Node IDs

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History of OC sites 2005-2016

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 stable 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.)opencache.uk OK ACTIVE OCDE code lists it as node_id=7 OCPL yes
7 Sweden, Norway http://www.opencaching.se OS REDIRECT to OC.de shutdown 2014
OCDE code lists it as node_id=6
OCSE no
8 Norway http://www.opencaching.no ON CLOSED was merged to Sweden before start
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 shutdown in 2011

(some content visible via the Wayback Machine)

OCPL old no
12 Russia http://www.opencaching.ru OR under construction did not start OCDE old
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
http://opencaching.lu
OB ACTIVE same content on three domains OCPL yes

.nl only

15 ?? ??
16 Romania http://www.opencaching.ro OR ACTIVE OCPL yes

Other opencaching domains

These URLs do not (directly) show Opencaching node contents.

COUNTRY WEBSITE COMMENTS
United Kingdom http://(www).opencaching.org.uk as of Sept. 26th, 2016, redirect to www.geocaching.com
Austria
Swiss
Liechtenstein
http://(www.)opencaching.at
http://(www.)opencaching.ch
http://(www.)opencaching.li
commercial page with link to www.opencaching.de
Denmark http://(www.)opencaching.dk redirect to www.opencaching.de
Canada
Mexico
http://(www.)opencaching.ca
http://(www.)opencaching.mx
redirect to www.opencaching.us
Luxembourgh http://www.opencaching.lu redirect to www.opencaching.nl
Mali http://(www.)opencaching.ml a private site related to opencaching.pl
http://wiki.opencaching.eu this page
http://www.opencaching.net
http://www.opencaching.org
a new geocaching service which never started (2005, prior to Opencaching.de)

Sources

This information was compiled from the following sources: