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 If you watch the RSS feed on the home page you will notice that there seems to be an ever increasing number of geocaches being exploded by the bomb squad. One of the more recent being an ammo box located in a industrial/office park that was near an airport. I can’t help but wonder if these types of things continue to happen what the ultimate result will be to the sport, or worse yet what the [...]  Image via Wikipedia Author: Tonia Jordan It all started on May 2, 2000 with the removal of selective availability by the White House. (Selective Availability is the intentional modification of GPS signal to degrade accuracy of readings) At that moment, the GPS receiver became 10 times more accurate. GPS, or Global Positioning System is a navigational system which operates through the use of twenty-four satellites positioned around the globe in low Earth orbit. These satellites were [...]  The Geocacher is looking for your help. We would like to publish articles from those of you that are active in the sport of geocaching. Surely I can write about my experiences and the caches that I visit and hide, and the geocoins and trackables that I have come across in my travels, but in doing so you get a pretty narrow view that would in no way represent all that is happening in [...]  First let me start out by saying that I did NOT purchase this GPS unit with geocaching in mind. I had heard of the sport but never really did any investigation of what it was all about until after I had purchased the unit. Overall I think it is a good device… There are a number of positive things and negative things about it that I will detail below. I know for the holiday season that [...]  When I started thegeocacher.com I wondered where it should be placed in terms of categorization. I think we could fairly place it into categories with sports, hobbies, or games. There are quite a few more categories you could use to describe geocaching, but ultimately I thought those 3 were the most all encompassing. Using the technology at hand, I jumped onto Wikipedia to see if I could gather some further information and perhaps fine tune [...] |
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