Statistics - bend it anyway you like!

[+CapeDoc]

Oldest active cachers:

The following cachers have been active for more than 8 years. (With active I mean the period between their first and last finds).

Rank, Cacher, Last find, Active period

1. Jors 2011/02/26 10.1 years

2. Tomsle 2010/01/20 10.0 years

3. warthog 2011/02/21 9.5 years

4. GuyHarwood 2011/02/27 9.3 years

5. Goofster 2011/02/13 9.1 years

6. hosta 2011/02/23 9.0 years

7. Brick 2010/09/15 8.9 years

8. natie 2010/12/26 8.9 years

9. Tricky Vicky & Mickey 2011/02/11 8.8 years

10. Royfamily 2010/08/03 8.7 years

11. ccbaker 2010/07/24 8.6 years

12. Stefanoodle 2011/02/27 8.4 years

13. GlobalRat 2011/02/24 8.4 years

14. Peter Scholtz 2009/09/12 8.4 years

15. cmerry 2009/07/09 8.1 years

Prof Charles Merry placed Sentinel view, 4 days after the first cache was placed in SA. He should be number 2. He probably registered a second account.

[+mr panda]

Most found South African caches in the past year:

The following caches have the most finds for the period 1 March 2010 to 28 Feb. 2011:

1. GCMYYZ - Table Top Trove, Western Cape: 109 finds

2. GC2GG2C - Nobel Square, Western Cape: 108 finds

3. GC25H9B - MF2010 St Martin's Bell, Gauteng: 104 finds

4. GC25JM7 - MF2010 John Trollope Tower, Gauteng: 101 finds

5. GC23XJ3 - Savannah, Western Cape: 94 finds

6. GC24H0C - MF2010 Joan of Parc, Gauteng: 92 finds

7. GC114RH - Cape Town TB Hotel, Western Cape: 90 finds

8. GC25EA9 - MF2010 Pyramid Keeper, Gauteng: 85 finds

9. GC25JKK - MF2010 Irene Corner Garden, Gauteng: 85 finds

10. GC182QZ - Gotteshaeuser: St. Martini Kirche, Western Cape: 84 finds

 

Doh! just missed it with 83 finds on GC2CG7X - Bertram Garden TB Hotel. Of course it is only 7 months old, so maybe next year. Thanks again for the wonderful stats.

 

EDIT: Actually as of a few minutes ago, it went up to 86

Edited March 2, 2011 by mr panda

[+Danie Viljoen]

Highest karma:

Caching karma is defined as the ratio of the sum of the finds on all the caches one owns, to all one's finds. Ideally it should be at least 1. Lower than 1 implies one is taking (finding) more than one gives. The average for the whole country is by definition, 1. The cachers with the highest karma are:

 

1. louwtjievdw: 13.6

2. NotBlonde: 12.3

3. radebuddyz: 11.5

4. Wolkynou: 10.1

5. batdude1: 9.5

6. geko4: 9.2

7. hawkdown: 7.6

8. Jakkals en Eendjie: 7.6

9. Metro Nomad: 7.6

10. landy 2001: 7.1

11. anlufu: 6.9

12. Gr8Scot: 6.7

13. Tartan_Terror: 6.4

14. AE_Rodney: 6.2

15. LeonW: 6.2

 

I only considered cachers who have found at least 50 caches.

Only 10% of all the South African cachers have a karma of 1 or higher.

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most cardinal caches found:

The cardinal caches are the caches that are most north, east, south and west. Currently these are GC15MJQ, GC10JC3, GC77E and GC2C1M9.

