rragan Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 It took renting a car in England which had license plate GC17HSJ to spot this one. Given that license plate, I really had to look it up. http://coords.info returned an answer but Cachly said no such cache. I finally spotted the difference. coord.info/GC17HSJ is being mapped to GC17H5J since S is one of L O U I S letters not used in GC codes. I wonder if Cachly should make a similar mapping? A minor issue but might help with transcription errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Hubbard Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 5 minutes ago, rragan said: L O U I S letters not used in GC codes Honestly I never knew about this. So they are NEVER used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGigabyte Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Base 31. These letters were left out to prevent certain offensive words from ever appearing in the GC code Nic Hubbard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootguru Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 On 26/09/2017 at 10:29 AM, MrGigabyte said: Base 31. These letters were left out to prevent certain offensive words from ever appearing in the GC code U might be for that reason, L O I S are easily confused with other letters. p.s. Interesting thread here https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/341449-3-million/ ChrisDen and Kyzabra 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rragan Posted April 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 LOUIS not used in GC codes but acceptable for a royal name. LOL. Nic Hubbard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hidegoseek Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 On 9/25/2017 at 1:55 PM, Nic Hubbard said: Honestly I never knew about this. So they are NEVER used? There's a geocache for that: GC16XYD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rragan Posted April 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 I added the last 4 digit one and first 5 digit to my cool caches list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisDen Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 On 9/28/2017 at 11:48 AM, barefootguru said: U might be for that reason, L O I S are easily confused with other letters. p.s. Interesting thread here https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/341449-3-million/ I thought they were all excluded to prevent confusion with other characters. L not in caps with 1, O with zero, U with V, I with 1 and S with 5 All very well explained in this cache description GC5KW17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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