[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching.com administrator questions whether my museum caches are really "geocaches"

[Brent Milner]

Yes, that's true. I wasn't suggesting that as a means to circumvent the
approver. I was hoping to find a way to require the use of a GPS to find the
location. If the searcher doesn't know the name of the museum, they would
have to plug the coords into the GPS to figure out where it was. Other
things could give it away, of course (i.e. the map, other cachers' logs,
etc.), but at least it wouldn't be as obvious as stating that it's a museum
in the title of the cache.

That's four cents now. :)

-FroBro Q-Tip

-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Jason
Poulter
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:29 PM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching.com administrator questions
whether my museum caches are really "geocaches"


the person that approves the cache would still know its a museum cache
when he reads the description and sees all the answers to the questions
you have to find...

jason


Brent Milner wrote:
> Howdy Ken,
>
> My two cents of advice says, "Go ahead and place your museum caches
> freely." However, I think you should think of a way to name these cahces
> so that it doesn't give away the fact that they're located within a
> museum. For instance, let's say you're leading someone to the US
> Presidents Museum, because you want them to tell you how many fingers
> Teddy Roosevelt's statue has on its right hand. You can list the
> coordinates to the museum with the GPS coordinates, and then direct them
> inside by telling them which way to turn to get to the statue. Instead
> of naming the cache "US Presidents Museum Cache," I'd suggest naming it
> something like "Teddy's Fingers Cache."
>
> Is that too bizarre?
>
> -FroBro Q-Tip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]*On Behalf Of
> *ken@highpointer.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:02 PM
> *To:* az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com
> *Subject:* [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching.com administrator questions
> whether my museum caches are really "geocaches"
>
> Hello Geocachers,
>
> While traveling out of the state in the past two weeks, I stopped and
> visited two small historical museums, one in southeastern Utah
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=37740> and the
> other in northwestern Oklahoma
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=37738>.  I made
> virtual geocaches from these museums, similar in style to the six that I
> have currenlty active in eastern Maricopa County.
>
> Geocaching administrator erik88l-r
> <http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.asp?A=4285> approved these
> two new virtual geocaches, but upon doing so he sent me this note, which
> I have pasted below:
>
> User erik88l-r has contacted you with the following message:
>
> /Hi,
> /
> /I posted your caches, but have to ask before others attack you for it
> in the forums - are all these museums really "geocaches"?  Don't get me
> wrong, I love museums, but is a GPS required to find them?  I just don't
> want to see you going overboard on something that might result in a
> backlash.  Sometimes too much of a good thing results in that reaction.
> ;)  My suggestion would be to hide a physical cache near such places in
> the future - that way people will visit the area without questions about
> whether something should or should not be a virtual cache.
>
> All the best,
> erik - geocaching.com admin
> /
> I replied to Erik that these museum geocaches are very popular among
> geocachers in Arizona.  It is g! ! reat to introduce people to places
> where they can learn about local history and bring the entire family for
> little or no cost, and they are particularly great to visit on hot
> summer days because they are air-conditioned.
>
> It is true that you don't need a GPS to find these museums, but I argue
> that one can find many virtual caches without a GPS, because they are
> typically large items like statues or historical markers that are out in
> plain view in public places.  Also, what is wrong with having some
> virtual geocaches where a GPS is not mandatory - not everyone has a GPS,
> so this opens up our activity to people who can't afford to own a GPS.
>
> Also, I disagree with his suggestion to place a physical geocache near
> these museums.  Most of these museums are located in highly visible
> areas where there is no good place to put a physical geocache.
>
> What do Arizona geocachers think about the comments of Erik and myself?
> Should I continue to create virtual geocaches at museums?  Remember,
> these are not the easiest caches to complete fully - typically I have
> six or seven questions that requires one to visit every part of the
> museum, and as many of you are aware, some of the answers are not easy
> to find.
>
> /*Ken*/ (a.k.a. /*Highpointer*/)
>
>
>

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