 

3 cachers have found 2 each:

iPajero

pagor

pe3cek

 

If one extends the list with the cache closest to the centroid of all the South African caches (GC1P0G1) and the 4 caches farthest northwest (GC2B1EJ), northeast (GC1MTXZ), southeast (GC16AE3) and southwest (GC2C19Q) of the centroid:

 

iPajero: 5 found

Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 3

iNokia: 3

[+DRDM & Raider]

Highest karma:

Caching karma is defined as the ratio of the sum of the finds on all the caches one owns, to all one's finds. Ideally it should be at least 1. Lower than 1 implies one is taking (finding) more than one gives. The average for the whole country is by definition, 1. The cachers with the highest karma are:

 

1. louwtjievdw: 13.6

2. NotBlonde: 12.3

3. radebuddyz: 11.5

4. Wolkynou: 10.1

5. batdude1: 9.5

6. geko4: 9.2

7. hawkdown: 7.6

8. Jakkals en Eendjie: 7.6

9. Metro Nomad: 7.6

10. landy 2001: 7.1

11. anlufu: 6.9

12. Gr8Scot: 6.7

13. Tartan_Terror: 6.4

14. AE_Rodney: 6.2

15. LeonW: 6.2

 

I only considered cachers who have found at least 50 caches.

Only 10% of all the South African cachers have a karma of 1 or higher.

 

Can you do a histogram of caching Karma to give an indication of where most people are sitting.

 

i.e. bar for every karma band and height is the % of people in that karma band

Karma band on X axis (rounded to closes 0.1) (0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 etc... 13.6)

 

Maybe duplicate exactly as above for

Karma / Years caching

 

[ List people in each band?!]

 

(As above, filter on people who found at least 50)

[+TechnoNut]

Highest karma:

Caching karma is defined as the ratio of the sum of the finds on all the caches one owns, to all one's finds. Ideally it should be at least 1. Lower than 1 implies one is taking (finding) more than one gives. The average for the whole country is by definition, 1. The cachers with the highest karma are:

 

 

My take on Karma is that it is a strange animal that may even need a bit of rethinking in line with the recent GS changes.

 

Let's examine a few scenarios:-

 

A new keen cacher gets going and starts to clean out his neighbourhood and all other nearest places, so he is finding lots of caches, but only placing a few. This calculates a low karma.

 

Then, as he gradually runs out of caches in his home area, his find rate drops dramatically, while other cachers are still finding his hides. Now his karma starts going up.

 

Next, he has a trip to London, where he finds 500 caches during his three-week vacation (or he could go to the US and do the ET Power trail and find 500 caches in two days). Karma plummets again.

 

Nothing in the above is indication of how he is contributing to the game.

 

 

Also consider the cacher who places a number of high quality, high difficulty puzzle caches - these will attract very few finds (virtually none by visitors), so his Karma will never get to the magic figure of 1.0. But that is not because he is putting nothing back into the game - He is in fact contributing to bettering the quality of caches in his area.

 

 

Of course there is the other side of the same coin - someone goes and drops a bundle of film canisters / pill boxes all over town, each with only a piece of paper stuck inside it, and none that require more than one brain cell to find in less than 30 seconds. These are fodder to the number chasers and he scores lots of finds, so his Karma rockets.

 

Now, by the current definition, this high Karma cacher is better than his mate above who has 1/5 the number of caches, but 10x the cache quality.

 

IMHO, we should be measuring karma (or something akin to karma, call it what you like - maybe Cache Magic?) by looking at the Favourite points gained by a cache, and expressing that number as a percentage of total hides. e.g. 20 favourite points over 40 caches placed = 0.5; and 40 favourite points over 30 caches placed = 1.33. This would be a better measure of what someone is putting back into the sport.

 

There are some problems with this suggestion as well - e.g. only Premium members can allocate favourite points, and those with fewer caches may have some built-in distortion. So maybe number of finds needs to come in as a moderating factor, also the number of placements.

 

Is this something worth thrashing around for a while?

[+Danie Viljoen]

Can you do a histogram of caching Karma to give an indication of where most people are sitting.

[+DRDM & Raider]

Can you do a histogram of caching Karma to give an indication of where most people are sitting.

 

Wow - interesting!

[ I know people sitting around the 0.01 mark ]

 

So from the above, 50% of all the cachers in SA have a Karma of >= 1 (They putting back into the game)

 

[ If we have people just finding caches, the sport will deplete with no new caches for anyone to find ]

[+DamhuisClan]

Wow Danie.

