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tall_dave
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
Location: Songtan, S. Korea
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 Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:04 pm Post subject: Geo-tracking |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Are you referring to geocaching? If so, I placed the first cache in Korea (although I didn't realize it at the time):
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=28258b00-e674-4a57-8c2c-fb338d786f33
A couple years ago, I had an e-mail from a Korean geocacher who told me about my distinction. So, a group of Korean geocachers organized a meeting in Gyeongju for food and caching. Unfortunately, I could not join them, due to a previous engagement.
I haven't done much since, but it was lots of fun when I did it. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| I like to go geocaching. |
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tall_dave
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
Location: Songtan, S. Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| Troglodyte wrote: |
| I like to go geocaching. |
Where have you gone? I have a small handheld GPS and was looking for someone to adventure with while Geocaching. I think it's just more fun to have someone with a knack for it to chat with and discuss things while tracking. Where are you? Have you done much of it here? |
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Brooksmatic
Joined: 06 Apr 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:49 am Post subject: |
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My friend Ryan made this site: http://foundatron.com/
My friend Ryan about his site:
After a couple years in of living in Japan and Korea, I�ve grown tired of not being able to find places.
I made this site so people can share place locations in a format thats easy upload into a GPS device.
Devices like the Garmin Etrex allow the user to use direction and distance to find waypoints or places of interest. Wouldn�t you love to walk out of a train station, and know how far away, and in which direction that one hard to find buddhist restaurant is? If you had a gps compass and the waypoint for the restaurant, you wouldn�t have to fret.
This is my first blog so be patient if you run across any errors or something that is broken. If something really bugs you, send me an email and tell me how to fix it
He's got stuff all over Seoul. Check it out. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Brooksmatic wrote: |
My friend Ryan made this site: http://foundatron.com/
My friend Ryan about his site:
After a couple years in of living in Japan and Korea, I�ve grown tired of not being able to find places.
I made this site so people can share place locations in a format thats easy upload into a GPS device.
Devices like the Garmin Etrex allow the user to use direction and distance to find waypoints or places of interest. Wouldn�t you love to walk out of a train station, and know how far away, and in which direction that one hard to find buddhist restaurant is? If you had a gps compass and the waypoint for the restaurant, you wouldn�t have to fret.
This is my first blog so be patient if you run across any errors or something that is broken. If something really bugs you, send me an email and tell me how to fix it
He's got stuff all over Seoul. Check it out. |
It's a nice site he's got there. It's really good that there's so many GoogleEarth files with stuff in English.
Has anyone seen a GoogleEarth file for Bucheon with information in English? |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| tall_dave wrote: |
| Troglodyte wrote: |
| I like to go geocaching. |
Where have you gone? I have a small handheld GPS and was looking for someone to adventure with while Geocaching. I think it's just more fun to have someone with a knack for it to chat with and discuss things while tracking. Where are you? Have you done much of it here? |
I'm in Bucheon and I've just gone searching for caches in and around Bucheon. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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tall_dave
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
Location: Songtan, S. Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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I have a small handheld Garmin. It has a directional compass, so I just input the coordinates and follow the arrow. (once I drive close to where I think the cache is) and then seach for it. But thers not many people in Songtan that I know of that want to do this, even though there are caches in and around the city. I'm wanting to go to other places and track this stuff down and maybe after I get the hang of it, get people to sponsor a treasure hunt in Seoul or elsewhere in Korea. I think it woul dbe fun and increase participation or interest in the hobby. |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: Geo-tracking |
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| Got any Geo trackers here? |
I bought a '97 Geo Tracker when I graduated from university. I couldn't get financing on my own, so my boxing coach co-signed. He made me give him the spare key so that in the event that I missed a car payment, he could come and pick it up and drive it back to the lot! Pretty smart guy. |
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tall_dave
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
Location: Songtan, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:30 am Post subject: Geocaching |
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| Joe Boxer wrote: |
| tall_dave wrote: |
| Got any Geo trackers here? |
I bought a '97 Geo Tracker when I graduated from university. I couldn't get financing on my own, so my boxing coach co-signed. He made me give him the spare key so that in the event that I missed a car payment, he could come and pick it up and drive it back to the lot! Pretty smart guy. |
I meant Geocaching. Joe. But thanks for the deeply insightful and entertaining story about your car. Do tell us how it ended. Were you able to keep the car? I hate cliff hanger stories like yours. Um, having to guess, I'll go with...Car thieves stole your car because it was just so darned precious and you never saw it again and had to flee your conutry to avoid prosecution because you weren't able to make car payments. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:42 am Post subject: |
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In case anyone is considering the Korea map for Garmin, be warned that it's limited in detail and content, at least for Bucheon. It doesn't have most of the streets, just the major streets. And there are very few POIs. If you just want it for highway driving or generally getting around, i guess it's ok, but not for finding an address or a particular business.
