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Dominic's First Cache!

August 16, 2005 - 8:27am — David

Well, okay, not quite his first cache find, but at least his first cache adventure. It all happened yesterday...

Earlier in the day, I'd finally begun working on the puzzle cache Top Rock. After finishing the puzzle, and verifying the coordinates, I plotted it on a map and saw that it was along some nice trails near a creek. When I got home, I mentioned it to Andrea, and told her I'd like to get it soon so she could actually see a White Jeep Travel Bug (the last ones I found never actually made it home with me). She seemed up for it, so we got Dominic all suited up and took off.

Using Google Maps to Show Geocaches

February 21, 2005 - 10:38am — David
For some time, I've wanted to be able to build my own maps showing cache locations. One of the biggest obstacles was finding a good source of map information. There are plenty of online map sources, but many of them are very old (like the USGS Topographic maps), or really aren't very pleasing to look at (Mapquest, etc.)

Recently, however, Google opened up their beta mapping service (at maps.google.com. It's fast, it's easy, it has terrific-looking maps, and it's actually very easy to grab individual map images directly from Google.

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