Estonian Caches And Geocaching.com

[+Solarflare]

Is it just my imagination or is it actually so that the majority of estonian geocachers log their finds only at http://www.geopeitus.ee/ and not to the official site?

 

I did some limited research and got that impression. The consequence of this is that most of the estonian geocaches doesn't look too inviting, when they indicate that they are visited only once in a blue moon.

[+rvk]

Well, how do you define official?

 

Is there an international treaty designating geocaching.com as official geocaching site, or is it estonian local legislation?

 

Just asking

Edited February 9, 2004 by rvk

[+Renegade Knight]

They seem to do a mix of GC.com caches and their own.

 

You can add Estonia to the mix of countries (Russia, Hungary, and the USA) that have their own sites that are not GC.com.

[+Solarflare]

Well, how do you define official?

Everything in three copies, translated by a qualified (consulate approved) interpreter and not to forget all the stamps and seals. The more the better.

 

official (1) a, 1. virallinen, virallisluonteinen ~ notice virallinen tiedoksianto, 2. virka-, 3. virallinen, muodollinen; official (2) s, 1. virkamies, virkailija, viranhaltija, toimihenkilö, 2. toimitsija (kilpailuissa); municipal official kunnallinen viranhaltija; perform (one's) official duties hoitaa virkaa

[+Tervas]

Is there an international treaty designating geocaching.com as official geocaching site

I would rather call GCcom as de facto official site.

Compare it to computer world: an average user thinks all computers runs Windows because it is most common operating system. But there is also Unix, Linux or even Apple etc.

[+rvk]

I'd still call windows de facto operating system for beginners instead of calling it de facto official operating system for beginners.

 

On the second thought, wouldn't you too?

[+Divine]

The existence of e.g. www.geocaching.ru has been explained by the fact that not that many people speak English in Russia. That probably explains the existence of also other eastern Europe pages, like Hungarian, Estonian and Latvian sites.

[+Solarflare]

The existence of e.g. www.geocaching.ru has been explained by the fact that not that many people speak English in Russia. That probably explains the existence of also other eastern Europe pages, like Hungarian, Estonian and Latvian sites.

Even though the estonian television dubs some programs, the youth there speaks fluent english - just like us finns. I suspect that there's also an extra near-history related boost in motivation to speak some other foreign language than russian among the older people too. (I do not intend to sound negative here, and if I do it's purely unintentional.)

Edited February 11, 2004 by solarflare