Geocaching in SL

We just set up geocaching in Second Life. See www.slgeocaching.com for more info. We are in the testing phase right now but it seems to be working out aok.

Geocaching is a sport/game where cache hunters obtain coordinates of a hidden treasure and go out a find the cache. Once found they log their finds and track stats.

Its based on the real world game www.geocaching.com

caches in SL look like 30mm ammo cans and contain a simple notecard. Some have SWAG...shit we all get...such as a free t-shirt etc....

The content or behaviour of a cache is limited to the cache owners ability to script it.

Thank you. I do some Geocaching in RL, and it would be awesome to do some here.

whohooo I do geocaching in RL too once in a while

sounds cool. i do geocaching irl too.

Me Too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seems like we have a fan club XD.

I too geocache in RL this will be fun!! TFTH

this sounds cool i have a GPS locator i been working on that has an arrow to point you to a location or waypoint.
-LW

that is awesome! just a thought..maybe we can work together on this....have your gps system download the waypoints from the slgeocaching.com database from in-world instead of (or along with) how we do it now..which is teleporting from the website.

Count me in...let's CACHE!

sounds like fun, but how does it work in SL? correct me if im wrong, but getting a set of SL coordiantes is pretty exact isnt it? you can simply teleport to the exact coords given.. that dosent seem quite the same as a real cashe hunt.
i could see it working well with that GPS scriptie, if you hide the cashe in a sim with forced teleport locations, but even then, your coords are always displayed in the top bar, making it seem like less of a hunt, and more of a casual walk between two waypoints.

Exactly the problem. SL is TOO precise, unlike Real-world GPS units. I originally started the Geocaching group, and designed a receiver that worked fairly well. It basically said nothing until you got within the 96m scan range, then it would give you a distance but not coordinates. Walking, you could then work the distance down until you got to it. How long that took was greatly dependent on the distance of the "hint" coordinates from the cache.

It was fun the first time or two, but once you got good at it, there was literally no challenge in it at all unless you made the hint coordinates a long way off, and then it just got tedious. So I canned the whole idea...

Cutter

what a fun way to explore i visited so many beautiful sims today and seen so many cool things what a way to spend a rainy day. Y'all outta try it once its a blast now back to hunting the treasure