News about Caching and GPS from around the World
I looked at the calendar and realized that it was the opening of the northern zone of big game hunting season here in New York State this Saturday. My son wanted to go hiking tomorrow, but I told him no not on opening day. Now if you still want to go letterboxing or geocaching, here … Read more
A lot of Geocachers ask; “How does GPS work”? We found a pretty cool video on the NASA Sci Files site. The video is intended for kids, but is a good explanation of the technology. If you get asked this question you might want to point the person to The NASA Sci Files movie titled … Read more
Listen To The Show (20:54) The Caching Commute: On this geocaching midweek-podcast Sonny chats about: A GPS News item Name the Midweek Show – nominations close Oct 18 at 5:00pm Pacific. NOTE: If you want to be able to vote Request to join the FLAPS mailing list PodCacher Photo Tips – check out the example … Read more
When taking a look at the history of Geocaching we see that it is still in it’s infancy in the whole scheme of things. In just over six years the game of Geocaching has evolved from that first ‘stash’ placed by Dave Ulmer on May 3, 2000, only one day after Selective Availability was turned … Read more
While doing my daily sweep of the geoblogosphere today I ran across a post hinting at a possible future multifunction handheld device from Apple that may include a GPS. Apple’s iPhoto software has geotagging functionality built in already and according to the post, Apple has filed a patent for a handheld device that could include … Read more
There is an interesting article in today’s Miami Herald questioning who owns the rights to GPS technology. A defunct company called SPS claims that Motorola ended a joint venture in 2000 that gives SPS the intellectual property rights to GPS technology. Motorola claims that they gave SPS $5,000,000, paid for their offices, and paid employee … Read more