Types of Spots

There are several types of spots (aka: caches) to find, however, we are thinking about new types all the time. If you have a suggestion, please email us.

All spots contain a hidden item (e.g., plastic case) holding a logbook for you to sign, plus optional toy items for you to trade. They also contain a starting point listed on a spot’s page. Each starting point is within 1 kilometer (or 1.6 miles) of the actual hidden spot container. The way you navigate to each spot can vary. Currently, all spots must conform to one of the following types:

1. Image Spots

a. Location Spots are the most basic of spots. They contain images that show where a spot is located. These might be images captured of the general cache area, images showing an extreme close-up of the spot location, or some other image that helps describe the location. For example, these images all show images for a spot hidden in a shopping cart vestibule and form valid clues for a location spot. Seekers can hunt for this vestibule within the 1 kilometere (1.6 mile) area and also use information shown in the background of the pictures like store names.



b. Eye Spy Spots are similar to location caches. Both provide images showing the cache location; however, Eye Spy spots must only show images that would be seen from the viewpoint of the hidden spot. For example, the following are images from an Eye Spy Spot hidden in a wooden post on the edge of a parking lot. The first two pictures show the view from the spot facing out towards the parking lot, the buildings that are seen, and a lightpost. The third picture shows what the spot sees looking the other direction; this includes trees overlooking a river.



c. Path Spots (images) are a special type of location spot and similar to multi-caches in geocaching. The cacher seeker starts at the starting point designated on the spot page and is given a series of images captured between the starting location and the final spot. Images are sequential and take the seeker along a path to the final destination. The seeker must find the area shown by the first image, then move along the path to the location shown by the second image, and so on until the final spot is found. Images must be captured within 200 metres (0.12 miles) from each other. This ensures that each point along the path is visible from the previous point, though buildings or landscaping may obstruct the view.

2. Video Spots

a. Location Video Spots (video) provide seekers with a series of video clips that show the location of the spot container. They are the same as location spots but videos are used instead of images.

b. 360 Spots (video) provide seekers with a video captured at the location of hidden spot container and rotate 360 degrees around to see the entire area around the spot location. Videos can pan around to show the area either slowly or quickly.