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Geocaching
Geocaching is a fun sport where individuals hide “geocaches” (pronounced “geo-cashing”) anywhere in the world. You can enter your zip code and find all the caches (“cashes”) in your area. Enter the coordinates into your GPS receiver, and follow it to the treasure!
A Short History of Geocaching from GPSgames.org
Top 5 Geocaching Sites...
1. Geocaching.com - One of the first geocaching sites on the internet, and the largest
2. Buxleys Geocaching Waypoint - Not quite as large as Geocaching.com but very nice
3 GEOCACHINGWorldwide.com - Primarily for Australia but branching out to the world
4. Geocaching with Navicache - Another site that allow lookups by zip code
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. .. and the best of the rest
USENET discussion group alt.sattellite.gps
USENET discussion group sci.geo.sattellite-nav
Geocaching: mobile mavericks on the move
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Top 5 Geocaching FAQs
1. FAQ at Geocaching.com
2. Buxley’s Geocaching FAQ
3. Navicaches FAQ
4. Team Markwell’s Geocaching FAQ
5. Garmin’s Geocaching Manual (pdf)
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Top 5 Geocaching Discussion Sites
1. Geocaching Forums
2. USENET discussion group alt.rec.geocaching
3. Geocaching Australia Forum
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Geocaching Tips
Geocaching Info Page at UltimateFRS.com
Geocaching Tips - Massive list of tips gleaned from the Geocaching Forums
Stuff I’ve Learned - All about geocaching tips
Geocaching.com:
Guide to finding your first cache
Guide to creating and hiding a cache
Guide to buying a GPS receiver for Geocaching
Geocaching with Kids at Eduscapes.com
Garmins take on Geocaching
Latest Geocaching News via Sufxwax
Search for GPS news at Google
GPS Drawing
 GPS Drawing is using a GPS receiver to mark your path as you move about. When you download your path using mapping software, you can see you path, and if you did it correctly, see a picture!
GPSDrawing.com, with a gallery of drawings
Geodashing
 From the Geodashing website:
Geodashing is a game in which players use GPS receivers on a playing field that covers the entire planet. The waypoints, or dashpoints, to be reached are randomly selected. The win goes to who can get to the most dashpoints; that is, if you can get to them at all! Each game has a new set of dashpoints making each game completely different and unpredictable.
Geodashing Rules
Geodashing FAQ
OpenCaching.com
From the OpenCaching.com site:
We are developing a site for geocachers that is focused on the needs and desires of the community. Geocaching, whether called a sport, activity, recreational pursuit or something else is an evolving animal. The support requirements of the community expand in different directions continually. We look to fill some of the voids that exist today and attempt to better keep up with the demands of geocachers into the future. It will take a while to put the site together, so check back often. We'll make an effort to contact regional geocaching groups once registration is available. If you think you can help us achieve our goal in a more direct fashion, please pop into our forum section.
MinuteWar
From the MinuteWar webiste:
MinuteWar is a game of capture-the-flag using the whole world as the playing field and GPS receivers for navigation. Every player in the world uses his own local map, but all the maps are combined so that all players compete against everyone else at the same time no matter where they live.
The maps are divided into squares, each one minute of longitude wide and one minute of latitude long. Each square contains a virtual flag. Visit the spot where the flag is located to capture the flag. In some games, the object is to capture and hold the most flags. In others, it's to find the hidden flags. Each game can be different.
The battle to capture these flags is MinuteWar. Your first flag is in a neighborhood near you.
MinuteWar Rules
MinuteWar FAQ
Degree Confluence Project
From the Degree Confluence Project website:
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, along with a narrative describing the adventures it took to get there are then posted on this web site. This creates an organized sampling of the world.
Another goal is to document the changes at these locations over time. Although we initially want to visit as many different locations as possible, don't hesitate to revisit a confluence if you're in the area. We've excluded confluences in the oceans and dropped some near the poles, but there are still 13,352 to be found. You're invited to help. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you are on the surface of Earth.
Degree Confluence Project FAQ
Fun with GPS on an Airplane
“Yes, your inexpensive GPS receiver will work on a passenger airplane, so long as you keep it pressed up against the window, or very close to it anyway. I've had pretty good luck by just sticking a small (1" diameter) suction cup to the window, and hanging the GPS from that, with the display facing in towards the passenger cabin. In this configuration it still manages to "see" the GPS satellites that are on the side of the sky nearest the window, and often sees enough to get a good position and sometimes a good altitude fix....” Read more at Byrce’s website.
Geocaching Benchmarks (Survey Markers)
 From the Geocaching.com website:
The interesting thing about benchmarks and horizontal control points is that a majority of them are located in plain sight (though largely ignored by the general public). Searching out these locations and documenting them allows others to share pictures of the various areas where they are placed. There's a certain excitement to be the first to find and document a control point, as well as seeing what others have found through photos on Geocaching’s benchmark gallery. Some of these points haven't been visited and documented as being still in existence in a very long time, so you may also be rediscovering long neglected objects of American history as well!
Benchmarking Sites
Geocaching Benchmark FAQ
US National Geodetic Survey FAQ
Search for survey markets at Geocaching and US National Geodetic Survey site (called Data Sheets)
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