+Danie Viljoen Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 South African Statistics: No. of active caches: 9430 Cache density: 77.2 caches/10000km2 Avg. distance between caches: 12.2km Densest 1km radius: GC3WDXM - MEGA SA 2012 – Protea caffra: 34 caches (10.8 caches/km2) Densest 10km radius: GC4P956 - Leonie: 646 caches (2.06 caches/km2) One cache for every 5618 persons Farthest point from a cache: S30° 09.138' E20° 34.813': 161.27km from the nearest cache Most isolated cache: GC1V1G4: Springbokpan 153.81km from the nearest cache Centroid: S29 13.290 E26 41.972 (closest to GC1P0G1: Rustfontein Yacht Club) Average age of active caches: 2.86 years Median age of active caches: 2.38 years Total no. of finds: 531003 Finds on active caches: 426980 Most finds: iPajero: 8113 finds Most found cache: GCMYYZ - Table Top Trove: 772 finds Most favourite points: GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 157 FPs Cache planter with the most favourite points (active caches): paddawan: 474 FPs Most (active) caches planted: Louwtjie&Vroutjie: 265 Ratio of Finds to Favourite points (active caches): 25.3 Average no. of finds per active cache: 45.0 Average no. of finds per year per active cache: 15.7 Total no. of cachers: 13239 No. of cachers during last 12 months: 5386 Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Most isolated caches in South Africa: The distances are to the next nearest cache: 1. GC1V1G4 - Springbokpan, Northern Cape 138.48 km 2. GC4JA4A - Kalahari Sands, Northern Cape 133.49 km 3. GC1DGTW - Tonteldoos XVIII - Hanover Foxhole, Northern Cape 61.03 km 4. GC3QJ0H - Carnarvon se Blikkantien, Northern Cape 60.88 km 5. GC19AR7 - Wild animals, Northern Cape 60.08 km 6. GC2RNBH - Modern Art Projects South-Africa, Northern Cape 56.33 km 7. GC2B1EJ - Nossob River, Northern Cape 49.59 km 7. GC4J773 - Calcrete of the Kalahari, Northern Cape 49.59 km 9. GC2GPD7 - Battle of Doornkraal, Free State 48.56 km 10. GC20F0J - Lebombo's Rhyolite, Mpumalanga 45.12 km Link to comment
+Hesamati Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Most isolated caches in South Africa: The distances are to the next nearest cache: 1. GC1V1G4 - Springbokpan, Northern Cape 138.48 km 2. GC4JA4A - Kalahari Sands, Northern Cape 133.49 km 3. GC1DGTW - Tonteldoos XVIII - Hanover Foxhole, Northern Cape 61.03 km 4. GC3QJ0H - Carnarvon se Blikkantien, Northern Cape 60.88 km 5. GC19AR7 - Wild animals, Northern Cape 60.08 km 6. GC2RNBH - Modern Art Projects South-Africa, Northern Cape 56.33 km 7. GC2B1EJ - Nossob River, Northern Cape 49.59 km 7. GC4J773 - Calcrete of the Kalahari, Northern Cape 49.59 km 9. GC2GPD7 - Battle of Doornkraal, Free State 48.56 km 10. GC20F0J - Lebombo's Rhyolite, Mpumalanga 45.12 km The toughest challenge in South Africa! Who has found most of them? Will it be the iCachers from the Eastern Cape or not...? Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Who has found most of them? Will it be the iCachers from the Eastern Cape or not...? Interesting, they are all from the Western Cape: Hesamati: 5 battlerat and pussycat: 5 cownchicken: 5 AndyT1: 4 The Huskies: 4 Tricky Vicky & Mickey 4 Average number of finds per year for the 10 most isolated caches in South Africa: GC4JA4A Kalahari Sands 0.00 finds/year GC1V1G4 Springbokpan 1.16 finds/year GC19AR7 Wild animals 3.88 finds/year GC3QJ0H Carnarvon se Blikkantien 4.76 finds/year GC2GPD7 Battle of Doornkraal 5.40 finds/year GC4J773 Calcrete of the Kalahari 5.68 finds/year GC20F0J Lebombo's Rhyolite 8.62 finds/year GC2RNBH Modern Art Projects South-Africa 9.94 finds/year GC2B1EJ Nossob River 13.72 finds/year GC1DGTW Tonteldoos XVIII - Hanover Foxhole 15.56 finds/year Average for South Africa: 15.70 finds/year Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Most of the 81 D/T combinations planted in Africa: 1. TechnoNut: 43 2. Cism: 37 2. Fish Eagle: 37 2. iPajero: 37 5. lacruz18: 36 6. CrystalFairy: 35 7. Discombob: 34 7. luisftas: 34 7. paddawan: 34 10. iNokia: 33 Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Most finds in Africa during September 2013: 1. paddawan: 647 finds 2. AndyT1: 643 finds 2. The Huskies: 643 finds 4. Henzz: 623 finds 5. Nerre: 242 finds Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Most finds in Africa during the past 12 months: 1. Thedivespot: 1694 finds 2. iPajero: 1468 finds 3. The Huskies: 1137 finds 4. GorNat: 1122 finds 5. ferdie.estelle: 1120 finds 6. TechnoNut: 1028 finds 7. JanMich: 1022 finds 8. paddawan: 948 finds 9. tojoliveira: 944 finds 10. AndyT1: 918 finds Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 (edited) Most difficult finds: The following cachers have found the most of the 149 active South African caches which have a Difficulty or Terrain rating of 5: 1. AndyT1: 78 finds 2. iPajero: 64 finds 3. cownchicken: 59 finds 4. paddawan: 54 finds 5. The Huskies: 54 finds 6. Henzz: 53 finds 7. Zambesiboy: 50 finds 8. terunkie: 45 finds 9. TechnoNut: 30 finds 10. battlerat and pussycat: 25 finds And for Difficulty or Terrain of 4.5 or greater (298 caches) 1. AndyT1: 129 finds 2. iPajero: 113 finds 3. cownchicken: 107 finds 4. The Huskies: 93 finds 5. paddawan: 90 finds 6. Henzz: 89 finds 7. terunkie: 84 finds 8. Zambesiboy: 80 finds 9. TechnoNut: 53 finds 10. hovelj: 43 finds Edited October 24, 2013 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 On 10 November 2013 the Western Cape became the second province (after Gauteng) to reach 2000 active caches, when GCRVRD - Swimming Lessons was published. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Most active cachers in November: The following cachers have found the most South African caches in November 2013: 1. iPajero: 458 finds 2. Fish Eagle: 455 finds 3. ClodsM: 264 finds 4. GorNat: 241 finds 5. JanMich: 207 finds 6. HeinG: 187 finds 7. dolos: 181 finds 8. K.T.C.: 174 finds 9. Jors: 155 finds 10. Chris'nDenise: 134 finds Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Most active cachers in Africa: For the year 1 Dec 2012 to 30 Nov 2013: 1. iPajero: 2263 finds 2. Thedivespot: 1681 finds 3. GorNat: 1378 finds 4. The Huskies: 1264 finds 5. JanMich: 1259 finds 6. ferdie.estelle: 1077 finds 7. TechnoNut: 1026 finds 8. dolos: 979 finds 9. paddawan: 952 finds 10. tojoliveira: 929 finds Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 2013 Statistics: 2893 new caches have been published in South Africa during 2013. This gives an average of almost 8 new caches per day, and is a new record. Of these 2893 caches, 2315 (80%) were Traditional 293 (10.1%) were Mystery 138 (4.8%) were Events 86 (3%) were Multi 30 (1%) were Earthcaches 15 (0.5%) were CITO 2 (0.1%) were Wherigo Of the 2893 new caches, 1248 (43.1%) were Micro 892 (30.8%) were Small 144 (5%) were Regular 37 (1.3%) were Large 285 (9.9%) were Other 287 (9.8%) were Not chosen Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Top cache planters in South Africa in 2013: 1. weeman078: 133 caches 2. FiddleTwigs: 71 caches 3. TechnoNut: 60 caches 4. PieterM: 59 caches 5. eksteen: 48 caches 6. family Behrens: 43 caches 6. Puzzled Penguins: 43 caches 6. LegoMikey: 43 caches 9. Snuffeltuffies: 42 caches 10. HeinG: 39 caches Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Most finds in South Africa in 2013: 1. iPajero: 2286 2. GorNat: 1467 3. Thedivespot: 1378 4. JanMich: 1347 5. The Huskies: 1177 6. ferdie.estelle: 1063 7. TechnoNut: 1031 8. dolos: 1028 9. paddawan: 936 10. ClodsM: 928 Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Most found South African caches in 2013: 1. GC2GG2C Nobel Square: 291 finds 2. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 256 finds 3. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel: 168 finds 4. GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Lodge: 142 finds 5. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania: 133 finds 6. GC2JMX3 Gate to knowhere: 131 finds 7. GC37VF3 Tip of Africa: 122 finds 8. GC2AA8R SS: RMS Athens: 119 finds 9. GC3G9YQ Mother City Meander Series - Company Gardens: 117 finds 10. GC3G9Z8 Mother City Meander Series - Mount Nelson Hotel: 114 finds The first non-Western Cape cache comes in at position 27 with 90 finds Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 (edited) At the end of 2013, there were 9910 active caches in South Africa. During 2013, only 353 of the active caches (3.6%) have not been found at least once. The average number of finds per active cache during 2013 was 14.8 During 2013 a total of 5809 cachers found a total of 154402 caches in South Africa, for an average of 26.6 finds/cacher. Of these 5809 cachers, 1806 were "active", in the sense that they found an average of at least 1 cache/month during 2013. Edited January 4, 2014 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+AndyT1 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Thanks Danie, interesting stuff as always !!! Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Interesting to see the big dip in 2012. I wonder why that was? Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Interesting to see the big dip in 2012. I wonder why that was? I don't think it really was a dip in 2012; rather a peak in 2011. Mostly because of the Gauteng Power Series. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Number of new caches in 2013, per province: Province End 2012 End 2013 New % Increase KZN 1868 2641 773 41.4% Gauteng 3272 4002 730 22.3% Western Cape 2377 2924 547 23.0% Eastern Cape 956 1444 488 51.0% Mpumalanga 992 1144 152 15.3% Free State 691 775 84 12.2% North West 394 460 66 16.8% Limpopo 410 445 35 8.5% Northern Cape 191 209 18 9.4% KZN had the largest increase (773) but percentage-wise the Eastern Cape grew the most with 51%. (These numbers include all caches, including archived ones.) Link to comment
