The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching, 2nd Edition
Author | : The Editors & Staff of Geocaching.com |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2009-05-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781101058350 |
ISBN-13 | : 1101058358 |
Rating | : 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The ultimate global game revealed! The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Geocaching, Second Edition is a comprehensive, yet entertaining and easy-to-understand book for getting started and having fun with geocaching-the high-tech version of hide-and-seek for global positioning system (GPS) users. In this edition, two new tools of the game-Waymarking and Wherigo-are included. ? The Geocaching website, which began operating in 2000 and is owned by Groundspeak, Inc., is the first and currently the largest website devoted to Geocaching ? Today, well over 800,000 geocaches are registered on various websites devoted to the pastime ? Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica