TechnoNut
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Of all the caches placed in <year>, how many (%) are still active (available / disabled)? And, of those archived, how many (%) lasted <1 year?, 1 - 2 years?, longer than 2 years?
The first suggestion will lead to a similar situation as my last graph. Caches published in 2004 have had 10 years to disappear, while recent caches have had less time.
Your second suggestion is similar to mine - I'll see what I can do.
Great - thanks Danie.
Now - just a comment - it won't (necessarily) lead to any work for you
I wonder what the "critical" age for a cache is?
In other words, once a cache gets to be older than a certain period, the chances of it being muggled drop considerably. If it lasts (say) two years, then it is obviously in a good hide and the chances of a muggle spotting it and removing it fade away. On the other hand, badly placed caches get muggled quickly.
I know from personal experience that my caches in nature reserves hardly ever go missing, while I am often doing maintenance on my urban cache 'n dash placements. And that seems to be of general validity in KZN (and probably SA).
Perhaps the guys who have caches in National Parks / Nature Reserves can comment?
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is it possible to pull any stats on the longevity of physical cache types? I am thinking of something on the lines of:
For archived physical cache types .....
Average / Range in Days between "Publish" and "Archive" for caches published in "Calendar Year".
I must warn that this may be a very misleading graph. It does NOT necessarily imply that recently published caches don't last as long as the older ones. The problem here is that the averaging for recently published caches is over a shorter period than for the older caches. To put it differently - archived caches that have been published in 2013 can at most be 1 year old, while caches published in 2004 could have lasted anything up to 10 years. We are not comparing apples with apples here!
I am not sure how to fix this. Maybe it would be better to ask: "What percentage of caches published in a calendar year is archived within a year?" I'll think about this one.
Thanks Danie. I take your point about the chart being misleading. We do need to look at this in a different way.
So - please consider this ...
Of all the caches placed in <year>, how many (%) are still active (available / disabled)? And, of those archived, how many (%) lasted <1 year?, 1 - 2 years?, longer than 2 years?
Obviously 2013 and 2014 can't answer all the questions.
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Number of new caches:
During the year 1 May 2013 to 30 April 2014, 2811 new caches have been published in South Africa; an average of 7.7 per day.
For the previous year the number was 2030, for an average of 5.6 per day.
Sadly, I think the attrition rate has also gone up in that a large number of these new (physical) caches have been archived already.
(Of course there are many more events taking place these days and we know that these will be archived.)
Danie - is it possible to pull any stats on the longevity of physical cache types? I am thinking of something on the lines of:
For archived physical cache types .....
Average / Range in Days between "Publish" and "Archive" for caches published in "Calendar Year".
I know that the earlier caches did not have a "Publish" Log, so perhaps just for the calendar years since we started seeing "Publish" logs
As always your stats are interesting - and that leads to more questions
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Most active South African caches found:
There are currently 10282 active caches in South Africa. The following cachers have found the most of these:
(and the rest of the provinces)
Thanks Danie - very interesting stuff ....
Please can you do it again - but this time make it ALL caches (i.e. including archived caches). This will give a better picture of whoi has found the most in SA and each province. (If not too much PT)
Thanks
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Most Cardinal caches found:
The following cachers have found the most of the 10 South African cardinal caches (listed above):
1. iPajero: 8 (including 3 owned) 2. Danie Viljoen: 4 2. TechnoNut: 4 26 cachers have found 2.
Danie - I have five, not four
Southernmost cache: GC1H9WR 2 Oceans
West: GC4J6P0 Gems of the West Coast
East: GC4VXV0 Kosi Bay
Northeast: GC4N80H CROOKS CORNER
Northwest: GC4JA4A Kalahari Sands
Just being picky
You are probably missing a log somewhere -
I am sure it is because the amount ot tourists visiting Egypt has dropped over the past year due to the political turmoil. Most of the Egyptian finds are by tourists.
You may be right, but why only now? Are things now worse than during the Arab Spring (or shortly afterwards)?
Danie - I am no tourism expert, but I suspect it could be the time lag between people making (and paying) their travel arrangements and actually going on the holiday, sometimes booking / paying up to a year in advance. Also Egypt has had a particularly bad political time with martial law, frequent changes at the top and so on.
