TechnoNut
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Even the Earthcache stats you provided internationally are the best I've seen. Great stuff!
Speaking of International Earthcaches - have a peep at what SA's EarthcacheMeister iPajero has been doing in the USA. Now on 333 ECs and counting.
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Thanks Danie for the trouble of putting these stats together. I really appreciate it.
What about a list of cachers that have completed the matrix of 81, but some of their cache finds were not in Africa.
Interesting concept! Just checked and mine are all in Africa (and discovered that I have 4001 African finds).
I am pretty sure that iPajero's multiple matrix laps are all in Africa as well.
And Danie - keep the stats coming. The monologue is OK. It means we are gobsmacked.
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Bermuda triangles:
As expected, the most prominent hot spot is in the Kruger Park.
Only one area stands out like a sore thumb - just north of Ballito. Not sure what happened there - maybe I found the Bermuda triangle of caches?
Danie:
KNP - All those caches were archived on instructions of Parks Board. Only Earthcaches now allowed in KNP.
The area north of Ballito was host to a a series of mini Power Trails. The CO decided to archive them as they were going missing quite often. There must have been >120 caches in these trails.
PT
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any chance of doing this for the major provinces please?
PT
Favourite Point distribution: KZN:
The ratio of finds to FPs for KZN is 20.9
The 95% percentile is 8, in other words, 5% of all active KZN caches have more than 8 FPs.
Favourite Point distribution: Western Cape:
The ratio of finds to FPs for the Western Cape is 19.8
The 95% percentile is 13.
Favourite Point distribution: Gauteng:
The ratio of finds to FPs for Gauteng is 28.9
The 95% percentile is 11.
Favourite Point distribution: Eastern Cape:
The ratio of finds to FPs for the Eastern Cape is 19.3
The 95% percentile is 8.
Thanks Danie - KZN, WC and EC are similar in Finds per FP, but not GP.
Either the GP cachers are "stingier" than cachers in the other provinces.
Or there are more basic members finding caches in GP. Probably the latter.
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What percentage of caches in SA are PM's? Is that figure available perhaps?
I think you meant CacheRs
But, as a matter of interest, there are 193 PMO caches in SA out of a total of 11533 active caches (excluding events and CITOs).
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Favourite Point distribution:
The following graph shows the FP distribution for active, non-event, South African caches:
This shows that just over half of all the caches have no FPs, 16.8% of all caches have 1 FP, etc.
The average number of FPs per active cache is 2.28
This is good - it means that 50% of caches deserve at least 1 FP, and the 95th percentile is at 10 FPs - so 1 out of 20 caches get more than 10 FPs.
Danie - any chance of doing this for the major provinces please?
PT
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Cardinal and most popular caches: KZN:
Thanks Danie!!!
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Thanks Pete, once Clyde has done his thing, I'll do too.
Clyde has done his thing. Build 33, and 34 to fix 33.
Download here http://gsak.net/GSAK851B34.exe
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Sisonke District Municipality in KZN has changed its name to Harry Gwala District Municipality.
EISH!!! And where might that be?
Underberg, Ixopo, Kokstad area.
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Just a heads up for everyone.
Sisonke District Municipality in KZN has changed its name to Harry Gwala District Municipality.
I will advise Clyde of GSAK.
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Archive probability vs. Time:
(Yesterday I mentioned that almost a third of the Gauteng Power Series caches have been archived. It is interesting to note that this series in fact survived better than other Gauteng caches of the same age! 30% of the GPS series has been archived, vs. 41% of the rest of Gauteng.)
There could be a reason for this - in that those who do the power trail more often than not just replace caches that are missing to keep the total going.
Just my 2c.
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Would those of you who are willing please send me yours off-line?
Mine on the way to your email.
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Does South Africa receive special exemptions/permissions from HQ to list all these regular events as "mega"?
Only one event was listed as a MEGA event and this had the necessary approval from Groundspeak .
The other events (normal events and CITOs) were associated with MEGA, but did not have Mega status.
I trust this satisfies your query.
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Does South Africa receive special exemptions/permissions from HQ to list all these regular events as "mega"?
I am no expert on the rules regarding Mega Events, but as far as I know the number of 500 refers to registered attendees. I know the first Mega easily qualified using this rule, and I assume the same for the second. My statistics number is the number of cachers who have logged "Attended" on the website. Maybe one of the organizers can tell us what the number of attendees for the second Mega was?
I was not going to reply to the post by Pup Patrol. But ....
Much as I dislike "policemen", I will comment as follows. All figures are provisional. First let me correct an error by the OP on this topic. According to the Groundspeak Knowledge Book ...
"Mega-Events are the ultimate gatherings for geocachers. Officially, events must surpass the 500 attendee mark to qualify for "Mega" status" (emphasis is mine)
There were in excess of 340 registered people for the Mega, and added to this were many walk-ins, and in excess of 150 MTBikers who all attended bits and pieces of the activities surrounding MEGA. Logs are still coming in, but even the final number of logs will not in itself be an indicator of the number of attendees, as many logs speak for two or more people.
But certainly, the 500 attendee mark was well exceeded and many new people were exposed to Geocaching!
Note that logbooks are optional for all event types (including Mega and Giga events}.
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MEGA statistics:
Up to now, 136 cachers have logged attendance of the recent KZN Mega. (It is still early days, and I expect the number to grow.) The final number for the Pretoria MEGA was 213.
47 Cachers have attended both MEGAs
Thanks Danie.
Once the dust has settled (in a fortnight or so?) it would be good to see some stats for finds in KZN, and # of unique finders over the MEGA period compared with before and after ....
