Groundspeak's new method of referencing geocoin pages

[+ECplus3]

Just came across this tonight and thought I'd share it.

 

Groundspeak has introduced a quick reference method of writing links to any part of their family of websites called coord.info.

 

Instead of typing out the whole URL for the coin's page description, for example:

 

http: //www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TB2MK54

 

I simply type:

 

http: //coord.info/TB2MK54 (remember to omit the space I have added)

 

The same goes for geocaches:

 

http: //coord.info/GC1234

 

and waymarks:

 

http: //coord.info/WM1234

[princeshoko]

very kewl to know thank you!

[+Jackalgirl]

Sweet! That's an awesome feature -- thanks to Groundspeak for enabling it, and thanks to you for pointing it out!

 

BTW, if you want to display URLs or BBCode without the Forum software trying to actually process it, use the following BBCode:

 

[code]
whatever you want to type
<left bracket>*/code]

 

The code and /code tags tell the BB to display what's between them in non-proportional font (e.g., Courier) without trying to process it, sort of like the HTML <pre></pre> tags, but it its own "Code frame".

 

Lastly -- and this is off-topic, I'm afraid -- I don't believe I've mentioned how much I like your avatar. I'm a BIG fan of Hellboy. : )

 

*This should be a "[". The BBCode is not very smart.

Edited January 4, 2009 by Jackalgirl

[+tom4props]

Very handy and good to know - THANKS!!!!

[+GeoKs]

Thanks - just used the shorthand in our most recent geocaching blog entry. Very handy.