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  2. Geocaching - Wikipedia

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    Geocaching (/ ˈ dʒ iː oʊ k æ ʃ ɪ ŋ /, JEE-oh-KASH-ing) is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. [2]

  3. Travel Bug - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] On Geocaching.com, each travel bug has an individual page which tracks its movement and calculates the distance travelled. [5] Travel bugs move from cache to cache by Geocachers picking up the bug and physically moving them. There is no obligation to pick up a bug from a cache as Geocachers can simply "discover" the bug on the website.

  4. Benchmarking (hobby) - Wikipedia

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    Care must be taken to ensure that a found disk is the one described on the data sheet, so as to avoid false reports. A reference mark may be mistakenly reported as the station mark. A disk set in 1945 may be confused with a similarly named disk that was set in 1946 by a different agency, and so on.

  5. Types of beacons - Wikipedia

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    Tecno-World (Pitius Tec S.L., Manufacture-ID 0x015C) announced GeoBeacon in July 2017. This open source beacon protocol was designed for usage in GeoCaching applications due to the very compact type of data storage. [7] Advantages: Open source; Compatibility with other mobile operating platforms; High resolution coordinates

  6. Geohashing - Wikipedia

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    Geohashing / ˈ dʒ iː oʊ ˌ h æ ʃ ɪ ŋ / is an outdoor recreational activity inspired by the webcomic xkcd, in which participants have to reach a random location (chosen by a computer algorithm), prove their achievement by taking a picture of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or another mobile device and then tell the story of their trip online.

  7. Geohash - Wikipedia

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    The 6g [1] cell and its sub-grid.. Geohash is a public domain geocode system invented in 2008 by Gustavo Niemeyer [2] which encodes a geographic location into a short string of letters and digits.

  8. Geographical distance - Wikipedia

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    Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth, or the shortest arch length. The formulae in this article calculate distances between points which are defined by geographical coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude. This distance is an element in solving the second (inverse) geodetic ...

  9. Category:Geocaching - Wikipedia

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    Participants use navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. Pages in category "Geocaching" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.