just drop the dang GC from the waypoint name which is taking up a crap load of number spaces..... it could go way up to FFFFFF which is like 16,777,215 million caches!!!! would last a long freaking time!!!! and he wouldn't have to change anything!!! DUH!!!! jason ken@highpointer.com wrote: > /know they were planning on separating out the locationless due to the > number crunch. I assume they'll be rolling that out soon since numbers > are almost used up. I'm sure a number of us would be willing to help > update azgeocaching.com./ > > What is going to happen when the numbers are used up? The waypoint of > the most recent cache placed is *GCE5C6*. At the current rate of new > cache placements (which is obviously going to increase as geocaching > continues to add new adherents, and the weather gets warmer at higher > latitudes and elevations), we should reach the cache with waypoint > *GCFFFF* before the end of April. > > Then, what will Geocaching.com do to increase the number of waypoint > numbers? Is it possible to add another digit, thereby making the next > waypoint number *GC10000*? > > *Ken* (a.k.a. */Highpointer/*) >