How do you find your (or someone elses) Profile number?

[+Mental Ellert-ness]

I'm trying to find out how to find out the PR number for myself or someone else that completes the following:

 

http://coord.info/PR####

 

Thanks

[+StarBrand]

Hover your cursor over your name here in the forum (or anybody ele's name) and look at the link in your browser.

[+Mental Ellert-ness]

Hover your cursor over your name here in the forum (or anybody ele's name) and look at the link in your browser.

 

Tried that and get a number, not a mix of letters and numbers. And it's not showing me in the format coord.ino/PR####.

 

I entered the number that showed up at the end of the show user link for you starbrand and I got someone wayyy different.

[+Too Tall John]

Your number is 3285950. As was said, it shows up in the address bar on the bottom of your browser window when you hover over the name link in the forums.

 

When I try entering it into the coord.info/pr URL, it seems to get stuck on a "Redirecting..." screen. Am I missing something in the formatting of it? Is this a feature that actually exists? I've never heard of linking to a profile using coord.info. . .

 

Edit: Ahha! I found the formatting in a notification email. The alpha-numeric set you are looking for has nothing to do with the number you get when hoovering. . .

Edited September 14, 2010 by Too Tall John

[+Mental Ellert-ness]

If you look at the email notifications you get for new cache placements, the reviewer that publishes the cache, the link to his profile is with a link like I had above, with a mix of letters and numbers. Much like a GC### except it has PR instead.

[+Too Tall John]

If you look at the email notifications you get for new cache placements, the reviewer that publishes the cache, the link to his profile is with a link like I had above, with a mix of letters and numbers. Much like a GC### except it has PR instead.

Have an idea. PM sent.

[+Markwell]

Cool - I'm http://coord.info/PR158E

 

My actual user number is 5518, but I used GeoCalc as if it were a cache number, and it gave me 158E. Then I just tested http://coord.info/PR158E and it took me to my profile page.

 

Never knew that.

[+HD JP]

Cool - I'm http://coord.info/PR158E

 

My actual user number is 5518, but I used GeoCalc as if it were a cache number, and it gave me 158E. Then I just tested http://coord.info/PR158E and it took me to my profile page.

 

Never knew that.

 

You can also find it using GSAK under the cache owner's ID number. There have been some interesting puzzle caches created with cacher's ID numbers.

[+dfx]

yeah they work the same as the GC numbers. the algorithm is described here (under GCxxxx).

 

in short, IDs of 65535 and below are just converted to hexadecimal (65535 = FFFF, so GCFFFF or PRFFFF). IDs above that are added 411120 and then converted to base-31 (for example using this page) and then undergo some letter substitution to get rid of the letters ILOSU (to be precise: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU -> ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTVWXYZ).

 

example using the OP's number: 3285950+411120=3697070 converted to base-31 is 4033A. substituting the letters makes no difference, so the profile link is http://coord.info/PR4033A

Edited September 14, 2010 by dfx

[+Too Tall John]

yeah they work the same as the GC numbers. the algorithm is described here (under GCxxxx).

 

in short, IDs of 65535 and below are just converted to hexadecimal (65535 = FFFF, so GCFFFF or PRFFFF). IDs above that are added 411120 and then converted to base-31 (for example using this page) and then undergo some letter substitution to get rid of the letters ILOSU (to be precise: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU -> ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTVWXYZ).

 

example using the OP's number: 3285950+411120=3697070 converted to base-31 is 4033A. substituting the letters makes no difference, so the profile link is http://coord.info/PR4033A

Or you could post a note on your own cache and get the # from the notification email.

 

http://coord.info/PR1APN1

[jholly]

Cool - I'm http://coord.info/PR158E

 

My actual user number is 5518, but I used GeoCalc as if it were a cache number, and it gave me 158E. Then I just tested http://coord.info/PR158E and it took me to my profile page.

 

Never knew that.

 

FizzyCalc will also sort of work. Go to GC Waypoint number and paste your ID into the waypoint input field. Hit go and converted number will show in Waypoint field. You have to substitute PR for the GC, but must that have a IQ slightly above room temperature should be able to handle that.

Edited September 14, 2010 by jholly

[+dfx]

Or you could post a note on your own cache and get the # from the notification email.

 

http://coord.info/PR1APN1

that won't work to find somebody else's profile link though

[+Too Tall John]

Or you could post a note on your own cache and get the # from the notification email.

 

http://coord.info/PR1APN1

that won't work to find somebody else's profile link though

I found the OP's when they posted a note on one of my caches, though, and since he wanted to know his # and his friend's, I bet he could get him to post a note, too.

 

Don't own a cache? Put one on your watchlist, then post a note.

 

Not a premium member? Read dfx's post.

[Andronicus]

Cool - I'm http://coord.info/PR158E

 

My actual user number is 5518, but I used GeoCalc as if it were a cache number, and it gave me 158E. Then I just tested http://coord.info/PR158E and it took me to my profile page.

 

Never knew that.

 

FizzyCalc will also sort of work. Go to GC Waypoint number and paste your ID into the waypoint input field. Hit go and converted number will show in Waypoint field. You have to substitute PR for the GC, but must that have a IQ slightly above room temperature should be able to handle that.

This is the way I did it for generating my QR code in my avatar.

[+Mental Ellert-ness]

Yup,

 

Fizzycalc is the way to go. I already had it downloaded for projections, I just hadn't paid much attention to it's other utilities.

 

Thanks for the help!

[+Markwell]

Psst GeoCalc is the old-timer's name for FizzyCalc