Statistics - bend it anyway you like!

June 27, 2013

The above D/T profiles for the different provinces will be interesting - will give an idea if these are determined by geography or sociology...

1.6k · June 27, 2013

Difficulty per province:

Terrain per province:

(Sorry, the scale should be 1, 1.5, ... 5, and not 1, 2, ... 9)

Edited June 27, 2013 by Danie Viljoen

1.6k · June 27, 2013

How long do you think it takes for 50% of all the active caches in South Africa to be found?

June 28, 2013

Difficulty per province:

Terrain per province:

(Sorry, the scale should be 1, 1.5, ... 5, and not 1, 2, ... 9)

NICE - thanks! Terrain seems to make general geographic sense.

How long do you think it takes for 50% of all the active caches in South Africa to be found?

In my case it's an irrational number as my find rate is probably < growth rate...

1.6k · June 28, 2013

Percentage of active caches found vs. time:

What this graph means is that it takes only 41 days for half of all the active caches in South Africa to be found, and 135 days (4.5 months) for 80% to be found. Only 6% of all the caches remain unfound over a year. What really amazes me about this graph is that it is virtually identical to one I generated in August 2009, when there were only 40% of the number of caches that exist now.

1.6k · June 28, 2013

In my case it's an irrational number as my find rate is probably < growth rate...

I meant all South African finds of all cachers.

During the past year the growth rate finally overtook even the fastest cachers. The number of active South African caches increased by 1197 during the past year, and during the same period iPajero found 1112. So for the first time their number of unfound caches grew!

1.6k · June 28, 2013

Number of new and active cachers:

This graph shows the number of cachers that have found their first South African cache in each year. Currently more than 8 cachers start up daily. A total of 4854 cachers found at least one South African cache during the last year. 64% of all the cachers who found something during 2012 have started during 2012.

The number of active cachers (those who found an average of at least 1 cache/month) increased from 1206 to 1630 (35%) over the past year.

4.2k · June 29, 2013

Thanks - a lot faster than I thought. My initial guess was around 140 days.

Nice stat on cacher numbers too. And these would be locals - not a high percentage of tourists, as I imaging that would have been fairly stable.

1.6k · June 29, 2013

And these would be locals - not a high percentage of tourists, as I imaging that would have been fairly stable.

There is unfortunately no easy way to determine this. The high logging frequency in places like Table Mountain points to tourists. Every first-time caching tourist to South Africa will of course be counted as a beginning cacher and the time period does include the MEGA event...

4.2k · June 29, 2013

And these would be locals - not a high percentage of tourists, as I imaging that would have been fairly stable.

There is unfortunately no easy way to determine this. The high logging frequency in places like Table Mountain points to tourists. Every first-time caching tourist to South Africa will of course be counted as a beginning cacher and the time period does include the MEGA event...

I'm not so sure the MEGA would have had a great impact????

I'd go with a fairly smooth lined curve from your graph.

1.6k · July 1, 2013

Favourite point distribution:

A total of 15287 favourite points has been allocated to 4023 of the 8561 South African caches.

To view it differently, with 1 favourite point, a cache is in the top 47% of all South African caches, with 2 it is in the top 30%. To get into the top 10%, a cache needs more than 5 favourite points. See the following graph:

4.2k · July 1, 2013

Thanks Danie - very interesting.

1.6k · July 2, 2013

Cache age distribution:

The following graph gives the age distribution of the active South African caches:

1.6k · July 3, 2013

South African caches published per year:

4.2k · July 3, 2013

South African caches published per year:

I guess 2011 was the GPS spike - and I would have envisaged the MEGA would have had a bigger impact last year.

1.6k · July 4, 2013

Active South African caches with the most waypoints:

GC2Z1JG	Walkabout Rhodes:	            26
GC1DW98	Outeniqua Mountain Cross:	    14
GC1MMAB	Local Paradise! False Bay Panorama: 13
GC21YR1	Platkop:	                    13
GC3GPVZ	Diepgatkloof View:	            13
GC3GQ71	False Bay Vista:	            13

(Parking coordinates, entrances and via points are counted as well.)

