Cumbyrocks

Author's details

Name: Peter Walker
Date registered: December 19, 2010
URL: http://www.notaboutthenumbers.com/

Latest posts

  1. Google Maps Officially Coming Back To Geocaching.com! — May 18, 2012
  2. Top Five Android Geocaching Apps — May 11, 2012
  3. The Geomate Jr Lives Again — May 5, 2012
  4. The Future Of Geocaching … Pigeon Implants? — April 29, 2012
  5. Geocaching Featured In Wilderness Magazine — April 25, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Garmin vs Geocaching.com — 39 comments
  2. OpenCaching.com One Year On — 39 comments
  3. OpenCaching.com: An over-saturation nightmare waiting to happen? — 22 comments
  4. The Mad Cacher goes all Angry Birds on Garmin/Opencaching.com — 22 comments
  5. Opencaching network still in the dark — 20 comments

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Google Maps Officially Coming Back To Geocaching.com!

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Geocaching.com

May 18, 2012

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Some months ago Google changed its charging structure for third-party use of Google Maps, which meant heavy users, such as Geocaching.com, had to ditch the service or face significant costs. But now Google Maps are coming back … After Geocaching.com’s planned site update of Tuesday, May 22nd, premium members will once again have access to Google Maps through the Beta Maps …

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Tags: Geocaching.com, Google Maps, Groundspeak

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Top Five Android Geocaching Apps

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Geotools

May 11, 2012

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Whether the Geocaching purists like it or not, smartphones are being used more and more for Geocaching. In fact, it seems to be a common set up in this day and age to have a smartphone for urban caching/cache database with a dedicated GPS unit in your caching bag for those ‘deep in the outdoors’ …

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Tags: a:drake, c:geo, Cachesense, Geocaching, geoget, Groundspeak, GSAK, Locus, Neongeo

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The Geomate Jr Lives Again

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Geomate Jr

May 5, 2012

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Rich at GPSTracklog has spotted the phoenix like rise of the Geomate Jr from the ashes of Apishere. From the press release he’s since received: Brand 44 of Denver Colorado (brand44co.com) has recently purchased the Geomate Jr. Geocaching GPS product line from Apisphere Inc. of Dallas Texas. “This acquisition rounds out our growing geocaching product line and will …

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Tags: apishere, brand 44, edward o'brien, Geomate Jr., GPS Tracklog, Rich

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The Future Of Geocaching … Pigeon Implants?

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GPS

April 29, 2012

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I’ve often wished my smartphone could be built into my wrist so that I could be completely plugged in. Now it seems pigeons already are … at least for GPS. Researchers in the United States have identified a group of 53 cells in the brains of pigeons that respond to the direction and strength of …

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Tags: bionic, Geocaching, GPS, implant, neurons, Pigeon, PPS

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Geocaching Featured In Wilderness Magazine

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Cumbyrocks, Dunedin, Geocaching News, New Zealand

April 25, 2012

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Check it out …Wilderness magazine’s feature article this month is all about geocaching! It’s a great article; very well written, and definitely worth a read. Not only is the geocaching article excellent but the whole magazine is a great read, especially if you are planning on a visit to New Zealand sometime soon … perhaps …

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Tags: Cumbyrocks, Geocaching, katie w, New Zealand, rediguana, Wilderness Magazine

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Smartphones About To Get Even Better For Geocaching

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Geotools

April 20, 2012

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It’s Not About The Numbers noted yesterday the theory that Garmin was enforcing a new pricing regime that would make PNDs a low-volume, high-value item and lamented the failure of Garmin (and others, I should point out) to forge ahead with the development of a GPSr/phone hybrid. Well, maybe we needn’t have worried about that … It …

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Tags: Broadcom, Daikin Industries, Garmin, Geocaching, GPS, Smartphone

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Navicache Goes Mad

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Navicache

April 19, 2012

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The company that purchased the Madcacher blog in September last year has now extended their geocaching domain further to included the languishing Navicache.com geocache listing site. Leeward Coast LLC, parent company of the geocaching blog www.Madcacher.com, announced today the purchase of www.Navicache.com one of the longest-running geocaching websites on the Internet. Navicache.com, first registered in 2001, currently has …

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Tags: blog, Geocaching, Leeward Coast LLC, Madcacher, Navicache

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GPS Tracklog On Garmin’s Pricing Structure

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Garmin

April 19, 2012

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Rich over at GPS Tracklog has suggested Garmin may have a new pricing structure for Personal Navigation Devices. Last month ABI Research issued a report saying that Personal Navigation Device (PND) manufacturers seem to be “moving away from mass market consumer goods to becoming low volume, high value.” While I take issue with their analysis showing that …

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Tags: ABi Research, Garmin, Geocaching, GPS, GPS Tracklog, Personal Navigation Device, PND, Pricing, Rich

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Taking A Trip Into The Open

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Geowebsites

April 16, 2012

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Last year, It’s Not About The Numbers posted on the creative flair of TripCyclone, now the science teacher from Grandview, Missouri is going take a trip into the world of OpenCaching … When OpenCaching first hit the world, I explored a little bit, ran into an error, and then moved on. Life got busy and I was …

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Tags: Garmin, opencaching, Trip's GeoAdventures, Tripcyclone

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A More Cynical Look At Geocacher Development

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GeoTheory

April 16, 2012

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Back in 2010, I wrote a post on the Geocacher Stages Of Evolution. It was a tongue-in-cheek theory based on my observations. Now IowaAdmin, a cacher since 2001 and Geocaching.com reviewer since 2003, has proposed his own, slightly more cynical, view of geocacher development. Some interesting bits include … Pre-geocaching phase, also known as “muggle” You …

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Tags: Geocaching, IowaAdmin, phases of a geocacher, stages of evolution

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