[GeoSTL] geocaching in the news
- From: Glenn Nash <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "St. Louis Geocachers Association" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 07:34:22 -0500
Here is a note from a newsletter RGS mentioned yesterday.
Glenn
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While these uses are eminently practical, there are fun uses, too:
I just wanted to mention that there are several world-wide
games, similar to letterboxing, tied to GPSs. One that I
participate in is called GeoCaching (pronounced "geocashing").
( http://www.geocaching.com ) There are 17,479 caches in 121
countries. Thought you might be interested in this, it is a
great way to get a little exercise and help clean up our parks
and water ways in the process. (Geocaching's motto is "Cache
in, trash out.") Geocaching has become quite an online
community. --- Bruce Hullman
Indeed, if you go to the Geocaching.Com site and use their advanced
search engine ( http://www.geocaching.com/hideseek/ ), you can find
caches near you; and odds are there are a bunch out there that you
otherwise would have no clue about. While you're there, look up waypoint
GC4C84. That's the geocache my wife and I established a few miles from
our house. 8-)
As I said in the last issue, although many of you may think "I have
absolutely no use for a GPS...", I'm betting that soon, many of you---
even the skeptics!--- will be won over, just as happened before with
other forms of high-tech portable devices.
Please come check out the article and all the other reader responses at
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020425S0004) , and then join
in the discussion! Am I too far ahead of the curve on this one? Or--- as
Google's list of 3.5 million GPS-related web pages indicate--- is GPS
about to break into the mainstream? Do you use a GPS, and if so, which
one? What are the best GPS resources? What's the best use you know of
for small, inexpensive GPSes? Please join in the discussion!
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