1.6k · July 4, 2013

Most active cachers in Africa:

For the year 26 June 2012 to 25 June 2013:

1.  iPajero:	           1107 finds
2.  TechnoNut:	           1051 finds
3.  Thedivespot:           1049 finds
4.  ferdie.estelle:         940 finds
5.  PORKY2:	            863 finds
6.  TeamDJ*:	            842 finds
7.  DonJolley:	            841 finds
8.  hovelj:	            811 finds
9.  terunkie:	            782 finds
10. dandrade:	            778 finds
10. tojoliveira:            778 finds

Most African finds, all time:

1.  iPajero:	           7786	finds
2.  Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 3570	finds
3.  Louise_Gerhard:	   3459	finds
4.  Danie Viljoen:	   3372	finds
5.  cownchicken:	   3344	finds
6.  rodnjoan:	           3314	finds
7.  Antron:	           3132	finds
8.  cache-fan:	           3066	finds
9.  Leon St:	           2819	finds
10. Wormgeocash:	   2711	finds

Edited July 4, 2013 by Danie Viljoen

1.6k · July 5, 2013

Most African countries cached:

1. k3h5:	           13 countries
1. diveduo:	           13 countries
3. Carbon Hunter:	   12 countries
3. kilronan:	           12 countries
5. pe3cek:	           11 countries
5. La Kedi:	           11 countries
5. Amarakana:	           11 countries
6. Alibabarhabarberbarbar: 10 countries
7. TechnoNut:	            9 countries
7. Hesamati:	            9 countries
7. catmousses:	            9 countries
7. lady.manuela:	    9 countries
7. mobotter:	            9 countries
7. tulak:	            9 countries
7. watschel:	            9 countries

Only 12% of all the cachers in Africa have found a cache in more than one country.

Edited July 5, 2013 by Danie Viljoen

2.3k · July 5, 2013

Most African countries cached:

1. k3h5:	           13 countries
1. diveduo:	           13 countries
3. Carbon Hunter:	   12 countries
3. kilronan:	           12 countries
5. pe3cek:	           11 countries
5. La Kedi:	           11 countries
5. Amarakana:	           11 countries
6. Alibabarhabarberbarbar: 10 countries
7. TechnoNut:	            9 countries
7. Hesamati:	            9 countries
7. catmousses:	            9 countries
7. lady.manuela:	    9 countries
7. mobotter:	            9 countries
7. tulak:	            9 countries
7. watschel:	            9 countries

Only 12% of all the cachers in Africa have found a cache in more than one country.

Interesting stats. They might not be 100% correct depending on where some of these cachers have cached, as Groundspeak has some quirks vis-s-vis certain countries. An example - I have cached in Northern Ireland but Groundspeak picks it up as "Ulster" and registers this under Ireland and not United Kingdom which it should be.

As an aside, although I don't live in South Africa my finds in SA are more than any of the other 19 countries I have cached in! :blink: Unfortunately Qatar doesn't have that many caches to find so I have to hunt them down in other countries.

Edited July 5, 2013 by cincol

4.2k · July 8, 2013

Most African countries cached:

1. k3h5:	           13 countries
1. diveduo:	           13 countries
3. Carbon Hunter:	   12 countries
3. kilronan:	           12 countries
5. pe3cek:	           11 countries
5. La Kedi:	           11 countries
5. Amarakana:	           11 countries
6. Alibabarhabarberbarbar: 10 countries
7. TechnoNut:	            9 countries
7. Hesamati:	            9 countries
7. catmousses:	            9 countries
7. lady.manuela:	    9 countries
7. mobotter:	            9 countries
7. tulak:	            9 countries
7. watschel:	            9 countries

Only 12% of all the cachers in Africa have found a cache in more than one country.

- just need to log a new cache - and then I can claim another country (and a 100% record in that country too ) - easy as there was only one cache in Cote d'Ivoire

1.6k · July 8, 2013

Most caches placed in Africa:

1.  Louwtjie&Vroutjie: 280
2.  Fish Eagle:	       256
3.  Wazat:	       200
4.  GEO936:	       191
5.  TechnoNut:	       169
6.  CrystalFairy:      166
7.  SawaSawa:	       164
8.  NotBlonde:	       158
9.  iPajero:	       144
10. paddawan:	       136

Most African caches placed during the last 12 months:

1.  Phyllypsyus:	65
2.  pannie&medusae:	58
3.  colinblue:	        55
4.  Wh00:	        54
5.  TechnoNut:	        45
6.  family Behrens:	43
7.  SawaSawa:	        39
8.  togtog:	        38
8.  Sclanders Clan:	38
8.  PieterM:	        38

1.6k · July 9, 2013

Total finds per district municipality:

For the past 12 months:

1.  Cape Town:	      23040 (16.9% of the total)
2.  Pretoria:	      22632 (16.6%)
3.  Durban:	      11914 (8.7%)
4.  Johannesburg:     10292 (7.6%)
5.  West Rand:	       7487 (5.5%)