You are getting good with the SQL Lite queries.

 

I like reading them... glad to see we are one of the 49 teams who have found a cache in each province.

(Its the only place we feature LOL)

[+Danie Viljoen]

So from the above, 50% of all the cachers in SA have a Karma of >= 1 (They putting back into the game)

No, I am afraid the scale of my last graph is a bit misleading. I have normalized it to the number of cache hiders who have found at least 50 caches. Not only does this filter out those cachers with finds < 50, it also ignores the very large number of cachers who have not hidden any caches. The actual number of cachers whose karma > 1 is about 10% of the total.

 

To put it another way, 1% of all the cachers who have logged at least one find in South Africa, have received 50% of all finds on their own caches. 2.5% of cachers have received 75% of all the find logs. And 5.2% of all cachers have received 90% of all the find logs. So only a very few are really putting anything back into the game.

Edited March 4, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Danie Viljoen]

Logs and Finds per day:

For the past year the average number of finds per day in South Africa has been 196.

The average number of logs per day is 240.

 

The average number of finds per cacher is 25 for the last year.

The average number of logs per cacher is 31 for the last year.

 

The average number of finds over all time is 27.6 per cache.

The average number of logs over all time is 36.1 per cache.

 

A surprising 7% (206) of all cachers who have logged something during the year, have not found a single cache. One interpretation of this number can be that newbies require more assistance than we are currently providing.

[+B and C Inc]

Ag I just want to say, this is an incredible forum and the work that Danie does is under-valued.... It makes for incredible reading and I really don't know where he finds the time to manage all this stats. I for one really appreciate the work and effort put into providing the rest of us with this very fascinating stats. Thanks!!!

[+Carbon Hunter]

Agreed = all you guys that provide stats on a regular basis are stars = thanks Danie - I love seeing your lists of numbers.

[+SawaSawa]

Just adding my appreciation for all the great work being done!

[+Danie Viljoen]

A really obscure statistic:

 

Most mobile caches:

GC199X1 Kurisa Moya: 7 coordinate updates

GC10G1T Moreleta: 4 coordinate updates

GC17Y3N Golden Footprints: 4 coordinate updates

GC22E24 Doxa: 4 coordinate updates

[+Danie Viljoen]

Highest cache density:

Densest 1km radius in Africa: Around GC2P1BZ rocktube (Bloemfontein): 26 caches

Densest 10km radius in Africa: Around GCW0WF Christmas Parties (Cape Town): 321 caches

[+Danie Viljoen]

Caches with the most DNFs:

1. GCR2MW Old Bridge: 42

2. GCVCB4 Storms Death Walk: 33

3. GC195WD CG1 Nuts about Locos: 33

4. GCTYE4 On Safari in Pretoria: 32

5. GCYJJP Tranquility: 30

6. GCK3CC ND Botanical Garden: 29

7. GCXP27 Puddle Duck: 29

8. GC137MB Left over from World War II: 28

9. GC1GQKK Train - Drops Of Jupiter: 26

10. GCW9GG Them Stones: 25

[+Carbon Hunter]

As of today = the following caches have the most favourite points:

 

(1) 26 Sentinel View by Prof Charles Merry (GC185)Western Cape, South Africa

(2) 19 Ipanema by louwtjievdw (GC20XJH)Free State, South Africa

19 Little Netherlands TB Hotel by GEO936 (GC1GZ0K) Gauteng, South Africa

(4) 18 Sailors' Star by vespax (GCVDHN)Western Cape, South Africa

(5) 16 Kirstenbosch Gardens - Big 5 by CapeDoc (GC1BZ22) Western Cape, South Africa

(6) 15 Longfinger by Louwtjievdw (GC1WBRJ)Free State, South Africa

15 Table Top Trove by Richter Family (GCMYYZ)Western Cape, South Africa

(8) 13 A Tribute to Friends and Family by Pixel and Possum (GC2926W)Western Cape, South Africa

13 Table Mountain - Cape Town by spuzva (GC1ABZK) Western Cape, South Africa

13 Training by John-Gill (GCW8AV)Western Cape, South Africa

(11)12 FGC by Antron (GC2D3ZW)Gauteng, South Africa

 

there are certainly a number more Premium Members in the SA cachign community. I wonder if there are still a number that need to cast their votes?

