GeoGearHeads; The weekly show for Geocaching and Location-Based Gaming

For the one-hundred ninetieth edition of the GeoGearHeads MDSurveyor talk about Benchmarking. The discussion started with comments from dsms99, Wet_Coaster (who mentioned GC43F3), Geuguy, Team MavEtJu, Eric and Virginia (who mentioned "Scaredy Cat Films Benchmark Viewer"), and Axeman22. Some of the recommended resources are; Benchmark Hunting on Geocaching.com DSWORLD (view NGS marks in Google Earth) view NGS marks in Google Earth (web viewer) Android: BenchMap FindAControl iOS: FindMarkers Congratulations to Geuguy for submitting the winning response for this week's question. Thanks to CoinsAndPins.com for their donation of this week's gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

Kev_MacD and Team_K1W1 return for the one-hundred eighty-ninth edition of the GeoGearHeads to talk about electronics in geocaches. The GeekBoys from the Vancouver Hack Space were on show "GGH 185: Hackspaces I" but joined us today for a little information about some of the geocaches they've placed which rely on electronics. Those discussed were; "CacheDuino" (GC274MK) "CacheDuino II" (GC2NPQQ) "GB PuzzleBox" (GC45R51) "GB Puzzle Box II" (GC4RTHN) "POV at Burnaby" (GC2WKCB) "POV at LLJ" (GC2WDTH) Congratulations to CodeJunkie for submitting the winning response for this week's question. Thanks to CoinsAndPins.com for their donation of this week's gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

For the one-hundred eighty-eighth edition of the GeoGearHeads the panel of five talks over several submissions from the GeoGearHeads audience. Cornell Finch ("UK Geocaching Podcast"), debaere ("Only Googlebot Reads This Blog"), and Mark ("Oh Beep!") join The Bad Cop and DarrylW4 to start with an extensive discussion about "Needs Archive" logs (originally started in GGH186). JerseyEric called in about THE RAT's lack of a smartphone and listening to this show. Nighthawk700 shared his use of GSAK and the KMLCircles macro with FizzyCalc to maximize cache placements for some new hides. Following that work he discovered the update to Google Map V3 macro which would have made it easier. Finally the panel talked about a question from CountryQueen about getting in touch with new Geocachers and reaching out to mentor and help them avoid mistakes. can also enjoy the extra 40+ minute bonus show. Congratulations to Tanjent for submitting the winning response for this week's question and to CountryQueen for winning the live prize drawing. Thanks to CoinsAndPins.com for their donation of this week's gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

For the one-hundred eighty-seventh edition of the GeoGearHeads we're excited for the return of WVTim. Since his last appearance ("GGH Beta.41: Gadget Caches with WVTim") he's launched a "gadgetcaches" channel on YouTube to help inspire cache hiders. He's also launched the "The Gadgets of Berkeley County" and "Mystery Caches of Berkeley County Geotrail" geotrails. Also mentioned was the OpenCaching North America contest – "The OpenCaching NA 5th Anniversary Contest." Congratulations to 7 Iron for submitting the winning response for this week's question. Thanks to CoinsAndPins.com for their donation of this week's gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

For the one-hundred eighty-sixth edition of the GeoGearHeads. scottberks (of "Geocaching Podcast") and Michael Miller (of "Cache and Release") join The Bad Cop and DarrylW4 to talk about a few emails from the GeoGearHeads. THE RAT opened with comments about "GGH 183: Ingress I." Then afishoutawater mentioned she'd visited the OmniCorpDetroit in Detroit. MavEtJu asked about Reverse Geocaches on Geocaching.com and we heard from Rock Chalk about Geocaching.com's position. Wet_Coaster shared about the Geocaching.com listed intercache he did (GC4Z1VA) – a topic covered in "GGH 075: Intercaching" which the panel seemed to agree might need to be revisited. Last on the agenda was a discussion about "Needs Archive" logs from the question by Those_guys. Congratulations to Questermark for submitting the winning response for this week's question and gslink&slinkymama for the winning response to this week's live question. Thanks to Thanks to Russ Atkinson for the of the weekly prize and Dr. Cachenstein for the of this week's live gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

Three members of the Vancouver HackSpace talk about Hackspaces for the one-hundred eighty-fifth edition of the GeoGearHeads. Kev_MacD, LANMonkey, and Team_K1W1 talked about how the hackspace works and some of the resources available. Kev_MacD and Team_K1W1 (also known as the Geekboys) told us about their "cacheDuino" (GC274MK) and "RFIDuino" (GC3420J) built at the hackspace. They authored the "RFIDuino - Using an Arduino & RFID Reader to make a puzzle GeoCache" and "Building a Prusa i3 3D Printer" on Instructables. Congratulations to Questermark for submitting the winning response for this week's question. Thanks to Dr. Cachenstein for the of this week's gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

Audience questions about puzzle caches take over the one-hundred eighty-fourth edition of the GeoGearHeads. childofatom (author of "How to Puzzle Cache" and Jennifer of TeamAJK (author of the "Geocaching Puzzle of the Day") fielded questions from Limax, Hakuin, PatientRock, Electric Water Boy, and the Live audience. Congratulations to Billy Robson for submitting the winning response for this week's question. Thanks to "How to Puzzle Cache" for the of this week's gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

Ingress is the subject of the one-hundred eighty-third edition of the GeoGearHeads. Some of the resources The Bad Cop and DarrylW4 suggested were Decode Ingress:Manual, "Zen and the Art of Ingress," Intel Map, and Ingress Live events. On the previous week's discussion of Lab Caches, debaere emailed with some explanation as to where and why they'll show up in stats. Congratulations to Those_guys for submitting the winning response for this week's question. Thanks to CoinsAndPins.com for their donation of this week's gift! The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on YouTube. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]

Yorkie63 of the UK MEGA Essex 2015 recorded some audio solo with more information. Subscribe to the feed: iTunes RSS StitcherSocial Media: Voicemail: +1 206-350-3647Email: [email protected]