Node IDs

Opencaching Node ID

Node IDs are numbers used internally to uniquely identify each Opencaching node (website).

The purpose of these is to potentially allow information exchange between Opencaching nodes (like caches, users, logs, etc.). Another use is testing for developers in a virtual environment, without affecting the production website(s).

Node ID assignments

Each new website (node) must choose a unique, unassigned, NODE_ID.

Traditionally, NODE_IDs have been assigned by OCDE (Germany) management team.

http://www.opencaching.de/articles.php?page=contact

ID	COUNTRY	WEBSITE	PREFIX	STATUS	COMMENTS	CODE	OKAPI
1	Germany	http://www.opencaching.de http://www.opencaching.it http://www.opencachingspain.es http://www.opencaching.fr	OC	ACTIVE	Covers: Germany, Austria, Swiss, Italy, Spain, France; same content on multiple domains	OCDE	yes .de only
2	Poland	http://opencaching.pl	OP	ACTIVE		OCPL	yes
3	Czech Republic	http://www.opencaching.cz	OZ	ACTIVE	very old OCDE code, forked before OCPL	OCDE old	no
4	Local development only
5	OCDE test site	http://test.opencaching.de	OC	ACTIVE		OCDE next	yes
6	United Kingdom	http://www.opencaching.org.uk	OK	ACTIVE	older fork of OCPL OCDE code lists it as node_id=7	OCPL old	yes old version
7	Sweden	http://www.opencaching.se	OS	CLOSED	shutdown 2014 OCDE code lists it as node_id=6	OCSE
8	Norway	http://www.opencaching.no	ON	CLOSED	was merged to Sweden	OCDE old
9	Latvia	http://www.opencaching.lv	OV	DOWN	was never started
10	North America	http://www.opencaching.us	OU	ACTIVE	Covers: U.S.A. Canada Mexico (merged since 2011)	older fork of OCPL, via UK	yes old version
11	Japan	http://www.opencachng.jp	OJ	CLOSED	was shut down long ago	OCDE old
12	Russia	http://www.opencaching.org.ru ? http://www.opencaching.su ?	O?	DOWN	Empty server Server not found
13	GARMIN	http://www.opencaching.com	OX	CLOSED	Service closed by Garmin sometime in August 2015	Garmin
14	BeNeLux	http://www.opencaching.nl http://www.opencaching.be	OB	ACTIVE	same content on two domains	OCPL	yes .nl only
15	??	??
16	Romania	http://www.opencaching.ro	OR	ACTIVE		OCPL	yes

Other opencaching domains

• http://www.opencaching.at - only front page with link to www.opencaching.de
• http://www.opencaching.ch - only front page with link to www.opencaching.de
• http://www.opencaching.dk - redirect to www.opencaching.de
• http://www.opencaching.lu - redirect to www.opencaching.nl

Sources

This information was compiled from the following sources:

• Opencaching-PL project – website application on which several OC nodes are running
• Opencaching-DE / oc-server3 project – website application on which OCDE (Germany) and several other OC nodes are running
• OKAPI project – plugin to allow easy access to public Opencaching data
• Information published on each active Opencaching node
• Some information on the .lv .se .no sites
• Compiled from recent information at http://blog.opencaching.ro/2016/03/11/opencaching-node_ids/