 

As of today (6 March)= the following caches have the most favourite points:

 

(1)(--) 26 Sentinel View by Prof Charles Merry (GC185)Western Cape, South Africa

(2)(+1) 20 Little Netherlands TB Hotel by GEO936 (GC1GZ0K) Gauteng, South Africa

(3)(--) 19 Ipanema by louwtjievdw (GC20XJH)Free State, South Africa

(4)(--) 18 Sailors' Star by vespax (GCVDHN)Western Cape, South Africa

(5)(+1) 17 Kirstenbosch Gardens - Big 5 by CapeDoc (GC1BZ22) Western Cape, South Africa

(5)(+2) 17 Table Top Trove by Richter Family (GCMYYZ)Western Cape, South Africa

(7)(--) 15 Longfinger by Louwtjievdw (GC1WBRJ)Free State, South Africa

(7)(+2) 15 Training by John-Gill (GCW8AV)Western Cape, South Africa

(9)(+1) 14 A Tribute to Friends and Family by Pixel and Possum (GC2926W)Western Cape, South Africa

(9)(+1) 13 Table Mountain - Cape Town by spuzva (GC1ABZK) Western Cape, South Africa

(11)(--)12 FGC by Antron (GC2D3ZW)Gauteng, South Africa

[+Danie Viljoen]

Fastest cachers over time:

To generate the following two graphs, I determined the fastest 5 cachers over the previous year at 2-monthly intervals. It almost appears as if the overwhelmingly dominant no. 1 cacher during 2009 had a negative effect on the rest, who contrary to the growing trend, had fewer finds during the same period. If MadSons can keep it up, he will soon pose major competition to iPajero.

[+Danie Viljoen]

Jors joined the 1000 cache club yesterday. The following list gives the names of the 24 cachers who have found 1000 African caches, as well as the number of days it took to reach this milestone.

1. iPajero: 600

2. Danie Viljoen: 614

3. CrystalFairy: 673

4. gerhardoosMPsa: 726

5. Antron: 750

6. RedGlobe: 857

7. Henzz: 984

8. Fish Eagle: 988

9. Wormgeocash: 1037

10. GreenJaM: 1114

11. cache-fan: 1351

12. Wazat: 1377

13. Wildbirds: 1394

14. Leon St: 1404

15. cownchicken: 1455

16. KeithWood: 1457

17. DiePienaars: 1534

18. The Huskies: 1649

19. battlerat & pussycat: 1703

20. rodnjoan: 1714

21. Noddy: 1761

22. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 1951

23. GlobalRat: 2200

24. Jors: 3707

[+Danie Viljoen]

Longest Cache Listings:

The following caches have the longest listings, measured in characters. (Excluding pictures or other links)

1. GC2P7VV One Tonner for a true Centurion: 825419 characters

2. GC2BR0K 1ne Ton: 264584

3. GC2NMKB 2000 Smiley’s for Noddy: 227603

4. GC2EPCF DiePienaars' 10^3: 221468

5. GCRYPZ The Postman’s Potter: 219563

6. GC2520Q Garden's Puzzler 2: 68608

7. GC22VWQ Pristine: 52239

8. GC1CX5P Tonteldoos XI Machadodorp - Gold, Battles, Kruger: 43930

9. GC2GPZ1 Chilean Mine Rescue: 38346

10. GC1BTKJ Trade Centre: 37190

 

Shortest Listings:

