In this week’s Tech Tuesday tip, we’ll give you a clue on how to use technology to help you geocache.
For security reasons, the U.S. government won’t let the civilian GPS network be too accurate. That means that even the best GPS receivers give you no better than 3-meter (10-foot) precision. A little high school geometry will [...]
Using GPS for Survival Geocaching
Spinning off of geocaching for recreational use, geocaching can also come in handy for survival purposes. Here we will explore some of the ways that a GPS unit can be employed from an emergency preparedness standpoint…
Reference: Using GPS for Survival Geocaching
Geocaching Brings Out the Kid in All of [...]
In this week’s Tech Tuesday tip, we’ll give you a clue on how to use technology to help you geocache.
If you’re a premium member of Geocaching.com, you’re no doubt familiar with GPX files, which are the files you can download from the site and use in many GPS receivers and PC programs. But have you ever [...]
For our second Tech Tuesday Tip, we’ll give you a clue on how to use technology to help you geocache.
Have you ever needed to find the geographic coordinates of an address and didn’t know where to start? You can actually enter the address on Google Maps and extract the coordinates from the site’s embedded link option, [...]
The Joy of Geocaching is a celebration of stories; the hundreds told to us by veteran cachers barely scratched the surface of the rich experiences that players have related in logs over the last decade. We decided to make stories the centerpiece of the book, so we were tickled this week to learn that Geocaching.com is [...]
We look up at and to stars, in the galaxy and in geocaching. We thought it’d be nice to share the list we worked from when we were looking for the top geocachers (by the number of caches found) to interview for the book. This list is kept up to date.
Alamogul is still in the undisputed [...]
Our friend Jaguar at Quill Driver (our publisher) sent us a link about the origins of geocaching that we wanted to share with you. Here’s a link to the usenet post that Dave Ulmer wrote, starting the whole [...]
Thank you, Groundspeak, for making this adorable and easy-to-follow [...]
Feedback Needed: Tech Talk – Software Goodies for Geocachers
This is a full draft chapter from Joy of Geocaching. We need your input! What have me missed? What have we got wrong? What new stories can you contribute? Please comment or e-mail us
This chapter covers several of the most popular and useful geocaching applications, including GSAK, GeoBuddy and Microsoft Streets & Trips. We don’t claim [...]