[GeoStL] Re: Post-Dispatch GPS - Geocaching Articles
- From: "Gale R. Nie" <showme69@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:41:38 -0500
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Here's the entire story:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/51F922707AE7762D86257093001690D8?OpenDocument
Gale
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> In today's Post-Dispatch business section (Friday, Oct. 7) are some
> articles
> about GPS phones, and other new GPS uses, written by Jerri Stroud. Good
> reading, and has a side story on Geocaching:
>
> Geo-caching gets boost from GPS technology
> A small container is hidden somewhere in tiny Barnickel Park in northern
> Webster Groves. More than three dozen people have found it - and hidden
> it again
> - in the last year.
>
> And in the last seven months, more than 50 people have located a
> container
> in the park that commemorates Alton's legendary Piasa Bird.
>
> They're geo-cachers, people who use geographic positioning system, GPS,
> devices to find containers hidden by others, using clues posted on Web
> sites. The
> hundreds of containers hidden in parks and other public places across the
> St. Louis area are among 200,429 active caches in 217 countries, according
> to
> www.geocaching.com, a Web site dedicated to the sport.
>
> Jerri Stroud
>
>
>
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