Cache naming

[+Mike & Jess]

I'm starting to notice that there is now a real lack of creativity in cache names in the area. One thing I've always tried to do is be different with my naming.

We don't have a high cache density here, so this should be fairly avoidable.

 

Within the last year, my "Stop the Bus" cache aquired a twin, within a mile of itself (makes log trolling tough). My "End of the Road" cache had the same thing happen (last year as well I think).

 

Nothing better then seeing a NM log on the phone, get your stuff together, only to realize it wasn't your cache, but it's twin down the road.

[+St.Matthew]

That's sort of bizarre, isn't it? Creative cache names and creative trackable names continue to be my favorite part of this game.

[+stijnhommes]

I know the problem. Authors have it too when they have to name their work. Some people would rather give a bad name so they can get the cache out there.

Personally, I would go for quality.

[I!]

When you have caches named "Tree" and "Hole" maybe you shouldn't be surprised by duplication.

[+SwineFlew]

"This is the Cache Name"

[+SwineFlew]

Theres someone is Vegas that seem to name all of their cache similar.

 

He got alot of awesome caches and I found a few. Really something.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?u=MR57&sortdir=desc&sort=fav

[+Beach_hut]

I have to confess a few times, when setting puzzles, I've started with the name and worked backwards from there...

[knowschad]

With apologies to Chino1130, there are 8 pages of "You've Got Mail" variations.

[+Mike & Jess]

When you have caches named "Tree in the Forest" and "Random Hole" maybe you shouldn't be surprised by duplication.

 

I see someone noticed my last two toss out caches. I was more talking about the ones noted in the OP.

I should have given those last two caches better names.

 

Edit: Fixed those cache names for you now.

Edited August 23, 2012 by Mike & Jess

[+CanadianRockies]

Nothing better then seeing a NM log on the phone, get your stuff together, only to realize it wasn't your cache, but it's twin down the road.

Why are you getting notified about Needs Maintenance logs for the duplicate caches that you don't own? Are they on your Watch List for some reason?

 

If they're on your watch list, then consider removing them. If you don't want to remove them, then consider renaming your caches. If you don't want to rename your caches, then consider asking the owners of the duplicate caches to rename theirs.

Edited August 23, 2012 by CanadianRockies

[+Mike & Jess]

Nothing better then seeing a NM log on the phone, get your stuff together, only to realize it wasn't your cache, but it's twin down the road.

Why are you getting notified about Needs Maintenance logs for the duplicate caches that you don't own? Are they on your Watch List for some reason?

 

If they're on your watch list, then consider removing them. If you don't want to remove them, then consider renaming your caches. If you don't want to rename your caches, then consider asking the owners of the duplicate caches to rename theirs.

 

We where a fairly small caching population and use to watch over each other's caches and some of the good historical caches that the CO is no longer in the game.

Up until early last year, we had ~200 caches in a 50 mile radius of my house in town. Things really blow up the last two years. I don't monitor the caches in town anymore (except my own). I do however watch the ones around my new place, which is about 20-30 caches.

[+CanadianRockies]

Nothing better then seeing a NM log on the phone, get your stuff together, only to realize it wasn't your cache, but it's twin down the road.

Why are you getting notified about Needs Maintenance logs for the duplicate caches that you don't own? Are they on your Watch List for some reason?

 

If they're on your watch list, then consider removing them. If you don't want to remove them, then consider renaming your caches. If you don't want to rename your caches, then consider asking the owners of the duplicate caches to rename theirs.

We where a fairly small caching population and use to watch over each other's caches and some of the good historical caches that the CO is no longer in the game.

Up until early last year, we had ~200 caches in a 50 mile radius of my house in town. Things really blow up the last two years. I don't monitor the caches in town anymore (except my own). I do however watch the ones around my new place, which is about 20-30 caches.

I repeat. If you don't want to remove the duplicate caches from your Watch List, then consider renaming your caches. If you don't want to rename your caches, then consider asking the owners of the duplicate caches to rename theirs.

