Approaching Half a Million Active Caches

[+gsmX2]

The last few weeks I have been noticing that we are approaching half a million active caches worldwide. As of right now there are 493,665. That's a little over 6,000 caches to go. How fast could we get there is everyone who reads this message were to set one cache?

 

I think less than a week.

 

GSMx2

[me_chris]

Seems like someone posts this topic about once a week

[+tabulator32]

When I initially saw this post, I thought "Gee! I think we should start a campaign where we rush to set out another 6.5k caches and break the half million mile mark".

 

Then , I considered it would probably result in 6.5k hastily planned and placed caches, often in equidistant locations under rows of light covers in vast parking lots and stuck magnetically to every other power meter behind the stores in a strip mall.

 

I then thought it better if we just allow mile mark occasion it to occur naturally.

 

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Where is Markwell? We need a Markwell here...

[+sbell111]

I'll wager that we hit 500,000 on the day after Christmas. I would have picked Christmas, but I suspect that the reviewers will have better things to do than approve caches on the holiday.

Edited December 12, 2007 by sbell111

[+trainlove]

Seems like someone posts this topic about once a week

 

Actually I think this is about the thousandth post on this topic, what a milestone.

 

Edited since somehow I got the wrong quote.

Edited December 12, 2007 by trainlove

[+tabulator32]

We are now at 494109 which is 444 more than we were on the first post of this message almost exactly 48 hours ago.

 

At this rate (222 per day) we should be at half a million in just under four weeks.

[+Footpower]

When I initially saw this post, I thought "Gee! I think we should start a campaign where we rush to set out another 6.5k caches and break the half million mile mark".

 

Then , I considered it would probably result in 6.5k hastily planned and placed caches, often in equidistant locations under rows of light covers in vast parking lots and stuck magnetically to every other power meter behind the stores in a strip mall.

 

I then thought it better if we just allow mile mark occasion it to occur naturally.

 

Ditto

[Deceangi]

I'll wager that we hit 500,000 on the day after Christmas. I would have picked Christmas, but I suspect that the reviewers will have better things to do than approve caches on the holiday.

 

Actually in the UK there are already several pre reviewed caches waiting to be published Christmas day by my 2 colleagues Eckington and Lactodorum [personally I'll be away from home with no net access] being pre reviewed means they've only got to log on and hit the publish button

[Keystone]

We get paid TWICE our normal wages when we work on a holiday, so the reviewers are happy to do that.

 

One of the states where I review caches, Pennsylvania, passed the 10,000 active cache mark at the beginning of the month. And one of my other states, Ohio, will hit 10,000 active caches early next year. The growth is astounding, which is why I'm quite happy with the reviewers' new collective bargaining agreement.

[+Elminster7781]

Speaking of all this...

 

Is there any way of seeing what number published a specific cache is?

[Keystone]

Sure, you can find out a cache's sequentially assigned number quite easily. It's included in pocket query data, for starters. Or, on the website, hover your mouse over the "log your visit" link at the top right corner of the cache page, and look at the URL in the information bar at the bottom of your browser. The number you see at the end of the URL is the cache number. The format looks like this:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?ID=1234567

 

Of course, that only shows you the sequential ID number assigned to that cache page upon creation. This number has little to do with the number of *active* geocaches.

[Uberquandary]

We get paid TWICE our normal wages when we work on a holiday, so the reviewers are happy to do that.

 

Wait.

[+sbell111]

We get paid TWICE our normal wages when we work on a holiday, so the reviewers are happy to do that.

Wait.

They're still not paid for caches listed on 'new media', such as the internet.

[+trainlove]

We get paid TWICE our normal wages when we work on a holiday, so the reviewers are happy to do that.

 

One of the states where I review caches, Pennsylvania, passed the 10,000 active cache mark at the beginning of the month. And one of my other states, Ohio, will hit 10,000 active caches early next year. The growth is astounding, which is why I'm quite happy with the reviewers' new collective bargaining agreement.

 

Twice nothing is still nothing, unless the volunteer reviewers are now employees.

[Uberquandary]

We get paid TWICE our normal wages when we work on a holiday, so the reviewers are happy to do that.

Wait.

They're still not paid for caches listed on 'new media', such as the internet.

 

Oh, good. I was fearing some corruption in the system.

[+Ltljon]

We get paid TWICE our normal wages when we work on a holiday, so the reviewers are happy to do that.

 

Yea, but you're a Platinum Member & we're not allowed to discuss that....

[+tabulator32]

We're now at 494704

 

Nearly 600 more in just about 36 hours!

 

(Averaging to about 398 per day vs. the earlier rate of 222 per day a couple days ago. Perhaps the holidays and related time off are helping increase the rate?)

 

5296 to go!

 

Edited December 15, 2007 by tabulator32

[+geowizerd]

We get paid TWICE our normal wages when we work on a holiday, so the reviewers are happy to do that.

 

 

Twice nothing is still nothing, unless the volunteer reviewers are now employees.

 

I think that was the joke...