1. GC13PCG J.C. be Damned: 0 characters

2. GC1GGRA St Blaize Trail: 0

3. GC1G23E The Crypted Pit: 17

4. GC2KGVE Dragons Cave: 23

5. GC2CE8C Usmar: 26

6. GC2GHJN Ye Olde Crib: 26

7. GCXD54 Tweelingdam: 28

8. GC1A1K9 You've got Mail!: 29

9. GC26VKH circle # 24 Reflect a bit: 29

10. GC2NDNM Quick Stops: 32

 

Shortest Listings, including hints:

1. GC1G23E The Crypted Pit: 17 characters

2. GC2KGVE Dragons Cave: 23

3. GC13PCG J.C. be Damned: 25

4. GC2NDNM Quick Stops: 32

5. GC1A1K9 You've got Mail!: 37

6. GC24ZDH Neels: 44

7. GCXD54 Tweelingdam: 44

8. GC279Y3 Red # 15: 45

9. GC2CE8C Usmar: 46

10. GC2NDXR Newcastle view #3: 46

Edited March 10, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Danie Viljoen]

Caches with the longest hints:

1. GCXBZQ The Da Vinci Code: 1421 characters

2. GC2CC5 Environmental Theme East - An Ironic Juxtaposition: 1374

3. GC9ED MADIBA TRAIL Bloemfontein: 845

4. GC2455X Tweede Waterval Redux: 753

5. GC2JMK7 Fire ~ Testing your Physiology: 733

6. GC1YXJC Big Head: 700

7. GC4034 Bipodosaurus in a Rampike Garden: 697

8. GC77E Cape Agulhas: 632

9. GC22HWR Old Impenjati River Bridge: 617

10. GC2C3A Danger Bay: 611

[+Danie Viljoen]

Cache listing length over time:

It is interesting to note that the average listing length of new caches (2011) is almost 4 times the average of 5 years ago. This trend is bad news for cachers who prefer to do paperless caching!

Edited March 10, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Wazat]

Jors joined the 1000 cache club yesterday. The following list gives the names of the 24 cachers who have found 1000 African caches, as well as the number of days it took to reach this milestone.

What is the provincial breakdown for the 1000 club. It is interesting to note this as I have been an underdog in the KZN caching community yet made it to the 1000 fastest. Maybe a more interesting figure would be the 500 club per province.

[+Danie Viljoen]

What is the provincial breakdown for the 1000 club.

I am not 100% sure about everyone - please correct me if I am wrong:

Gauteng: 13 cachers

cache-fan

RedGlobe

Danie Viljoen

Antron

CrystalFairy (now living in New Zealand)

Leon St

rodnjoan

Wormgeocash

GlobalRat

GreenJaM

KeithWood

Wildbirds

Jors

Western Cape: 5 cachers

Tricky Vicky & Mickey

cownchicken

battlerat and pussycat

Henzz

The Huskies

Natal: 3 cachers

Noddy

DiePienaars

Wazat

Mpumalanga: 2 cachers

Fish Eagle

gerhardoosMPsa (now living in Gauteng)

Eastern Cape: 1 cacher

iPajero

[+TechnoNut]

What is the provincial breakdown for the 1000 club.

I am not 100% sure about everyone - please correct me if I am wrong:

 

Natal: 3 cachers

Noddy

DiePienaars

Wazat

 

You can add DRDM and Raider to the list for KZN.

[+Danie Viljoen]

You can add DRDM and Raider to the list for KZN.

According to my numbers DRDM and Raider stands on 775 African cache finds - still some way to go.

[+TechnoNut]

You can add DRDM and Raider to the list for KZN.

According to my numbers DRDM and Raider stands on 775 African cache finds - still some way to go.

 

Aaaaahhhhh!!! I forgot about the African requirement ....

[+ScottScott]

What is the provincial breakdown for the 1000 club.