Just my 2c.
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how about the finds on Egyptian caches for a similar period? The hides seem to be fairly constant? But judging from your previous post on no Egyptian caches in the top 10 African finds - that may be more useful? The Arab Spring was in 2011.
There is something strange going on here - Egypt's cachers breezed through the Arab Spring, but suddenly, during the past year, the number of finds dropped to almost half of what it should be. Does anybody have a theory why?
I am sure it is because the amount ot tourists visiting Egypt has dropped over the past year due to the political turmoil. Most of the Egyptian finds are by tourists.
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Yearly finds in South Africa:
For the year 15 April 2013 to 14 April 2014:
Fascinating stuff Danie!! Don't stop
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Is this total events - or over a selected time period?
Thanks
Checking my database, I get 106 events for Ethekwini since the beginning. So it seems that this is since then
This includes events that have not yet taken palce ...
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Update 17 January 18h00
There are now 195 "Will Attend" Logs and we are still short of the magic figure required by Groundspeak to upgrade the event to Mega Status.
Please - if you have not yet logged, do so ASAP, and also ask your friends to put up a Will Attend Log.
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Number of new caches in 2013, per province:
(These numbers include all caches, including archived ones.)
Thanks Danie, as always, intersting stuff.
Is it possible to look at the above slightly differently?
e..g: # of ACTIVE caches at end of 2012 and 2013 by province.
TIA
PT
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We currently stand on 9862 active caches in South Africa. Although I expect the usual end of the year holiday surge, I agree with you - it is unlikely that we'll see 10000 this year.
The numbers for the whole of Africa:
South Africa: 9862 Canary Islands (Spain): 1348 Madeira (Portugal): 929 Other Spanish enclaves: 4 Continental Africa: 1730 Total: 13873
Thanks Danie!!
Do the stats include the Indian Ocean Islands? (Madagascar, Comores, Seychelles, Mauritius / Reunion / other French Islands)
PT
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So the one thing we're sure of is that only TechnoNut has ever found this cache...
Ten finds in the last year or so ....Perhaps I should just add a new pic, and take you all out of your misery???
OK - taking you all out of your misery.
The pic no one could get was:
GC3V3CP - ABW - Elandslaagte British Military Cemetery
Now I am uploading something I hope is slightly easier
(The blur is intentional, otherwise it is a dead giveaway.)
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Look like graves in the background....
The CO has spoken
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So the one thing we're sure of is that only TechnoNut has ever found this cache...
Ten finds in the last year or so ....Perhaps I should just add a new pic, and take you all out of your misery???
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So the one thing we're sure of is that only TechnoNut has ever found this cache...
Ten finds in the last year or so .... -
Your turn
Where am I?
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Your turn
Where am I?
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Haven't seen a TB hotel on Table Mountain near Maritzburg yet? Is it time for one?
Make a road up there, find a muggle-free spot and I will place one
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Can you possibly add a DT Matrix for Nelson Mandela Bay? Would like to fill it up if possible.
Here you are
Active caches in Nelson Mandela Bay, as at 2013/09/25
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KZN Statistics:
Most favourite points: GC31WZR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 23 FPs
Thanks Danie - very interesting reading indeed!
Has Table Mountain been moved?
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Possible to do similar for favourite points?
If somebody has figured out another way, (maybe via the API?) please let me know!
Danie: In GSAK, set a filter of the caches you want to update (e.g. SA_All), then use the API call 'Refresh Cache Data'. In the subsequent dialog box, choose the 'Light' option. This is very quick, and you can run 10 000 per day - so it will do all of the active caches in SA.
This 'Light' option refreshes the cache page info and FPs, but does not fetch any logs.
PT
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GCVCB4 Storms death walk
We still have a DNF on this one.
Was gonna say the same thing - right down to the DNF
Ten finds in the last year or so ....
Statistics - bend it anyway you like!
in South Africa
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Now that really is surprising .... and completely opposite to what I thought. When I get a chance (Mega website going live hopefully today), I will trawl through the logs of those early caches and see what I can find.