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GeoDB::Modify::Gctodiff.3pm

NAME

Gctodiff - Modifes the cache identifier to include difficulty/terrain info

DESCRIPTION

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The ``gctodiff'' plugin (short for ``GC to difficulty'') replaces the first two letters in the 6-digit cache identifier with a single digit representation of both the difficulty and terrain ratings.

IE, if you had this cache:

     > geoqo -l
     num GCID     Name
     1   GCQEBQ   Yamar's Unusual #6: The ORB
 
 

It's rated a 1.5 in difficulty and a 2 in terrain. If you ran the gctodiff modify plugin on this data, it would replace the 'GC' with a 2 and 3:

     > geoqo -m gctodiff: -d 'list:format=%{newident} %{desc}'
     23QEBQ   Yamar's Unusual #6: The ORB
 
 

It actually stores the data in the 'newident' field so the old one is still available. The export modules, however, use the newident field when writing out the cache identifiers so this is what your GPS, or what-have-you, will see when you load it into that.

I (Yamar) do this specifically so when I'm looking at my garmin, for example, I get an immediate feel for how hard a particular cache is going to be without having to pull up data about it. (I also use the symbol plugin to change the symbol so I can see the type of cache it is too). My goal here is to maximize the amount of data I seen on the screen!

The map from groundspeak/geocaching.com ratings is as follows:

   1    => 1
   1.5  => 2
   2    => 3
   2.5  => 4
   3    => 5
   3.5  => 6
   4    => 7
   4.5  => 8
   5    => 9
 
 

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