[+Ambrosia]

I've had this happen locally, where another cacher named their cache the same name as mine. Very confusing. I should have asked what the thought processes were, I'm sure he just wasn't thinking. But I don't like confrontation, so I've let it pass. The other cache has now been archived, anyway.

[+Don_J]

Notification on caches that you own will have [OWNER] in the subject line. A properly set up email client will sort them into their own folder. I always know which notifications are for my caches.

 

Regarding creative naming, it does seem to be a lost art. I think that it relates to why the cache is being placed in the first place. If the only reason that one is placing a cache is because there isn't one there and the next one is a .1 mile away, then it becomes hard to come up with a creative name.

 

The first cache page I ever looked at was named "Rarely Roaring Rio", and the cache was placed next to a dry wash. I liked this and I think in part it was what made me make the decision to buy a GPSr and go look for it.

[Pup Patrol]

Nothing better then seeing a NM log on the phone, get your stuff together, only to realize it wasn't your cache, but it's twin down the road.

Why are you getting notified about Needs Maintenance logs for the duplicate caches that you don't own? Are they on your Watch List for some reason?

 

If they're on your watch list, then consider removing them. If you don't want to remove them, then consider renaming your caches. If you don't want to rename your caches, then consider asking the owners of the duplicate caches to rename theirs.

We where a fairly small caching population and use to watch over each other's caches and some of the good historical caches that the CO is no longer in the game.

Up until early last year, we had ~200 caches in a 50 mile radius of my house in town. Things really blow up the last two years. I don't monitor the caches in town anymore (except my own). I do however watch the ones around my new place, which is about 20-30 caches.

I repeat. If you don't want to remove the duplicate caches from your Watch List, then consider renaming your caches. If you don't want to rename your caches, then consider asking the owners of the duplicate caches to rename theirs.

 

The caches with those names owned by the OP have both been archived. It shouldn't be a problem, no?

 

"End of the road"? Good grief, I don't know how many caches are named exactly that or some variant. I estimate about a bajillion.

 

Those are the ones I go for. I wouldn't be interested in ones with "bus stop" in their names.

 

 

B.

[Chino1130]

With apologies to Chino1130, there are 8 pages of "You've Got Mail" variations.

 

Wow, I didn't even realize... Definitely not naming it that now hahaha

[Pup Patrol]

With apologies to Chino1130, there are 8 pages of "You've Got Mail" variations.

 

phhttt....

 

52 pages of "end of the road"!

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?key=end+of+the+road&submit4=Go

 

not quite a bajillion, but still...

 

 

B.

[knowschad]

With apologies to Chino1130, there are 8 pages of "You've Got Mail" variations.

 

phhttt....

 

52 pages of "end of the road"!

 

http://www.geocachin...road&submit4=Go

 

not quite a bajillion, but still...

 

 

B.

You're right. That is less than a bajillion.

 

(is 'bajillion' a Spanish word? Would it be pronounced "vaheeyon"?)

[AZcachemeister]

With apologies to Chino1130, there are 8 pages of "You've Got Mail" variations.

 

phhttt....

 

52 pages of "end of the road"!

 

http://www.geocachin...road&submit4=Go

 

not quite a bajillion, but still...

 

 

B.

You're right. That is less than a bajillion.

 

(is 'bajillion' a Spanish word? Would it be pronounced "vaheeyon"?)

 

I think they meant something else.

 

See the link below.

 

Click here.

 

Don't you just love the folks who answer questions only by posting links, when just coming out and saying it would be so much simpler?

[+Harry Dolphin]

Well, I did have a cache named Cache with a View. But it's been archived. I've gotten more creative.

Anyone else have a cache named Amparo Oso Comió el Tocino? First note was: "Buen provecho."

[+J the Goat]

Horse Poo Obstacle Course wasn't my idea, however Ejumacashonitivityness was

 

I need to check on that one actually...

