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[missphinx]

[LordSaryon]

Geocache

[asinine]

Re: There is one near me!

[Blank]

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[Nola]

I believe my suggestion got lost in the traffic, so I'll trout myself first

However, I do believe that there's a chance these coordinates mark wi-fi hotspots

Can someone check them out? Closest one to me is about a 2 hour drive, and I'm out of the country at this minute.

[Mescad]

I took the first pair as the starting point, and the second pair as the endpoint and stuck all of these into the distance calculator that Dana linked from her blog. Here's the complete list of distances.

[babbler]

Some strange clusters of locations, too. Take Sedalia, MO, population 20,339, major employer Tyson Foods, which evidently merits 7 locations. If we're looking for physical commonalities between locations, this might be a good place to start.

[aliendial]

38.8083 -77.0873 - * 38.808294, -77.087324 | Duke Street and South Quaker Lane, ALEXANDRIA, VA, 22314 (there's a McDonald's on the corner, some random business across from that, a fire station and some low rise office buildings across Duke St.)

38.8430 -77.0425 - * 38.843444, -77.043733 | Air Cargo Rd, ARLINGTON, VA, 22202 (Reagan National Airport - could be a parking area - I can check)

38.7730 -77.1715 - Frontier Dr, SPRINGFIELD, VA, 22150 (Perimeter road for Springfield Mall - to the east are smaller plazas with Home Depot and Borders and other stores small and large; to the west is the mall property - parking lots surrounding). Extremely unlikely to be a pay phone there.

[themill]

Can someone inform us about geocaches? How does one retrieve them?

[ilovecheese]

[McGrude]

[Alzheimers]

Might I suggest that the GPS mapper of choice be Topozone.com? It gives highly accurate maps, and includes things like major landmarks and points of interest near/at the spot. I'm not affiliated with them -- I just found it to be the best.

I suggest using the following settings when viewing the map:
USGS Topo Map: 1:24k/25k series
Map Size: Large
View Scale: 1:25,000

It will even put a nice red crosshairs on the exact position of the coordinate.

[Danzilla76]

Re: There is one near me!

[Pariah]

This is a great site to get an ariel view of the addresses previously posted. I haven't been to the one here in Atlanta yet, but from the Pic it looks like a bunch of office buildings. Also when I do a reverse address lookup whitepages.com doesn't come up with anything at the address.

http://www.terrafly.com/

[xTopGunx]

I know you guys don't want to hear this, but don't forget that we have found a lot of evidence that this thing is related to Halo or Microsoft in some way. And since Halo 2 takes place on Earth, these might just be spots in the game that you'll be fighting in. Although this really isn't likely because it has nothing to do with Axons going hot, it is still a possibility. As stated earlier, there might be Covenant/Flood strikes at these locations, but if this is the case, it will happen in the *game* not in reality.

I think.

*Starts construction on Plasma Rifle*