This document was recently created in a collaborative process on the forums to provide a handy reference document for people placing and finding geocaches in New Zealand. This is the first release of what is likely to be an often updated document.

Introduction

This document was developed collaboratively on the NZ GPS forums to provide a reference that provides advice on placing and finding geocaches.

Note that this document is not meant to be seen as a formal set of guidelines or rules. Each geocache listing service will have their own set of rules and guidelines that apply to caches listed on their service.

After some discussion in the forums recently, members of the society decided it would be useful to develop a guide to beautifying your caches pages using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

This article provides step by step instructions on how this can be done.

Why?

First and foremost, decide the purposes for which you are going to use the GPS.

It may sound obvious, but if you're hiking or hunting and want a unit that displays your position on a digital map then the lower-end units can be ignored. Similarly, if all you want to do is get into geocaching as cheaply as possible then a model like the yellow Garmin Etrex or Gecko may be exactly what you need.

This article focuses on GPS units for land-based handheld usage. For advice on marine and aviation units refer to the manufacturer websites such as Garmin and Magellan.