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+ | **Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure-hunting game for which you use GPS-enabled devices**. | ||
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+ | Your task is to find a geocache that was hidden by another player. The hiding place is accurately located and its GPS coordinates are put on a geocaching website. The coordinates are acquired from there and put into a GPS device that guides you to the geocache location. There you have to rely also on your senses to find the geocache. | ||
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+ | ===== Membership ===== | ||
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+ | **The geocaches' | ||
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+ | To use [[http:// | ||
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+ | * **Basic Membership** - free | ||
+ | * **Premium Membership** - paid | ||
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+ | The most important difference between them is that as a **Basic member** you can display traditional caches only (no multicaches or mystery caches etc.) and import only **3 geocaches with full attributes a day** directly to Locus Map. | ||
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+ | ===== How to create a geocaching.com account ===== | ||
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+ | * Go to **[[https:// | ||
+ | * **Fill in the form** and aggree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. | ||
+ | * Click **Confirm**. | ||
+ | * Then you should receive an email from Geocaching.com with **validation instructions**. | ||
+ | * Tap the **validation link** in the e-mail. | ||
+ | * You have successfully created a free (Basic) Geocaching.com account. | ||
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+ | <WRAP round tip > | ||
+ | Geocaching.com provides also registration by your Facebook account. | ||
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