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About this episode

On May 2, 2000, twenty-four satellites around the globe started processing accurate GPS coordinates. Formerly a protected military technology, it now allows civilians to precisely pinpoint their location or the location of items.Skinny interviews members of the Ontario Geocaching Association (OGA) about “geocaching”, an exciting outdoor treasure hunt using GPS technology.The basic idea is to have individuals set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor should do is if they get something, they should try to leave something for the next cacher.

• Release Date

  Feb 26, 2007

• Runtime

  05:28