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Everything about Geocaching
Outdoor recreational activity
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. The first geocache was placed in May 2000, and as of 2023 there were over three million active caches worldwide. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: GeocachingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Marketing communication via geocaching – When and how it can be effective for places?Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Box That Watch FoundThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Meeting the needs of the Millennials and Generation Z: gamification in tourism through geocachingCited 142 times
- Go sideways: Trackable (Geocaching)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Magnetic nanoA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A pastime in which participants use a GPS receiver to find a hidden container at a specific latitude and longitude, or to hide a container to be found in this manner.
Verb present participle and gerund of geocache
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Meeting the needs of the Millennials and Generation Z: gamification in tourism through geocaching
Geocaching data as an indicator for recreational ecosystem services in urban areas: Exploring spatial gradients, preferences and motivations
Creating scalable location-based games: lessons from Geocaching
Geocaching: 21st-century Hide-and-Seek
Fostering rural and agricultural tourism: exploring the potential of geocaching
Re-enchanting the city: Hybrid space, affect and playful performance in geocaching, a location-based mobile game
The dynamics and trajectory of creative consumption practices as revealed by the postmodern game of geocaching
Using Geocaching to Promote Active Aging: Qualitative Study
🆕 Influential since 2022
Marketing communication via geocaching – When and how it can be effective for places?
Synthetic Spatial Foraging With Active Inference in a Geocaching Task
Geocaching Adventure Lab–The Innovative Tool for Exploring and Creating Tourism Space
Spreading awareness about automated external defibrillators by using location-based mobile game called geocaching
Geocaching and tourist activity in Slovenia: An exploration of travel patterns
📚 Books worth reading
The Box That Watch FoundGertrude Chandler Warner, Robert Papp · 2007
The Great Detective RaceGertrude Chandler Warner, Robert Papp · 2008
A Horse Named DragonGertrude Chandler Warner, Robert Papp · 2008
Geocaching for dummiesJoel McNamara · 2004
The joy of geocachingPaul Gillin · 2010
Code: (Virals 3) (Tory Brennan)Kathy Reichs · 2013
The Essential Guide To GeocachingMike Dyer · 2004
Caching inKristin Butcher · 2013
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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