{"id":2214,"date":"2007-08-01T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2007-08-01T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T01:30:34","slug":"geocaching-without-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/geocaching-without-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Geocaching without GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/geekdad\/2007\/08\/geocaching-with.html\">Just posted to GeekDad at the Wired blogs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s Tucker? <br \/>&#8211;He&#8217;s out looking for a geocache. <br \/>We don&#8217;t have a GPS.<br \/>&#8211;He says he doesn&#8217;t need one. He has Google maps.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as hard as you might think go geocaching without any equipment other than an iPhone or even staring hard at a laptop before you go or, carbon watchers close your ears, print a map. In this case, we live within a quarter mile of the cache. But here&#8217;s what Tucker had done (and you can do too).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Geofinding\" title=\"Geofinding\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/08\/01\/geofinding.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><br \/>\nGo to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">geocaching.com<\/a><br \/>Enter your address in the &quot;Search with Google Maps&quot; box.<br \/>Hit enter and be amazed how many geocaches are nearby!<br \/>Get the coordinates and description of a nearby geocache.<br \/>Put the coordinates into Google Maps and switch to Satellite view.<br \/>Zoooooom waaaaay in.<br \/>Memorize or bookmark on the iPhone.<br \/>Wander around and let the clues lead you.<\/p>\n<p>Once you find the geocache, fill out the finders log at the site and online.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat at other geocaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just posted to GeekDad at the Wired blogs. Where&#8217;s Tucker? &#8211;He&#8217;s out looking for a geocache. We don&#8217;t have a GPS.&#8211;He says he doesn&#8217;t need one. He has Google maps. It&#8217;s not as hard as you might think go geocaching without any equipment other than an iPhone or even staring hard at a laptop before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}