Introduction

What is cachetur.no?

Cachetur.no is a tool for planning caching trips.
Cachetur.no allows you to plan both private trips, group trips and public trips that are open to all.
Cachetur.no also has several trip templates registered, which you can use as a starting point or inspiration for your own trips.
Cachetur.no is Norwegian and operates as an ideal organization. The operation is funded by a number of sponsors, both private individuals, cache associations and events. Cachetur.no is therefore advertising free and free to use.

What can you do on cachetur.no?

• Schedule caching trips both far and near
• Invite others to your trips
• Quickly and easily see which caches you have planned as either you or any of the registered owners or have found before
• Get automatic notification by email if something changes to caches you've planned to find
• Add comments and discuss with other enrolled
• Keep track of tasks and answers to earthcaches and virtual in trips you've planned
• Get automatic tips and recommendations on your trips
• Get automatic routes generated on your trips
• Download GPX files with all caches in one trip
• Add other waypoints, such as parking places, sights, etc.
• See statistics for the caches you've planned to find
• Print lists and roadmaps
• Create and print package lists (with support for templates)
• Import from and export to bookmarks on geocaching.com
• Share information with GSAK via a macro package
• Select caches directly from the map at geocaching.com via a user script

What can we offer?

Here's a quick summary of what we can offer, look further down for more detailed info.

Increased exposure

Cachetur.no are widely used, and increased exposure of the event will make the event more known.

Event overview

We can offer your own page in our event overview. You send us info and we post it

Calendar

We can offer the event's icon on all official page events (and main events) in the calendar.

Trip templates

We can offer help to set up trip templates for trips in the area.

Integrations

Integrations to other pages are something we will work with in the future. Currently, Trip templates can be easily integrated on all Wordpress-based pages using a single small plugin.

Event overview

Exposure

Special registration in our event overview will increase exposure, as the event will always appear on top of the event overview.

What does it look like?

The info page consists of 6 main parts:

On top you will find a infobox, which contains aprox. the same as found in the description on geocaching.com. Underneat you will have an overview of all official events/side events.

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Recomended trip templates is collection of trip templates in the area, that you approve. There is an advantage here that the person who owns the trail etc. creates the template, since the template needs maintenace when something happens

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An overview of recommended travel tips, relevant to those planning a trip to the event.

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Overview of recommended accommodations.

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Map showing accommodations and events.

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Calendar

Cachetur.no's calendar contains an overview of all mega / gigawatches in the world, all events in Norway and all suvenir days (days giving suvenir to geocaching.com that we currently know). Therefore, it is an important source of information for many in Norway and hopefully the rest of the world.

Own icon

Using a bookmark list you can place the event's icon in all official events and "side events".

Below is an example of the official GIFF event and event where cachetur.no is represented.

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Trip templates and integrations

Trip templates

Trip templates are complete suggestions for trips that can be taken. They can easily be copied to a new trip when someone is planning a trip on cachetur.no.

What does a trip template consist of?

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The trip template starts with a description. Here you can feel free to specify things like info about access and parking, availability, expected time for the trip, terrain information, equipment requirements, costs, etc.Image Removed

Waypoint list contains information about all caches and waypoints in the template. By pressing the blue-i you will get extended info about the individual cache (full description and all other info). Parking coordinates, accommodation etc. can also be entered as waypoints.Image Removed

Summary of all caches in the trip template

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Overall statistics for all caches in the trip template.

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Map showing all waypoints in the template. Here it is also possible to get a calculated route for trips along roads. And possibly track log for trips in terrain.

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Sample map with track log.

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Sample map with driving route. For trips with generated routes, route information is also displayed:

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Additionally, weather forecasts from yr.no are shown on trips where this is available.

Integration

The trip templates can be integrated to your webpage with our Wordpress-plugin.

Below is an example of info showed on  https://sunnmoregc.no/cachetur-maler/ :

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The info is retrieved directly from the template, so if something is changed there it will change on your page aswell 

Do we want something in return?

Cachetur.no wishes to provide as much service as possible to its users.
Part of this consists of being a good source of information.

We strongly believe that collaboration with events and other actors in the cache environment is the best for both us and those who choose to work with us.Turmaler som opprettes og vedlikeholdes, integrasjoner og reklame er ting som bringer brukere til cachetur.no. 

Additionally, trip templates and updated event info will make it easier for our users to find the information they are looking for.Vi setter pris på at det reklameres for cachetur.no og at cachetur.no nevnes så ofte som mulig. 

But there are no requirements. The most important thing for us is to offer our users updated and correct information.

We wish that cachetur.no will be the preferred tool for tour planning in, both for event participants and event organizerslove to work with events, so feel free to reach out if you want to work with us!

Classes and workshops

Our ambassadors are great at doing presentations, classes and workshops.

Presentations, classes and workshops are great ways to teach people about cachetur.no. We are more than happy to come speak at your event, if we can make it fit into our schedule and are able to make the necessary travel arrangements.

Trip templates

Trip templates can be really helpful to our users (and your event attendees).

We are more than happy to help you set up trip templates for your area.

No sponsorship

Cachetur.no is funded by voluntary donations, so we are therefore unable to pay any sponsorship fees or anything else like that. If that is a requirement for working with your event, we're sorry to say we can't work with you.