Geocaching is a treasure hunting game in which the participators use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, mobile gadget or other navigational methods to conceal and seek the containers anywhere in the world. Geocaching combines the outdoors, puzzles, hunting and adventure activities; everyone from children to the elderly can simply enjoy because there's no specific qualifications nor expertises are needed for this game.
A container sometime called cache is a small water resistant container having a log book where the geocacher enters the date and time they found it and signs it with their code name. Bigger containers like plastic storage boxes or ammunition boxes also contain items for trading, food, toys, books and other surprises. These boxes are hidden out in the wilderness, suburbs and even in middle of cities with hints that are offered for players to discover them.
Geocaches are currently placed in more than one hundred countries around the planet and in 7 continents, including Antarctica . After more than eleven years of activity there may be more than 1.5 million active geocaches as broadcasted on various websites and there could be over 5,000,000 geocachers across the planet.
Geocaching is similar to the 150 yr old game called letterboxing, which is considered as an ecologically-friendly game, involving the hiding and discovery of letterboxes. Geocaching was started after improvement in the accuracy of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that provided for a small container to be exactly situated and found. The first documented placement of a Global Positioning System (GPS) situated cache happened on the 3rd of May, 2000 by Dave Ulmer. According to Dave Ulmer message, the first stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot.
The 1st Geocaching game was organised by www.gpsgames.org and lasted for 2 months from June thru July, 2001. Players were instructed to take pictures at the dashpoints and likewise upload them to the internet site. There are some organizations that only want to play geocaching by employing mobile gadgets. These days, Android, iPhone, webOS, and Windows Phone-7 mobile platforms have a number of applications for geocaching. These applications also allow for a trial version with some functionality.
Numerous websites list geocaches around the world. In the U. S., where most all of geocaching services are hosted, only a cache's coordinates are in public domain and other cache info is protected by copyright laws. All the geocaching web sites vary in active security for cache data. The first web site to list geocaches was announced by Mike Teague on May 8th, 2000. On September 2nd, 2000, Jeremy Irish emailed the gpsstash contact list that he had registered the domain name as geocaching.com and setup this website. He copied the caches from Mike Teague's database into his own.
The major global websites that list geocashes are; www.geocaching.com, www.navicache.com, www.opencaching.com, www.terracaching.com, www.gpsgames.org and opencaching.com. In many lands there are regional geocaching sites, but these websites usually compile tallies of caches in the area from the main sites. Most of them also accept unique lists of caches for their site, but these lists are less preferred than the international sites and cover the regional data only.
A container sometime called cache is a small water resistant container having a log book where the geocacher enters the date and time they found it and signs it with their code name. Bigger containers like plastic storage boxes or ammunition boxes also contain items for trading, food, toys, books and other surprises. These boxes are hidden out in the wilderness, suburbs and even in middle of cities with hints that are offered for players to discover them.
Geocaches are currently placed in more than one hundred countries around the planet and in 7 continents, including Antarctica . After more than eleven years of activity there may be more than 1.5 million active geocaches as broadcasted on various websites and there could be over 5,000,000 geocachers across the planet.
Geocaching is similar to the 150 yr old game called letterboxing, which is considered as an ecologically-friendly game, involving the hiding and discovery of letterboxes. Geocaching was started after improvement in the accuracy of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that provided for a small container to be exactly situated and found. The first documented placement of a Global Positioning System (GPS) situated cache happened on the 3rd of May, 2000 by Dave Ulmer. According to Dave Ulmer message, the first stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot.
The 1st Geocaching game was organised by www.gpsgames.org and lasted for 2 months from June thru July, 2001. Players were instructed to take pictures at the dashpoints and likewise upload them to the internet site. There are some organizations that only want to play geocaching by employing mobile gadgets. These days, Android, iPhone, webOS, and Windows Phone-7 mobile platforms have a number of applications for geocaching. These applications also allow for a trial version with some functionality.
Numerous websites list geocaches around the world. In the U. S., where most all of geocaching services are hosted, only a cache's coordinates are in public domain and other cache info is protected by copyright laws. All the geocaching web sites vary in active security for cache data. The first web site to list geocaches was announced by Mike Teague on May 8th, 2000. On September 2nd, 2000, Jeremy Irish emailed the gpsstash contact list that he had registered the domain name as geocaching.com and setup this website. He copied the caches from Mike Teague's database into his own.
The major global websites that list geocashes are; www.geocaching.com, www.navicache.com, www.opencaching.com, www.terracaching.com, www.gpsgames.org and opencaching.com. In many lands there are regional geocaching sites, but these websites usually compile tallies of caches in the area from the main sites. Most of them also accept unique lists of caches for their site, but these lists are less preferred than the international sites and cover the regional data only.
About the Author:
Tom
one of the original contributors to the base data,
as well as, to the progress and advancement
of Satellite Treasure
Map Info overlaid on Google
Maps. Tom has accumulated this
info through many years of seeking out obscure truths thru many wide-ranging
sources.
one of the original contributors to the base data,
as well as, to the progress and advancement
of Satellite Treasure
Map Info overlaid on Google
Maps. Tom has accumulated this
info through many years of seeking out obscure truths thru many wide-ranging
sources.
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