[+redsox_mark]

I must admit I've not given a lot of thought into my cache names. But even if they aren't clever, if you make them more specific they will be more likely to be unique. My first hide is called "Primrose Hill Woodland" - as that is where it is hidden. Not very original - but there is no other cache with that name (though there are 3 others containing "Primrose Hill").

 

My "The Adventure of King Bladud and the Pigs" is unique. In fact it is the only cache with "Bladud" in the name.

 

The only cache I own with an exact name match is "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". There is one exact match and one partial match in the world (but both in different countries). Quite a few others which include the name "Tom Saywer".

Edited August 24, 2012 by redsox_mark

[+OZ2CPU]

for some the name mean alot, for others nothing at all..

I just named a new series just a K and the numbers,

just to see how short and how simple I could ever do it.

[cezanne]

for some the name mean alot, for others nothing at all..

I just named a new series just a K and the numbers,

just to see how short and how simple I could ever do it.

 

It might be just hard to remember after months (sometimes already after the day one has found the cache) what one has experienced at a cache and remember the hideout if someone asks e.g. about the K 6 cache. Typically I can remember hideouts and experiences for years, but with caches belonging to such series it might be hard or even impossible to do for me too.

 

It appears to me, however, that in your approach to geocaching other aspects play a role than in mine. For me the location and the walk to the location is most important and in such a case I prefer a name which I can match with the experience. For you it mainly seems about playing a game nearly daily.

 

As the OP's question is concerned: It is very unlikely that someone local will come up with the same cache name as myself as I only use English and French cache names.

 

Cezanne

Edited August 24, 2012 by cezanne

[+Ike 13]

It's a problem with generic names/puns. More and more people are placing caches just for the sake of placing caches. When the only thing special about your micro is the location they come up with something generic. I doubt I'll have any caches in my local area that replicate any of my cache names.

[+Snoogans]

I knowww riiiight.

 

I hid a few caches with "One Degree of Separation" and "O.D.S." in the title and now there's over a thousand.

[Troutonthebrain]

We really enjoy putting creative names on caches. Some of my favorite named caches of ours are "Loctopus Octopus", "Phenarvelous", or "Fuzzy Gnome Cache Home". Another fun thing to do is take a common name and make it unique a (Like our cache "YOu arE HEre -->".)

[+TerraViators]

This begs the question...what is the most common name for a geocache?

[+Snoogans]

This begs the question...what is the most common name for a geocache?

 

A Walk In The Park

[+Ambrosia]

This begs the question...what is the most common name for a geocache?

 

A Walk In The Park

Interesting. I've been to 55 caches with the word, "park", in them. The only one that came close to "A Walk In The Park" was Walkin' through the park ... , which I found exactly 10 years ago.

[+Don_J]

This begs the question...what is the most common name for a geocache?

 

A Walk In The Park

Interesting. I've been to 55 caches with the word, "park", in them. The only one that came close to "A Walk In The Park" was Walkin' through the park ... , which I found exactly 10 years ago.

 

I have found 18 of them, but 16 were of the same series.

[cezanne]

This begs the question...what is the most common name for a geocache?

 

I guess it would be one of the powertrail names.

 

Apart from that "first one" or something similar is a candidate that arises often for the first cache someone is hiding.

[+Sol seaker]

I really appreciate creative cache names, or cache names that tell you about the place.

When I run pocket queries, or am just looking for a place on a map it is so helpful to have caches named for the parks they are in.

 

I've been caching with a friend and had to struggle with repetitive names.

"Next let's do 'Hidey Hole'".

"Is that 'Hidey Hole' one or two?"

"Uh, looks like that one is "Hidey Hole 87" but its hard to tell because the name gets cut off in the GPS."

And then we repeat that conversation 86 other times in the area that day. Drives me nuts.

[+Glenn]

Almost all of the very first Geocaches are named geocache.