SCC Zones Idea

[shroomAzoom]

Honestly, I'm not trying to play mind games. WM and I have been going back and forth a bit this morning. I've been telling him my ideas, he tells me they're garbage, and I refine. Not true, it's been good to get quick feedback on a couple of the border disputes I've been wrestling with.

It looks like, in the final shakedown, the map will consist of seven areas. Zone 1 (Urban TBay), Zones 2a, 2b (outside the urban area, and inside a 15km ring, separated north and south along Oliver Rd), and Zones 3a, 3b, 3c (a ring 15-25km out with divisions along Dog Lake Rd and the Kaministiqua River.) I'm overall pretty happy with it. Much more so than the version I put up Monday. I wonder how the Zone 1 boundary will work out, it was hard to define. But, it should work.

Thanks for bearing with me as I've fine tuned it.

[shroomAzoom]

Okay, please see the SCC Rules post for the new Cache Zone map and scoring rules. Thanks!

[ChrisDom]

Is it okay to just hide some caches, and let the zones fall where they may??

[shroomAzoom]

Yes and no.

Of course, you can hide some caches wherever you want, but...

If you want them to be a part of the SCC, you'll have to follow the zone rules this year. Part of the reason I've decided to try the zones approach is to spread out the placement of the caches. In the past there have been comments that the cache density in Thunder Bay proper is getting too high. So, to encourage more hides away from the urban area, each cache must be hidden in a different cache zone (and if you hide four caches in different zones, you can hide an extra cache in Zone 1.)

Just for fun, here are the 68 caches from last year over the zone map. You can see about 25 caches were in Zone 1, about 29 were in the Zone 2 areas, and about 8 were in the Zone 3 areas. There's probably some overlapping that makes it hard to get a good count. I'm hoping that this year we'll see a much more even spread (thought not totally even.)

Hope that explains things.

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[jleecollins]

CacheZones KMZ link for Google Earth in the text write-up half way through the rules  does not work.

And attached file at the top of aZm's rules write-up still doesn't give the new zone map for SCC2010

[shroomAzoom]

Thanks Jim, think it's all sorted out now.

[jleecollins]

Works well now

Thanks