Recently in one of my blog posts, I referenced
geocaching. I didn’t think that I would actually write a post about, but there
is just too much information about it to pass up the opportunity to post about
it. Geocaching is a geolocation app that allows the user to essentially
participate in a scavenger hunt that everyone has access to, as long as you
have the app. Geocaching has even grown so big that it has even become a verb.
Participating in the app is “geocaching”.
The object of using this app is to make the objects
somewhat difficult to find. Although the app will tell you the rough location
of the object, it may take 20 minutes or more to even find where it is hidden.
Usually the objects should be placed in a somewhat sheltered environment, where
the weather will not affect the object. The object will usually have a piece of
paper so that you can record and track who has found your object. This could be
in the crevice of a tree, under the skirting of a light pole, or anything else!
(Many people make the geocaches so that people can write on them)
The really cool thing about this app is that you can
place an item for people to find. All you have to do is record the object
within the app itself. This feature can make it pretty fun! How cool would it
be to try to make it hard to find your object? That means that the people that
found your object really had to work for it.
The ultimate goal of this app is to bring people
together by the power of having a scavenger hunt. Who would have thought that
looking for objects would captivate people so much?
The
question is: will you geocache if you haven’t already?
The concept of geocache is so cool to me. In high school one of my class assignments for my "Student Naturalist" class was to go geocaching. It was a fun adventure, the app is very helpful in finding the general location of caches without giving the details away. This is some that I will for sure do again!
ReplyDeleteGeocaching is an interesting trend because its one of the interesting examples of the internet and knowledge thereof has led people to take up a hobby that involves physical travel. If geocaching continues to be popular with the online community, it could potentially lead to a far healthier future for those who are "addicted" to the internet and would otherwise not take up an offline hobby.
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