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I moved this thread from the GPS technology and devices Forum section.

Because it's quite clear from the log history that a finder must enter a business, and interact with an employee, in order to log the cache. That is the end of the analysis - these are not allowed in a cache design, and have not been allowed for many years (earlier than 2014 when this cache was published). If the cache isn't moved outdoors so it can be found without talking to the shop employees, it will be archived. The cache owner was questioned prior to publication about the "no commercial caches" issue, and the cache was published only after those concerns were addressed. Either the situation changed sometime after publication (like moving the cache container into the shop), or the cache owner's pre-publication communications with their Reviewer were not fully transparent.

You need to start a discussion with the employee at Geocaching HQ who runs the GeoTours program, working with land managers, tourism groups, etc. around the world. Begin that discussion by calling the phone number listed on the page I linked you to in my previous post, or by writing to Geocaching HQ via the Help Center. Select item 10, "Business Partnerships," and then "GeoTours: a blend of tourism and adventure," as the category for your request, so that it routes to the correct person.

Questions and comments should be limited to the subject of the current Release Notes. Refer to the opening post for scope guidance.

Locking thread, because minors are not allowed to post in the Geocaching Forums.

Archived caches: Yes, go ahead and log them! That's why the explanation note is important. Locked caches: Sorry, that's a hard no. Benchmark finds - there's nothing to transfer.

I note further that your cache page is temporarily disabled. Your Reviewer will not see any of your logs since December 14th unless and until you resubmit the cache page for review. That action will return your page to the active review queue.

Hello, Your cache hasn't been published because you have not provided the answer requested by your Reviewer, most recently on December 14th. The ball is in your court. You have two options: 1. Provide the requested information. 2. Appeal the review process for your cache by writing to Geocaching HQ via the Help Center. In the dropdown for your message's reason, select "Appeals" so that your inquiry will route to the team who coordinates the work of the Community Volunteer Reviewers. A Lackey will then respond to you and your local Reviewer with the outcome of the appeal.

If what the OP is describing is a desire to create an official GeoTour, that would definitely be relevant right now at the funding proposal stage. There is a material cost involved in setting up one of these. An unofficial GeoTrail does not have the special benefits of an official GeoTour, and is just a matter of submitting the caches and complying with the Geocache Hiding Guidelines.

Do you use GSAK, or would you be willing to try? If so, there's a fairly automated process for this, using the API to bulk upload the logs from GSAK to each cache page. Begin with an "All Finds" pocket query in a database. See this thread for details. For step by step instructions without using GSAK, and some etiquette tips, see this post that I wrote nearly ten years ago.

Welcome back to the Forums, and I'm glad to hear you're thinking of taking up geocaching again. I originally started as a healthy post-divorce activity to do with my daughter. A few years later she decided she wanted a separate account, as I was often finding caches without her. We were able to log her finds on her new account within a matter of hours using some semi-automated shortcuts, but she only had 400-something finds at the time. Your account has 3,490. Typically in these situations, one half of the team keeps the main account and keeps geocaching under it, while the other half creates a new account and copies over their finds. If you're interested in doing that, discussion participants can advise further on the methods for mass-logging of finds under the new account, and the associated etiquette protocols like using the correct date and including an explanation in the new log. Note that the existing account can do a name change if the person who keeps the account doesn't want to be called "team moxiepup." As for your current account's 61 cache hides, the archived caches will remain on the existing account. Active caches can be adopted over to another account, if desired.

This is a complex proposal, so hopefully the community can unpack each question. I'll start. Each cache needs to end with a physical logbook for visitors to sign, and any other tasks (like taking ph or temperature measurements, and/or using a crowdsourcing app to record data) would be an optional activity. To be published on Geocaching.com, each cache needs to be generally available to all geocachers and not just to teams who attend a training workshop. If each cache on the tour is set up separately by different geocachers, all physical elements of each cache must be at least .1 miles (161 metres) away from all physical elements of other caches (including existing geocaches in addition to those created for your tour). Within a single multi-cache, physical elements of the cache can be less than .1 miles apart from each other, but must still be .1 miles from any other cache. Virtual stages of multi-caches are not subject to the cache saturation guideline (like "go here and read this sign, then use information to determine the coordinates for the next stage"). If there are a number of separate geocaches that lead to a "final resolution," then that "final" sounds like a Bonus Cache, which would be the Mystery Cache type. Other cache types possibly available for your project include a Virtual Cache (which are rarely awarded), an Earthcache (which must be focused solely on teaching a geology-related question) or an Adventure Lab. Adventures can be either public or private, and you would need to have one or more credits available to create one. See the Adventure Lab guidance in the Help Center. With the exception of Virtual Caches, any geocaching account can create a cache -- premium membership is not a requirement to hide caches. Whether a Basic Member can find the caches hidden for the project will depend on a number of factors, including whether they're using a GPS or a Smartphone app. If using a Smartphone app, then direct accessibility will depend on what app is being used and, if using the official Geocaching apps, also the cache type and its D/T rating. If using a GPS, any geocacher can find the cache using the information from the Geocaching.com website.

I'm repeating my answer from a prior forum topic on this subject.

The above post was originally a separate thread. I merged it into this existing discussion.

I split off the above posts into a new topic, because they were off-topic to the "Introduce Yourself" thread.

Since Mount10Bike saw that you edited your profile page to include a statistical summary from project-GC, he assumed that you were familiar with it. project-gc.com is an authorized third party API partner that uses your caching data to create lots of fun statistics and maps, like the one above. Follow this hyperlink to see the maps tab of your statistics summary. Is the above map what you were looking for, or did you want to do something else, like map your actual finds in each Wisconsin County?

I wanted to post in order to confirm that this is not an issue. Reviewers know to operate in the time zone where the cache is located. This is supported by our toolset.

It’s locked now.

The above post was originally a separate thread. I merged it into this existing discussion.

The two posts above were originally posted in a separate thread. I merged them into this existing discussion.

I merged the above post into this existing thread. It was originally posted as a separate topic. I also removed an off-topic post. Separate bugs should be reported in separate threads.

I can still see your Geocaching ID number when I hover over your username so that the details pop up, and then I hover on your username again in the popup. Your number is 544466.

If you had created a cache page, I'm sure your Reviewer would have followed procedure for reserving those coordinates. Saying that your Reviewer "didn't allow me to hold a spot" is misleading. Emails don't hold spots - draft cache pages hold spots. With the process having been explained, let's get this thread back on topic to the OP's suggestion.

@chase99g, I checked all ten of the cache pages your account has created, and I don't see any timed publication requests or "works in progress" that were denied for that reason. There is an established process for "reserving a spot." See the post by @arisoft just above. There is also an established process that Reviewers follow for "timed publication" requests. Our instructions on these subjects run for many paragraphs. Back on topic to the OP, the only thing "new" about the request is the ability to specify the future publication date in the "date placed" field at the time of submission. Note that the CO can edit the "date placed" field once the cache is published, to match the publication date if desired.

I'm speculating that this may have been a user error during a testing process. Another way to raise your concerns would be to write to Geocaching HQ's community team via the Help Center and ask them for an explanation.