And the One Millionth cache is...

[+Simply Paul]

According to the front page, "There are 999,675 active geocaches around the world." - Obviously this goes up and down -more up than down- as caches are approved and archived but I wonder if 1,000,000's ever been hit before, and if not, which will be the 'official' 1,000,000th cache. Only 325 to go....

[+sTeamTraen]

According to the front page, "There are 999,675 active geocaches around the world." - Obviously this goes up and down -more up than down- as caches are approved and archived but I wonder if 1,000,000's ever been hit before, and if not, which will be the 'official' 1,000,000th cache. Only 325 to go....

1,000,000 has been hit before, in that the one millionth GC code was created about a year ago and the one millionth published cache followed not too long afterwards.

 

There has never previously been a "number of currently active caches" in excess of 1,000,000. And given that that number is only updated once or twice every 24 hours, once we go over it, you'd need a remarkable world-wide conspiracy of reviewers, cachers, or both, to archive enough caches to get it below the magic million.

 

True geeks won't celebrate until the number hits 1,048,576, of course.

Edited March 7, 2010 by sTeamTraen

[+The Bongtwashes]

 

True geeks won't celebrate until the number hits 1,048,576, of course.

 

And I was going to celebrate 1048575

[+The Duckers]

It now says...

 

1,001,001 active

[+goldpot]

It now says...

 

1,001,001 active

 

...now 1,001,890 active geocaches!

[+Bear and Ragged]

It now says...

 

1,001,001 active

 

...now 1,001,890 active geocaches!

Any bets on when 2,000,000 is announced?

[+goldpot]

It now says...

 

1,001,001 active

 

...now 1,001,890 active geocaches!

Any bets on when 2,000,000 is announced?

 

Half the time it took to get to 1 million! So, in 5 years time.

[+Simply Paul]

I'd say less than that. It should be 2013 by my reckoning. There's this page which has the 'story'. Thanks to twitter.com/geocachingoxon for the link.

Edited March 9, 2010 by Simply Paul

[+Bear and Ragged]

I'd say less than that. It should be 2013 by my reckoning. There's this page which has the 'story'. Thanks to twitter.com/geocachingoxon for the link.

Interesting article.

 

Was going to say more like 4 years to 2,000,000. But after reading...

 

Imagine if 1/3 of the cachers were to go out and hide 1 cache during the next month.

[+NCad]

The One Millionth active geocache has been identified. It is GC24QG8 and is located in Vista, California. The identification determination was really quite sophisticated.

[+Amberel]

The One Millionth active geocache has been identified. It is GC24QG8 and is located in Vista, California. The identification determination was really quite sophisticated.

I don't know how they claimed to have done it, but unless it was Groundspeak themselves working through their database transaction logs, it sounds to me an impossible thing to do because it depends on the relative timings of events such as reviewer publication logs, archivals and even unarchivals.

 

You could even have more than one "millionth active cache", if a cache was archived after the figure was reached the first time .

 

Rgds, Andy

[Neath Worthies]

Looking at the cache description it seems to have been written in the full knowledge that it would be the "magic" cache. How is that possible before the event?

 

Also the Hidden date is a bit odd.

 

Strange. But then again, at least its not a micro

[+dino-irl]

It's impossible to determine the 1 millionth cache and I have a feeling that cache page is written tongue in cheek

[+currykev]

"And the One Millionth cache is..."

 

Not mine so I don't really care.

And neither does everyone else.

[+Simply Paul]

Someone, somewhere must care. A little bit. Not me though. I'm rather too cool to be that geeky...

[Deceangi]

Someone, somewhere must care. A little bit. Not me though. I'm rather too cool to be that geeky...

 

There is a simple answer to resolving it everyone who had a cache published on the day we crossed the 1,000 000 Active cache threshold. Has the right to say

 

"Well my cache might have been the I millionth Active cache, listed on Geocaching.com"

 

So all of you stand up and take a bow

 

Deci

[+Bear and Ragged]

Someone, somewhere must care. A little bit. Not me though. I'm rather too cool to be that geeky...

 

There is a simple answer to resolving it everyone who had a cache published on the day we crossed the 1,000 000 Active cache threshold. Has the right to say

 

"Well my cache might have been the I millionth Active cache, listed on Geocaching.com"

 

So all of you stand up and take a bow

 

Deci

And all the reviewers who published a cache on the on the MAY have published the 1,000,000 cache, and can say "I may have been the reviewer to publish that cache!"

 

Stand up, and take a bow!

[+currykev]

As the 1,000,000th cache was literally just about to be published......................

I archived 3 of mine!

[+ChaceGuild]

And according to the Groundspeak e-Newsletter I got earlier, the 1 millionth *active* cache was published sometime on the 8th March

 

So anyone that got a cache published on 8th March can say "Mine may be the millionth active"

[Deceangi]

me runs off to check the records to see if I Published any caches, on that day

 

Deci

[+Wavvy]

I had 2 caches published on the 8th. Can I claim the 1,000,000th cache?

[+MartyBartfast]

I had 2 caches published on the 8th. Can I claim the 1,000,000th cache?

 

Yeh, go on then. If anyone complains tell 'em I said it was OK

[+ChaceGuild]

I had 2 caches published on the 8th. Can I claim the 1,000,000th cache?

 

You may most certainly claim that... it may be afterall

[+caravanpotts]

me runs off to check the records to see if I Published any caches, on that day

 

Deci

 

You published ours on that day - so can we claim the Millionth together????!!!!!

[+caravanpotts]

GC24PRY

I am claiming that I may be the Millionth - this was our first cache too - so doubly special