claypigeon58 Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 I just made a new cache that was given a waypoint ID GCG4PP. A while back I thought I read something about the last 4 digits having to be 0-9 or A-F (hex). Has that changed? I only noticed this because I tried to use a free "rate this cache" tool I ran across that evidently assumes the waypoint ID is in hex. Have we surpassed 65,000 caches? Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 Yup...back in late April. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 Yep. They ran out of 4 digit hex. Elias hasn't released what the new coding scheme is other than a vague reference to base36 or some other base. Markwell Chicago Geocaching Quote Link to comment
+TeamVE Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Markwell:Yep. They ran out of 4 digit hex. Elias hasn't released what the new coding scheme is other than a vague reference to base36 or some other base. I'd swear that elias had put out a fairly good description of the new scheme, but it appears that that topic got lost in the forum conversion.... I found a few Markwells to it, but the links were broken. And it's not turning up in my searches now.... ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- "The number you have reached is imaginary, please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again... <beeeeep>" Quote Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 The 31 digits of the new waypoint scheme are: "0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTVWXYZ" So, basically, for IDs < 65536, use the hexadecimal representation of the ID. For IDs >= 65536, use the base-31 representation of the ID + 411120 (the offset, in decimal, to make 65536 decimal == G000 base-31). (And yes, I did get the digit list from Elias in the thread, wherever it is. The math was mine. ) [[[ ClayJar Networks ]]] Home of Watcher downloads, Official Geocaching Chat, and the Geocache Rating System Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted May 22, 2003 Share Posted May 22, 2003 THIS was the discussion were Elias outlined the solution. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." Quote Link to comment
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