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GPS in the news | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/gps-in-the-news-2
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. December 12, 2010. GPS in the news. GPS helps lazy people destroy their brains. Russia’s GLONASS system (their answer to GPS) has experienced a pretty serious setback due to a botched launch. That caused the loss of three satellites. To the first GPS satellite in orbit! Smartphones are outselling dedicated GPS units. No surprise there, but I’m still not inclined to pay the data fees for a smartphone. Gps in the news. Laquo; More on Opencaching.com. Wow, threatened much?
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Opencaching.com | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/opencaching-com
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. December 8, 2010. Here’s a good article. About Geocaching.com’s latest competitor. If you haven’t heard about this already, it’s a new listing site owned by Garmin. Still lots of bumps to smooth out, but as others have mentioned, Garmin has deep pockets. Groundspeak has committed a lot of buffoonery. And fix some of the serious issues. Happening at Geocaching.com right now. Laquo; An amazing geocaching log. Good news for geocaching! Annie and PB Go Geocaching. Geocaching ...
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Absolute power trails corrupt absolutely. | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/power-trails-corrupt-absolutely
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. October 28, 2010. Absolute power trails corrupt absolutely. I was going to call this post “Geocaching in the age of. Power trails,” but I can’t put tags in the title. Yesterday Taoiseach hid a new puzzle cache. It’s got me thinking about where this game came from, and where it’s headed. The Ottawa geocaching scene has been very puzzle-centric since the early days of geocaching. Even before the mystery/unknown geocache type was created, geocachers in this area were tak...
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More on Opencaching.com | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/more-on-opencaching-com
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. December 11, 2010. More on Opencaching.com. Love it or hate it, this new site is generating tons of buzz. Some of us are determined to be early adopters while others seem to be staunchly opposed to the new site’s existence. If you’re just looking for more information about what it is before you make any decisions, here are some links to look at. First of all, here’s Garmin’s official announcement. About the new site. I think he's cute. For example. Garmin is a big com...
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Power Trail Practices | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/power-trail-practices
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. November 10, 2010. With the advent of gigantic power trails, it’s not surprising that many geocachers are attracted by the challenge of finding hundreds of caches as fast as they can. It’s not really my geocaching style, but I can see why it’s appealing to other geocachers. I was recently horrified by something I read in this Groundspeak Forums thread. Laquo; What have you left behind at the GZ? An amazing geocaching log. I hadn’t heard of such a thing, but that sou...
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Where did I go? | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/where-did-i-go
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. January 22, 2011. Where did I go? I live in Ottawa, it’s winter, and I just haven’t felt like going outside much. I’ve been doing some crafty stuff, so my other blog. Might be a bit more active for the next little while. Laquo; Wow, threatened much? 95% of blogs are abandoned. The Captain: I wouldn’t get out of bed for Geocaching craze - Gainsborough Standard: gainsboroughstandard.co.uk/news/local/the. Some thoughts on the insidious practice of #geocache. IowaAdmin's...
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Wow, threatened much? | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/wow-threatened-much
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. December 13, 2010. Wow, threatened much? Rather than just taking the high road and ignoring the new geocache listing site, some of the folks at Groundspeak have been acting in ways that hint at their vulnerabilities. I’m not madly in love with the new site or the rating system, and I’m certainly not ready to abandon Geocaching.com, but I have serious concerns about handing any more money to a company whose CEO posts things like this to Facebook:. Thumbs up, Groundspeak.
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Good news for geocaching! | geonarcissa
https://geonarcissa.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/good-news-for-geocaching
Geocaching in ottawa and beyond. December 9, 2010. Good news for geocaching! I’ve been kind of a grump about geocaching for a few weeks, but today TWO nice things have caught my attention. 1 Check out Groundspeak’s official blog. To read about a woman who successfully convinced a national park to allow physical geocaches! This is a real victory for us. 2 Groundspeak is going to implement a cache rating system… and it probably won’t suck. Laquo; Opencaching.com. More on Opencaching.com. On December 9, 2010.