I am not 100% sure about everyone - please correct me if I am wrong:

Gauteng: 13 cachers

cache-fan

RedGlobe

Danie Viljoen

Antron

CrystalFairy (now living in New Zealand)

Leon St

rodnjoan

Wormgeocash

GlobalRat

GreenJaM

KeithWood

Wildbirds

Jors

Western Cape: 5 cachers

Tricky Vicky & Mickey

cownchicken

battlerat and pussycat

Henzz

The Huskies

Natal: 3 cachers

Noddy

DiePienaars

Wazat

Mpumalanga: 2 cachers

Fish Eagle

gerhardoosMPsa (now living in Gauteng)

Eastern Cape: 1 cacher

iPajero

 

Would be nice to be able to see this stat for the 500 and 750 mark, this will give a good view as to whom are the up and coming cachers.

Edited March 11, 2011 by ScottScott

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most verbose cachers:

The cachers with the highest average log length:

Rank, Cacher, Average, Found

1. Sussex Leprechauns 932 characters 39 finds

2. C.A.T.A 914 62

3. Joan&Jan 894 46

4. Volkswag 875 22

5. SawaSawa 822 537

6. GeoCRAt 779 27

7. RobSA 776 57

8. Boudewijn 666 22

9. GEO936 665 512

10. malo mystery 662 193

 

I only considered cachers with at least 20 African finds, and I calculated the average using only the Found and Attended log lengths.

 

The average log length is 198 characters, and the median is 120.

Edited March 11, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Danie Viljoen]

Highest log length total:

If one looks at the total length of all of a cacher's found logs:

1. iPajero: 913955 characters

2. gerhardoosMPsa: 911430

3. rodnjoan: 555715

4. MadSons: 546421

5. battlerat and pussycat: 496675

6. cownchicken: 493268

7. Fish Eagle: 483805

8. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 483549

9. Henzz: 479820

10. SawaSawa: 441603

 

Gerhard is only the equavalent of 5 of his logs behind iPajero, in spite of the fact that he has half the number of finds!

[+Danie Viljoen]

Lowest average log length:

For cachers with at least 20 African finds:

1. Alex125: 7 characters average

2. angazi6: 9

3. Nerine: 11

4. Bundubacher: 16

5. Kugan: 18

6. N.2.: 19

7. WD7: 23

8. merphan: 23

9. Sand lover: 23

10. AE_James: 24

[+CapeDoc]

Traverse reverse is a cache in Cape Town less than 5km from the center of the CBD. It was published in 2007,has a terrain rating of 4&1/2 stars, has never gone missing, and has only 8 finds. Are there similar, "urban" caches out there that are hardly found despite being so close to the CBD? I suppose some puzzle caches must have similar stats?

[+Wazat]

Traverse reverse is a cache in Cape Town less than 5km from the center of the CBD. It was published in 2007,has a terrain rating of 4&1/2 stars, has never gone missing, and has only 8 finds. Are there similar, "urban" caches out there that are hardly found despite being so close to the CBD? I suppose some puzzle caches must have similar stats?

 

Yes my closest un-found cache and one that has been so close but yet so far almost every week since I started Geocaching, Platberg just outside Harismith. I think as the crow flies it is 3.5km from the CBD. It has 5 finds on it since been placed almost 6 years ago.

Edited March 11, 2011 by Wazat

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most finds in a single municipality:

1. cownchicken: 806 finds in Cape Town (85% of all caches in this municipality)

2. battlerat and pussycat: 720 finds in Cape Town (76%)

3. Zambesiboy: 604 finds in Cape Town (63%)

4. MnCo: 554 finds in Cape Town (58%)

5. Henzz: 511 finds in Cape Town (54%)

6. capeccr: 509 finds in Cape Town (53%)

7. Jors: 499 finds in Pretoria (88%)

8. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 491 finds in Cape Town (52%)

9. tomtwogates: 485 finds in Cape Town (51%)

10. cache-fan: 466 finds in Pretoria (82%)

 

(This is up to 10 March 2011).

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most finds in a single province:

1. cownchicken: 1396 Western Cape

2. cache-fan: 1282 Gauteng

3. battlerat and pussycat: 1132 Western Cape

4. RedGlobe: 1102 Gauteng

5. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 991 Western Cape

6. Danie Viljoen: 929 Gauteng

7. rodnjoan: 913 Gauteng

8. iPajero: 885 Gauteng

9. KeithWood: 858 Gauteng

10. The Huskies: 855 Western Cape

 

(This is up to 10 March.)

