While looking around at ebay and various sites, I often see things called GEOcoins. What the heck are these exactly? anyone know? And they are trackable? huh? http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-UTAH-Geocoi...759QQihZ011QQcategoryZ259QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Yeah, I'm not sure if you've heard of it, but here's a few links... http://www.geocaching.com/track/geocoin.aspx http://www.geocaching.com/track/ http://www.geocaching.com/seek/ http://www.geocaching.com/ Same site but different pages that explain it. I think I put it in the correct order to lead you to an understanding of what it basically is. It's a GPS game (short version heh).
Yes, I've heard of it, it looks like it would be fun... I looked at that site awhile ago and a have found several active sites within 20 minutes of my house and a few more even further out... I really wanted to do that, but I can't bring myself to plunk down the cash for a decent GPS.... Everytime I start thinking about buying one, I think of the money I could be spending on coins or PMs...
I think if you were the already owning GPS hunting/hiking type and wanted to use it for a few kicks and somethign different, then it would be fine, but I'm not going to go out and buy one just to use for this purpose. I'm sure people do. I don't know why you'd collect these, but if one would want to, there's certainly plenty of different types... http://coins.search.ebay.com/Geocoi...ZQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs
My co-worker is into geocaching big time. Sort of like treasure hunting I guess. You find a geocache, take an item and leave one in return and then sign the log book. He does it all the time and plans vacations around it. He currently has 5 GPS units and has them all hooked up at the same time in his car. His wife gets angry because he puts them in her car and is always blowing fuses, LOL! There are 2 geocaches hidden where I work and I think about 3 more located in various places in town. You would be amazed at how many people show up in a week to hunt for the geocache. I showed him the geo-coins and he didn't seem too interested in them.
Geocaching is supposed to be a great sport, maybe someday I'll try it, but, for now, its my coins and metal detecting.
Can anyone please explain what geocaching is? Is it like swapping U.S. military challenge 'coins'? Aidan.
geocaching is when a location is known, by specific coordinates, using modern longitude and latitude locations and a cache is hidden in that spot. Then, others try to find the cache. You have to have a GPS (global positioning system) device, it could be your phone, to locate the cache. If found, you do not remove it, but can add to the cache and sign the log that you found it. It is a hobby like any other, but no gains or rewards, other than saying that you found the item. The challenge is that you have a location, but it is only good to within, say 20 feet, then you have to locate the cache, perhaps under a log or fallen tree. The cache is in a waterproof container and you sign the log. Or so I am told. geocaching.com is the official web site, the note: "There are 348766 active caches worldwide. In the last 7 days, there have been 221361 new logs written by 36019 account holders."
Frank,we can say that geocaching is a form of orienteering. Here's the link; www.geocaching.com . Aidan.
I hope that this was another thread that was merged with this one. Otherwise, it's been explained and the link posted already... What is Geocaching? Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.