48. John Taolo Gaetsewe: 86 (0.06%)
49. Joe Gqabi:	         83 (0.06%)
50. Vhembe:	         70 (0.05%)
51. Alfred Nzo:	         35 (0.03%)
52. O.R.Tambo:	         28 (0.02%)

4.2k · July 10, 2013

Total finds per district municipality:

For the past 12 months:

1.  Cape Town:	      23040 (16.9% of the total)
2.  Pretoria:	      22632 (16.6%)
3.  Durban:	      11914 (8.7%)
4.  Johannesburg:     10292 (7.6%)
5.  West Rand:	       7487 (5.5%)

48. John Taolo Gaetsewe: 86 (0.06%)
49. Joe Gqabi:	         83 (0.06%)
50. Vhembe:	         70 (0.05%)
51. Alfred Nzo:	         35 (0.03%)
52. O.R.Tambo:	         28 (0.02%)

OK - here is a challenge. Is there a decent interactive (zoomable) map/link to all the Municipal districts in SA? I'd really like to start moving towards getting these lesser known districts some activity. But am not too sure where they are :0 :unsure: :blink: - not good for a S African I know - but I'd like to change that.

1.6k · July 11, 2013

OK - here is a challenge. Is there a decent interactive (zoomable) map/link to all the Municipal districts in SA? I'd really like to start moving towards getting these lesser known districts some activity. But am not too sure where they are :0 - not good for a S African I know - but I'd like to change that.

I don't know of an interactive map, but there are maps on www.demarcation.org.za and Wikipedia (look under the different provinces).

1.6k · July 11, 2013

Number of caches (including archived caches) per district municipality:

1.  City of Cape Town	        Western Cape   1511 caches
2.  City of Tshwane	        Gauteng	       1436 caches
3.  Ethekwini	                Kwazulu Natal  1036 caches
4.  City of Johannesburg	Gauteng	        957 caches
5.  Ehlanzeni	                Mpumalanga      781 caches
6.  Ekurhuleni	                Gauteng	        514 caches
7.  West Rand	                Gauteng	        452 caches
8.  Nelson Mandela Bay	        Eastern Cape	375 caches
9.  Mangaung	                Free State	361 caches
10. Cape Winelands	        Western Cape	327 caches
11. Overberg	                Western Cape	318 caches
12. Cacadu	                Eastern Cape	307 caches
13. Bojanala	                North West	292 caches
14. Eden	                Western Cape	271 caches
15. Umgungundlovu	        Kwazulu Natal	259 caches
16. Uthukela	                Kwazulu Natal	243 caches
17. West Coast	                Western Cape	174 caches
18. Sedibeng	                Gauteng	        171 caches
19. Buffalo City	        Eastern Cape	169 caches
20. Gert Sibande	        Mpumalanga	161 caches
21. Mopani	                Limpopo	        159 caches
22. Amajuba	                Kwazulu Natal	148 caches
23. Thabo Mofutsanyane	        Free State	140 caches
24. Amathole	                Eastern Cape	135 caches
25. Fezile Dabi	                Free State	128 caches
26. Nkangala	                Mpumalanga	126 caches
27. iLembe	                Kwazulu Natal	121 caches
28. Waterberg	                Limpopo	        108 caches
29. Dr Kenneth Kaunda	        North West	106 caches
30. Ugu	                        Kwazulu Natal	105 caches
31. Uthungulu	                Kwazulu Natal	 79 caches
32. Capricorn	                Limpopo	         76 caches
33. Lejweleputswa	        Free State	 73 caches
34. Namakwa	                Northern Cape	 69 caches
35. Frances Baard	        Northern Cape	 65 caches
36. Umkhanyakude	        Kwazulu Natal	 51 caches
37. Sisonke	                Kwazulu Natal	 49 caches
38. Joe Gqabi	                Eastern Cape	 42 caches
39. Vhembe	                Limpopo	         42 caches
40. Sekhukhune	                Limpopo	         33 caches
41. Chris Hani	                Eastern Cape	 31 caches
42. Xhariep	                Free State	 31 caches
43. Pixley ka Seme	        Northern Cape    30 caches
44. Central Karoo	        Western Cape	 30 caches
45. Zululand	                Kwazulu Natal	 29 caches
46. Umzinyathi	                Kwazulu Natal    24 caches
47. Siyanda	                Northern Cape    24 caches
48. O.R.Tambo	                Eastern Cape     21 caches
49. Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati	North West       17 caches
50. Ngaka Modiri Molema	        North West       14 caches
51. John Taolo Gaetsewe	        Northern Cape    12 caches
52. Alfred Nzo	                Eastern Cape      4 caches

Edited July 11, 2013 by Danie Viljoen

July 11, 2013

Number of active caches per district municipality:
3.  Ethekwini                	Kwazulu Natal  1036 caches

Danie - are you sure about this one?

