[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching.com administrator questions whether my museum caches are really "geocaches"

[Jason Poulter]

the person that approves the cache would still know its a museum cache 
when he reads the description and sees all the answers to the questions 
you have to find...

jason


Brent Milner wrote:
> Howdy Ken,
>  
> My two cents of advice says, "Go ahead and place your museum caches 
> freely." However, I think you should think of a way to name these cahces 
> so that it doesn't give away the fact that they're located within a 
> museum. For instance, let's say you're leading someone to the US 
> Presidents Museum, because you want them to tell you how many fingers 
> Teddy Roosevelt's statue has on its right hand. You can list the 
> coordinates to the museum with the GPS coordinates, and then direct them 
> inside by telling them which way to turn to get to the statue. Instead 
> of naming the cache "US Presidents Museum Cache," I'd suggest naming it 
> something like "Teddy's Fingers Cache."
>  
> Is that too bizarre?
>  
> -FroBro Q-Tip
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com 
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]*On Behalf Of 
> *ken@highpointer.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:02 PM
> *To:* az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com
> *Subject:* [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching.com administrator questions 
> whether my museum caches are really "geocaches"
> 
> Hello Geocachers,
> 
> While traveling out of the state in the past two weeks, I stopped and 
> visited two small historical museums, one in southeastern Utah 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=37740> and the 
> other in northwestern Oklahoma 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=37738>.  I made 
> virtual geocaches from these museums, similar in style to the six that I 
> have currenlty active in eastern Maricopa County.
> 
> Geocaching administrator erik88l-r 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.asp?A=4285> approved these 
> two new virtual geocaches, but upon doing so he sent me this note, which 
> I have pasted below:
> 
> User erik88l-r has contacted you with the following message:
> 
> /Hi,
> /
> /I posted your caches, but have to ask before others attack you for it 
> in the forums - are all these museums really "geocaches"?  Don't get me 
> wrong, I love museums, but is a GPS required to find them?  I just don't 
> want to see you going overboard on something that might result in a 
> backlash.  Sometimes too much of a good thing results in that reaction. 
> ;)  My suggestion would be to hide a physical cache near such places in 
> the future - that way people will visit the area without questions about 
> whether something should or should not be a virtual cache.
> 
> All the best,
> erik - geocaching.com admin
> /
> I replied to Erik that these museum geocaches are very popular among 
> geocachers in Arizona.  It is g! ! reat to introduce people to places 
> where they can learn about local history and bring the entire family for 
> little or no cost, and they are particularly great to visit on hot 
> summer days because they are air-conditioned.
> 
> It is true that you don't need a GPS to find these museums, but I argue 
> that one can find many virtual caches without a GPS, because they are 
> typically large items like statues or historical markers that are out in 
> plain view in public places.  Also, what is wrong with having some 
> virtual geocaches where a GPS is not mandatory - not everyone has a GPS, 
> so this opens up our activity to people who can't afford to own a GPS.
> 
> Also, I disagree with his suggestion to place a physical geocache near 
> these museums.  Most of these museums are located in highly visible 
> areas where there is no good place to put a physical geocache.
> 
> What do Arizona geocachers think about the comments of Erik and myself?  
> Should I continue to create virtual geocaches at museums?  Remember, 
> these are not the easiest caches to complete fully - typically I have 
> six or seven questions that requires one to visit every part of the 
> museum, and as many of you are aware, some of the answers are not easy 
> to find.
> 
> /*Ken*/ (a.k.a. /*Highpointer*/)
> 
>  
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