Post on 21-May-2015
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Geocaching and education.
Why Geocaching?
•First thing first
•Make a Gmail account
•Make a Delicious account
•Use Firefox for browsing
How does it work? GPS
•Global Position System GPS
•Navigation Satellite Time and Ranging NAVSTAR
How does it works?
35 satellites on 20.200 km heightsending radiowaves
Accuracy (5 tot 10 m)
Position minimal 4 satellites Clear viewNot under heavy trees and large buildings (newest GPS are OK)
How does it work? GPS
What is a GPS?
OUTDOOR
on the boat
What is a GPS?
Car navigation
What is a GPS?
Fitness
What is a GPS?
•Military
•Boats and planes
•Road builders
•Car navigation
•Outdoor, hunting, hiking
•...
Who is using a GPS?
•Brings the driver from point A to B
•Drivers give in an address or landmark
•GPS is following an internal map
Car navigation
•No compass
•No heights
•No waypoints
•No tracks
Car navigation
•Electronic compass
•Working with waypoints and tracks
•User can make his own routes
Outdoor navigation
•Brands
•Garmin
•Magellan
•Lowrance
•Silva
•...
Outdoor navigation
Simple outdoor recievers
Black/whiteno cardsno compass and altitude meter for bike and hikers
What is a GPS?
Expensive receivers
ColorWith mapswith compass and altitude meterExtern memory Bickers and hikers
What is a GPS?
Maps for GPSTOPO maps for all countries
Making Waypoints, routes en tracks
Maps for GPS
Making Waypoints
Waypoints are points in the GPS receiver made by the userNumberSymbolText
Maps for GPS
Making Routes
A route is a straight line between the waypoints in the GPS. Mostly from point 1 to 2 to 3 and so on
Maps for GPS
Making Tracks
Tracks are crumbles for the GPS. Every meter or minute you can make a GPS to make a track from the place you are.
Maps for GPS
Hights
Hight profile for biking or hiking
Maps for GPS
Workshop
Using a GPS
Geocaching
Geocaching
Treasure hunting with a GPS
What do you need?• GPS
• Cache description
• pencil
• goodies
• small trowel
• calculator
• outdoor clothing
Where to find?
• on the internet
• www.geocaching.com
Kinds of Caches
• Ordinary Cache
• Multi Cache
• Virtual Cache
What’s inside a geocache?
• geocoins
• travel bugs
• notebook
• pencil
• toys
• ...
REMINDERALWAYS fill in the notebook,
when you take something out of the cache put something back
Workshop
Geocaching
Google Earth
Google Earth
Download Google Earth
Google Earth and GPS
Workshop