On the first weekend in September I attended BarCampLondon, a tech community get together. To attend you need to give a presentation about, well anything, but best go for something that everyone else will be interested in.
I decided to (or should that be persuaded to) get things rolling by giving my presentation in the first slot, and opted to talk about the high tech treasure hunt game of Geocaching. Below are the links I promised to publish in the presentation.
In May 2000 the United States turned off the selective availability of the global positioning system that intern allowed the system to be fully used by the public. Someone had the great idea of hiding a stash and publishing it’s coordinates online for someone else to find, and find it they did. More about the history of Geocaching is available on the geocaching.com website owned by Groundspeak.
Although there are several cache listing sites where the location of these “Caches” are listed the most popular is geocaching.com, and in the UK we have a great resource at geocacheuk.com that collates statistics from geocaching.com and allows more advanced searches.
The UK does have a body that is formed by UK Geocachers to help UK Geocachers called the Geocaching Association of Great Britain.
Another site that I recommend having a look at is trigpointinguk.com that conatins a list of all the concrete trigpoints used by ordnance sevey. Because they rely on line of sight for navigation they are normally located in a place that comes with a stunning view and are often well worth a visit.
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