What is a paperless geocaching?
4 Geocaching has become an international game or entertainment for people who use coordinates and GLOBAL positioning system maps to find containers hidden in the game. The hidden container and its content are called geocache and the person hiding or looking for is Geocacher . Geocaching without paper is the practice of searching for geocache without using any printed material.
Geocaching is relatively new, which quickly developed at the beginning of 2000, provoking a change in US government policy of selective availability, which included degrading GPS signals available to the public, which was GPS values only accurate 300 feet (91.44 m). When the army, on which it was politicavy, found an alternative way to protect sensitive areas, public GPS became accurate within 6 to 20 ft (1.83 to 6.1 m). To test new abilities of enthusiasmECE GPS named Dave Ulmer hid Geocache in the distant area of Oregon with a diary, pencil and several "prizes". Soon geocaching was largely carried out with a GPS unit, printed topographic map, compass and prints of the cache pages that provide details of each cache in the itinerary. Neophytes were alerted to the importance of taking the relevant documents with them not to end up in unsustainable situations, and technology simply did not make a paperless geocaching a good choice.
Changes in technology caused a huge difference. The ability of the PDA to maintain the necessary information and having battery life long enough to withstand all geocaching adventure, increase the possibility of geocaching without paper. Information about topographic maps and cache can be stored on an electronic organizer, smartphone, or other PDA, which has software to read GPX files that save paper, electricity and ink, as well as reduce the weight of Geocacher's backpack. Other advances that support geocachingWithout paper, the appearance of GPS chips in some smartphones, which allows Geocacher to have everything he needs on one device. In addition, newer GPS manufacturers have added product lines that include maps, author and compasses.