TOP 10 POI Stuttgart Mystery Cache
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Imagine you want to visit one of the famous cities in the world like Paris, London, Berlin or Athens. Or even Moscow, Beijing or Seoul. Assumed you do not have too much time there because your visit is just part of a longer journey or it’s a short business trip. Of course you want to do some sightseeing and certainly it is also a must to at least do one geocache in this town. However, you don’t speak the local language and perhaps you can’t even read the local alphabet. So you have to get a map in English (Google Maps e.g. only offers you just white space in Beijing, in Tokyo you’ll see only Japanese characters). Or you have to search for a tourist guide in English which is often not so easy to get in particular if it’s a smaller town or a country region. And finally you have to be lucky to find a cache listing written in English which is not a whole day multi-stage, requiring a profound knowledge of the local environment and culture.
On the other hand who knows a city better than a local geocacher? A native geocacher could help best with providing just 10 well selected waypoints of the most important points of interest (POI) in town you could easily download to your GPSr to create a short sightseeing route (less than 2 hours). And this foreign-tourist friendly geocacher could hide you a cache with reasonable difficulty keeping in mind your limited local abilities and the fact that you only understand an easy-to-understand English listing. Just a dream? No, YOU could be the one doing this for your home town. Just copy this mystery as it is (with this header!), replace the POI pictures in the gallery with yours, create a new waypoint table and redo the calculation. Then report the cache with the nickname “Top 10 POI -your town name-”, such that others could easily find it by a simple keyword search. This way we’ll hopefully get “Top 10 POI caches” from many, many cities (big and small) or even country regions and being a foreign-tourist-geocacher would no longer be a nightmare. A good idea? Then start immediately for your home town.
Here is my top 10 POI list for Stuttgart in a reasonable sequence for a route:
N48 46.697 E9 10.656
N48 46.683 E9 10.875
N48 46.773 E9 11.046
N48 47.018 E9 10.895
N48 46.782 E9 11.204
N48 46.555 E9 11.043
N48 46.386 E9 11.006
N48 46.500 E9 10.674
N48 46.591 E9 10.672
N48 46.617 E9 10.767
I downloaded the 10 POI pictures to the gallery and gave it a number. You have to correctly identify the POI and use the assigned number as a substitute for the POI name in the following two equations:
ABC = 1*Hauptbahnhof + 2*Staatsgalerie + 3*Staatstheater + 4*Kunstmuseum +5*Altes Schloss + 6*Neues Schloss + 7*Schellenturm + 8*Stiftskirche + 9*Wilhelmspalais +10*Rathaus
XYZ = 10*Hauptbahnhof + 9*Staatsgalerie + 8*Staatstheater + 7*Kunstmuseum +6*Altes Schloss + 5*Neues Schloss + 4*Schellenturm + 3*Stiftskirche + 2*Wilhelmspalais +1*Rathaus
Having calculated ABC and XYZ you can determine the final coordinates of the cache:
N48 (46.233 + ABC/1000) E9 (10.728 + XYZ/1000)
Since in the city center there are lots of muggles around here a special hint for retrieving this cache without attracting too much at attention:
Wait one “cycle”, then sit down on the leftmost seat (from the front) and put a bag down to the right of you. The magnetic filmcanister is hidden in the dark gray u-shaped steel mounting of the PR-poster between the two bars that go to the ground at the rear. Grab behind your bag, scan the u-shaped steel for the magnetic box and remove it. Do your log very relaxed, and then repeat the whole procedure backwards.
Happy sightseeing and happy hunting
WEBDAX
PS for native guys: Who wants to contribute to the TOP XYZ POI Cache? See GC1D7AF (visit link)
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