{"id":39273,"date":"2004-05-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/05\/19\/letterboxing-geocaching-without-the-gps\/"},"modified":"2004-05-19T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T07:00:00","slug":"letterboxing-geocaching-without-the-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040519-00\/?p=39273","title":{"rendered":"Letterboxing: Geocaching without the GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">Geocaching<\/a> is sort of like  global hide-and-seek (with hints) for technology geeks.\n  I stumbled upon a non-GPS version of this diversion,  known as  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letterboxing.org\">Letterboxing<\/a>  (not to be confused with  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/digitaltv\/glossary.htm#L\">letterboxed  movies<\/a>, another subject entirely).<\/p>\n<p>  By the way, if geocaching isn&#8217;t enough &#8220;fun with a GPS&#8221; for you,  you can try  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confluence.org\/\">The Degree Confluence Project<\/a>.  See the world with a GPS, experience other cultures, learn a few  words of the local language:  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  The Thais kept asking how many farang (foreigners)  did this and how much they got paid.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confluence.org\/confluence.php?visitid=8529\">  I must have heard the phrase &#8220;farang Baar&#8221;,  (foreigners are crazy) more than a couple of times that evening<\/a>.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geocaching is sort of like global hide-and-seek (with hints) for technology geeks. I stumbled upon a non-GPS version of this diversion, known as Letterboxing (not to be confused with letterboxed movies, another subject entirely). By the way, if geocaching isn&#8217;t enough &#8220;fun with a GPS&#8221; for you, you can try The Degree Confluence Project. See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-39273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Geocaching is sort of like global hide-and-seek (with hints) for technology geeks. I stumbled upon a non-GPS version of this diversion, known as Letterboxing (not to be confused with letterboxed movies, another subject entirely). By the way, if geocaching isn&#8217;t enough &#8220;fun with a GPS&#8221; for you, you can try The Degree Confluence Project. See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}