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Cache Rules

Postby kegrif » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:02 pm

We got this from Chuck Walla about one of our new cache hides. We did not know that there was a proximity limitation.

Greetings from Geocaching.com!
Your new cache has been temporarily placed on hold because it is too close to "In Memory Of ..." by *TnT* (GC12PX3), 269 feet away, and the guideline is 528 feet.

The following is from the Geocaching.com Cache Listing Requirements / Guidelines section on Cache Saturation:
“The reviewers use a rule of thumb that caches placed within .10 miles (528 feet or 161 metres) of another cache may not be published on the site. This is an arbitrary distance and is just a guideline, but the ultimate goal is to reduce the number of caches hidden in a particular area and to reduce confusion that might otherwise result when one cache is found while looking for another. On the same note, don't go cache crazy and hide a cache every 600 feet just because you can. If you want to create a series of caches (sometimes called a “Power Trail”), the reviewer may require you to create a multi-cache, if the waypoints are close together. A series of caches that are generally intended to be found as a group are good candidates for submission as a single multicache.

The cache saturation guideline applies to all physical stages of multicaches and mystery/puzzle caches, as well as any other stages entered as “stages of a multicache.” The guideline does NOT apply to event caches, earthcaches, grandfathered virtual and webcam caches, stages of multicaches or puzzle caches entered as “question to answer” or “reference point,” or to any “bogus” posted coordinates for a puzzle cache. Within a single multicache or mystery/puzzle cache, there is no minimum required distance between waypoints.”

Please relocate your cache to comply with the guideline. After you move it, let me know by email so that I can review your cache listing again. If I do not hear from you by 10/8/07, I will have to archive the cache. In your response, please include the name of the cache and its waypoint (or GC #) so that I know which cache you are writing about.


Here in Owensboro KY (where I am working this week), they seem to be every 300ft in some parts of town. What is the reasoning behind this distance and not having multiples within walking distance? Does anyone know?
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Postby *TnT* » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:07 pm

It's what they call "Cache Saturation".

Because a GPSr is only accurate to 20-40 feet. and my 40 feet adds to your 40 feet and so on, with the 0.1 mile rule there's little chance my cache can be mistaken for yours.

Of course, this doesn't apply, as she says, to stages of a multi, where the .1 rule doesn't apply.

Of course, the 528 rule is just a guideline, and it's possible that in Owensboro the approver is more lenient, etc.
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Postby Gruizzer » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:42 am

Yep, I got busted for this on my last one, before the Caboose is Loose. I had spot all picked out but Holmesfam beat me to it. Imagine that!!! :lol:

Anyway Ironically I was hunting their Stock Drop one and I saw another cemetery nearby. Placed my cache and Chuck Walla told me the same thing. And it was a good hide too!!! :( When I went to retrieve it I even had trouble finding it. HA!!
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