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  1. quote:
    Originally posted by hoovman:

    quote:
    Originally posted by Dekaner of Team KKF2A:

    Consider the legality of 'ripping' these sermons. Do the individuals who own the copyright to the material allow free distribution?

     

    - Dekaner of Team KKF2A


    What kind of Christian would be concerned about copyright when someone is trying to spread the Word in a non-commercial scenario like this? A good Christian ought to be happy that his/her sermons are reaching a larger audience

     

    To add my 0.02 about religious material in caches, some religious lit is what I would call "friendly" (offering someone a chance to learn Good News) and some is what I call "heavy-handed" (hellfire and damnation).

     

    I think most people aren't offended by friendly lit, but many are offended by the heavy-handed kind. To anyone considering placing religious material in a cache: please be considerate. Think about how someone who is not of your faith might react to your message. If it might be offending or upsetting, consider not placing it or revising it.

     

    http://www.mi-geocaching.org/


     

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  2. quote:
    Originally posted by Dekaner of Team KKF2A:

    Consider the legality of 'ripping' these sermons. Do the individuals who own the copyright to the material allow free distribution?

     

    - Dekaner of Team KKF2A


    What kind of Christian would be concerned about copytight when someone is trying to spread the Word in a non-commercial scenario like this? A good Christian ought to be happy that his/her sermons are reaching a larger audience

     

    To add my 0.02 about religious material in caches, some religious lit is what I would call "friendly" (offering someone a chance to learn Good News) and some is what I call "heavy-handed" (hellfire and damnation).

     

    I think most people aren't offended by friendly lit, but many are offended by the heavy-handed kind. To anyone considering placing religious material in a cache: please be considerate. Think about how someone who is not of your faith might react to your message. If it might be offending or upsetting, consider not placing it or revising it.

     

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  3. There seems to be two extremes regarding appropriateness of existing caches

     

    Either:

     

    a) We have to worry about our reputation as an activity and be sure nobody gets hurt because of a cache or else more places will prohibit geocaching. So let's do something (post, email, whatever) whenever we are unsure whether a cache is appropriate

     

    or:

     

    :D leave all caches unquestioned (especially those that you don't go to yourself) and don't waste space on the forums with questions about their appropriateness unless you are really, really certain that a cache is dangerous or in a prohibited area

     

    It's just my opinion, but I don't think either extreme is the best way. Jeremy, do you have any time/interest in adding "What should I do if I'm concerned about the safety or placement of a cache?" to the FAQ?

     

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  4. Check it out here.

    Basically, m515 has 16MB of regular memory, 8 MB of flash memory.

     

    m130, OTOH, has 8MB of regular memory and no flash memory.

     

    Flash memory will not be erased if your batteries die.

     

    Does more memory = more maps? Do you keep maps in the PDA? I've never connected mine to my GPSr.

     

     

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    [This message was edited by hoovman on January 23, 2003 at 07:12 PM.]

  5. Unless the property you are going to is tiny, you could probably do a live demo after your spoken presentation.

     

    Make a typical "regular cache", complete with logbook, description page, etc - every thing a "real" cache would have.

     

    Get permission to temporarily hide the cache on the property where the demo is to be given. You could hide it the day of the talk and remove it when your class finds it (emphasizing that normally you leave it there for the next person) If possible, place the cache a couple hundred yards away from where you will be talking, and in such a way that it can't be walked to in a straight line, like around the back of the building.

     

    Before your talk pre-program the cache location as a goto waypoint on your GPSr and preprogram your starting point as a waypoint too.

     

    Offer your "students" a chance to try it. They could go as a whole group, or take turns (provided they don't watch where the others before them go).

     

    If you want, you could even expand this idea to be a multi, then several students could each take the GPSr for one leg.

     

    As to the presentation proper, I'd just summarize a few points from one of the many "What is Geocaching" FAQs available. Personally, I would emphasize responsible land use, cache-in/trash-out, searching more creatively than just a straight-line bushwack, *fun*, family, low cost.

     

    I wouldn't go into the how of GPS technology, except to briefly explain that the GPSr receives signals from several sattelites and that those multiple signals allow the receiver to "triangulate" a position on the earth.

     

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  6. quote:
    Originally posted by sbukosky:

    ''stepping on my soap box'', I see ALL land as public land. God didn't deed it to individuals or families. If someone purchases the right to hoard a parcel of the earth to themselves from the collective public, they must fence it off or otherwise make it clear by signs that its their own piece of earth...


     

    Sbukosky, you must know this excellent song from the Five Man Electrical Band in 1971:

     

    quote:
    ...And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight

    So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you the right?"

    "To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in"

    "If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"

     

    Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

    Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind

    Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?


     

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  7. but I seem to recall the few stories about lost people that start out: "they were able to report their lat/lon with a GPSr..." usually end with ".. and rescuers were able to home in on their position quickly"

     

    Nonetheless, volunteering to help search is a good idea. And if you get lost while searching, you can call in your position from your GPSr icon_wink.gif (or I suppose follow your traces back or go to your parking waypoint)

     

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  8. but I bet Runaround was concerned from a public safety standpoint.

     

    Try to imagine the Geomuggle point of view: "oh look, a military-looking box. Hmmm - I wonder what TeamGPS means. Maybe I shouldn't, but I'll look inside. Oh, it's locked.

     

    Hello, 911?"

     

    Now, if the cacher laminated the usual intro sheet to the outside of the container, I'd be less concerned. Still, it's not as simple to me as: "What's the big deal? Of course it's OK!"

     

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  9. quote:
    Originally posted by trustylizard:

    ... The one I have now is a venture. What's yours?


    When people here say "yellow Garmin", they usually mean this one.I have one. It's perfectly fine for 'caching, but it basically has no special features - no memory, no maps, no electronic compass.

     

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    [This message was edited by hoovman on January 03, 2003 at 09:03 AM.]

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