CACHE IN HAND
Recently, I have been looking at ways to expand the experience of going on a photo walk, to include a different element to just taking photos of an area. To this end, I started to look at the possibility of geotagging my photographs, so that a random photograph of the countryside could be easily identified years later, by including some extra data with the photograph. Most phones will offer the ability to automatically include GPS mapping data, which makes cataloguing photographs a lot easier. Whilst looking into GPS apps, I recalled the activity known as ‘geocaching’, which is a pastime involving tracking down hidden caches and logging them on a map. Originally, this would have been done by hand using maps and compass, but lately, it uses satellite GPS signals and a special app. Having downloaded the app on my phone, I checked the immediate area around my place of work and found there were a couple of small caches nearby. Caches vary in style and content and can either be a simpl...