[GeoSTL] Re: SLAGA Territory
- From: Paul Konopacki <konopapw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:25:05 -0500
I can make the circle slightly smaller, or I can move
it more towards Jefferson City, Mo or Springfield, Mo.
I tried to consider all the members of SLAGA and not
just cater to the area where the most prolific cachers
hunt.
I don't see the harm in touching the central Il caches -
perhaps we shouldn't be neglecting them!
Bruce S wrote:
> Paul,
> It looks good. It overlaps with Central IL area but that should be ok.
> RGS says "so that would include areas that are not really hunted by our
> group." where is not hunted???? :-)
>
> Bruce
>
> >From: GC-RGS <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [GeoSTL] Re: SLAGA Territory
> >Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:25:39 -0500
> >
> >Paul,
> >
> >I think that looks OK. Probably some odd shape would be better to catch our
> >primary area, but this is close enough. Like you said, we want to include
> >our outlying SLAGA members, so that would include areas that are not really
> >hunted by our group. What happens when Denali puts one in the northwest? We
> >can't include them all so I think it gets the idea across of our general
> >area.
> >
> >Rich
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Paul Konopacki
> > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 7:25 PM
> > Subject: [GeoSTL] SLAGA Territory
> >
> >
> > http://www.geostl.com/SLAGATerritory_Modal.html
> > Click on this link and tell me what you think. The issue
> > is What is the SLAGA Territory?
> >
> > At first, I was making a judgement call on what caches
> > were in the Territory, to determine if it should appear
> > on our New Caches page, Archived Caches page or
> > Featured Cache section.
> >
> > Then I write some code to take advantage of a 'Distance
> > by Zip Code' calculation. The Territory is now
> > based on a Zip Code of 63102 for a distance of
> > 125 miles in all directions. This amounts to a circle
> > with a 250 mile radius around the city of St. Louis
> > (see the images in the link above).
> >
> > A smaller circle would jeapardize Rolla and some
> > parts of the Mark Twain National Forest from being
> > in the Territory. But the current circle includes some
> > parts of Illinois that, to be honest, most of us will
> > never hunt for a cache.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
>
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