The 5000 character limit

[+Bondegaard-Rydbjerg]

I have a Travel Bug called "TB1CNTV Bondegaards Mutter", a travel bug which spawns micro caches and I would like to keep track of the micros via Bondegaards Mutter, by making a link to the cache descriptions.

But now I have a problem:

The travl bug description only alllows 5000 characters, so whenever I make a new link on the TB description, I have to take away some of the description.

Is there a way to go around this 5000 character limit? Or have you another idea to continue the TB description?

 

Reguards

Bo Rydbjerg (Bondegaard-Rydbjerg)

[+Lotho]

You could post a note on the page for every new micro?

[+Isonzo Karst]

You can save some characters in your waypoint links by NOT using the guid for the caches

currently you have

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b5c6b087-305b-4dad-a07d-e08548d47247

 

when you could have

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1CGBQ

 

both URLs will go to Mutte #2 - En bænk i Hornslet GC1CGBQ but the wp=GCxxxx is much shorter

[+trainlove]

But now I have a problem:

The travl bug description only alllows 5000 characters, so whenever I make a new link on the TB description, I have to take away some of the description.

Is there a way to go around this 5000 character limit? Or have you another idea to continue the TB description?

 

5000 in the top part, 2000 more in the bottom part, or the other way around.

You could link to your own server for any 'pages'of information.

You could do like I do in http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=tb1htxa and know that cachers can use the id= or wp= for all caches, and id= or tracker= for all travel bugs. And therefore whittle down the redundant and space consuming url's.

[+StarBrand]

Yup - good suggestion by trainlove - list all the links on an external web page and link to that on the TB page.

[+Markwell]

If you were a premium member...

 

Link to a bookmark list created by you - the bug owner. That way, you can create a bookmark list of many caches. One link, never update the bug page.

 

My problem is with this part: "a travel bug which spawns micro caches

Edited August 25, 2008 by Markwell

[+trainlove]

Link to a bookmark list created by you - the bug owner. That way, you can create a bookmark list of many caches. One link, never update the bug page.

 

Is there a limit to the number of caches in a bookmark list?

I know that it used to be problematic in that it always was on page 3 even if there was only 1 page of up to 50 caches (or something as strange as this).

 

Oh, and I forgot to say up above, a URL can possibly be a relative instead of absolute one so there you can save perhaps 15-25 characters per link.

 

P.S. There used to be a travel bug that would spawn copies of itself. The hope was that it would blow up the internet, or at least the servers at Groundspeak. I found a copy long after it was shutdown.

Edited August 26, 2008 by trainlove

[+Bondegaard-Rydbjerg]

Isonzo Karst: I think I will start with your idea, and shorten up the links, but it will only give me a short time before the links will fill up again, so eventually I will try to make an external link from my homepage, if I can figure out how to do it...

 

Thx

Bo (Bondegaard-Rydbjerg)

[Keystone]

You can also try beta-testing this brand new URL-shortener brought to you by Groundspeak: Coord.info

[Rhialto]

You can also try beta-testing this brand new URL-shortener brought to you by Groundspeak: Coord.info

Nice! I plan to use it for my own personnal webpage, hope it will be official later and not vanish.

[CoyoteRed]

You can save some characters in your waypoint links by NOT using the guid for the caches

currently you have

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b5c6b087-305b-4dad-a07d-e08548d47247

 

when you could have

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1CGBQ

 

both URLs will go to Mutte #2 - En bænk i Hornslet GC1CGBQ but the wp=GCxxxx is much shorter

Also, considering it is the same website wouldn't...

../seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1CGBQ

...work, saving even more space?

[+Corey]

Also, considering it is the same website wouldn't...

../seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1CGBQ

...work, saving even more space?

That's what trainlove mentioned with the idea of a relative link:

Oh, and I forgot to say up above, a URL can possibly be a relative instead of absolute one so there you can save perhaps 15-25 characters per link.

But it's still not as short as

Coord.info

[+trainlove]

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...t&p=3617561

lists the kinds of links that I know of for the things that I think geocachers would like to put into their web pages. Links to caches, bugs, and cachers, not necessarily in that order.

 

Yes, they all could possibly be relative links to shorten them even more.

[+webscouter.]

I'd love for the coord.info site to add the ability to jump to a log in a cache page.

 

Even better would be the ability to have the cache name linked much like it is from a search so that the cache status would be indicated, you know, red line for archived, blue line for disabled.

[+trainlove]

I'd love for the coord.info site to add the ability to jump to a log in a cache page.

 

Similar to the ability to jump to a particular forum log entry. But that's software not written by g®0und$peak. Could easily be done since it's all database entries anyway.

[+Lil Devil]

I'd love for the coord.info site to add the ability to jump to a log in a cache page.

URLs in the form http://coord.info/GC1169#52369770 work correctly, scrolling the normal cache page down to a specific log entry.

 

I don't see a way, however, to go to the log page that shows only that one log.

 

(On a side note, that number in the URL is amazing. Over 52 million logs in the system. Wow! )

[+trainlove]

(On a side note, that number in the URL is amazing. Over 52 million logs in the system. Wow! )

 

Yes, truly wow, something that should be shown on the getting started page perhaps.

 

But now to the point, which is more correct, the GC or the log number in http://coord.info/GC1169#52369770, I mean if one were to enter a typo in either that should go to a valid entry, which one would coords.info go to? Or would it say, Invalid entry!

I'd try it myself but I don't have a cache I want to look at right now, or a log entry either, LOL.

Edited September 5, 2008 by trainlove

[+Lil Devil]

Above all else, it's going to go to the GC number. If you have a typo there, you'll get the wrong cache, or the error page if the cache doesn't exist.

 

If you have a typo in the anchor (the part after the #), the page will just stay at the top without scrolling.

[+Corey]

I'd love for the coord.info site to add the ability to jump to a log in a cache page.

URLs in the form http://coord.info/GC1169#52369770 work correctly, scrolling the normal cache page down to a specific log entry.

Interesting - the anchor doesn't carry over to the cache page in Safari, though it works in Firefox for me.

[+Bondegaard-Rydbjerg]

You can also try beta-testing this brand new URL-shortener brought to you by Groundspeak: Coord.info

 

I have just tried the Coord.info shortener and it really works. This is what I will use until the next time, when I reach the 5000 character limit. Thx