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Geocaching was conceived shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 2, 2000, because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located.
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Geocaching and was
" The former term plays off the fact that those not familiar with geocaching are called muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series of books which was rising in popularity at the same time Geocaching got its start.
* Largest Single Coin ( not a production run, trackable ): It was handcrafted for the 2011 Geocaching mega event Geofarm in Switzerland.
* Second Largest Single Coin ( not a production run ): It was handcrafted for the Geocaching event " Nordseetaufe 2010 " in Germany.
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Geocaching software can assign special icons or search ( filter ) for caches based on certain criteria ( e. g. distance from an assigned point, difficulty, date last found ).
Each year from 2004 to 2007, Jeep had sponsored a contest, the Jeep 4 × 4 Geocaching Challenge, featuring a different series of special Jeep travel bugs.
* Geocoins Information Page from Geocaching. com listing trackable geocoins
Geocaching and GPS
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called " geocaches " or " caches ", anywhere in the world.
Geocaching enthusiasts have also made their own hand-held GPS devices using a Lego Mindstorms NXT GPS sensor.
* Geocaching: Hike and Seek with Your GPS by Erik Sherman ( ISBN 978-1590591222 )
The best-known example is the treasure hunt game Geocaching, which can be played on any mobile device with integrated or external GPS receiver.
Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a global positioning system ( GPS ) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers ( called " geocaches " or " caches ") anywhere in the world.
Treasure hunting can also refer to Geocaching which has also become a very popular sport in which participants utilize GPS units to find hidden ( but not buried ) caches of toys and trinkets.
Geocaching and on
These " events " have their own cache type on Geocaching. com and include many non-geocachers.
The largest site is Geocaching. com, owned by Groundspeak Inc., which began operating on September 2, 2000.
Geocaching and because
There are some exceptions though, e. g. in the former Soviet Union the site Geocaching. su remains popular because it accepts listings in the Cyrillic script.
Geocaching and for
Developers at c: geo have criticised Geocaching Live for being incompatible with open-source development.
* 2005 Geocaching. com permitted any geocaching. com user to purchase tracking numbers for approved designs, fueling a sudden surge in number of coins.
* March 4, 2009 Geocaching. com further reduced the minimum number of codes for purchase to 50, and the minimum number of coins eligible for a custom icon to 50.
Geocaching and be
On a larger scale, a " World Wide Flash Mob " is being organized around Geocaching and aims to be the largest distributed mob to date.
The camporee may be centered around a central theme such as living history, horsemanship, aquatics, shooting sports, a historical trail, a service project, and most recently Geocaching.
Geocaching and .
Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.
Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old game letterboxing, which uses clues and references to landmarks embedded in stories.
Different geocaching websites list different variations per their own policies ( e. g. Geocaching. com does not list new Webcam, Virtual, Locationless, or Moving geocaches ).
The traditional Geocaching gave birth to GeoCaching – one of active urban games of Encounter project.
The game is quite similar to Geocaching but has time limitations and hints in it.
Geocaching is not illegal in the United States and is usually positively received when explained to law enforcement officials.
Geocaching websites vary in active protection of cache data.
Container displaying the official Geocaching. com logo.
The site promotes mobile applications branded as Geocaching Live Enabled, and lists over two dozen applications ( both mobile and browser / desktop based ) that are using their proprietary but royalty-free public API.
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Perhaps it was all a vividly conceived dream.
It was conceived as a leave-taking, a kind of melancholy gathering-in of the myths of the West, `` bevor die Nacht sinkt, eine lange Nacht vielleicht und ein tiefes Vergessen ''.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.
And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.
Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.
First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
This was a basic number to understand, 7 times 13, a close relation conceived between natural phenomena, the underworld and the cycles of the heavens.
The game was conceived by Lyle Rains and programmed and designed by Dominic Walsh and Ed Logg.
Turing was conceived at Chhatrapur, Orissa, in British India.
Initially it was conceived as a difference engine curved back upon itself, in a generally circular layout, with the long store exiting off to one side.
First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.
The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program.
Plato used the word aeon to denote the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived was " behind " the perceived world, as demonstrated in his famous allegory of the cave.
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:: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, His only son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried.
Created by telecoms vendor Ericsson in 1994, it was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables.
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