Beacons are printed in batches and put up all over town. Some of them are out in the world before anyone has told the map where they are. Scan one of those and you can register it: tell us where it lives, and once a moderator approves it, the Beacon goes live with your name on it.
Which Beacons you can register
A batch Beacon that nobody has registered a location for yet, in a Campaign that has opened community registration. Fixed Beacons and the older art are placed by the team, so those codes will not offer registration.
What you need
- An account, signed in and confirmed: you have clicked the confirmation link Go Seek emailed to your current address.
- Where it is: the town and state, and a short label for the Beacon.
- Two photos: a close-up of the Beacon itself, and the area around it. Both are required, and they have to be different shots.
- Fresh location evidence, the same standard as logging a find: share your phone’s location when the form asks, or use a photo that carries its own recent location.
- The terms box ticked, the same as for a find.
What happens next
Your proposal is private. It is not a find, it does not appear in the logbook, and the Beacon does not go live until a moderator has reviewed it. The moderator sees both photos and your trail handle, never your email.
Approval creates the Beacon’s placement and credits it to you; community-registered pins are rounded to roughly a kilometre to protect the person who registered them. Rejection creates nothing, and your typed answers are kept so you are not retyping everything. If the Beacon has already been claimed, or you already have a proposal pending on it, you get the same neutral pending response either way.
When a registration counts toward your level
Registering Beacons unlocks three levels on the ladder: your first, second and third. A registered Beacon counts once it is real: at least 3 approved finds by other people have landed on it, and it is at least 1 km from every other Beacon of yours that already counted. A Beacon counts when strangers find it.
Register one now
Paste the Beacon’s web address or type its code below, or use your camera to scan it. Scanned one out on the trail? Its Campaign page offers registration right after the scan, so you can start there too.