What is Geocaching? If you know before Googling it how many caches do you have?

Question

86 for the Peanut Gallery.

Answer 1

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the posted longitude and latitude location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards, treasures, trinkets, etc. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.



There is currently over 200,000 geocaches world-wide.



I personally have not placed any caches yet, but I have found just over 100 caches so far.

Answer 2

Geocaching is an outdoor activity that most often involves the use of a Global Positioning System ("GPS") receiver or traditional navigational techniques to find a "geocache" (or "cache") placed anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small, waterproof container containing a logbook and "treasure", usually trinkets of little value. Participants are called geocachers; those not familiar with geocaching are called geo-muggles or just muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series.



Geocaching is similar to a much older activity called letterboxing. The major difference is its use of the GPS and the Internet.



There are a number of Web sites that list geocache sites around the world. The best known is geocaching.com, which dates from 2000 and whose owners have attempted to commercialize the sport, including attempts to trademark the word "geocache". These attempts have often proved controversial in the community.



In the United States, where most geocaching services are hosted, co-ordinates are not protected by copyright but cache data is. Commercial web-sites listing geocache data are generally protective of their data.



People using publicly available data taken from geocaching.com have been threatened with lawsuits by Groundspeak, Inc., the owners of geocaching.com. One of the most notable examples of this is that of Ed Hall who in 2001 was threatened with a lawsuit if he didn't place a notice stating that all geocaching data used in the creation of his geocache maps was copyrighted by Groundspeak, Inc. The legal advice received by Hall suggested that such a notice was unnecessary but his site now acknowledges the various sources of cache data



i donot have any.

Answer 3

Geocaching is when you find the quordinants for a certain cache on the internet, set them into your gps, and then have the gps tell you where to drive, and when you get close enough, walk. It's pretty fun.