I've started to trace the streets in GoogleEarth as vector lines so that I can upload that to my Garmin. The POIs are a bigger problem because I don't know where most of the good/interesting/noteworthy places in or around Bucheon are located. I can find a ton of stores and bars on GoogleEarth, but I have no idea which ones are worth going to or what type of stores/bars they are. |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:01 am Post subject: Re: Geocaching |
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| tall_dave wrote: |
| Joe Boxer wrote: |
| tall_dave wrote: |
| Got any Geo trackers here? |
I bought a '97 Geo Tracker when I graduated from university. I couldn't get financing on my own, so my boxing coach co-signed. He made me give him the spare key so that in the event that I missed a car payment, he could come and pick it up and drive it back to the lot! Pretty smart guy. |
I meant Geocaching. Joe. But thanks for the deeply insightful and entertaining story about your car. Do tell us how it ended. Were you able to keep the car? I hate cliff hanger stories like yours. Um, having to guess, I'll go with...Car thieves stole your car because it was just so darned precious and you never saw it again and had to flee your conutry to avoid prosecution because you weren't able to make car payments. |
When I was leaving Canada, I had a buyer that was willing to take over the lease. The problem was, the buyer wasn't at all interested in the sweet rims I had on layaway.
So I signed over my Tracker... but just couldn't live with the idea of losing the $1,800 I had put toward my those $2,400 rims. So I did what any idiot would do... I sent $600 from my first Korean hogwan pay and got my rims off layaway.
And they've been at my grandmother's place, in their boxes, gathering dust for 9 years now.
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:19 am Post subject: |
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Rims on a Geo Tracker!!!!~~~God Bless Us, Everyone!
새해복많이받으세요!!~~ |
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tall_dave
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
Location: Songtan, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:18 am Post subject: Re: Geocaching |
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| Joe Boxer wrote: |
| tall_dave wrote: |
| Joe Boxer wrote: |
| tall_dave wrote: |
| Got any Geo trackers here? |
I bought a '97 Geo Tracker when I graduated from university. I couldn't get financing on my own, so my boxing coach co-signed. He made me give him the spare key so that in the event that I missed a car payment, he could come and pick it up and drive it back to the lot! Pretty smart guy. |
I meant Geocaching. Joe. But thanks for the deeply insightful and entertaining story about your car. Do tell us how it ended. Were you able to keep the car? I hate cliff hanger stories like yours. Um, having to guess, I'll go with...Car thieves stole your car because it was just so darned precious and you never saw it again and had to flee your conutry to avoid prosecution because you weren't able to make car payments. |
When I was leaving Canada, I had a buyer that was willing to take over the lease. The problem was, the buyer wasn't at all interested in the sweet rims I had on layaway.
So I signed over my Tracker... but just couldn't live with the idea of losing the $1,800 I had put toward my those $2,400 rims. So I did what any idiot would do... I sent $600 from my first Korean hogwan pay and got my rims off layaway.
And they've been at my grandmother's place, in their boxes, gathering dust for 9 years now.
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Appreciating, I'm sure... |
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