+TechnoNut Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 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 Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Where did we cache the most during 2013? Province Finds (2013) Increase 1. Gauteng 52592 35.7% 2. Western Cape 41196 34.7% 3. KZN 24418 45.7% 4. Eastern Cape 14184 63.5% 5. Free State 7413 30.8% 6. Mpumalanga 6916 28.2% 7. North West 4425 32.8% 8. Limpopo 1900 19.6% 9. Northern Cape 1258 36.1% South Africa 154402 37.0% I was surprised to see that Gauteng got the most finds, seeing that the Western Cape dominated the list of most found caches. (80% of the top 100 are in the Western Cape.) Something interesting is happening in the Eastern Cape - a massive 63.5% increase during 2013! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Is it possible to look at the above slightly differently? e..g: # of ACTIVE caches at end of 2012 and 2013 by province. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to determine the number of active caches at a specific time in the past - caches get archived and unarchived all the time, and the very old caches do not even have publish logs. For this reason I have started to periodically record the numbers of active caches for the three big provinces, but only since a few months ago. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Number of active caches per African country: (As on 2 January 2013) 1. South Africa 9933 2. Canary Islands 1350 3. Madeira 930 4. Namibia 245 5. Egypt 240 6. Zimbabwe 148 7. Morocco 128 8. Kenya 118 9. Tunisia 94 10. Reunion 90 11. Tanzania 73 12. Swaziland 69 13. Botswana 54 14. Mauritius 47 15. Seychelles 39 16. Mozambique 33 17. Cape Verde 32 18. Zambia 25 19. Uganda 24 20. Angola 21 21. Lesotho 20 22. Ethiopia 18 22. Gambia 18 24. Malawi 17 25. Djibouti 15 25. Ghana 15 25. Senegal 15 28. Madagascar 12 29. Saint Helena 11 30. Algeria 10 30. Libya 10 30. Mali 10 33. D.R.C. 8 33. Nigeria 8 35. Mauritania 7 36. South Sudan 6 37. Sao Tome and Principe 5 37. Sierra Leone 5 37. Sudan 5 40. Congo 4 40. Gabon 4 40. Niger 4 43. Ceuta (Spain) 3 43. Burkina Faso 3 43. Cameroon 3 43. Equatorial Guinea 3 43. Rwanda 3 43. Togo 3 49. Benin 2 49. Ivory Coast 2 51. Melilla (Spain) 1 51. Burundi 1 51. Chad 1 51. Eritrea 1 51. Guinea 1 51. Western Sahara 1 Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Here is an interesting one - I was curious to know what and where the smallest circle is which includes at least half the active caches in South Africa. It turns out to be a circle with a radius of 274.51km centered around GC11VRF - April Fools Gold Cache, close to the border of Natal and the Free State. This is not in a particularly cache-dense area, but it is equidistant to Pretoria, Johannesburg, Nelspruit and Durban. The area of this circle is less than 18% of the area of South Africa. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Number of cachers per province: Province 2013 All Time 1. Western Cape 2580 7195 2. Gauteng 1974 5106 3. KZN 1246 3190 4. Eastern Cape 992 2420 5. Mpumalanga 804 2287 6. Free State 689 1760 7. North West 597 1681 8. Limpopo 393 1323 9. Northern Cape 325 973 South Africa 5809 14421 So although more finds have been logged in Gauteng, the Western Cape had more cachers during 2013. I suspect it is a tourist effect. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 (edited) Of the 5809 cachers who logged at least one find in South Africa during 2013, only 2193 (38%) have cached in South Africa before. In other words, 62% of the cachers started in 2013. (This graph shows the caching experience (in years) of all cachers who found at least one cache during 2013.) Edited January 7, 2014 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+CapeDoc Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Man, I love it when Danie gets going! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Caching career length: The early fall-out rate for new cachers is very high. The following graph illustrates this: What this means is that 32% of all South African cachers quit after their very first day (first bar on the graph) and another 12.8% stop caching within their first week. Another way to look at this is the following graph, which shows the attrition rate: This shows that 72% of all South African cachers don't make it past 6 months, and 79% quit caching within a year. Only 10% make it to 2.5 years, and 1% continue caching for 6 years. Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) Caching career length: The early fall-out rate for new cachers is very high. The following graph illustrates this: ................................ {SNIPPED} This shows that 72% of all South African cachers don't make it past 6 months, and 79% quit caching within a year. Only 10% make it to 2.5 years, and 1% continue caching for 6 years. Very sad from a growth point of view of the sport. However, if this is compared to - say 3-5 years ago - it might show a different story. I think that the advent / proliferation of smartphones might be the culprit here?? Many people might "experiment" with their smartphones and then fail to continue caching. Perhaps "success rate" is another issue. If They have a couple of DNF's they might become despondent? Either way, the stats from Danie are ALWAYS interesting albeit always open to interpretation - as is the case here with MY interpretation. It would be great if we could somehow reverse that stats with a 72% SUCCESS rather than attrition. BTW, I don't think the figures would be very different here in the Middle East either. We see "new" names in the logs every month only to never see them again. Edited January 8, 2014 by cincol Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) Many people might "experiment" with their smartphones and then fail to continue caching. Perhaps "success rate" is another isuue. If They have a couple of DNF's they might become despondent? I have been wondering about the reasons as well. Caching tourists will form part of the early quitter group. How big, is anybody's guess, but I suspect it is less than a third. I don't think DNFs are to blame - very few of the early quitters have logged any DNFs. (That unfortunately does not mean that they did not have any DNFs - all too few cachers log them, in my experience.) I blame the proliferation of boring micros for this. I vividly remember the thrill of finding my first cache - an interesting photo puzzle cache with a big container with lots of stuff. I wonder if I would have continued if it was a leaking pill container on a road sign... On the other hand, how many active cachers do we really want in South Africa? With more cachers come more cache maintenance and more caches. (The total number of caches appears to correlate with the total number of cachers.) Edited January 8, 2014 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+PieterM Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) I thoroughly enjoy all these stats that Danie produces. Although I am not very active on posting side I just love looking at the stats. Thanks Danie Edited January 9, 2014 by PieterM Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Number of cachers per year: The following graph shows the total number of cachers who have found at least one cache in South Africa, per year: If the trend is followed, we should see a few more than 7000 in 2014. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Finds per cacher: The following graph shows the average number of (South African) finds per cacher in South Africa over the years: It is probably too early to be sure, but it appears to be flattening out. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Caches versus Cachers: This graph shows the ratio of available (active) caches to cachers in South Africa, over the last few years. (Unfortunately I do not have the numbers of active caches earlier than 2008.) It appears as if the number of cachers grows at roughly the same rate as the number of caches. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Best caching karma: A person's caching karma is defined as the ratio of the number of finds on caches he owns, to his own number of finds. The ten cachers with the best karma in Africa are: 1. Geo_TUMa: 1522 2. Captain Zarco: 1494 3. Ford Z Consull: 1096 4. cleems: 1010 5. dampfjojo: 881 6. lawinberg: 806 7. Teamnegativ: 791 8. davidre: 791 9. gschwanz: 740 10. miksyn: 670 Almost all of these are cachers who live in Europe, who have found a single cache in Africa and hidden one or two (popular) caches here in the early days of caching. The following list is probably more meaningful - it only includes cachers who have found at least 50 caches: 1. Ballangen: 119.58 2. PRIMUS CACHER: 68.89 3. m*sh: 55.20 4. Team Marzipan: 48.08 5. penolhunter: 45.90 6. lschmuhl: 45.52 7. ferofero: 44.06 8. Skihasen: 43.66 9. broiler: 35.63 10. lacruz18: 34.96 Worst karma: There are many cachers who have hidden no caches at all. (In fact, in my list of 60692 cachers who have found at least one cache in Africa, only 4.8% have hidden a cache). The cachers with the most finds (and no owned caches) in Africa are: 1. mart514: 1413 2. BrendsZA: 1120 3. horticalheta: 888 4. SonKind: 815 5. residencial.pordosol: 799 6. iguana man: 742 7. escorcios: 739 8. marmotte407: 669 9. bizzy bee: 665 10. Farrico&Andreia: 632 Of the 60692 cachers in Africa, only 1915 have a karma larger than 1. In other words, only 