Extra! Extra! Read all about it … It’s Not About The Numbers has been profiled in the January 2012 edition of glossy technology magazine NetGuide. kjwx and I are quite honoured to have been included in their monthly series on New Zealand bloggers. As NetGuide points out, the arrangement we have here at INATN is great, …
Brendan Lindsay Okay, so it’s not quite “services to geocaching”, but the founder and current owner of Sistema Plastics – the company which produces the plastic snaplock container most commonly used by Kiwi geocachers - has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his business acumen. Given how good Brendan Lindsay’s snaplock containers (similar …
Some interesting info popped up in the New Zealand Recreational GPS Society forums regarding what the accuracy displayed on your GPSr really means. The website kowoma.de explains (emphasis mine): The declaration of the accuracy by Garmin GPS receivers often leads to confusion. What does it mean if the receiver states an accuracy of 4 m? This …
Tired of singing Christmas carols and basting that gigantic turkey but just can’t find an excuse to go caching? It’s Not About The Numbers has the answer … See how many geocaches and yellow perils (Garmin Etrex units) you can find in the photograph below. If your family requires you to be sociable over the festive …
Who knew geocaching might help you land a job? kjw recently spotted this employment ad for a location-based technology firm in the New Zealand district of Canterbury … Web Developers for Mobile Applications Listing #: 427563167 Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury Listed: Mon, 28 Nov Type: Full time, Permanent Telogis is an award-winning software development company …
The Geocaching Association of Safety (G.A.S.) has announced that they intend to file a petition with Groundspeak following an horrendous geocaching hand-glider crash. The petition, if successful, will require all geocache owners with caches neighbouring the sky to place warnings regarding the suitability of hand-gliding to the cache. “Obviously we are concerned about the serious risk of geocachers being …
Last Christmas, It’s Not About The Numbers wanted to know if geocachers were naughty or nice on December 25th. That holiday poll produced some surprising - or possibly not so surprising – results, so we’re now eager to see if the same situation applies this year …
I’d planned to begin this festive season post by saying “another year” had passed … but then realised it has only been just over a year since It’s Not About The Numbers first started. In fact, it was on December 20 last year that we migrated to our own domain, having existed on WordPress.com for …
YouTube user hOneychile has uploaded an excellent video giving the 1953 classic tune Santa Baby a geocaching twist. I’m a little sceptical as to whether her Christmas wishlist is a marketing ploy for the Geocaching.com shop but, even if it is, the clip is still excellent. Take a look for yourself! [Hat Tip: GSVNoFixedAbode]
kjwx spotted this at Only Googlebot Reads This Blog and I saw it at GPSTracklog – the Jeremy Irish TEDx talk (check it out below). I’ve not met the head of Groundspeak, nor really seen any video of him talking, so I was fascinated to watch this, as well as wanting to hear what he …
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