The Chattahoochee Valley Cachers were asked to give a geocaching
presentation at the Columbus Consolidated Government GIS day on
Thursday October 12, 2006. This cache commemorates the event. The
Major of the Sheriff’s office gave permission to place a temporary
cache at the government center for the event. Given the opportunity
to meet with the Sheriff’s department a couple cachers went and
explained geocaching and provided information and maps to the
Sheriffs. They were very supportive of geocaching in the city of
Columbus. To show this we have been given permission to hide a
container on the grounds of the government center.
The Major asked that all containers hidden in the Columbus and
surrounding areas be marked appropriately as a geocache and contain
contact information.
Please watch out for muggles and wondering “gypsies”. Be sure to
hide the container back as well or better than you found it.
"GIS is a computer system for capturing, storing,
checking, integrating, manipulating, analyzing and displaying data
related to positions on the Earth's surface. Typically, a
Geographical Information System is used for handling maps of one
kind or another. These might be represented as several different
layers where each layer holds data about a particular kind of
feature. Each feature is linked to a position on the graphical
image on a map and a record in an attribute table. GIS can relate
otherwise disparate on the basis of common geography, revealing
hidden patterns, relationships, and trends that are not readily
apparent in spreadsheets or statistical packages, often creating
new information from existing data resources.
Hidden in most data is a geographical component: an address,
postal code, census block, city, county, or latitude/longitude
coordinate. With GIS, you can explore the spatial element of your
data to display soil types, track crime patterns, analyze animal
migration patterns, find the best location for an expanding
business, model the path of atmospheric pollution, and make
decisions for many types of complicated problems."
For more information on the GIS division go to
http://www.columbusga.org/engineering2/GIS.htm.
