Beginning on atlasquest.com
You will see this screen. It is the home page for the site. *Note the background chances different days and you can choose your own theme to see.
You DO NOT need to sign up to veiw the boxes and it’s clues, but it’s nice to make an account to log your finds.
For your user name on the site you will use your trail name. Go ahead and fill out the info for your profile, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
If you put your mouse over the bar near the top at each word a bar will drop down with different things to pick from. There are three bars you will use the most.
The “Home” bar will take you to “What is Letterboxing?” “Code of Conduct” “Help” and “Glossary.” The glossary will come very helpful to figure out what things are.
The “Letterboxes” bar will help you find, record, and add letterboxes. This is VERY useful and not too hard to use.
The “My Page” bar lets you see your page, your online logbook (this records your finds and plants that you record on the site), your mail and such.
Now when you are searching for boxes you will see many symbols at the right of the box name under the collumn that says “Attributes.” Now these symbols tell you different things.
Means a compass is needed to find this box.
Park is dog friendly.
Bikes are allowed.
There is a code you need to decipher or there is a mental puzzle.
There is a fee of some sort to get to the box like a donation to a dog shelter, entrance to a fair or payed entry location.
The trail or path to the letterbox should be accessible by wheelchairs or strollers the entire way.
Box is located indoors.
Will drive by location of box.
Will be a mile walk or less to find the box(es).
Will be a mile or two walk to find the box(es).
Means the stamp is hand carved.
Means stamp is store bought.
These are just a handful of the different symbols and their meanings. But these are the basic ones you will see. If you put your mouse over the image on the site it will give you a couple worded description.
Hope this helps on your quest of using atlasquest!
~Catchow
http://catchowlbna.tumblr.com/
You will see this screen. It is the home page for the site. *Note the background chances different days and you can choose your own theme to see.
You DO NOT need to sign up to veiw the boxes and it’s clues, but it’s nice to make an account to log your finds.
For your user name on the site you will use your trail name. Go ahead and fill out the info for your profile, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
If you put your mouse over the bar near the top at each word a bar will drop down with different things to pick from. There are three bars you will use the most.
The “Home” bar will take you to “What is Letterboxing?” “Code of Conduct” “Help” and “Glossary.” The glossary will come very helpful to figure out what things are.
The “Letterboxes” bar will help you find, record, and add letterboxes. This is VERY useful and not too hard to use.
The “My Page” bar lets you see your page, your online logbook (this records your finds and plants that you record on the site), your mail and such.
Now when you are searching for boxes you will see many symbols at the right of the box name under the collumn that says “Attributes.” Now these symbols tell you different things.
Means a compass is needed to find this box. Park is dog friendly. Bikes are allowed. There is a code you need to decipher or there is a mental puzzle. There is a fee of some sort to get to the box like a donation to a dog shelter, entrance to a fair or payed entry location. The trail or path to the letterbox should be accessible by wheelchairs or strollers the entire way. Box is located indoors. Will drive by location of box. Will be a mile walk or less to find the box(es). Will be a mile or two walk to find the box(es). Means the stamp is hand carved. Means stamp is store bought.These are just a handful of the different symbols and their meanings. But these are the basic ones you will see. If you put your mouse over the image on the site it will give you a couple worded description.
Hope this helps on your quest of using atlasquest!
~Catchow
http://catchowlbna.tumblr.com/
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