starman70

Don't hesitate to take your bike!!! The area i'll be cahing in is loaded with caches hidden in local parks, or rail trail bike paths. My bike will be my main mode of transport. starman70

Just checked this one out myself. Loks like they've corrected themselves. There's now a side window "More Buying Choices" listing it at 269.95 at both Amazon, and Office Depot. The $159.99 price will buy you the basic Sport Trak. Still not a bad buy, though. I'm loving my new Sport Trak Map.

Wow. I may have to read that a few times over for it to all sink in, but thanks a bunch. I think you just solved my last stumbling block. quote:Originally posted by Prime Suspect:Eash cache is sequentially assigned a numeric ID. That ID number is converted into the waypoint name. The first 2 characters of the waypoint name are always "GC". If the third letter is 0-9 or A-F, then the remaining characters represent hexdecimal (base 16) value of the numeric ID. If the third letter is G-Z, then the remaining characters are a base 31 representation of the numeric ID (adjusted downward by a value of 411120 so that waypoint GCG000 will immediately follow waypoint GCFFFF). In case your curious, the base 31 digits are 0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTVWXYZ. The letters I and O are removed to prevent confusion with 1 (one) and 0 (zero). The remaining missing letters were chosen to be omitted to prevent the accidental formation of "dirty words" within waypoints names. http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/3608_2800.gif _"Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body."_

So, it's just a random designation, or do the letter/number combination have some sort of order?

Hello, and thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I've just gotten into caching,and need help eciphering waypoint designations. I've found caches near me designated as gcg2mc, grb36, gcg6ne. What does all this ,mean, and how do I go about converting them to Lat/ Long measurements?