Geocache Talk - Geocaching Network
Geocache Talk - Geocaching Network
Gary Slinkard
Geocache Talk - YOUR COORDINATES ARE MOVING?!?
1 hour 39 minutes Posted Sep 21, 2026 at 2:10 am.
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The United States is preparing to replace the official reference system used for latitude, longitude, and elevation—and some published coordinates could change by as much as four meters! But what does that actually mean for geocachers?
Will your carefully placed cache suddenly have the “wrong” coordinates? Could puzzle finals, property boundaries, benchmarks, and older GPS data be affected? And if nothing on the ground is physically moving, why are the numbers changing?
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We’ll discuss:
🛰️ Why the United States is retiring its current coordinate reference systems
📍 How coordinates can move even when the location does not
🧭 What a shift of up to four meters could mean for geocaching
📦 Whether existing cache coordinates will need to be updated
🌎 Why satellites are replacing more than a million physical survey markers
🤔 Whether geocachers should be concerned—or whether this is mostly hype
Your cache hasn’t moved…but its coordinates might!
Read the article that started the conversation: The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes
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