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most finds in a day: 111 by dakardrix, Elsies and GreenJaM: 2010-09-11

Most finds in 7 days: 188 by Henzz (average of 27 per day for a week)

Most finds in 30 days: 482 by iPajero (average of 16 per day for a month)

Most finds in 365 days: 1438 by iPajero (average of 4 per day for a year)

[+Jors]

Most finds in a single municipality:

Sorted by percentage: (I just couldn't resist)

 

1. Jors: 499 finds in Pretoria (88% of all caches in this municipality)

2. cownchicken: 806 finds in Cape Town (85%)

3. cache-fan: 466 finds in Pretoria (82%)

4. battlerat and pussycat: 720 finds in Cape Town (76%)

5. Zambesiboy: 604 finds in Cape Town (63%)

6. MnCo: 554 finds in Cape Town (58%)

7. Henzz: 511 finds in Cape Town (54%)

8. capeccr: 509 finds in Cape Town (53%)

9. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 491 finds in Cape Town (52%)

10. tomtwogates: 485 finds in Cape Town (51%)

 

(This is up to 10 March 2011).

[+cincol]

Most finds in a single municipality:

Sorted by percentage: (I just couldn't resist)

 

1. Jors: 499 finds in Pretoria (88% of all caches in this municipality)

2. cownchicken: 806 finds in Cape Town (85%)

3. cache-fan: 466 finds in Pretoria (82%)

4. battlerat and pussycat: 720 finds in Cape Town (76%)

5. Zambesiboy: 604 finds in Cape Town (63%)

6. MnCo: 554 finds in Cape Town (58%)

7. Henzz: 511 finds in Cape Town (54%)

8. capeccr: 509 finds in Cape Town (53%)

9. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 491 finds in Cape Town (52%)

10. tomtwogates: 485 finds in Cape Town (51%)

 

(This is up to 10 March 2011).

 

Danie - Here is an interesting question for you. I have found pretty much every cache in Rustenburg - I think the municipal name in Bojanani (sp??) - the rest of them are mine! How would you work the macro to count both the hides AND finds? That might be interesting reading for places like East London where iPajero and iNokia have high percentages of hides as well. Nelspruit comes to mind for cachers like Fish Eagle and GPS Storm perhaps. Newcastle would be another one for wazat. Has the challenge been accepted?

[+Carbon Hunter]

I was thinking of something similar for iParjero in a place like the Eastern cape where they probably have a higher percentage - albeit on a much lower base number - and then as cincol points out - own hides skew the number?

 

Thanks agaion for a nice set of numbers.

[+B and C Inc]

Hi Danie,

Most SA cachers uses the StatsGen and BadgeGen macros from GSAK to reflect their statistics and badges in their own profile. One of the badges that you obtain is for caching in all 9 provinces in the country. Although this a badge, I think it is not a great reflection of who has cached all over SA. I read a recent post by IPajero where they said that they found a cache somewhere in the Northern Cape giving them now a cache in each one of the municipalities. I thought this was a great achievement and one I would greatly try to achieve also.

Would it be possible to give some statistic on Cachers compared to the number of municipalities in SA. This I think should rather be a badge than the number of provinces....

[+TechnoNut]

Most finds in a single municipality:

Sorted by percentage: (I just couldn't resist)

 

1. Jors: 499 finds in Pretoria (88% of all caches in this municipality)

etc ...

 

(This is up to 10 March 2011).

 

Danie - Here is an interesting question for you. I have found pretty much every cache in Rustenburg - I think the municipal name in Bojanani (sp??) - the rest of them are mine! How would you work the macro to count both the hides AND finds? That might be interesting reading for places like East London where iPajero and iNokia have high percentages of hides as well. Nelspruit comes to mind for cachers like Fish Eagle and GPS Storm perhaps. Newcastle would be another one for wazat. Has the challenge been accepted?

