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Cache Listing Sites allow you to post the description and coordinates of your cache where people will read them.
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Cache listing websites allow you to post the description and [[coordinates]] of your [[cache]] so other cachers can go and find them.
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The site with the most cache listings is [[Geocaching.com]], run by US Corporation [[Groundspeak]]. This site lists most caches in Australia but is quite US-centric and politically correct. Basic access is free and there is fee-based membership for functions such as downloading caches in [[GPX format]].
 
  
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[[Geocaching Australia]] has started to list caches in early 2005.  We are curently moving the infrastructure to lower-cost servers in order to keep the service free.
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[[Geocaching.com]] has been operating since 2000 and a majority of Australian caches are listed there.
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[[Geocaching Australia]] started as a resource site, providing services like Maps and Statistics to Australian Geocachers which weren't available elsewhere. The site began listing caches in early 2005 and is a serious alternative for listing your cache.  For more information, read [[GCA vs GC]].
  
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Other cache listing sites are:
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Some examples of cache listing websites are:
  
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* [http://gpxgames.org GPSgames]
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* [http://geocaching.com Geocaching.com]  (Also known as GC or gc.com; see also [[Geocaching.com]])
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* [http://movingcache.com MovingCache.com]
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* [http://geocaching.com.au Geocaching.com.au]  (Also known as GCA; see also [[Geocaching Australia]])
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* [http://gpsgames.org GPSgames] (Discontinued 30 June 2021)
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* [http://movingcache.com MovingCache.com] (Discontinued)
 
* [http://navicache.com Navicache]
 
* [http://navicache.com Navicache]
 
* [http://terracaching.com TerraCaching.com]
 
* [http://terracaching.com TerraCaching.com]
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* [http://www.opencaching.com OpenCaching.com](Discontinued)
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* [http://www.opencaching.us OpenCaching.us] The U.S home of the Opencaching Network
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== See Also ==
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* [[History of geocaching]]
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* [[Countries]] for a list of web-sites and other resources relating to other [[countries]].
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* There are several [[online search tools|browser plugins]] available to assist with searching and accessing some of these sites, for both PC & Mac.

Latest revision as of 14:09, 7 September 2021

Cache listing websites allow you to post the description and coordinates of your cache so other cachers can go and find them.

Geocaching.com has been operating since 2000 and a majority of Australian caches are listed there. Geocaching Australia started as a resource site, providing services like Maps and Statistics to Australian Geocachers which weren't available elsewhere. The site began listing caches in early 2005 and is a serious alternative for listing your cache. For more information, read GCA vs GC.

Some examples of cache listing websites are:


See Also

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