Cache proximity

[+Geobug156]

I started to hide my first cache and when logging it on.. I found that it fell into the 'red dot' zone of two other.. and told to relocate. I looked on the map in the area and noticed that there where many other caches where 'red dots' over lapped (by multiple players) and for some reason this was not a problem??? Please explain? I this a new rule? Area: Woodstock GA

[+Max and 99]

It's possible there are several "fake" coordinates for mystery caches within the same "red dot", or maybe the fake coordinate for a mystery cache and along with a traditional cache. It's the physical cache proximity that is the concern (min. 1/10 mile; 528 feet), and until you solve those mystery caches, you won't know where the final caches are located (everyone else has that same problem!).  This is just one possible explanation for what you are seeing.

Edited April 2, 2018 by Max and 99

[+colleda]

The red circles can overlap but not so far that they overlap the centre point of another circle.

And then there are the mystery or multis where the circles are not shown as mentioned above.

[+barefootjeff]

20 minutes ago, Geobug156 said:

I looked on the map in the area and noticed that there where many other caches where 'red dots' over lapped (by multiple players) and for some reason this was not a problem???

The red dots can overlap, just as long as the centre of one dot is outside the circumference of the next one. Each dot is 161 metres in radius, so two caches whose dots just touch will be 322 metres apart, twice the separation needed. For example, these three caches are fine even though their circles overlap, as each is more then 161 metres from its neighbours.

[+colleda]

45 minutes ago, barefootjeff said:

The red dots can overlap, just as long as the centre of one dot is outside the circumference of the next one. Each dot is 161 metres in radius, so two caches whose dots just touch will be 322 metres apart, twice the separation needed. For example, these three caches are fine even though their circles overlap, as each is more then 161 metres from its neighbours.

Nicely illustrated Jeff.

[+Isonzo Karst]

It's new from March 2003 . That's when I first started thinking about hiding, I'd read the 2002(?) version of the guidelines, which made no mention of saturation - by the time I hid something, the saturation guideline existed. Not that it was an issue for me at the time.

Before that date, there was no proximity rule.  I found caches pretty close together too,  GC284D 2001 cache,  GC3A9A 2002 cache, about 140ft apart.

Anyway, as Jeff has so nicely illustrated, circles can overlap, but the waypoint of your cache cannot be INSIDE the red circle of another, as that would mean it's less than 528ft from the other.

Edited April 2, 2018 by Isonzo Karst