Putting Caches out for the first time

The first question I can answer straight out, which is you will not have any problem to get the cache published Garmin's Opencaching.com. The review process is different to GC and other hosting sites. On the Garmin site the caches are reviewed by established members who basically give it a 'yes', or a 'no - plus reasons why a no', and if after 24hrs you have more yes's than no's then the cache is published. It's very easy to get a cache published on there unless you have upset the general caching community in some way, in which you will get a load of no's just because they don't like you.

Answers to the other two questions are just my own opinion only...

I would not personally list the same cache on both listing sites. Some people do, but I don't see the point. I know people who have got a bit upset when they have rushed out to find what they think is a new cache on one site, and when they find it they realize they have found it already on another site, so a wasted trip. That is just one example why I would not do that.

If you do decide to host on both sites, then I would just use the one log book, but have it written clearly on the book, or on another piece of paper with the book, that the cache can be logged on both sites.

opencaching.com is not popular around here. You will not have many finds on the cache if you host on there only. But saying that, you will get a few finds by some die hard cachers who travel far and try to find as many caches as they can over all of the listing sites.

Good luck with your first placements. I will get out and find them at some point, even if I am not rushing out for the FTF. If you're hiding around Swindon I have almost no hope to get there for a FTF

I'd be a bit disappointed if pigdogboyandgirls or sparklefingers weren't the FTF! Thanks for the feedback it's probably easiest to keep each cache to one database I guess...

I'm quite excited about going to find a hiding location, I would have done it yesterday except the rain prevented our planned walk

I'm still waiting for flood waters recede before I can place my first cache... in the meantime I have another couple of n00b questions about placements, which I'm hoping locals could help me with?

The first one I'm placing is on private land (with footpaths running across) so establishing landowner permissions isn't a problem. I've also got a mind to place some more caches on a footpath nearer to where I live in Swindon centre. How do you go about establishing where to ask to get permissions to place a cache? I had a look on the landowner permissions database on the GAGB page already...

Otherwise do I just tick the box to say I have permission and wing it?

Cheers
Mashcast

Even via pm?

I think it is quite often how Gackt said

Ready for another dumb question? Great! Then I'll begin....

I notice that when caches are first published on GC.com they very often don't have hints etc. Once the cache is reviewed & published, is the CO owner then able to edit the log directly? Do any changes made need further review, eg co-ordinate changes?

Awesome! Thanks for the answer. I can then be more circumspect about the exact placement until it's found a few times