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About Geocaching
Geocaching is an outdoor sport or activity in which 'cachers' use a GPS receiver to find a "treasure" hidden by other participants. Caches are secured in watertight containers, containing gifts and a logbook in which they record their discovery of the cache. The coordinates of the location of the caches are stored on online databases such as Opencaching.org.uk along with descriptions and instructions necessary to find them.
About Opencaching.org.uk
Opencaching has been running in Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic for several years and although there are many parts of their websites that are available translated into English, there are parts still in German, Polish, etc. making the use of these sites somewhat difficult for the English-speaking caching community. This site's founder is grateful to Krzysztof ("trojmiasto") and Waldek ("sp2ong") from Opencaching Poland for their invaluable assistance in setting up the site. If you have caches listed on other sites, you're welcome to list them on Opencaching.org.uk as well. However, bear in mind that the other sites may have restrictions about such cross-listing, or links on cache pages. It is planned that a number of volunteers will be appointed by the users of the site to the "OC Team" who will act as moderators of the forum, advisers on cache placement, and necessary database management tasks, such as archiving abandoned cache listings. A Forum for discussion is available at www.opencaching.org.uk/forum. Suggestions, offers of help, etc. can be sent to the site's administrator at : admin at Opencaching.org.uk or via the forum pages.
More information and the history of Opencaching in the UK here
Links to other pages
Caching Guidelines for both Hiders and Seekers
Cache Parameters - A page with details of the various parameters and terms used on cache listings.
Cache Ratings - The integrated cache rating system in use on Opencaching.org.uk.
GAGB Landowner Agreement Database (GLAD) - It is strongly suggested you adhere to the agreements here.
New cache attributes - Cache attributes that can be set on the cache listing page.
Downloads - Assorted caching related files for download from this site.
Geokrety - About these trackable items.
Google Earth Overlay - An overlay to the Google Earth program.
Dead-Drop Caches - A new type of cache.
Caches with wiki pages - Cache listing pages have a link to a wiki page. This page lists active pages.
