This involves searching for hidden "treasure" using a Global Positioning System receiver (I use one of these) and the wonders of the interweb.
Find out all about it here:
www.geocaching.com
The chief interest for me is not so much the treasure (typically a plastic box full of plastic toys; you're supposed to leave something if you take something) but visiting local places I wouldn't normally go to. Maintaining a cache is also a bit of fun. You can find mine in the wooded valley known locally as Northcliffe, south west of Shipley in West Yorkshire. It's in the centre of the map below...
...and also here on the geocaching website, "Same to you wi' knobs on". Northcliffe and the nearby Heaton Woods is worth a visit in any case if you're in the area.
24 people have found my cache to date and some of them have signed the logbook below.
Thanks for stopping by!
this is almost too spooky to be real clive...for the past two days ive been researching how to make a customised version of a board game i'm very fond of. this customised version is going to comprise an 18th century map of the ridings of yorkshire, with 50% opacity circular blobs (in varying colours) leading across it in a trail. ive downloaded inkscape as i've heard its good for vector graphics and im going through the tutorial now. basically im going to have to divide this map into separate sections for printing off onto full size adhesive avery address labels (this is what board game designers often use)...anyway im going off into one about this, soz! but ive been walking round for 2 days with an image in my head of an OS map with semi-transparent coloured blobs on...and here i am on your blog, with your most recent entry illustrated by the very same thing!!!!
ReplyDeleteserendipity OR WHAT?!!!!!!!
do doo da da do doo da da...spooky!
great idea btw, the treasure thing. theres a book version at bookcrossing.com too :)