By Kryptic on June 10, 2010
The U.S. Forest Service and the American Recreation Coalition have partnered with other federal, state and local agencies, recreation businesses and outdoor enthusiast organizations, including, Groundspeak Inc., Leave No Trace, Tread Lightly!, Cabella’s, REI, and more, to host, National Get Outdoors Day or “GO Day”. GO Day is a relatively new effort to encourage Americans [...]
Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged Events, families, Groundspeak, recreation, State Parks, U.S. Forest Service
By Kryptic on May 24, 2010
Google has released their source code for the “My Tracks” program which let’s users record a track log of where they have been, upload it to Google Docs, and then post their trip maps online. Now that the source code has been released, I’m sure the Groundspeak Lackey’s are going to be very busy figuring [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gear | Tagged Android, GPS, Groundspeak
By Kryptic on May 17, 2010
Two videos of interest to geocaching and outdoor recreation enthusiasts everywhere. Sally Jewell of REI and geocaching.com founders featured.
Posted in Geocaching | Tagged Geocaching, Groundspeak, National Parks, Outdoors, REI
By Kryptic on April 9, 2010
I’m really having a lot of fun with the latest fundraiser from COWWS for Geowoodstock VIII. They are putting together for sale an Official Geowoodstock VIII Poker Deck, chock full of geocachers! I admit I’ve spent a few hours dreaming up which of you cachers out there will be going camping, vacationing and geocaching with [...]
Posted in Geowoodstock VIII | Tagged Geocaching, geowoodstock, Groundspeak
By Kryptic on March 14, 2010
With the launch of Whibbit.com Goundspeaks Signal the Frog is going to get a lot of new playmates visiting his lily pond! A Whibbit is a location-based question asked of one’s friends that is somewhere between 411 and 911 according to the whibbit.com site. I’m not so sure I know what that means without the [...]
Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged Groundspeak, social networking, whibbit
By CoastCacher on December 6, 2009
On December 3rd, Groundspeak enlisted the help of geocachers nationwide to participate in a social networking/GPS technology challenge commissioned by the, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency of the United States, or DARPA. The challenge was designed to “…explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization [...]
Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged DARPA, Geocaching, GPS, Groundspeak
