gpx" -o kml -F c:\temp\25.kml
May 19, 2005
More geocaching greasemonkey scripts
More greasemonkey scripts at the script list now give the ability to show nearby caches from maps.google.com. Works great
May 12, 2005
Franklin County maps
At a good night at Cache And Coffee which even Kristen enjoyed, Bjorn demonstrated the use of the Franklin County auditor map database which enables you to see who owns a piece of land - excellent for working out who to get permission from. Use it to find out the names of your neighbours (if you don't know them)
October 7, 2004
streetmap links in firefox
My post with a firefox bookmarklet on the geocaching forums has details on how to create a bookmarklet to link from a list of coordinates to streetmap.co.uk
October 4, 2004
wsg to streetmap.
benchmarks translator is an excellent page to transfer from coordinates to a streetmap location. Very handy - now to somehow get this working on a bookmarklet.
September 22, 2004
London Caching
Three links for caching in London , caching on the tube and the gcuk tube map
August 19, 2004
Hi to todays cacher visitors
I got a mention on the Todays Cacher article about blogging cachers so iIsuppose I'd better make sure this blog is upto date - more details coming shortly. In the meantime, Hi to any Today's Cacher readers.
July 26, 2004
Favicon
All the pages on this site should now have the favicon for my avator from the Geocaching.com forums
April 3, 2004
Editing Cache Pages
Trippy976 has developed the Cache Page Editor which helps you create better pages for listing your cache without needing to know html
Locationless Caches List
GeocacherBB has a page listing active locationless caches categorised to make it easy to hunt for them. Well worth bookmarking.
March 13, 2004
OrdanceSurvey Maps
After doing all that work on generating a bookmarklet for OS maps, I've realised that GeocacheUK already has those links built in. Like mine, they don't have the topographical map (which I thought mine did) so theres one more click needed to get last step.
It wasn't much use though when I was doing The Other Wedgewood cache as this was showing a footpath that wasn't on the ground.
March 11, 2004
UK Policy's
A good page linking to policies that have been created in the uk where caching is restricted - GeocachingPolicy.info - Listings for the United Kingdom