Regular Caches That Are Multi Caches

[+dysdera]

I tried to do a cache yesterday which was listed as a regular cache, which by my reckoning means that the co-ordinates of the cache should be precisely that, where the box is. Unfortunately when you opened GPX sonar and read on it said 'this is the co-ordinates of the parking space, the actual cache is.......'

Now I know that this is still a regular because no clues etc have to be solved, but what is the point of telling me where a road to park on is, I can work that bit out for myself. It is fair enough to list some sugested places to park in the description, but this seems a little misleading. I have all the regular caches loaded into my GPS (980 of themnearest to my home) and also in my TOM TOM. This means that in theory I can just stop if I am passing and do a quickie!!!

To make matters worse the co-ordinates for this one were also out which placed the parking space about 150 feet into a wood, which sugested even more that it wasn't a parking space.

I personally feel that the co-ordinates of the cache listing should represent the cache location if it is a regular cache and then if the cache owner wants to be kind and use his/her local knowledge to help us out with a parking space then all well and good.

[+Simply Paul]

Agreed. I've been caught out like this on more than one occasion too.

[SlytherinAlex]

Now I know that this is still a regular because no clues etc have to be solved, but what is the point of telling me where a road to park on is, I can work that bit out for myself.

We had discussion about this a couple of weeks ago. I think it was agreed that if you let one of the cache reviewers aware of the cache number, they will tiptoe in there and change the cache type on the cache page.

 

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[+Eckington]

Alex is bang on, let us know and one of us will try to rectify