+Solarflare Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment
+rvk Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment
+Solarflare Posted February 10, 2004 Author Share Posted February 10, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment
+Tervas Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment
+rvk Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 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? Quote Link to comment
+Divine Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment
+Solarflare Posted February 11, 2004 Author Share Posted February 11, 2004 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
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