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services/caches
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services/caches/search
services/caches/shortcuts
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services/oauth
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Application homepage URL will be used for hyperlinks, to allow users to find your application more easily. It must be a "http://" web address. (In case you were wondering, it has nothing to do with OAuth callback.)

Terms of Use

When using data from OpenCaching.US you must attribute the data back to us.

  • This means, at a minimum, you may not remove the reference to OpenCaching.US from the end of any geocache descriptions.
  • If you are not showing geocache descriptions, you must find some other way to attribute the data back to OpenCaching.US.

You must comply with the requirements of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License (the "CC-BY-SA 3.0 License") when reproducing, displaying, copying, formatting, compiling, or otherwise using Geocaching Data acquired through OKAPI.

You must provide the following attribution statement in a prominent manner and in close proximity to all Geocaching Data reproduced, displayed, formatted, compiled, or otherwise used by your OKAPI-powered application:

OpenCaching.US data licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 License

When possible OpenCaching.US must be a clickable link to OpenCaching.US site and if the information being displayed is about a particular geocache, it should link to that geocache's page on OpenCaching.US.

You may not:

  • Copy, publish, compile, print, display, format, assemble, or otherwise use Geocaching Data acquired through OKAPI in a manner contrary to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License.
  • Delete, obscure, modify, or in any manner alter any warning, notice, attribution, or link that appears in OKAPI or the served content.
  • Hide, modify, or otherwise obscure your identity, your system's identity, or your user's OpenCaching.US account information, when using OKAPI.