 

OK, so perhaps I am taking a purist view here ...

 

To find out a geocacher's percentage finds in a given area, you need to look at when the cacher started (Jors is a bad example since he has been around since the rinderpest), then take the number of active geocaches at that time, add all caches placed since then, subtract the cacher's hides - this will give a max possible finds, then express his finds in that area as a percentage of the max possible.

 

I suspect (but I may be very wrong) that the percentages above are total finds vs current active cache total.

 

And no, I would not like to write that query

 

PT

[+Danie Viljoen]

I suspect (but I may be very wrong) that the percentages above are total finds vs current active cache total.

No, the percentages are total finds divided by the total number of caches up to last Thursday, including archived caches. Jors has found more Pretoria caches than are currently active.

[+Jors]

To find out a geocacher's percentage finds in a given area, you need to look at when the cacher started (Jors is a bad example since he has been around since the rinderpest), then take the number of active geocaches at that time, add all caches placed since then, subtract the cacher's hides - this will give a max possible finds, then express his finds in that area as a percentage of the max possible.

 

@ rinderpest...

 

It would be difficult to get the number of active caches at a certain time in the past, since the caches did not have "published" and "archive" logs back then.

[+Danie Viljoen]

you need to look at when the cacher started (Jors is a bad example since he has been around since the rinderpest), then take the number of active geocaches at that time, add all caches placed since then, subtract the cacher's hides - this will give a max possible finds, then express his finds in that area as a percentage of the max possible.

This makes sense, but it is extremely difficult to determine the number of active caches at any specific date in the past. The reason is that not all archived caches have archive dates. To complicate matters, one often finds logs after a cache has been archived.

[+Danie Viljoen]

Would it be possible to give some statistic on Cachers compared to the number of municipalities in SA. This I think should rather be a badge than the number of provinces.

I am not sure I understand what you ask. Is it not answered in my message of 2 March, titled: Most municipalities found?

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most finds in 1 day: dakardrix, Elsies and GreenJaM: 111

Most finds in 2 days: Kwenda Tafuta: 129

Most finds in 3 days: Kwenda Tafuta: 140

Most finds in 4 days: Kwenda Tafuta: 141

Most finds in 5 days: Henzz: 156

Most finds in 6 days: Henzz: 177

Most finds in 7 days: Henzz: 188

Most finds in 8 days: Henzz: 189

Most finds in 9 days: Henzz: 190

Most finds in 10 days: Antron: 204

Most finds in 14 days: Antron: 255

Most finds in 1 month: iPajero: 482

Most finds in 2 months: iPajero: 704

Most finds in 3 months: iPajero: 736

Most finds in 6 months: iPajero: 958

Most finds in 1 year: iPajero: 1438

[+Jors]

...the number of municipalities in SA. This I think should rather be a badge than the number of provinces....

 

This was mentioned in the Badgegen forum, and did not seem a popular idea to use counties, although I'd also prefer to have the badge use counties (municipal districts)

[+Wazat]

Danie - Here is an interesting question for you. I have found pretty much every cache in Rustenburg - I think the municipal name in Bojanani (sp??) - the rest of them are mine! How would you work the macro to count both the hides AND finds? That might be interesting reading for places like East London where iPajero and iNokia have high percentages of hides as well. Nelspruit comes to mind for cachers like Fish Eagle and GPS Storm perhaps. Newcastle would be another one for wazat. Has the challenge been accepted?

 

Haa haa... I have found every cache in Newcastle, Ladysmith and Pietermaritburg. The three largest cities in KZN aside from Durban.... Does that skew the statistics a bit. And in two weeks I might add Bloemfontein to that list.... mmm. Even a look at GP shows a lot of smilies for me...

[+Wazat]

Who has found the most caches per province? I can expect iPajero has put many a cacher in their home province to shame, but it would be interesting to see which cacher from their own province is most prolific.

 

Can you also work out which cacher has the most finds in the smallest area.... ie: finding 200 caches in a 30km circle.