GPS Missions – April 2

(updated with mission completions and results)

On April 2nd, Essy took advantage of Sys's 'crack' in the Stonewall, and she went and hid somewhere. It looks like she found the website gpsmission.com and set up a profile with a bunch of gps location-based 'missions', and describes it as the place she (or her network tentacle 'control point') 'hid' from Sys: BROKEN-PIECES. Below the message is a big image that looks kind of like a cloud. It looks like something that will be filled up with the 'pieces' of the story Essy’s hidden through the gps mission. Her profile name is pricklypear. There are five missions that were made today:

• New York, Central Park  (completed! by halo422mk)
• San Francisco, Golden Gate Park
• Las Vegas
• Toronto, Ontario
• St. Louis  (completed! by Nyst, but w/o the pieces)

GPS Missions

• The website started in the UK but is available in North America now.
• Check out the How To Play page for instructions. There's also a Facebook application!
• A GPS capable device is required, and a device that supports their downloadable software. iPhone is probably the best capable device. They’ve got listed:
  • NOKIA: N95, N95 8GB, 6110 Navigator, N72, N82, E90
  • SAMSUNG: SGH-i550
  • LG: KS20
  • HTC: Trinity P3600, Touch
  • ETEN: glofiish X800
  • Any Windows Mobile 5 or 6 PocketPC
  • And of course the iPhone 3G! (they have a great iPhone How-to PDF too)
• Obviously not everyone has a capable device, so if you're in one of the mission areas, see if you can organize a team together or find someone with a device who'd be willing to do the mission.
• GPS Missions can be up to 12 checkpoints, so make sure your battery is charged!
• They’ve got a discussion forum too if you have questions.

Central Park New York (complete!)

• Description: From the 107th you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: 107th Infantry Memorial
• Retrieved: The first two frames of S's story at BROKEN-PIECES, linking to an audio clip, "thickets"

Golden Gate Park California

• Description: From the carousel shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Golden Gate Park Carousel
• Retrieved: ?

Las Vegas

• Description: From the hotel of fountains you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Bellagio Hotel
• Retrieved: ?
  

Toronto Ontario

• Description: From the city center you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Nathan Phillips Square
• Retrieved: ?
  

St Louis (complete!)

• Description: From Broadway and Convention you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: N Broadway & Convention Plaza
  (by Edward Jones Dome)
• Retrieved: The last two frames of S's story at BROKEN-PIECES, linking to an audio clip, "be-okay"
  

It doesn’t look like there’s a time limit on these, and Essy said that they could be replayed by people “over and over and over”. I’m guessing we’ll know when a mission’s been completed the way she wants!

Sounds like a blast - I didn't even know about the GPSMissions site, and I love Geocaching - but I don't have a phone that the site supports. Unless someone wants to send me an iPhone? *grin* Anyway, there are no missions near me, anyway.