cache owner coordinate updates

[sandlanders]

How far can coordinates be moved (in # of feet from the original coords) on a cache page with an “updated coordinates log” before the need to go to a reviewer kicks in?

[Trekkin and Birdin]

If your name is “Birdin.” it can be as little as 5 feet!

I have never been able to make these changes on my own, though supposedly up to a point, you can.

[cheezehead]

Try iy and see. 100 or less I think.

[bugsmasher69]

I just did a coordinate update today that was 119.1 feet with no problem.

I had one that was 602 feet that I had to get the reviewer to move it for me.

[sandlanders]

Trying to decide if a disabled one should be archived or just replaced. The container went missing before the whole area was cut and bulldozed to make way for a new ball diamond. Coords lead you to the middle of the cleared area now, probably the pitcher’s mound when the ball field is finished. 😉

Waiting to see where this can go without having fly balls hit near it or being too close to curious bench warmers. Probably will have to be a few hundred feet away at least. Might just archive and set out a second version.

[Mister Greenthumb]

In a situation like this I will archive the old cache and place a new one. That wayeveryone who found the old one can now find the new one and log it since it would be in an entirely different place.

[sandlanders]

Sounds like a good idea. It will be a different kind of hide because the cache thief also took off with the hollow log that the container was in! Might end up having to make it a micro, too, because of cover limitations.

So maybe save the coordinate changes for hides that maybe are getting geotrails or that need more cover or that had somewhat off coords to begin with.

We have another cache that will be disabled for a bit when planned tree thinning is going on later this year. It’s a multi, and the listed coords will still be OK, but some of the waypoints will need to be altered, but those we can deal with ourselves. Just wondered on that . . . do the altered waypoints (and maybe the final) need to be resubmitted for review or to be on record? How is that done?

[benny7210]

I don’t know what the limitations are. I just moved one of my caches 450 feet. Due to four legged muggle problems.

[Todd300]

I believe you can update it up to 528 feet yourself. Any longer and you’d need a reviewer to do it. Just make sure there is not another cache nearby.

[frmr]

I found one today that the coords in the log where .35 miles away from the posted coordinates. The last four logs where stating the owner should change the coordinates.

[Team Deejay]

I believe 527 feet is the limit, unless you are talking caches which were published before the 528 foot guidelines. Those are unlimited moves. (No, I don’t really agree with this.) I believe that guideline was instituted in some time in 2002.

[RJ McKenzie]

@frmr wrote:

I found one today that the coords in the log where .35 miles away from the posted coordinates. The last four logs where stating the owner should change the coordinates.

I bet I know which one that is…. Mountain Bay Trail?

[lone_gunman]

@ToyotaRyan wrote:

@frmr wrote:

I found one today that the coords in the log where .35 miles away from the posted coordinates. The last four logs where stating the owner should change the coordinates.

I bet I know which one that is…. Mountain Bay Trail?

Yup yup

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