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    Some global geocache statistics

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by rubai

    Nicely done. I've did some similar data collection a couple of years ago which is now, of course, out of date. I was more interested in looking at countries/states which had the fewest (in many cases zero) number of caches and lowest density. I don't know what kind of programming skill you have but have you considered turning this into a web application using the geocaching API? I've had thought about doing that. Using the Geocaching API I could periodically grab the data, turn it into Linked Data (RDF) and then do some mashups with other available linked data (such as population data). It could produce some interesting thematic maps and even have a search interface so one could select a city and get the relative cache density of an area for someone looking for a place to travel and find a lot of caches. With the RDF capabilities of Drupal (an open source content management system) one could fairly easily make some of these geocaching statistics available as linked open data, reusable by other applications.

     

    This is something I'm actually interesting in doing and have some ideas of what I could do with access to the API, but I'm not really sure where to start.

    Some global geocache statistics

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by rubai

    On the 1st of March 2012 I went through all the country and state, territory, subdivision, etc. pages available on the advanced search page and counted all the geocaches that had been published and available at the time (excluding future events) to produced some interesting statistics.

     

    Total Geocaches: 1,652,053

    Countries with the most geocaches

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    Countries with the highest geocache densities

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    States with the most geocaches

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    Sates with the highest geocache densities

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    Canada

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    USA

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    EDIT: The geocache count for Nebraska should actually be around 6400, which gives a density of around 31.9 geocaches/1000km². (Thanks BruceS)

     

    Some links with more numbers and figures

    Some more figures

    List of states with statistics

    List of countries with statistics

    Interactive world map

    Malaysia Geocachers

    in Asia

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    Hi, I'm a geocacher from Canberra, Australia. I started Geocaching just this year. I will be in KL for 2 days in November and was wondering if you guys have any suggestions for which caches I should go for during my visit. I visited Malaysia several years ago so I wont be doing much of the touristy stuff this time round. Also my uncle, who lives in KL, should be with me the whole time so I'm pretty sure I will be able to get anywhere. But the downside is that I wont have a GPS with me. :)

     

    Thanks for your help, :)

    rubai

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