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akk32, if you can't even explain why your site would be useful here I doubt you'll get any interest.

 

It sounds like, for what little you've said, that a cacher lists a cache on Groundspeak as usual with some coordinates that will take cachers to a 'waypoint' where they will find a coded number. They then have to go to your site and enter that number to get the coordinates of the final. If this is the case I believe it violates the guidelines which state:

"For example, a puzzle that requires research on public websites in order to determine the coordinates may be acceptable, while a puzzle that requires sending an email to the cache owner with the solution in order to obtain the coordinates may not be."

While you aren't the cache owner, you would be their proxy and be the only person with this unique information. Sounds iffy.

 

The Cache Owner Will Have To Make A Account On The Site

 

Why Would I Want To?

 

It seems to me that the OP has developed a service, which a CO can use (presumably, at no cost) that provides an online transformation of some number to a set of coordinates. For someone that wants to create a cache like this, and either doesn't have the programming skills to develop such a service or the time to do so, it could be useful. Although it took awhile for the OP to explain what the site would actually do at least he/she took the time to ask us whether it was a good idea, whether anyone would be interested in using it, and seems open to suggestions on how the idea can be improved.

 

That said, anyone (and that includes the OP) that creates a cache which requires one to go to a web site after going out in the field to find a waypoint should state in the cache listing that finding the final *may* require two trips out in the field, once to obtain the number key needed to get the final coordinates, and again to go out and find the final cache. Since most of the caching that I have done in the past year or so has been while traveling it would mean that I, personally, would probably not look for that cache unless I could access that site from a mobile web browser.

 

If I were to offer one suggestion it would be to make the site mobile friendly. Geocaching is a mobile game. If you want to incorporate the use of the web into the act of seeking geocaches, it should be designed for mobile devices.

 

I said if I were to offer one suggestion...I"m offering another. There has been a recent thread about the use of QR codes in geocaching. It would seem to me that rather than (or in addition to) a number that was entered into the site to retrieve a set of coordinates, you could provide a QR code generator for a CO that registers a cache, and have the contents of that QR code be a set of coordinates, it would provide an alternative, mobile friendly mechanism for obtain coordinates while out in the field.

 

Will Make Compatible with Windows Phone, Blackberry, and Android

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Will Make Compatible with Windows Phone, Blackberry, and Android

 

Anything else?

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Can A Moderator close this topic?

 

i will make it and use it for my caches and if anyone else wants to they can

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The Cordnates to a puzzlee cache will take you to a sign or something and you get the numbers and put it in the website and it gives you the cordnates

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Ill Make It and use it for my caches if anyone else wants to they can.

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It Will Be at least a coordinate checker

[need ideas on new puzzle cache cordnate giver]

akk32, if you can't even explain why your site would be useful here I doubt you'll get any interest.

 

It sounds like, for what little you've said, that a cacher lists a cache on Groundspeak as usual with some coordinates that will take cachers to a 'waypoint' where they will find a coded number. They then have to go to your site and enter that number to get the coordinates of the final. If this is the case I believe it violates the guidelines which state:

"For example, a puzzle that requires research on public websites in order to determine the coordinates may be acceptable, while a puzzle that requires sending an email to the cache owner with the solution in order to obtain the coordinates may not be."

While you aren't the cache owner, you would be their proxy and be the only person with this unique information. Sounds iffy.

 

The Cache Owner Will Have To Make A Account On The Site

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Puzzle cache cheat sites are not generally warmly welcomed.

 

Here is what it is going to do:

 

you go to the coordinates given and get a number then you put it in the generator and it gives you the cordnates to the cache

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Fixed the problem

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[Will Metal key holders not rust?]

i overlapped the magnet and the container 10 times will that work?

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Here Are Some Photos Of The Finished Match tube

 

On side of fridge:

 

On Bottom Of Fridge:

 

Pictures of magnets:

1:

2:

 

Picture of match tube (magnet Part):

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Here Are Some Photos Of The Finished Match tube

 

On side of fridge:

 

On Bottom Of Fridge:

 

Pictures of magnets:

1:

2:

 

Picture of match tube (magnet Part):

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i am using this as my container

 

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does the match stick have to have magnets?

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what kind of magnet do you put on the match tube?

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The Maintenance issue is taken care of I Have PWCinPC To Maintain it

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is this a picture of the match tube

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You better check with your reviewer about vacation caches. They normally are not allowed as you must have a maintenance plan. You must be able to demonstrate that you can maintain it within a reasonable time (like 2 weeks or so). Or, engage a local cacher in FL that will do the maintenance for you. The last word on this is the reviewer though.

i am trying to get a geocacher that lives down there to maintain it when i am not there

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Ammo boxes rust overtime and they are the best container out there right now. Even stainless steel will rust! I saw go for it... Just put the log in a plastic bag to avoid it from getting wet...

 

I don't know what kind of paint the government uses, but if you just scuff the paint just enough to add a few extra coats while leaving the original paint on them, ammo cans don't rust.

 

There are a lot of hide-a-key caches out there. They rust a lot faster than an ammo boxes. You might consider using the waterproof match containers from Walmart. You can replace the gasket with an o-ring and epoxy a magnet to the side and they'll last forever.

Do You Think They Can Last A Year?

 

i am going to hide a vacation cache at PCB Florida And i go there every year will they last a year?/

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in a saltwater enviroment?

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If You Want A Rock cache container without ordering it Go To Winn-Dixie

 

Buy them for $5.00 At winndixie

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Here Are Some pics

 

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i bought a metal mangentic to use as a geocache will it rust