{"id":191,"date":"2004-10-06T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/im-10\/"},"modified":"2004-10-06T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T15:32:30","slug":"im-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/im-10\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of this weekend, I broke into the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/geocaching\/leaders\/\">top 10 Geocachers in the Bay Area<\/A> based on number of cache finds. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really about how many caches you&#8217;ve found, but I like the concept of &#8216;collecting&#8217; things.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt I&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s fun to think with 1612 caches found I&#8217;m in the top 75 in the world. <\/p>\n<p>So what does 1612 geocaches look like? I recently wrote some code to see, using <A HREF=\"http:\/\/gpsbabel.sf.net\">GPSBabel<\/A> and the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/tiger.census.gov\/instruct.html\">Tiger Map Service<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>US Map<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"map 3.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/archives\/map 3.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Northeast US<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"map 4.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/archives\/map 4.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bay Area<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"map 1.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/archives\/map 1.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Bay<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"map 2.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/archives\/map 2.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of this weekend, I broke into the top 10 Geocachers in the Bay Area based on number of cache finds. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really about how many caches you&#8217;ve found, but I like the concept of &#8216;collecting&#8217; things. I doubt I&#8217;ll ever get higher than #10 as the people above me are all &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/im-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;I&#8217;m #10&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}