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Having a map used to be regarded as cheating, because part of the fun used to be trying to guess which side of a major river or other obstacle the cache was on.  
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==Online web maps==
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Nowdays, there's plenty of maps, roughly divided into [[Muggle]] maps and [[Geocaching]] maps.
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These are good for those quick planning sessions before you depart.
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Print them out and away you go!
  
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* [[Muggle]] maps are designed for normal navigation and thus don't have caches marked on them.
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The best way to access these maps is to go to the [[cache page]] on [[Geocaching Australia]] and click on the link there. That will direct you right to the map of the cache!
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However, you can pan and zoom then to a specific location to find an individual cache.
 
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* [[Geocaching]] maps have caches marked on them, so you can see where one cache is in relation to another.
 
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Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, [[Geocaching]] maps often don't have the detail that is available on normal maps.
 
  
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Maps are available online or offline (in mapping software.)
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A key for the symbols used on the GCA maps can be found on the [[Cache type|Cache Types]] wiki page.
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To our knowledge, the only online [[Geocaching]] map of Australia are the [[Geocaching Australia Maps]]. It's not super detailed, so we'd love to improve it.
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Alternatively, you can make your own offline geocaching map on your computer using software like [[Ozi Explorer]].
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* [http://www.multimap.com Multimap] - displays maps by lat/lon
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* [http://maps.google.com Google Maps] - displays maps by lat/lon
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* [http://life.csu.edu.au/geo/findlatlong.html Routing]
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* [http://www.sentinel.csiro.au/mapping/viewer.htm Sentinel]
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* [http://www.street-directory.com.au Street-Directory.com.au]
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* [http://www.weatherzone.com.au WeatherZone]
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* [http://www.maporama.com Maporama]
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* [http://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/listmap/listmapsearch.jsp Listmap - Tasmania]
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* [http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/australia.shtml Buxley's Maps] - shows cache locations across Australia.  Sadly, because of [[Groundspeak]]'s policies, these maps are no longer up-to-date
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* [http://www.atlas.sa.gov.au/ South Australian Atlas]
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* [http://www.earthetc.com/imagery_list.aspx?ETC_LOCATION_ID=5 ER Mapper]
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* [http://maps.nsw.gov.au/ NSW Department of Lands GeoSpatial Portal] is an advertising-free and comprehensive Cadastral database of NSW.

Revision as of 08:18, 22 January 2016

Online web maps

These are good for those quick planning sessions before you depart. Print them out and away you go!

The best way to access these maps is to go to the cache page on Geocaching Australia and click on the link there. That will direct you right to the map of the cache!

A key for the symbols used on the GCA maps can be found on the Cache Types wiki page.

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