The instantaneous map quote at the bottom reminded me of a time in the early days of geocaching.
A few years ago a couple of us Groundspeak guys were wakeboarding on Lake Washington in Seattle and we realized, rather abruptly, that we were out of gas. While we were sending out cell phone calls to someone who could tow us with a jet ski I went ahead and called Moun10bike, a big geocacher in the area, giving him our GPS coordinates and asking him to create a cache listing that read "Help! Need gas" (or something) to see if someone would come out and rescue us. At the same time we got in touch with one of our wives who was able to come out and tow us back to shore. The funny part was only within a half hour of our rescue it turns out that a geocacher had arrived at our exact spot with a can of gas. He sent us his track data of his search pattern the next day with an "oh well, maybe next time" message. Granted this was a couple of years ago. With instant cache notifications we now have people putting cell phones by their bedside just so they can jump up in the wee hours of the morning to be the first-to-find on a geocache. I always thought it would be fun to create real-time "rescue me" scenarios to reward those who can appear within the hour (or two) to track down someone. The community could definitely support such an idea. Thanks for sending a link to the article. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Gibson Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geowanking] article about us in Silicon Valley Metro Here is the article: http://www.metroactive.com/metro/10.11.06/work-0641.html _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
