The Maritime Geocaching Association

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Ten years ago on this day (May 1st 2000), the United States Government announced that they would be shutting off Selective Availability (SA) on Global Positioning Satellites, effectively giving an instant upgrade to tens of thousands of GPS receivers. Literally overnight, the accuracy of civilian GPS receivers improved 10 times. On May 3rd 2000, Dave Ulmer placed the first ‘GPS Stash’ (geocache). From this initial experiment, geocaching grew tremendously and GroundSpeak was born.

Ten years later, there are over 1 million active caches worldwide.

We are having a BBQ event to celebrate all of this.

Please come join us!

The event will take place in Centennial Park.

The MGA will be setting up early, so if you want to come early and cache in the area, we should be there at around 11:30 AM.

The event will start at 1:00 P.M.

We’ll be having a BBQ event. If you’d like to bring something along, please do, and let dally know.

If possible, please make sure to let us know you’re coming so we’re ready for you!

As an added bonus, there will be surprise participation prizes!

If there are more than 10 people at the event, everybody who attends will get the icon above added to their caches list.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to attend a unique event and get a unique icon.

The 10th year anniversary will never happen again!

I am frequently on google maps, looking at interesting places and whenever possible I go down to street level to roam the streets of an interesting looking city. This morning, I noticed that while in street view, there is now a new icon on the left below the zooming bar which seems to enable a “3D movie” type mode on the image shown in the street view.

This is the original interface where the only new thing is the guy with the 3D goggles on the right hand side.

As soon as you click on the 3D goggles guy, the view changes to show the tell tale old style 3D comics view that you might have seen. Get out your Blue/Red 3D glasses to see the effect.

Another example:

A house in the suburbs of Toronto without the 3D view enabled

The same house with the 3D effect enabled. Here you can very clearly see the double