ELI5 - Intercaching.

[+nyhof]

I have heard about an interesting concept, the intercache or interactive geocache. There are not any of these in my area and I have not had the opportunity to try one. Soooo- I want to make one. A good one. I have an idea of a location but I am not sure how to get started. I have looked at the intercache.com site but it just seems to me to be confusing. Could someone explain this to me like I am 5?

[+ChileHead]

I have heard about an interesting concept, the intercache or interactive geocache. There are not any of these in my area and I have not had the opportunity to try one. Soooo- I want to make one. A good one. I have an idea of a location but I am not sure how to get started. I have looked at the intercache.com site but it just seems to me to be confusing. Could someone explain this to me like I am 5?

 

Make sure you're at the correct site: intercaching.com (not intercache.appspot.com, the old version which is still running.)

 

In a nutshell:

 

- make sure you have a compatible phone. There is a test page on the main site that lets you verify this. Do this outside for best results.

 

- create an account

 

- login and click on the "create new" button

 

- walk around to the locations you want to use, and click the "new location" button wherever you want to place a location. Give it a name, a description (you can edit later on your desktop), and click the button to set the location to the current coordinates. Click save.

 

- repeat this for as many locations as you want

 

- either on your mobile or back at your computer, you can click each location to edit, and specify which locations should be visible from that location. So if you wanted a simple A --> B --> C, you would edit "A" and click the checkbox on "B" to indicate B is visible from A. Do the same thing when you edit B to say "C" is visible from it.

[+kingbee]

they will not publish any of these caches.

[Keystone]

they will not publish any of these caches.

Intercaches are OK for publication as Mystery/Unknown/Puzzle caches provided that the cache meets the other listing guidelines. It's an acceptable third-party technology tool.

[+nyhof]

I have heard about an interesting concept, the intercache or interactive geocache. There are not any of these in my area and I have not had the opportunity to try one. Soooo- I want to make one. A good one. I have an idea of a location but I am not sure how to get started. I have looked at the intercache.com site but it just seems to me to be confusing. Could someone explain this to me like I am 5?

 

Make sure you're at the correct site: intercaching.com (not intercache.appspot.com, the old version which is still running.)

 

In a nutshell:

 

- make sure you have a compatible phone. There is a test page on the main site that lets you verify this. Do this outside for best results.

 

- create an account

 

- login and click on the "create new" button

 

- walk around to the locations you want to use, and click the "new location" button wherever you want to place a location. Give it a name, a description (you can edit later on your desktop), and click the button to set the location to the current coordinates. Click save.

 

- repeat this for as many locations as you want

 

- either on your mobile or back at your computer, you can click each location to edit, and specify which locations should be visible from that location. So if you wanted a simple A --> B --> C, you would edit "A" and click the checkbox on "B" to indicate B is visible from A. Do the same thing when you edit B to say "C" is visible from it.

Awesome, Thank You. This helped a lot. I have seen the caches but have not had the opportunity to try one. No one have made one around here and I want to be the first to do it.

[+Walts Hunting]

they will not publish any of these caches.

I guess the one I got published the other day shouldn't. Actually there are about a hundred now and growing.

[+wimseyguy]

One got published in Chapel Hill a few months ago. Only a 2 hour road trip for you to experience it first hand. And lots of other really good caches in town too.