I devise educational modules, using GPS and Geocaches (some already placed, some placed specifically for an event), for inter-active group learning events at schools, K thru University, across the spectrum of subjects...plus I coordinate special celebration occasions, team-building exercises (which I call GeoGalas and Cache-Mobs, respectively), and small-business marketing events; my company&#39;s name is <em>AZimuth Adventures (<a href="http://www.azimuthadventures.co/">www.AZimuthAdventures.co</a>)</em>  There was absolutely nothing on their site about GPS &amp; Geocaching being used in education, until we notified them, requesting some information related to our research, and then all of a sudden, THEY are developing guidebooks, etc, for teachers to use...I absolutely understand that there are others out there having great ideas, too, but it GALLS me to be given the corporate run-around while presenting a fresh idea and needing startup information and assistance, then have that same corporation take the idea just because they have the resources to do so :/ <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:52 PM, AZTech <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aztech.gc@gmail.com">aztech.gc@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p>I&#39;m curious: what was the idea they stole from you?</p>
<p>David - AZTech</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 1, 2011 3:51 PM, &quot;Teresa Price&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:tnprice0424@gmail.com" target="_blank">tnprice0424@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Yes! People are still caching and I&#39;m teaching it locally...but I don&#39;t have a lot of time to peruse the web, so what is it that you&#39;re talking about regarding the &quot;lawyers&quot; and &quot;take down functionality&quot;...I&#39;m interested, because my son and I contacted <a href="http://geocaching.com/" target="_blank">geocaching.com</a> this summer regarding an idea we had and wanted to know how they could help us get started; they told us a bunch of hoopla then basically stole our idea.  I was not a happy camper!<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I personally haven&#39;t been out in quite a while.  The cachers that I run into all tell me that they aren&#39;t looking for caches anymore, though some say they still go to some of the get together events to hang out with friends.<br>
<br>I know for me the joy was sucked out of it when the lawyers for <a href="http://geocaching.com/" target="_blank">geocaching.com</a> contacted us to tell us to take down functionality that we had created and they had copied.<br>
<br>This discussion list has also died.  It used to get a couple dozen messages a day in its heyday, now we get about a message a month.<br><br>Are people still caching?  It seems like it became a dying/dead fad from where I sit.<br>
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