+Gill & Tony Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Warden Head is a small promontory near my house which has a nice bush walk, a lighthouse and a lookout. There has been a cache at the end of the bush walk for some time. It is called "Warden Head". I found it sometime ago and completely forgot the name. I recently submitted a cache at the lighthouse/lookout, calling it "Warden Head" and it has been approved. Yesterday I was looking at the profile of a player who had found my cache and thought he had logged the find twice. He had actually found both caches. So, should I change my cache to Warden Head Lighthouse to avoid confusion, or would that cause more issues than it solves? Advice would be appreciated. Thanks Tony Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 That is quite confusing, as you've already experienced. Your cache is fairly new, so I would change the name. Make a note of it in your description, just in case anyone gets confused about the change. Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Changing to Warden Head Lighthouse would be easy, and help to avoid any confusion. (Adding a quick note/edit to the description would be nice, but not compulsory!) Quote Link to comment
+T.D.M.22 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Or add II to the end. So the original is Warden Head, and yours is Warden Head II. Same name as what you had, but it is distinguishable from the original, and you won't mess anyone up by changing the name too much. Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Caches with the same name are not uncommon. It is the GC code number that makes them unique. It can be confusing tho... reading and remembering the name is easier than is a mishmash of letters/numbers. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Caches with the same name are not uncommon. It is the GC code number that makes them unique. Certainly. There are many names that have been used multiple times all over the world, like "End of the Road". However, caches with the same name are not generally very close together. In any given region, names are usually unique. On a single promontory, I'd definitely expect names to be unique. I'd find it very confusing to find "Warden Head", then tell my GPSr to navigate to the next closest and see it display the name "Warden Head". Quote Link to comment
+Gill & Tony Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 Well, that was pretty well unanimous. Name changed to Warden Head Lighthouse with a note explaining the change added to the description. Thanks to all for the advice. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Unanimous? This cannot be. It would be the end of the forums as we know it! So, to do the needful... No! The name should not be changed! Reason... well, I can't think of one. Someone help me out here? Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 No! The name should not be changed! Reason... well, I can't think of one. Someone help me out here? Will this do? There, our perfect record of never agreeing on anything in the forums has been upheld. Quote Link to comment
+Mn-treker Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Delorme GPS units sort the geocache by name only. If two caches are loaded with the same name then the second one over writes the first. This is the best reason to change the name. Also if a group of geocache start out with the same name info, but have long names (too long) Then an overwrite situation can happen. However if they are loaded by pocket query then that don't happen. Just when using send to GPS causes the over write. So please change the name a bit. Quote Link to comment
+lamoracke Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I adopted an old cache called Big Green Monster. About 1 mile away someone listed another Big Green Monster, which is really paltry in comparison. Which he had not done so because its very close and every time I speak of it, I have to caveat, no no, not the one on the side of the highway where you have to park almost in someone's yard, the older one in the park. Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 "Warren Tail"? Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 We actually had this happen with a puzzle! We named it ask your kids. It was about pokemon. Then found out there was one about 30 miles away. We changed it to got to cache them all. Quote Link to comment
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