Comments on: Garmin Chirp tracking chip changes geocaching forever http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/10/15/garmin-chirp-tracking-chip-changes-geocaching-forever/ Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Thu, 23 May 2013 21:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Guardian sleuths 3 http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/10/15/garmin-chirp-tracking-chip-changes-geocaching-forever/#comment-43191 Guardian sleuths 3 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=101547#comment-43191 Right On Jeremy, I'm excited about this new technology and plan to buy a wireless Garmin because I don't have one right now...This Cache I'm working on in Dupont GC2MP3A is running chirp technology and the owner has provided alternate ways to gain the same information. I do wish and I do think that garmin needs to be more considerate and include Ground Speak in these release dates prior to actual release...You and ground speak have made the GPS industry boom and the number of users continues to skyrocket... My family and I truely appriciate Geocaching and we really enjoy the level of activity we get now that we are geocaching. Thank you for making the chirp apart of Geocaching. Note to Garmin>>you need to understand that I would not even have a Garmin nor would I be considering a $499.00 62ST Garmin if it was not for Groundspeak and Geocaching.... Guardian Sleuths 3 Right On Jeremy, I’m excited about this new technology and plan to buy a wireless Garmin because I don’t have one right now…This Cache I’m working on in Dupont GC2MP3A is running chirp technology and the owner has provided alternate ways to gain the same information. I do wish and I do think that garmin needs to be more considerate and include Ground Speak in these release dates prior to actual release…You and ground speak have made the GPS industry boom and the number of users continues to skyrocket… My family and I truely appriciate Geocaching and we really enjoy the level of activity we get now that we are geocaching.

Thank you for making the chirp apart of Geocaching.

Note to Garmin>>you need to understand that I would not even have a Garmin nor would I be considering a $499.00 62ST Garmin if it was not for Groundspeak and Geocaching….

Guardian Sleuths 3

]]> By: ecanderson http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/10/15/garmin-chirp-tracking-chip-changes-geocaching-forever/#comment-30354 ecanderson Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:28:59 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=101547#comment-30354 Before buying one of these to use in a geocache, cache owners should be aware that the announcement of this product caught the folks at Groundspeak TOTALLY flat footed. Garmin provided no prior warning. Groundspeak has very quickly reviewed this gadget, and based partly on the fact that the receivers are sole sourced (only certain Garmin handheld GPS units can receive and understand the content of a Chirp transmission), have arrived at the following compromise in their use. Per Jeremy hisself… “Garmin didn’t tell us about this product. We only became aware of it, by accident, two days prior to the public announcement.” and per Groundspeak, the following will apply as of this morning: Here is the current plan: 1. A new attribute for a “beacon” will be added soon. Any caches that use a Chirp (or any future similar device) should use this attribute. 2. If a cache owner puts a beacon in a traditional cache and geocachers have an alternative method to find it without using the beacon, then OK. I remind you to use the coming attribute. 3. If the cache owner insists on not providing an alternative means of finding the geocache, it must be listed as a mystery with the beacon attribute. 4. Cache descriptions may mention the “Chirp” as long as the text doesn’t go on and on with “overtones of advertising, marketing, or promotion” as per our long-standing commercial guidelines. 5. We do not plan to add a new cache type just for this. Before buying one of these to use in a geocache, cache owners should be aware that the announcement of this product caught the folks at Groundspeak TOTALLY flat footed. Garmin provided no prior warning. Groundspeak has very quickly reviewed this gadget, and based partly on the fact that the receivers are sole sourced (only certain Garmin handheld GPS units can receive and understand the content of a Chirp transmission), have arrived at the following compromise in their use. Per Jeremy hisself…

“Garmin didn’t tell us about this product. We only became aware of it, by accident, two days prior to the public announcement.”

and per Groundspeak, the following will apply as of this morning:

Here is the current plan:

1. A new attribute for a “beacon” will be added soon. Any caches that use a Chirp (or any future similar device) should use this attribute.
2. If a cache owner puts a beacon in a traditional cache and geocachers have an alternative method to find it without using the beacon, then OK. I remind you to use the coming attribute.
3. If the cache owner insists on not providing an alternative means of finding the geocache, it must be listed as a mystery with the beacon attribute.
4. Cache descriptions may mention the “Chirp” as long as the text doesn’t go on and on with “overtones of advertising, marketing, or promotion” as per our long-standing commercial guidelines.
5. We do not plan to add a new cache type just for this.

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