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What are some your favourites that you've seen?

 

I do not like geoart at all and even less when it involves tons of mystery caches which are just used to create drawings on the map. Such geoart trails are a pain and much too frequent in the areas where I like to cache.

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I've done a couple in Florida. My favorite by a long shot is the Coexist series in the Ocala National Forest.

1) they're trads, all at coords,

2) individually and as a group, a lot of fun

3) a lot of ammo cans, all containers are first rate, quality containers - started as ammo cans, preforms, and small lock and locks. I think they've abandoned lock and locks, both because the tabs fail, and because bears chew on them (a lot of bears, many, many bears...)

4) a mix of terrain and difficulty

 

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^ this

 

Seriously, perhaps if you're in the middle of a wilderness (in which case, why place a power trail there) they're a pain for anyone else who wants to place caches.

 

If you insist. I had a geoart series covering four miles of trail along the river. Very urban area. Very popular series. Very scenic.

I archived the series a year-and-a-half ago, when my geocaching partner died. Since then, one new cache has been hidden in the area. (And not nearly as interesting as the one I hid nearby.)

So, I would have to disagree that geoart is a pain for other cachers wanting to hide a cache.

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Seriously, perhaps if you're in the middle of a wilderness (in which case, why place a power trail there) they're a pain for anyone else who wants to place caches.

 

If you insist. I had a geoart series covering four miles of trail along the river. Very urban area. Very popular series. Very scenic.

I archived the series a year-and-a-half ago, when my geocaching partner died. Since then, one new cache has been hidden in the area. (And not nearly as interesting as the one I hid nearby.)

So, I would have to disagree that geoart is a pain for other cachers wanting to hide a cache.

Sorry - can be a pain.

 

I happen to have a set of about 100 mystery caches in the area south of me - almost all film canisters at the foot of trees, signs etc... as far as I can tell. They're just randomly scattered as it happens but are the sorts of caches I associate with geoart. It's a shame because the area has so much potential for a range of much more varied caches.

 

I guess that if it's done thoughtfully and, probably, on a smaller scale it might work.

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My son and I just had published a small 11 cache geoart.... that was a lot of work to do, I can't imagine what it would take for some of the large ones.... What are the puzzles like in the massive geoarts??

 

I did one last year where each puzzle was just a single question with a year as an answer. Then you put the year into one of those 3rd party "checker" sites and it would give you the coordinates.

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My son and I just had published a small 11 cache geoart.... that was a lot of work to do, I can't imagine what it would take for some of the large ones.... What are the puzzles like in the massive geoarts??

 

I did one last year where each puzzle was just a single question with a year as an answer. Then you put the year into one of those 3rd party "checker" sites and it would give you the coordinates.

 

I've also seen one in which each puzzle cache contained a code word in the description which could be entered into a checker (I hope they weren't using Evince). It wasn't really a puzzle, but more of an end-around that allowed the CO to create published listings as mystery/unknown caches so that they could draw a picture on the map. Someone that wanted to place a cache in the area but wasn't interested in finding every cache in the geoart would still need to visit every cache page, and go through the tedium of determining the final coordinates for every cache in the geoart to determine if the spot where they wanted to place the cache had proximity issues.

 

 

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As with many things, I don't like to paint all caches or series with the same broad brush. Some GeoArt series are unimaginative with repetitive containers/hiding spots, but that doesn't mean that all of them are. I've only completed a couple, 8-caches and 43-caches, and both were enjoyable. They were enjoyable, with fun puzzles and varied hiding spots across 4 different cities.

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It's often said that a GeoArt/PT series is taking space away from a better individual cache, but then in the same breath that GeoArt/PT series is in a boring location. If the series caches are in a boring location, then an individual cache in that same place would still be a 'boring location'.

 

 

Someone that wanted to place a cache in the area but wasn't interested in finding every cache in the geoart would still need to visit every cache page, and go through the tedium of determining the final coordinates for every cache in the geoart to determine if the spot where they wanted to place the cache had proximity issues.

Or they could request a saturation check for that one spot they wanted to use.

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As with many things, I don't like to paint all caches or series with the same broad brush. Some GeoArt series are unimaginative with repetitive containers/hiding spots, but that doesn't mean that all of them are. I've only completed a couple, 8-caches and 43-caches, and both were enjoyable. They were enjoyable, with fun puzzles and varied hiding spots across 4 different cities.

 

 

That's the problem with using individual examples to describe a general trend (be it geoart or power trails, or micros, or ...) For every example with fun puzzles and interesting hides, there could be an example of geoart with actual locations in unremarkable locations with cookie cutter hides and containers. I am sure that most of us have seen a lamp post hide where the CO did something clever with a container but that doesn't prove that most of them are a leaky container stuffed under a random light post in a parking lot.

It's often said that a GeoArt/PT series is taking space away from a better individual cache, but then in the same breath that GeoArt/PT series is in a boring location. If the series caches are in a boring location, then an individual cache in that same place would still be a 'boring location'.

 

I disagree. I guess there are some areas which are generally boring, but a hiding spot for individual cache chosen because it's near a unique tree, something unusual, or the best view along of trail is still going to be better than when the location is chosen simply because they need someplace to drop a film pot to add a point to their geoart.

 

Someone that wanted to place a cache in the area but wasn't interested in finding every cache in the geoart would still need to visit every cache page, and go through the tedium of determining the final coordinates for every cache in the geoart to determine if the spot where they wanted to place the cache had proximity issues.

Or they could request a saturation check for that one spot they wanted to use.

 

And if the answer is "no, there is a proximity issue with another cache", then they could request another saturation check, and another, until they finally get a spot where they can put a cache.

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As with many things, I don't like to paint all caches or series with the same broad brush. Some GeoArt series are unimaginative with repetitive containers/hiding spots, but that doesn't mean that all of them are.

 

Right - however what is true for all geoart series I have encountered is that the number of caches hidden is determined by what the cache hider likes to draw (which typically increases the number of caches beyond what would be hidden otherwise and beyond the level where there is something to show).

 

In addition the logs caches receive that predated a geoart trail in the same area suffer considerably from the geoart trail.

 

While one can refrain from hiding a new cache in a very saturated area or an area with a geoart trail, the annoying thing is if someone has hidden a nice individual cache long before the geoart and then has to live with the geoart and read about the geoart in nearly each log. The only way out then is to archive the affected caches.

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