all,

there's am interesting post in this month's wired 
magazine 
(http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-11/ps_tower) 
about a "meatspace" virtual game at the tower of london.

/jonathan


At 07:09 AM 11/14/2007, you wrote:
>Interesting. we haven't done geocaching, but we 
>found out by accident that someone had used one 
>of our museum sites for a cache 
>(http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=92cdb1e5-deaf-4a1e-98db-a8b4f27fc089) 
>- no idea who put it there. Unfortunately we are 
>unable to count visitors like that as the site 
>is completely open - we only count people who 
>come into the visitor centre [giveaway Brit spelling there!].
>
>Great idea, though.
>
>Pete
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>Pete Gray
>Museums Officer
>East Lothian Council
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>We do "geocaching" here, it doesn't bring in a 
>lot of people on a daily bases but we do get 
>some patrons, what we have found out is that you 
>do need to watch them while they are looking for 
>the box.  We had several patrons touch artifacts 
>and moving things to figure out where the "box" 
>was, we ended up moving it away from the main gallery area
>
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