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 do at least 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 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.
This cache was inspired by a similar one in Stuttgart.
Here is my top 10 POI list for Brno in a reasonable sequence for a route:
N49°11.455 E016°36.743
N49°11.659 E016°36.771
N49°11.751 E016°36.823
N49°11.719 E016°36.469
N49°11.641 E016°36.377
N49°11.592 E016°36.528
N49°11.545 E016°36.541
N49°11.463 E016°36.419
N49°11.501 E016°35.664
N49°11.655 E016°36.003
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*Menin gate + 2*Parnassus fountain + 3*Central station + 4*Petrov + 5*Freedom square + 6*Old Town Hall + 7*New Town Hall + 8*Mahen theatre + 9*Augustinian Monastery and Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady +10*Castle Spilberk
XYZ = 10*Parnassus fountain + 9*Augustinian Monastery and Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady + 8*New Town Hall + 7*Petrov +6*Castle Spilberk + 5*Menin gate + 4*Old Town Hall + 3*Freedom square + 2*Mahen theatre +1*Central station
Note: the symbol "* " stands for multiplication.
Having calculated ABC and XYZ you can determine the final coordinates of the cache:
N49°11.(454+ABC) E016°36.(741-2*XYZ)
Warning!! There is no pen in the cache! Due to the size no trade.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
Note: I don't include the only UNESCO monument in Brno, the Tugendhat Villa, because it is pretty far from the city centre, but we strongly recommend to see it, the interior after reconstruction is amazing, more information under www.tugendhat.eu. You can find a picture of it in the gallery. And if you want to take some traditional cache around, the villa now has its own cache (GC1T8RH) or we can recommend „Schodová“ cache(GC17HDN). Happy sightseeing and happy hunting
sharkiacs
CZ: Keš byla inspirována vznikající sérií stejnojmenných keší „TOP 10 POI“ (point of interest – bod zájmu).
Umožní turistovi poznat mesto vlastne ješte predtím, než tam prijede, nebo treba behem hodiny, kdy ceká na prípoj vlaku.
Vybrali jsme 10 brnenských pametihodností tak, aby nebyly daleko od centra a aby byly snadno rozpoznatelné.
Projdete se po Brne (nebo po nejaké online mape ?) nejsnadneji v tomto poradí:
N49°11.455 E016°36.743
N49°11.659 E016°36.771
N49°11.751 E016°36.823
N49°11.719 E016°36.469
N49°11.641 E016°36.377
N49°11.592 E016°36.528
N49°11.545 E016°36.541
N49°11.463 E016°36.419
N49°11.501 E016°35.664
N49°11.655 E016°36.003
V galerii je 10 fotek oznacených císly, priradte k nim názvy památek a dosadte císla fotek do vzorce:
ABC = 1*Menínská brána + 2*Kašna Parnas + 3*Hlavní nádraží (pro opravdu lokální kacery Rola ?) + 4*Petrov + 5*Námestí Svobody + 6*Stará radnice + 7*Nová radnice + 8*Mahenovo divadlo + 9*Augustiniánské opatství a bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie +10*Hrad Špilberk
XYZ = 10*Kašna Parnas + 9* Augustiniánské opatství a bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie + 8*Nová radnice + 7*Petrov +6*Hrad Špilberk + 5*Menínská brána + 4*Stará radnice + 3*Námestí Svobody + 2*Mahenovo divadlo +1* Hlavní nádraží
Pozn. Symbol "*" je znamenko pro nasobeni.
Keš je umístena na souradnicích:
N49°11.(454+ABC)
E016°36.(741-2*XYZ)
Pozor! Vemte si s sebou tužku, vzhledem k velikosti keše ji tam nejde umístit.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
Pozorný lokální geokacer si jiste všiml jedné fotky navíc. Jedinou brnenskou památku Unesco stojí za to navštívit, ale protože stojí tak trochu bokem od centra, je to už jen nepovinný odskok. A dají se pri nem ulovit napr. blízké kešky "Vila Tugendhat" (GC1T8RH) nebo „Schodová“ (GC17HDN). Návštěvu vily po rekonstrukci vřele doporučujeme! www.tugendhat.eu