I have an extensive database and can only find 713 active in Ethekwini. If I include archived caches, my total is 1041.

PT

July 11, 2013

OK - here is a challenge. Is there a decent interactive (zoomable) map/link to all the Municipal districts in SA? I'd really like to start moving towards getting these lesser known districts some activity. But am not too sure where they are :0 - not good for a S African I know - but I'd like to change that.

Grant - I have a .gpx (and .gdb) file of all the Mun. Districts which can be viewd in Mapsource or Basecamp. Yell if you want.

1.6k · July 11, 2013

Number of active caches per district municipality:
3.  Ethekwini                	Kwazulu Natal  1036 caches
I have an extensive database and can only find 713 active in Ethekwini. If I include archived caches, my total is 1041.

PT

Sorry, the numbers are for ALL caches, up to 9 July 2013.

July 11, 2013

Any chance we could see the top 10 rarest d/t combos in SA?

July 11, 2013

Any chance we could see the top 10 rarest d/t combos in SA?

Here you are Dave. Based on all active caches in South Africa, including event caches.

Edited July 11, 2013 by TechnoNut

July 23, 2013

Well done to Padawan!

First cacher to get 500 FP!

What percent of all SA FP does he own?

4.2k · July 23, 2013

Well done to Padawan!

First cacher to get 500 FP!

What percent of all SA FP does he own?

Stunning - Well done Paddy

July 24, 2013

Well done to Padawan!

First cacher to get 500 FP!

What percent of all SA FP does he own?

Who-ha! Great one Padawan!

1.6k · July 24, 2013

Well done to Padawan!

First cacher to get 500 FP!

What percent of all SA FP does he own?

17123 FPs have been allocated to South African cache owners. This means paddawan received 2.9% of the total.

July 24, 2013

I don't know if this is the right place to ask my question, but here goes anyway.

Can a person export only your finds including data via GSAK into a excel CSV file?

July 24, 2013

I don't know if this is the right place to ask my question, but here goes anyway.

Can a person export only your finds including data via GSAK into a excel CSV file?

The best place to ask the question is on the GSAK forums - see here.

But - a quick answer - you can export any GSAK data into a .csv file. Set a filter (if required) for your export and click the buttons

Edited July 24, 2013 by TechnoNut

1.6k · August 12, 2013

Most African finds: 10 August 2012 - 9 August 2013:

Several new names on the list:

1.  Thedivespot     1410 finds
2.  TechnoNut	    1201 finds
3.  iPajero	    1180 finds
4.  ferdie.estelle  1013 finds
5.  PORKY2	     918 finds
6.  hovelj	     864 finds
7.  Wh00	     858 finds
8.  tojoliveira      856 finds
9.  dandrade	     823 finds
10. TeamDJ*	     818 finds

1.6k · August 12, 2013

Fastest 2000 African finds:

There are now 26 cachers who have found more than 2000 caches in Africa. (Jors is the latest addition to the list.) The fastest 2000 finds are:

1.  iPajero	             243 days
2.  MadSons	             291 days
3.  Leon St	             702 days
4.  Danie Viljoen            743 days
5.  PORKY2	             758 days
6.  B and C Inc	             762 days
7.  rodnjoan	             784 days
8.  TechnoNut	             851 days
9.  Louise_Gerhard           931 days
10. Antron	             988 days

Slowest 2000 African finds:

1.  Jors	            4588 days (12.56 years)
2.  Tricky Vicky & Mickey   3083 days ( 8.44 years)
3.  Noddy	            3011 days ( 8.24 years)
4.  The Huskies	            2642 days ( 7.23 years)
5.  battlerat and pussycat  2477 days ( 6.78 years)
6.  cownchicken	            2429 days ( 6.65 years)
7.  Fish Eagle	            2395 days ( 6.56 years)
8.  cache-fan	            2346 days ( 6.42 years)
9.  RedGlobe	            2215 days ( 6.06 years)
10. rodnjoan	            2102 days ( 5.76 years)

1.6k · August 12, 2013

Most active cachers in Africa:

The following cachers have the highest average number of African finds over their whole career (from first find to last find):

1.  Thedivespot	    5.41 finds/day
2.  MadSons	    4.00 finds/day
3.  iPajero	    3.32 finds/day
4.  tojoliveira	    3.12 finds/day
5.  JanMich	    3.08 finds/day
6.  LegoMikey	    3.08 finds/day
7.  dandrade	    3.00 finds/day
8.  TeamDJ*	    2.95 finds/day
9.  ClodsM	    2.81 finds/day
10. ferdie.estelle  2.81 finds/day

(I only considered cachers who have been active for at least 100 days.)

