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To some extent this is what "killed" geocaching too. It's still a good niche hobby but up until to 2013 or so it was more fun when not everyone had a GPS in the
by haunter 2mo ago
To some extent this is what "killed" geocaching too. It's still a good niche hobby but up until to 2013 or so it was more fun when not everyone had a GPS in their pocket. Of course you can still play without a GPS but there was a kind of sense of community where everyone tried to help each other. Now you just look at your phone and follow a path
- BenjiWiebe 2mo agoReally? I was under the impression, and Wikipedia supports me on this, that geocaching was always about using GPS.
- yial 2mo agoI can’t speak to the person you’re responding to, but I can share that in the time period they’re discussing geocaching was harder for many caches. I don’t remember ever not using gps for geocaching of course. But I do remember that the phone gps of the time, especially in more remote areas, was semi accurate for car navigation, but all over the place at times when talking about 10-100 ft accuracy. However, I also never really Experienced any major geocaching community in person outside of people I was already going with. Any community would have been online.