{"id":152,"date":"2007-05-26T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/barcampsheffield-geocaching.php"},"modified":"2007-05-26T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T13:41:00","slug":"barcampsheffield-geocaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/barcampsheffield-geocaching.php","title":{"rendered":"BarCampSheffield: Geocaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stubbsuk\/514626943\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/246\/514626943_ad8551d7f8_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" style=\"float:rigth; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Today I am attending <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/BarCampSheffield\">BarCampSheffield<\/a> being hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plus.com\">PlusNet<\/a>. It is naturally good to catch up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasscott.net\/\">Tom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/daveverwer.com\/\">Dave<\/a>, and a few other familiar faces, but it is great to meet new people who are new to the BarCamp game.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to do my presentation on the hi-tech treasure hunt game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geocaching\">Geocaching<\/a>. The broad concept of the game is to hide a &#8220;cache&#8221; with a log book and publish the GPS coordinates online, then someone uses this information for find it.<\/p>\n<p>The most common place to publish the location of your cache and find others is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\">Geocaching.com<\/a>. This site is operated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundspeak.com\/\">Groudspeak<\/a> in the United States. There are a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/seek\/nearest.aspx?zip=S1+4BY&#038;x=0&#038;y=0\">caches around PlusNet<\/a> that we may go look for later.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of other resources that are worth noting. The most useful to the UK based cacher is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocacheuk.com\">GeocacheUK.com<\/a> that collates statistics about caching and allows advanced searching. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trigpointinguk.com\">Trigpointing<\/a> is also a site that appeals to may people who are drawn to caching. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waymarking.com\">Waymarking.com<\/a> is another GPS site that evolved from Geocaching.com and is also operated by Groudspeak. There is also an organisation called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagb.org.uk\/\">Geocaching Association of Great Britain<\/a> that consists of UK Geocachers and helps with may things including getting permission to place caches on private land.<\/p>\n<p>A big well done and thank you to the team who put together BarCampSheffield, and thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuartgrimshaw.co.uk\/\">Stuart Grimshaw<\/a> for taking the photograph above and releasing it under the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">creative commons<\/a>. All <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?w=24035498%40N00&#038;q=BarCamp&#038;m=tags\">my BarCamp images<\/a> are released under Creative Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am attending BarCampSheffield being hosted by PlusNet. It is naturally good to catch up with Tom, Dave, and a few other familiar faces, but it is great to meet new people who are new to the BarCamp game. 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