the commerce of the sport
Lol
geocaching and recommending Garmin's geocaching web site - Opencaching.com
or whatever.
is the stage set for a big battle?
looking at Garmin/National Trust's offering it has about 40 caches
nationally, and just one fairly locally.
Now come on, you cannot set up a caching website without any caches - I'll
not be recommending any newb cachers to go that route even though we are
members and supporters of NT.
So surely it is the geocaching community that has the upper hand here - we
own 16 caches and can decide for ourselves which organisation to support -
what are you going to do?
What I really didn't like about that article was that it only mentioned
caching with Garmin's Etrex, no mention at all of using an app on a mobile
(which is free and works just as well, or better for paperless geocaching.)
So it feels like Garmin misrepresenting the sport.
Thoughts?
Lol
Ian Clifton
>
> Just noticed an article in National Trust magazine introducing/promoting
> geocaching and recommending Garmin's geocaching web site - Opencaching.com
> or whatever.
> Thoughts?
I’ve done my week—end look through of my pile of unopened mail and it
seems my copy of National Trust mag is amongst it, I hope I’ll have time
tonight to give it a read and post something.
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Ian.
Ian Clifton
> Just noticed an article in National Trust magazine introducing/promoting
> geocaching and recommending Garmin's geocaching web site - Opencaching.com
> or whatever.
>
Was it the Summer 2011 issue? Or the “Near You” bit? I can’t seem to
find it, maybe I’m being thick.
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Ian.
Lol
"Ian Clifton" <clifto...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:93asch...@mid.individual.net...
Summer 2011 p.52
"National Trust Partnerships" <Outdoors adventure!>
Ian Clifton
Ian Clifton
Mmm, I’m not going mad, there’s a full‐page advert on where page 52
should be in my issue. Maybe they have different editions for different
regions?
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Ian.
Lol
> "Lol" <l...@blueblunder.co.uk> writes:
>
>> "Ian Clifton" <clifto...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:93asch...@mid.individual.net...
>>> "Lol" <l...@blueblunder.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> Just noticed an article in National Trust magazine
>>>> introducing/promoting
>>>> geocaching and recommending Garmin's geocaching web site -
>>>> Opencaching.com
>>>> or whatever.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Was it the Summer 2011 issue? Or the "Near You" bit? I can't seem to
>>> find it, maybe I'm being thick.
>>> --
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>
>> Summer 2011 p.52
>> "National Trust Partnerships" <Outdoors adventure!>
>
> should be in my issue. Maybe they have different editions for different
> regions?
> --
> Ian.
Curioser and curioser said Alice - almost as though they weren't sure they
wanted to do this?
No matter, they have much the same info here:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-chl/w-countryside_environment/w-activities/w-activities-geocaching.htm
- the good thing is that NT are clearly supporting and encouraging
geocaching.
But anyone following their guidance and going to the Garmin site may be put
off by the lack of local caches.
Lol
Lol
"Lol" <l...@blueblunder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:iqvrcm$t0g$1...@dont-email.me...
Actually that's unfair - I plugged in my home town of Enfield to their
website, and it did take me straight to 2 local caches, quite close by, it
seemed.
Trouble is, they were baseball themed caches in Enfield Mass. - but thats
what you get for living in a minority country.
lol
Ian Clifton
> "Lol" <l...@blueblunder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:iqvrcm$t0g$1...@dont-email.me...
>> No matter, they have much the same info here:
>> http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-chl/w-countryside_environment/w-activities/w-activities-geocaching.htm
>> - the good thing is that NT are clearly supporting and encouraging
>> geocaching.
>>
>> But anyone following their guidance and going to the Garmin site may be
>> put off by the lack of local caches.
>>
>> Lol
>>
>
> Actually that's unfair - I plugged in my home town of Enfield to their
> website, and it did take me straight to 2 local caches, quite close by, it
> seemed.
>
> Trouble is, they were baseball themed caches in Enfield Mass. - but thats
> what you get for living in a minority country.
>
Thanks for the links—interesting reading! NT have clearly got into bed
with Garmin, but for caching generally, as you say, that’s probably a
good thing to an extent. What are Garmin up to though? I did a postcode
search on opencaching, that worked bringing up a handful of local
caches. (There seems to be a dearth of finders though.) I found it a bit
spooky, hearing the breathing of the invisible elephant, namely the
hundred‐fold more caches in the mainstream game!
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Ian.