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Dérive

From Wikipoodia:

"In the situationist thought, a Dérive is a concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets, that follows the whim of the moment. It is usually translated as a drift."

From Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography:

"Dérive ... was defined by the situationists as the 'technique of locomotion without a goal', in which 'one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there'."

From Theory of the Dérive:

"In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there."

Geocaching

From Wikipoodia:

Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world.

Synchronized movement

Required: One GPS with permanent uplink per player. Two (or more) remote players visit a specified hash point in their respective graticules. They must proceed to another point (the next day's hash?) by moving in unison across their graticule. Their relative location must never differ by more that a certain distance.

Same Name, Different Concept

Geohashing: A GPS-based drinking game.

The Geohash: A means of encoding locations with arbitrary precision.

Geohashing: GPS-using professionals trying to figure out how to combine trail running (hashing) with GPS.