Day-tripping
Catching the geocaching fever
By Jacques Bourgeois
Find buried treasure with the use of a GPS tracking device! S
ummer 2016 may be best re- membered as the summer when Pokémon GO took the world by storm, forcing teens and gamers out of their houses and onto the streets. All this activity was set in motion by the goal of catching virtual critters populating our neighbourhoods. While some found it ridiculous to see
hordes of people roaming the streets in search of Pikachu, others viewed this phenomenon as a way to combine the
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appeal of video games and virtual reali- ty with the great outdoors. People were stepping out of their homes and ex- ploring their neighbourhoods in a new way. It was a type of urban awaken- ing, where people began to notice city landmarks and murals they never knew existed. It appeared to be as much an opportunity to gather and socialize in groups as playing the actual game. But long before Pokémon GO was even a concept, there was another activ-
ity that let you explore your surround- ings using technology: geocaching. Geocaching is an outdoor activity
where participants use a Global Po- sitioning System (GPS) receiver or smart phone to find containers (geo- caches) at specific coordinates all over the world. It started in Oregon over 16 years ago, when Dave Ulmer, a computer consul- tant, wanted to test the new accuracy of the GPS system by hiding a large
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