Treasure hunting in the 21st century: A decade of geocaching in Portugal

6th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 273-281

  Santos, Teresa ^a   Mendes, Ricardo ^a   Rodrigues, António ^a   Freire, Sérgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Geocaches; Geocaching; GPS; Spatial analyses; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

GEOCACHE; GEOCACHING; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; LOCATION BASED; MOBILE GAMES; PORTUGAL; SOCIAL-NETWORKING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEB 2.0; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84893053631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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