How about two more "types" of caches (icons)

[+Markwell]

The locationless caches are already subdivided into another category on the system. But there is no separate icon to indicate that the cache is indeed a locationless cache. Maybe something like...

but that won't shrink well. Any other suggestions?

 

Also, there is still a small number of moving caches. I'm not talking about hitchhikers like Scoob and Shag that were set up with cache pages, but actual caches with trade trinkets, etc., that MOVE. A long time ago, I suggested this icon:

But Jeremy responded that animated graphics tend to make the cache pages too busy. Anyone else got a suggestion? I would hope if we could get good graphics that Jeremy might actually implement them.

 

There was a thread over here where I described this type of cache.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocachers

[+The Cheeseheads]

How about some motion lines and a little puff of smoke to one side to indicate motion?

 

[+ClayJar]

I'm still hoping we get attributes sometime so we can get along without adding 300 cache types, but for the meantime, how about this: For mobile caches, you could do cartoon-style multi-view. You know, like in some cartoons when a character is moving really fast, you'll have, like, three exposures, the real one, the faded previous location, and the really faded previous previous location.

 

/me wishes I was at home so I could draw it.

[+The Cheeseheads]

quote:

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Originally posted by ClayJar:

 

I'm still hoping we get attributes sometime so we can get along without adding 300 cache types

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By attributes, do you mean what I saw somewhere else that someone (maybe you?) mentioned, like what you see for park listings where there are icons to show what is available (a picnic table for picnicing, a swing for a playground, a boat for a boat ramp, etc.)?

 

This would be very useful. Like a boat for hydrocaches, a tree for caches in the woods, a building for urban caches, etc. Or even multiples of these as necessary. That way you could be more descriptive without the need for more cache types.

 

[+Faithwalker & DaMama]

I made a suggestion to Jeremy a short time ago about a cache can with the earth in the center, similar to the virtual, but he said he wasn't sure where he was going with locationless caches.

 

...Cache Responsible & may all your birds be in view...

...Faithwalker & DaMama...

[DisQuoi]

In one of my rants today in this post, I argue that when Jeremy implements cache attributes, it should replace both cache icons and difficulty ratings. By creating so many "Types" of caches, we're introducing the complications of exclusivity ... I may have a multi-virtual cache, or a roving-traditional cache ...