Each at times something comes along that’s just plain fun. Geocaching is one of those things. If you’ve never heard of it. . . Don’t feel alone. I only found out in regards to it a couple of months ago.
Geocaching started in portland oregon. It evolved around the worldwide positioning system (gps) devised by the section of defense. Before the turn of the century, the military limit global positioning system accuracy available to civilians to in regards to 328 feet. President clinton change over that in may of 2000 so that now, anybody may find out their position to within roughly 30 feet, anywhere on the planet!
When dave ulmer hid a bucket of trinkets in a woods away from portland, oregon and announced its location on a usenet newsgroup- geocaching was born. He listed the location of this ‘treasure’ by its worldwide coordinates. Coordinates are calculated as units of latitude and longitude and these are broken down into degrees, minutes, and seconds. Which is what you can get when you read your location using a gps receiver.
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