I’m #10

October 6th, 2004 | Jeff Boulter | General

As of this weekend, I broke into the top 10 Geocachers in the Bay Area based on number of cache finds. I don’t think it’s really about how many caches you’ve found, but I like the concept of ‘collecting’ things.

I doubt I’ll ever get higher than #10 as the people above me are all more obsessive than me and there are some below me on a much more agressive pace.

Still, it’s fun to think with 1612 caches found I’m in the top 75 in the world.

So what does 1612 geocaches look like? I recently wrote some code to see, using GPSBabel and the Tiger Map Service.

US Map
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Northeast US
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Bay Area
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South Bay
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3 Responses to “I’m #10”

  1. Ben Margolin Says:

    Dude, that Bay Area map is just sick…

  2. Todd Says:

    Interesting. I wonder if you could figure out where geocachers lived by taking the densest 20% cluster of caches they’ve hit and calculating the geographic center.

  3. mitch Says:

    oh my god..my husband has just started geocaching…does it really get this obsessive..and I thought he was bad!!!! ;)

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