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 | In our weekly Tech Tuesday tip,we tell you how to use technology to help you geocache. When you look up a geocache on geocaching.com,you might notice alternative coordinates buried in almost apologetically small type under the main coordinates. They look like this: UTM:19T E 300347 N 4684268 What the heck is that,[...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Well,Paul has been on Twitter for years. And Dana,too. Now even our geohound,Jacoby,is on Twitter. So naturally,our “first child,”our book,is now on Twitter,too. Follow the book,the dog,the girl and the boy! 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 game. Enjoy! | ||||
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