1.6k · August 13, 2013

Most found South African caches:

For the year 10 August 2012 to 9 August 2013:

1.  GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel,	             CapeDoc,	  294 finds
2.  GC2GG2C - Nobel  Square,	                             Cape Trio,	  232 finds
3.  GC3B0EJ - MEGA South Africa 2012,	                     GoSA,	  210 attended
4.  GC3X91A - MEGA SA 2012 – Keep me Posted,	             Wormgeocash, 175 finds
5.  GC3WPYX - 9Icon Walk – Sterculia murex,	             Leon St,	  169 finds
6.  GC3XCM1 - 9Icon Walk – Starting with a Puzzle,	     Wormgeocash, 168 finds
7.  GC3WE2H - 9Icon Walk - WHERE SHALE WE GO?,	             Jors,	  159 finds
8.  GC37VF3 - Tip of Africa,	                             Zephyr2,	  158 finds
8.  GC3WXG3 - 9Icon Walk - Voortrekker Monument Postal Tree, Leon St,	  158 finds
10. GC2JMX3 - Gate to knowhere,	                             fspirit,	  156 finds

1.6k · August 15, 2013

Size distribution of new caches:

After my umpteenth nano find this month, I thought it would be interesting to compare the size distribution of recently placed caches with the first few years:

The total numbers for 2001 - 2006 and for 2013 are comparable.

The first striking fact is that during the early years Regular caches were the norm - 41% of the total, vs. only 6% now. (Now only about a seventh of what it used to be!)

The number of Smalls stayed about the same.

The number of Micros more than doubled to become the most common size by far.

To my surprise the number of new Large caches stayed roughly the same.

Adding the numbers of Large, Regular and Small shows that 37% of recent caches can hold a TB, vs. 73% in the early years!

4.2k · August 15, 2013

Thanks Danie - interesting and true. Even a new cache here in KZN - the first cacher finder remarked about the size and swag in the cache container. That used to be the norm when I started. Hopefully we can reverse the trend in SA - kids 9and adults) love swag and a big container!!!!

1.6k · August 16, 2013

the first cacher finder remarked about the size and swag in the cache container. That used to be the norm when I started. Hopefully we can reverse the trend in SA - kids 9and adults) love swag and a big container!!!!

You are right. I can understand why people place micros in cities, but it really frustrates me if I have to search for a micro on a mountain!

August 16, 2013

Thanks for the stats Danie, aways a good read :-)

And I do agree wih your sentiments regarding cache size.

4.2k · August 16, 2013

the first cacher finder remarked about the size and swag in the cache container. That used to be the norm when I started. Hopefully we can reverse the trend in SA - kids 9and adults) love swag and a big container!!!!

You are right. I can understand why people place micros in cities, but it really frustrates me if I have to search for a micro on a mountain!

Also after a difficult puzzle or multi - to get to another nano/micro

1.6k · August 16, 2013

We crossed the threshold of 9000 active caches for South Africa last Saturday, 10 August 2013. At the current rate, we should reach 10000 on 23 Dec 2013.

Excluding events, 73.2% of all the South African caches ever published are still active.

Edited August 16, 2013 by Danie Viljoen

August 16, 2013

A 3 day hike to search for a nano on the top of the drakensberg is kak. Any chance we can see those size distributions per province?

1.6k · August 16, 2013

Find no. 500 000 in South Africa:

This happened on 10 August 2013, when Kjkerrigan logged a find on GC4FD8C - Blaauwklippen Road.

4.2k · August 16, 2013

Find no. 500 000 in South Africa:

This happened on 10 August 2013, when Kjkerrigan logged a find on GC4FD8C - Blaauwklippen Road.

Great stat - 1/2 a million! Wonder how fast the next 500k will be?

Do you have a graph of finds per yer and a cumulative?

1.6k · August 16, 2013

Any chance we can see those size distributions per province?

Statistics - bend it anyway you like!

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