John E. Franklin is very good at plotting points – so let’s wait for him to do it.

Last edited by JaneFairfax (2008-03-12 09:37:18)

Here's a x-y tiny plot.
The lower-left black pixel is (1,1).

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Last edited by John E. Franklin (2008-03-15 13:50:07)

? 30-28,9-33,1-27,100-7,111-5,2-44,51-15,67-5,12-16,101-13,30-3,117-3,112-14,76-27,84-3,76-9,
22-15,75-4,51-12,99-36,101-14,100-2,10-13,92-5,60-12,6-2,34-4,103-10,3-45,49-5,90-4,18-11,
78-9,59-44,64-2,3-17,51-15,114-40,42-13

What exactly was the original phrase?  How was the question asked and what is expected?
Are you sure that you typed in the correct data?
Could you give ALL of the information that you started with?

These are parts of a waypoint file.

A typical waypoint is given in Longitude/Latitude.
Some of the geocaching methods will give a distance & bearing to the next waypoint.

The file appears to be a listing of Degrees--minutes.

As listed a Long/Lat or Lat/Long pair will give a Lat of greater that 90 degrees,
so they are NOT geographic coordinates.

They are distance & angle waypoints.
EXCEPT the distances are not supplied.


You will need:
  1) to get a GPS receiver,
  2) find the initial starting point (from the clues from the geocache site)
  3) physically get to that point
  4) enter the DEGREES-MINUTES elements into your GPS receiver
  & then look for the most significant object in that direction
you will probably, my guess, find a geocache at each terminus.


The distances are missing from this set of waypoints.
If you had the actual distances, you could plot a path
and skip the intermediates.

The information (from the source given) indicates a distance of approximately
30 miles.

If ( a big IF ) each leg of the way point is one mile,
then you would be about 31 miles from the starting point at the
end of the way point listing.

wow that's interesting! I, or rather my teacher found a geocache near my house when we were looking for snakes: I think I wanna put one somewhere...