3.2% give more than they take! (All of these numbers are up to the end of 2013, and includes the whole of Africa. My numbers for Africa excluding South Africa may not be 100% complete.) Edited January 9, 2014 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Cachers with the most find logs on their owned caches in Africa: 1. luisftas: 19017 2. Teamnegativ: 18991 3. Louwtjie&Vroutjie: 15430 4. ricardomariagoncas: 14580 5. lacruz18: 13006 6. GEO936: 12745 7. NotBlonde: 10449 8. Skihasen: 9868 9. paddawan: 9704 10. Leon St: 9407 11.5% of all the finds in Africa have been on caches which belong to one of these ten! Edited January 9, 2014 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+ThomasFamilyZA Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Worst karma: There are many cachers who have hidden no caches at all. (In fact, in my list of 60692 cachers who have found at least one cache in Africa, only 4.8% have hidden a cache). The cachers with the most finds (and no owned caches) in Africa are: 1. mart514: 1413 2. BrendsZA: 1120 3. horticalheta: 888 4. SonKind: 815 5. residencial.pordosol: 799 6. iguana man: 742 7. escorcios: 739 8. marmotte407: 669 9. bizzy bee: 665 10. Farrico&Andreia: 632 Of the 60692 cachers in Africa, only 1915 have a karma larger than 1. In other words, only 3.2% give more than they take! (All of these numbers are up to the end of 2013, and includes the whole of Africa. My numbers for Africa excluding South Africa may not be 100% complete.) There is one flaw with these statistics which is a function of geocaching.com only allowing one owner for a geocache. Someone like BrendsZA who is an active part of ThomasfamilyZA and has been involved in all the caches we have hidden doesn't get any credit for them as they are all owned by ThomasfamilyZA. Link to comment
+Hesamati Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Thanks Danie! Geniet dit soos altyd. Link to comment
+battlerat and pussycat Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Hi, Must echo Hesamati's sentiments - I always enjoy reading this thread. Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 2 quick Earthcaching stats: 1) South Africa has just had it's 200th active Earthcache published. Strangely enough there have been a handful that have been archived. 2) Around 85% of all active South African Earthcaches have at least 1 Favourite Point - a very high percentage! Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 2 quick Earthcaching stats: 1) South Africa has just had it's 200th active Earthcache published. Strangely enough there have been a handful that have been archived. 2) Around 85% of all active South African Earthcaches have at least 1 Favourite Point - a very high percentage! What were the reasons for the EC's being archived? Anything spectacular or just lack of support from the CO's? Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 2 quick Earthcaching stats: 1) South Africa has just had it's 200th active Earthcache published. Strangely enough there have been a handful that have been archived. 2) Around 85% of all active South African Earthcaches have at least 1 Favourite Point - a very high percentage! What were the reasons for the EC's being archived? Anything spectacular or just lack of support from the CO's? Five archived in total: One was Erosion related - and was part of a large municipal rehabilitation in Joburg - and suddenly no more Earthcache to observe Another was access related - cachers could not access. Others I believe were CO related. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Farthest caches in South Africa: The following two caches are 1824.11km from each other: GC2C19Q - SS-Phyllisia (on Cape Point) GC4N80H - CROOKS CORNER (in the corner of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) This is about 800m less than the theoretical maximum possible in South Africa. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 (edited) Duplicate posting. Edited January 24, 2014 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 (edited) I am currently generating a series of statistics for Earthcaches worldwide. If you are interested, go to this link. Edited January 24, 2014 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Interactive map of the number of active caches per province. Link to comment
+Thrips Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Van ons kant af, baie dankie Danie vir die statistieke. Ek geniet dit vreeslik baie! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Interactive map of the number of new caches per African country, per year. Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Van ons kant af, baie dankie Danie vir die statistieke. Ek geniet dit vreeslik baie! +1 Link to comment
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