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Geocaching (self.Blind)
submitted by mrg3rry
Hey /r/blind, anyone here do geocaching? If so i have an iPhone and am looking for an accessible geocaching app...
fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
From what I understand of geocaching, you must be able to read hand writing to do it. The GPS leads you to the first cache, and then that cache contains hand written clues to find the next one, and/or instructions that people who find the cache need to follow. So I wouldn't hold out much hope of doing that, I'm afraid.
geoffisblind 2 points 7y ago
You would be correct, I went out once or twice with someone and it is really not an accessible activity in any sense. If was impossible for me to read the information in the capsules and that goes beyond the inability for me to find the capsules which are often disguised and hidden in the first place. It's definitely a neat concept but not something that works well with low to no vision. Getting out and hiking is pretty fun though.
fastfinge 1 points 7y ago
I feel like a better programmer than me could develop some kind of really cool audio based scavanger hunt app, though. Like, it'd play an unidentified sound and give you the approximate location (maybe within a mile or two) it was recorded, and then you'd have to find a way to record the same sound. It could use technology like shazam's music matching technology to tell if you got it right. I think that'd be fun, in a kind of similar way.
Mainariini 1 points 7y ago
There are different types of geocaches, the traditional ones are usually simply located at the coordinates that the GPS shows. But they are indeed usually hidden and disguised and include a logbook in which you should write your nick and the date when you found the cache.
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