Photo

[+rayven1972]

I recently placed a geocache and it requires people to basically go to coordinates find the geocahe container in the container is a log book travel bug hotel and a token box. you take the token to a place you find a specific object and take a picture with the token in hand.

the hard part is no one person can have the same object in the photo so the geocache gets harder after awhile.

 

After a few days and a few geocachers (who loved the idea) the reviewer said I had to basically take it down it does not work as a geocache in this form as far as the guidelines for posting go can anyone help me on this? I am really trying to keep the spirit and the photo requirement alive and also make the reviewer happy. I can also send the geocache GC code if it helps.

[+speakers-corner]

I think you will have to make the photo an option and not a must as this is an additional log requirement, which is not allowed.

[+The Blorenges]

Your requirement that finders take a photo in order to log a find on your cache is known as an ALR (Additional Logging Requirement) which is no longer allowed under the Geocaching.com Guidelines for placing a cache. They used to be allowed some years back but then, for a few reasons, they were disallowed. Your cache would not normally have been published so perhaps the reviewer accidentally missed this aspect of your cache listing when he reviewed it.

 

The requirements for logging most caches are simply find cache, sign log, replace cache correctly - You can suggest that finders might like to do some other requirement but you can't insist they do, and you're not allowed to delete their log if they choose not to do it.

 

MrsB

[Keystone]

This same question was posted in the "Getting Started" forum. Since the OP has neither hidden nor found any caches in the United Kingdom or Ireland, I am closing this duplicate thread. But first, I'd like to thank the helpful responders - the advice was identical on both sides of the pond!