The Adventures of Lon G. Tude and His Dog Laddy Mystery Cache
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The Adventures of Lon G. Tude and His Dog Laddy
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The world famous cartographer, Lon G.
Tude, has devised a new system for locating and naming points
on the Earth surface! And he needs talented geocachers like
YOU to assist in the collection of ground-truth data so he
can see if his new system works.
One day, while geocaching with his geopooch Laddy, Lon G. Tude
thought, “HEY! We use 100 as a base for so many thing,
because it’s easy. Why not for coordinates?”
“Well, there’s UTM,” offered Laddy.
“That’s sorta based on 100.”
“Ick!” exclaimed Lon. “UTM is so hard for
beginners to learn how to use- all those zones, and different
conventions for how to show it. I want to keep the simplicity of
latitude and longitude using degrees, but just
proportion the numbers so everything comes out to
100.”
So he and Laddy locked themselves up in their office, crunched a
few numbers, drew a few maps, and have come up with the following
system:
- location isn’t described as north or south from the
equator, and degrees aren’t used. The 180º previously used to
measure from the south pole to the north pole is now divided into
100 equal units called Horizontals. Every point on Earth is
measured as a certain number of "horizontals" north of the south
pole. The equator is H 50.0 (fifty horizontals) because
it’s halfway to the north pole, which would be H 100.0.
- similarly, a point’s location isn’t described as
east or west of the prime meridian. In fact, it’s not called
the prime meridian anymore; it’s the prime vertical. The
Earth’s circumference (formerly 360º) is now divided into 100
equal units called verticals. Like the former meridians, all
verticals converge at the poles. Unlike meridians, which measured
east and west from the prime meridian, verticals start measuring
east from the prime vertical and continue around the globe until
arriving back at the same point. Thus, V 0.0 and V 100.0 are
the same thing. What used to be 180º east or west is now V
50.0.
Lon is so excited about his new system that he recalibrated his
GPSr, put Laddy in the car, and hid a cache at the following
coordinates. He wants to see if his new system will work, and
figures fellow geocachers are the best people to test it out on.
Can you help him??
The cache is located at:
H 74.5593 V 66.343025
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[cache] unatvat va gur funqr
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