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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“The reviewers use a rule of thumb that caches placed within .10 miles (528 feet or 161 metres) of another cache may not be published on the site.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?
