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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]
A Travel Bug is a dog tag used in Geocaching. Produced by Groundspeak, the bugs can be moved from cache to cache, with unique tracking numbers allowing their movements to be tracked through the company's geocaching website. Some tags are fastened to an object, known as a "hitchhiker", before they are released into a cache.
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.
Pages in category "Geocaching" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
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TFTC may refer to: "Thanks For The Cache", a phrase commonly used in geocaching "Thanks For The Chapter", a phrase commonly used on on-line fiction sites; Tales from the Crypt (disambiguation), a horror franchise originally published by EC Comics during the 1950s