[Az-Geocaching] Problems with location based identifier

[Jason Poulter]

thats why you download the waypoint files off the azgeocaching.com that 
tell you what type of cache it is based on the icon... etc... you can 
see what type it is so  you can decide quickly.... :)

jason


Webb Pickersgill wrote:
> Yup, I agree.  (Believe it or not, by contradicting my own thoughts)  I 
> guess my point was that I believe that perhaps one character of the new 
> code could be reserved for SOME type of identifier to help you quickly 
> learn something about it.  The state/country example was weak, I just 
> wanted to get everyone thinking along these lines to see if anything 
> else came to mind.
>  
> To help understand my thought, consider this:  I don't know how many 
> times I was driving, saw a waypoint pop up on my screen,  stopped for 
> fun to see what it was... After searching around for a bit I got 
> disappointed, then returned to the Internet only to find out that it was 
> a locationless or "puzzle" based cache that did not exist there.  A 
> simple character in the wapyoint number would have alerted me to this 
> before I considered stopping.  Just a thought.
>  
> TheWebbman
> Webb Pickersgill
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
>     [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]*On Behalf Of
>     *ken@highpointer.com
>     *Sent:* Monday, March 17, 2003 12:49 PM
>     *To:* listserv@azgeocaching.com
>     *Subject:* [Az-Geocaching] Problems with location based identifier
> 
>     /Another possibility (location based identifier): Reserve the first
>     2 characters as location indicators: AZ, PA, TX (states)  and CH,
>     IL, DU, RU (countries, etc.)  This does however unfairly limit the
>     number of caches within a state or country.  As we all know, AZ
>     would probably need more numbers than RI. ;)/
> 
>     I don't think that will work very well.   You have correctly pointed
>     out that large states may use up their allotment of numbers
>     relatively soon, while small states may never use up their allotment
>     of numbers.  For example, Colorado used to assign license plate
>     numbers based on the county that the vehicle was registered in, but
>     abandoned that policy because urban counties have populations over
>     100,000 and thus were using up their allotted numbers, whereas some
>     rural counties have under 1,000 people and thus used only a small
>     percentage of their alloted characters.
> 
>     Also, some countries codes you listed are the same as states - IL is
>     also the abbreviation for Illinois, for example.
> 
>     *Ken* (a.k.a. */Highpointer/*)
>