ROVE, shown above, was brought to our attention here at the Opencaching North America blog on April 4th, 2013 via a
press release on PRweb.com that came through on a Google news alert for the word Geocaching. ROVE is a GPS accessory that instantly shares trail maps across social
networks like Twitter and Facebook. ROVE pulls multiple geocaches from
geocaching.com right to your GPS, anywhere there is cellular or WiFi
service. Advanced functionality includes tracking distance, time,
elevation and speed for accurate trail maps.
ROVE is manufactured in Atlantic Canada by Sparkyard, Inc., a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia based IT start up company. The company has launched a
crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise money for increasing production (please note per the Indiegogo site that there is an initial short production run, and ROVE can be ordered right now). We at the OCNA blog contacted Janet Wilson, Visual Designer for Sparkyard through their website at
www.gorove.com, who was nice enough to set up an interview for us with Jonathan Layes, the inventor of ROVE, and founder of Sparkyard, Inc.
