+HDV Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 (edited) An update to my post one year ago: distribution of active geocaches per member state of the European Union, considering area and population (table 2) and evolution in the number of active geocaches (table 1) over the past couple of years (actually ~50 weeks + ~50 weeks). * Joined the EU in 2007; I had no figures for 2006 hence no possible comparison. Note1: km2/cache = average available area in km2 per cache Note2: Cache/mill. Inh. = active geocaches per million inhabitants. Note3: Figures for population and area taken from Wikipedia. Simplistically assuming no variation between 2007 and 2008. Note4: Number of caches retrieved the 19 of June 2008 (aprox. 22:00 GMT). Edited July 19, 2008 by HDV Quote Link to comment
OC_PL Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) In Poland we can add more active geocaches to statistics from Poland geocache database http://www.opencaching.pl where are about 4000 active geocaches http://www.opencaching.pl/graphs/new-caches-oc-en.php Regards from Poland Edited August 13, 2008 by OC_PL Quote Link to comment
Dj Storm Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 In Romania, when I joined (August 24, 2006), there were 44 geocaches published on geocaching.com. The newest one was published on August 13, and probably no caches were archived between August 14-24, so 44 can be considered a correct number to be included in the comparison. This gives a 88.6% growth rate 2006-07. Quote Link to comment
Murus Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 In Hungary we have now exactly 2239 caches, just not all are published here. Quote Link to comment
+Saman Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 To Hungarian and Polish colleagues - as your caches are mostly not listed at gc.com, it is natural that they are not shown in these stats - it is your national game, not international one - not open for everybody (opencaching ...) Quote Link to comment
Murus Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 To Hungarian and Polish colleagues - as your caches are mostly not listed at gc.com, it is natural that they are not shown in these stats - it is your national game, not international one - not open for everybody (opencaching ...) and I'm really sorry about it... Quote Link to comment
nemrodek Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 To Hungarian and Polish colleagues - as your caches are mostly not listed at gc.com, it is natural that they are not shown in these stats - it is your national game, not international one - not open for everybody (opencaching ...) can you explaine why it isn't international? Quote Link to comment
+theplank Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 can you explaine why it isn't international? just try out the Hungarian geocaching site and you probably*) will see ... *) as long as you do not speak Hungarian Quote Link to comment
nemrodek Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 But in many countries the caches description on geocaching.com are also only in these countries languages (for example: Germany, Czech Republic). It's mean that gc.com is also NOT international. Quote Link to comment
+theplank Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 But in many countries the caches description on geocaching.com are also only in these countries languages (for example: Germany, Czech Republic). It's mean that gc.com is also NOT international. It is not (only) the problem of the cache descriptions but the fact that only a small fraction of caches hidden in Hungary are published on gc.com, the vast majority is published exclusively on gc.hu. There are even caches in Austria and probably in other countries too, which are published on gc.hu solely and not on any other (international) platform. Finding a traditional with an hungarian decription should not be the problem as long as you are able to get the basic information that there is one ... Quote Link to comment
nemrodek Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 But opencaching in Germany, Poland and Chech Republic are also English interface (I guess that "international platform" means that). Geocaching is one game independence to platform. So if this stats say that in Poland are 700 caches - it's no true and aren't stats of geocaching but of Groundspeak caches. Quote Link to comment
+kulhal Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 But opencaching in Germany, Poland and Chech Republic are also English interface (I guess that "international platform" means that). Geocaching is one game independence to platform. So if this stats say that in Poland are 700 caches - it's no true and aren't stats of geocaching but of Groundspeak caches. But you are on a Groundspeak forum, so what other statistics would you expect to see? The caches from other games are not relevant here... Quote Link to comment
nemrodek Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 (edited) I expect precision. the title of these stats are: distribution of active geocaches per member state of the European Union and it's not true because for example in Poland there is more than 4 000 geocaches and I repeat: opencaching isn't "other game" - this the same game - geocaching. And the proof can be fact that many caches are listed on both platforms. Edited October 9, 2008 by nemrodek Quote Link to comment
Murus Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 To Hungarian and Polish colleagues - as your caches are mostly not listed at gc.com, it is natural that they are not shown in these stats - it is your national game, not international one - not open for everybody (opencaching ...) can you explaine why it isn't international? Different is, that in a Hungarian cache you can find a password, an with this you can log the finding. There are some caches, wich are published here, but not on the Hungarian site, and the mods there aren't really tolerant in this case. Quote Link to comment
toczygroszek Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I expect precision. the title of these stats are: distribution of active geocaches per member state of the European Union and it's not true because for example in Poland there is more than 4 000 geocaches The title of Polish geocaching forum is "Geocaching in Poland" (translated), but there is only link to local opencaching page, no links to geocaching.com (where is more than 800 caches placed in Poland now). It is local database as in many other countries. Only Polish people register caches on opencaching.pl, Hungarian register on geocaching.hu, German on opencaching.de, Rusian on geocaching.ru etc, is only one database (geocaching.com) what is real international, that's the fact. Is not like Windows and Linux, because Linux is international, local databases are not compatible because there are different rules. and I repeat: opencaching isn't "other game" - this the same game - geocaching. And the proof can be fact that many caches are listed on both platforms. No, it isn't now. As you know on Polish database are registered many caches what only you need is find password in Google and left log on page. Polish opencaching include geocaching but is not the same game. Quote Link to comment
+ly2kw Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) is only one database (geocaching.com) what is real international, that's the fact. I'll second toczygroszek here. I don't get the idea of starting the alternative platform rather than slowly moving local caches to Groundspeak hosted international database. Why complicate things? Open your caches to all and make the game grow and more fun. Or do you treat the blind mole is better ugly frog? I also take this opportunity to publicly thank toczygroszek for his marvelous hides around Dublin. Edited February 20, 2009 by ly2kw Quote Link to comment
+nero855 Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I think one of the reasons for some countries to go "independent" from gc.com is the language issue. Moreover the platform in gc.com doesn't allow the use of not-latin characters, example cyrillic. If this is solved it makes sense to have one international database where cache descrition should be kept in both English and the local language. Quote Link to comment
+CheRny Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 (edited) I think one of the reasons for some countries to go "independent" from gc.com is the language issue. Moreover the platform in gc.com doesn't allow the use of not-latin characters, example cyrillic. If this is solved it makes sense to have one international database where cache descrition should be kept in both English and the local language. That's right! I am not sure what coders use for the site, but for php-coders there is always a problem with utf8_encode/utf8_decode function as it doesn't work correctly with cyrillic. I am as Russian unable to place a discription of a cache in English and plus in Russian. All I got after placing cyrillic symbols are ????????. If it'll be solved it'll be a great opportunity for Russian geocachers to place cache infos on gc.com. I am sure it's possible to make it as forum works great with cyrillics symbols. P.S. Testing: проверка See? It work's here. Edited May 28, 2009 by CheRny Quote Link to comment
+somloci Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Great stats! Any chance you have them for 2009 and 2010? Quote Link to comment
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