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It seems like of the 11 000 odd active geocaches in SA only 60 are Premium member caches.
I thought it would be somewhat higher then that.
Danie can you confirm if I am right?
Anton - From my database.
Active in SA as of yesterday: 11021
PMO Caches: 124
PT
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Hi Danie
Yup - its not your fault it is confusing
Total Active includes disabled caches - even though a large proportion of these are heading for archival and it is well known that even disabled caches are sometimes "findable".
So it is indeed confusing and I wish there was a good clear-cut way of reporting this.
Perhaps the word "Findable" should creep in, but that may just confuse people more ....
Current KZN Cache Status
Trad Available 1530
Trad Disabled 62
Multi Available 96
Multi Disabled 8
Puzzle Available 240
Puzzle Disabled 6
LBH Available 9
LBH Disabled 1
WIG Available 5
WIG Disabled 0
EC Available 35
EC Disabled 0
TOTAL 1992
Available 1915
Disabled 77
Past Events not yet archived 2
Future Events 5
Grand Total 1999
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Heading towards 2000 caches in KZN - watch this space
KZN: 1999
Danie
Maybe I am being a bit of a purist, or maybe even splitting hairs
Although event type caches are "active" - two in that total are past events which have not yet been archived, and five are future events, which "cannot be found (yet)" In addition, these will eventually have a guaranteed disappearance from the caching map, which is why I like to exclude them from the total of active caches.
So my take is that we should exclude event type caches from the active total.
In which case, KZN has 1992 [b]findable[/b] caches at this point in time.
Just my 2c
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Heading towards 2000 caches in KZN - watch this space
Total active caches in KZN as of now: 1994.
Excluding Event, CITO and Mega: 1987.
I have a few that I am working on ....
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Hi
I am in Umhglanga for the next week. What are the GREAT caches in the area? The higher the terrain the better! I am prepared to drive an hour or so. No interest in urban hides, not interested in clever containers, not interested in puzzles. Great locations , secret spots, out of comfort zone. Hikes, forests, swimming spots are my kind of thing. If it involves bots, cliffs, ropes, scuba gear I am REALLY keen, but will need help with gear. What suggestions????
As an alternative, there is the other side of Krantzkloof NR (along the Black and Blue trails). Some nice caches along here, but quite a few puzzles, which you don't want
.The walk (out and return) is about 11km, but a lift can be arranged from S29 46.602 E30 48.313 back to the start (same as the previous post). There are two really great waterfalls on this trail.
Again, if you want a gpx file of the trails and/or caches, just yell.
See image below for this trail.
Pete (Technonut)
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Hi
I am in Umhglanga for the next week. What are the GREAT caches in the area? The higher the terrain the better! I am prepared to drive an hour or so. No interest in urban hides, not interested in clever containers, not interested in puzzles. Great locations , secret spots, out of comfort zone. Hikes, forests, swimming spots are my kind of thing. If it involves bots, cliffs, ropes, scuba gear I am REALLY keen, but will need help with gear. What suggestions????
Doc - you can't go wrong with a walk along the Yellow Trail in Krantzloof Nature Reserve. Picnic area parking is at S29 46.360 E30 49.832. The Yellow trail drops down to the bottom of the gorge (about 200m vertical meters) and climbs out at the other end at Uve Rd (S29 46.229 E30 51.190). Height gain at this end is about 220m. From there you can take the Orange trail along the top of the gorge back to the start or yell on the cell for a lift. PM me (technonut@stars.co.za) if you want this option and I will be glad to give you a lift back to the start.
If you want a GPX file of the trail(s) and a list of caches, just yell as well. See image - red is going and green is returning. Total walk about 10 km.
Have fun.
Pete (Technonut)
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Not everyone may have noticed, but Groundspeak have quietly doubled the number of PQs per day from 5 to 10. It seems they are still limited to 1000 caches per PQ.
Good news for the stats hounds.
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I had to clear my cookies to make it work.
That didn't work for me - but I solved the problem by firing up the laptop (which had never heard of the other user name), then getting an access token for that machine. Closed GSAK there and went back to the desktop. This time it took me straight to the login screen and now I have two (hopefully switchable) access tokens.
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THe poroblem I am having is with GSAK - but in the interface to geocaching.com - hence I am posting the problem here - as there appears to be a problem with the javascript 'access tokens' function.
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I am currently managing the listing for our forthcoming MEGA under a different user name on GC.com.
Yesterday I got a token to use that account to create some bookmark lists for Mega attendees.
Today I want to log some finds under my regular username, but I am unable to get my token back.
I am signed in to gc.com as my regular username as I do the actions below.
On GC.com it is confirmed that GSAK has authorisation.
I have restarted GSAK, and the problem persists.
I have restored GSAK back to two days ago, no luck.
In GSAK, when I click on "get another access token" I get this (on the Groundspeak token access screen):-
"You are signed in as Geocachers of KZN. Sign in as a different user. "
When I click on the "Sign in as a different user", nothing happens except a screen flicker.
If I click on "Allow access" for Geocachers of KZN, I get a message "Your access to Geocaching.com has been authorized" then the API kicks in "Fetching user name" and bombs with a "Fail" message after 20 seconds. Retry gives the same result.
It appears that there is a problem with the javascript that gets the new token.
(My default browser is Firefox - but I have IE active and FF closed as I do these actions).
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Or - just how to get my own token back ......
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Are notifications working this morning?
in Website
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It seems the email server fell over at 00h00 Seattle time. No emails received here since 09h00 SAST (South Africa time).
But your PQs are still running OK.