This is going to get confused with opencaching.us. Or at least it was to me for a minute.
--- On Tue, 12/7/10, gc_scout wrote:
> From: gc_scout > Subject: [GPSstash] Garmin Launches OpenCaching.com > To: gpsstash@yahoogroups.com > Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 10:36 PM > Geocaching Free for All: Garmin > Launches OpenCaching.com > > "OLATHE, Kan., Dec 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- > Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: > GRMN | PowerRating), the global leader in satellite > navigation, today announced the creation of OpenCaching.com, > a completely free online community for creating, sharing and > finding geocaches around the world. An exciting and engaging > outdoor activity, geocaching combines exploration, > education, entertainment and recreation. At OpenCaching.com, > everyone can enjoy all of the caches and helpful information > -- the tips, descriptions, previous attempts, mass > downloads, etc. -- for free." > > Read more: http://goo.gl/rIi1Z > > Very interesting. Garmin's terms of use license the > geocaching data hosted on OpenCaching.com under the Creative > Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), so I > believe it legitimately is part of the Opencaching movement, > even though it may use its own proprietary database and > software to host the data. Examples of other nodes in the > Opencaching movement are http://opencaching.de and http://opencaching.us. > > Does anyone have any knowledge of how much effort Garmin is > putting into this and whether we can expect first class > support and additional feature development? > > One of the first features I noticed that seems to be > lacking is the ability to do bulk downloads of cache data. I > zoomed out until over 600 caches were identified in the zoom > area, but when I downloaded a GPX file, only 100 caches were > included. > > -- > Scout > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Geocaching services: > http://geocaching.com http://opencaching.us > http://opencaching.org.uk > http://opencaching.de http://opencaching.pl > http://opencaching.cz http://freecaching.nl > http://geocaching.com.au > http://navicache.com http://geocaching.gpsgames.org > http://geopeitus.ee http://geocaching.hu http://geocaching.ru > http://gps.pcwize.com http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/Yahoo! Groups Links > > > gpsstash-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com > > >