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Category Archive: GeoTheory
Meet Your Munzee Guide: Uncle Karl
Doing things by the book isn’t really Karl Witsman’s forte …
When the American geocacher couldn’t find a manual to teach him how to use the new-fangled Munzee app he’d just downloaded to his smartphone, he decided to write one himself. In fact, it’s almost becoming a habit for the thrice-published author.
Reviewing Our Bad Geo-Habits
Groundspeak reviewer IowaAdmin explains our three biggest hiccups when submitting new cache listings. “It’s Not About the Numbers was kind enough to ask me to write a guest blog on the topic of ‘the biggest/most common mistakes you see as a reviewer when players submit a new cache listing’. But since geocachers are Groundspeak’s customers, …
A More Cynical Look At Geocacher Development
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 …
Pin ItProtecting Our Geography
We have only one planet to geocache on so It’s Not About The Numbers asked Ben Lawhon, of the international, non-profit movement Leave No Trace, how to minimise our environmental impact. “Geocaching presents an interesting set of issues with respect to Leave No Trace. First, there is the fact that many, many people are getting …
How Good Is Your Maths? A Maximum Number Of Geocaches Challenge
Groundspeak’s Latitude 47 weekly mailer recently commented that “more than 400,000 new active geocaches were listed on Geocaching.com” in 2011. This now brings the total number of active geocaches to around 1,614,930 (at the time of writing). That’s a lot. Last year’s massive increase in numbers is an intriguing development. It would be interesting to know if …
Did You Go Geocaching On Christmas Day?
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 …
Not Your Average Geocacher
Shelley Mitchell may not be your average geocacher but the American is an expert on what constitutes one, having just completed a survey on player traits. The Stillwater resident (GC handle: sshelle) undertook her Predicting Total Caches Found Using Geocacher Provided Statistics poll this semester as part of her PhD studies at Oklahoma State University. One hundred and 65 …
Father Of Geocaching Not The Only One Fired Up
… Or how It’s Not About The Numbers discovers some rather forward material while reviewing a geocaching guide. Man’s discovery of fire pales in comparison to the invention of geocaching, if you believe our sport’s founding father. In the forward to Layne Cameron’s recently reprinted The Geocaching Handbook: The Guide For Family-Friendly High-Tech Treasure Hunting, …
It’s Okay, Geocachers Are Simply More Mature Deviants
Some time ago I referenced some research showing that geocachers took part in deviant behaviours. Whilst I have not been able to find the full article, the best quote from the abstract was: The deviant, intrusive nature of the act of finding and logging the cache and the after ‘find’ exultation resembles the behavior and …
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