A few weeks ago, we went out with a GPS device (Global Positioning System) and a few magnetic key boxes, hiding them around the city. This marked the start of our participation in a little sport/hobby called geocaching. What is geocaching? According to Wikipedia: Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a [...]
Tags: Chinatown · geocaching · geotagging · historical crime · history
I’ve been doing walking tours of Gastown, Chinatown, and the Downtown Eastside for the last five years. There’s something almost magical about taking people outside of the confines of a museum and into the “real” world; people interact differently with buildings, streets and crowds than they do with carefully-crafted signage and objects mounted behind glass. [...]
Tags: digitization · flickr · geotagging
