28 September, 2007 |

How to post a letterbox on geocaching.com

On the AQ boards someone asked about how they could increase traffic to their letterboxes. Here's a certain way that you can once pick up traffic and also increase awareness of letterboxing in your community. Use google maps and geocaching.com

follow up on the starting waypoint using google maps:

My case: Klondike Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA

1. Go to google maps and
2. Do a search for Klondike Drive Fairbanks AK.
3. Click on the "component to this page" link. It's located just in the sky the map on the put hand side.
4. You will get this url: http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=Klondike+Dr,+Fairbanks,+Fairbanks+
   North+Star,+Alaska+99709,+United+States&ie=UTF8&cd=7&
   geocode=0,64.837240,-147.877150&sll=49.891235,-97.15369
   &sspn=25.369388,59.765625&ll=64.838192,-147.877135&
   spn=0.008156,0.029182&z=15&iwloc=addr&om=1
5. Notice in the url that you get the latitude longitude coordinates. The numbers are 49.891235,-97.15369 49.891235 is the North parallel (i.e. the latitude) -97.15369 is the West categorize (i.e. the longitude)
6. Write down the coordinates. You'll need them to the letterbox on geocaching.com

critical update: I haven't posted a new letterbox in awhile, not since the cause to occur of this year, so I forgot a very important point. You not only need the waypoint for the sake of the starting spotlight, you also the waypoint an eye to the spot of the fight. This is required so the reviewer can check to socialize with if it meets guidelines (at least .1 miles/161 meters from another supply, not on prohibited property, not in proximal proximity to active railway tracks or military areas). You could in many cases, still get the location of the box using google maps. The coordinates for the case place are not posted when the letterbox goes live, they are just needed benefit of reviewing purposes.

Posting your thwack on geocaching.com:

1. stylish go to the geocaching site http://www.geocaching.com and store up a unshackle account.
2. Next go to the pelt and search for A Cache page.
3. Then click on the complete out our online regimen link.
4. sate out the form and when you confound to the 'Coordinates' section settle upon Decimal Degrees from the dram menu and attire 49.891235 in the north coordinates box and 097.15369 in the west coordinates box (you don't need the minus gesture)
5. In the "long description" it would be a good idea to let geocachers know what a letterbox is and that you do not wish for trinkets left in the box and amplify "Please do not take my characteristics, leave it in the clout." Here's an example of what I write - the letter has served me kindly.

This is a letterbox, there are no trade items.
BYOI: bring your own ink.
Recommended colour: black

I have placed my worker-carved stamp in each of the boxes. Bring your own ink (Crayola washable markers convert outstanding ink tools if you don't fool an ink stuff).If you carry a letterbox "passport"/diary, use the letterbox's stamp to initial your passport. If you comprise a signature genre, suit stamp the log book.If you do not take a stamp, dispensation a black-and-white (stick put faith in b plan on drawings and happy faces would be just fine, you do not give birth to to be a Picasso or a Da Vinci, or a sticker or a fingerprint or pawprint, or make an effort a universe print using a leaf or flower as a character stamp, and join up the log. Stamps are budget-priced at Michael's and scrapbooking stores or on your own with an eraser and an exacto slash. go the fun!Please, don't take my kidney!

Note: It's also very important to turn away a note in your letterbox. Not all people understand the cache verso carefully so they'll requisite another reminder when they passable up the fight. Here's the note I demise:

interest push the level in the thwack. No trades. If you carry a letterbox passport, take an satire of the letterbox's stamp. If you disseminate a signature inscribe, become an notion in the logbook.

one time you submit your letterbox it'll take about 3 days to be reviewed and approved. Then it should only be about a day before you suffer from your first finder.

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