Well Ill pull out the bazooka first, Its been hashed out in the past about our Wisconsin Spirit Quest Caches, They are pattered after the Indiana Spirit Quest caches and sorry but we will not change them, I might consider numbering them, but don’t remember the order the were placed, but now they are not just in Oconto county, we have put out another 20 this year that are in Langlade, Oneida, Forest, and Marinette. We have never had any other complaints about them, If you would set your smart names to unique in GSAK before you put it in you palm and GPS, they will be different.

Barry of sweetlife

Not everybody uses GSAK either. And All the info I need is on my Ipod using Cache Magnet, which puts into 2 lists. GC number and title.

Well Marc you and I have had this discussion before and we did end up putting the numbers after our Shawano County cemetery caches, which does make it easier to sort and find that particular series.

But ultimately it comes down to the cache-finder’s responsibility to keep track of things in the way he/she sees fit. It’s not the owners’ responsibility to make things easy.

@marc_54140 wrote:

But it would be nice …………..

My philosophy is that since the cache owner has already put forth the time, effort, and expense to put out caches and create a series, the least that cache finders can do is put a little effort into keeping track of what they have found. I don’t think that’s too much to ask!

It also seems to be a bigger concern with the number-hunters, though that’s just my perception.

@ToyotaRyan wrote:

@sweetlife wrote:

…We have never had any other complaints about them…

I have a few times from a few cachers that reside in and around Forest County.

Well then they really should not be seeking these caches if they have complaints about them! Finding caches is not obligatory!

Honestly, I have no patience for trivial complaints like that. Gripe about lack of owner maintenance or the like, not how owners choose to name their caches.

@Team B Squared wrote:

Here is a GSAK macro that I have found to shorten series names automatically. I have found it very useful to make waypoint names more manageable for me.

Shorten Series Name Macro

One warning about this particular macro. Each cache that is modifies is “locked”. This is necessary to prevent future downloads of the cache from changing the name back. The problem with locking a cache in GSAK is that it also prevents anything else from changing, including coordinates, cache description, hint, etc. It will add the new logs, however. I have written my own macro for this purpose, and it suffers from the same limitation.

And since I am commenting, numbers help a lot, but another way to make this better is to reverse the naming system, as Sloughfoot did on his Tail of the Serpent series. A cache called “The Source – Tail of the Serpent” works much better than a cache called “Tail of the Serpent – The Source”.

What’s a “defined route”? 😈