Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
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Discuss your ideas for having fun with GPS here.

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James Hromadka
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Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Posts: 790

I'm reposting what I posted in a password-protected forum:

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I just read this on salon.com. It's about a new hobby called geocaching in which people go to a remote place and hide little treasures and an "I was here" journal, record the location on their GPS, and then publish (usually on a web site) the GPS coordinates on a web site so other people with GPSs can try to find them.

It sounds like a great combination of outdoors and high-tech.

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There's a whole website about it here.

James: I noticed that you blurred the lat/long data from your screen dumps in your HandyGPS review. You mean you don't want all of us to get GPSs and stop over to your house unannounced ?

Or maybe the coords show the location of the local PocketPC users group meeting hall, and you don't want to reveal that you're secretly attending .

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Jeff

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Midwest
Posts: 232

How accurate is it?

I think I read that the goverment has opened up the actual precision of the GPS satellites to us non-military folks. My question? How precise are the new GPS modules for the visor?

Could I hide my wife's birthday present, perhaps under a chair at her favorite dining out place, then give her only the GPS coordinate as a clue to finding it? Will she be able to find the diner, the table, the chair, then the bottom of it using her GPS module in her Visor?

Can I eventually use it with my Visor driven robot, to help it find it's way around my house via GPS? Would the accuracy let it drive around a shoe, so long as that shoe was on it's GPS map? Every time?

Just curious. I'm not interested in general locations. I'm intersted in precise ones.

Dave

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
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GPS doesn't work indoors. I was very surprised I got the HandyGPS to work inside. Must be my thin walls

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James Hromadka
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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Miami, FL, USA
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Originally posted by JHromadka
GPS doesn't work indoors. I was very surprised I got the HandyGPS to work inside. Must be my thin walls

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Mike Vidal
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Registered: Feb 2001
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fun gsp web site

Check out this web site to have fun with GPS unit. Now you can justify to your wife why you need one.

http://www.geocaching.com/

quote from the site
"Geocaching is a new treasure hunting game. Armed with a Global Positioning System (GPS) device and coordinates, you can locate treasures that others have hidden in unusual places. Here you can find the latest caches in your area, how to hide your own cache, and information on how to get started in this fun and exciting sport."

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Seems great!

Wow,

Looks like a great product while on vacation in a place like New York or Rome!