The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching
There are treasures to be found…
They’re hidden in city and state parks, outside of nearby buildings, alongside hiking trails and exercise routes, and even in local neighborhoods. This is geocaching, an adventure-based game involving intentionally hidden treasures, i.e. caches, and a standard handheld global positioning system (GPS) unit. The idea behind geocaching is for people to set up caches all over the world, and to then share the GPS coordinates of the caches via the Internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches, and once found, a cache usually provides its visitor with a wide variety of rewards available for the taking. Authored by a renowned expert on GPS usage and the editors of Geocachi
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S. N. Gaines
March 13, 2012Everything You Need To Know, and then some,
If you’ve received a GPS unit, for Christmas, birthday, whatever, and you’ve been wondering what you can do with it, this book is for you.
The book is written by the people who run http://www.geocaching.com and it is to say the least, complete. It covers what geocaching is (sport, hobby, excuse to go outdoors and play with electronics), what you need to have, what you need to bring, and techniques for geocaching.
As far as I am concerned, this book should be required reading for anybody who wants to go outdoors and have fun. Geocaching is sort of a treasure hunt, orienteering, hike in the woods thing. The book takes you through the whole thing.
The section on how to use a compass along with your GPSr is worth the price of the book by itself.
I highly recommend the book.
If you go on the website, or come across a cache I’ve visited, just look for Scott9282, fearless leader of Team9282.
I’ll be waiting.
Bring the book.
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March 13, 2012Best book on Geocaching.,
I just read through and reviewed two other Geocaching books, including the “for dummies” version, and none of those two books had any information that you can’t figure out yourself just going out and doing geocaching.
I expected the same from this book, but the “Idiot’s Guide” is excellent!
Everything from TIPS on how to get more accurate measurments from your GPS unit, to much more information on things you may not have used or done geocaching, everything you want to know about Latitude/Longitude and the many different formats you see them listed as, in addition to the history of how and why they came about.
Everyone may think they know how to use a compass, but this book covers things most may not know about using compasses, and how they can help with geocaching.
Even if you have been geocaching for a long time already, there are some helpfull hints in this book that can even teach the experienced geocacher a trick or two.
The history is interesting all on it’s own, what a great bonus!
I am going to keep this, it is a great reference book!
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