+Lat34North Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) 2008 Waymarking Year in Review At the end of 2008 we have seen some impressive growth in the number of active listings on the Waymarking site. Waymarking represents almost 18% of all active listings across all three Groundspeak games. We have passed 150,000 listings and have well over 800 unique categories to choose from. The Community Server forum software was restored to proper functionality as well. 2009 promises to be a big year for Waymarking with an anticipated new search engine, continued growth and enjoyment for everyone. Keep those cameras clicking! Posted on 12/28/2008 7:05:00 AM by Checkmark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wonder what the number of "active listings" Waymarking is in 2014?? Edited August 25, 2014 by Lat34North Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) 2008 Waymarking Year in Review At the end of 2008 we have seen some impressive growth in the number of active listings on the Waymarking site. Waymarking represents almost 18% of all active listings across all three Groundspeak games. We have passed 150,000 listings and have well over 800 unique categories to choose from. The Community Server forum software was restored to proper functionality as well. 2009 promises to be a big year for Waymarking with an anticipated new search engine, continued growth and enjoyment for everyone. Keep those cameras clicking! Posted on 12/28/2008 7:05:00 AM by Checkmark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wonder what the number of "active listings" Waymarking is in 2014?? Okay, I'm stumped. Obviously Waymarking.com and Geocaching.com, but what's the third? Anyway, if you use Waymarking and Geocaching, Waymarks make up 18.5% of all listings as of this post, so there's been very little change in the last 6 years. I guess both have been growing at the same rate, although one clearly gets far more support than the other. If Waymarking.com got the support it needs, it probably would have grown much more. Edit: I guess Wherigo is the third, though there's a lot of crossover between that and Geocaching.com. I'm not sure how to account for that. Compared to the other two sites, though, I think Wherigo is statistically insignificant (gut feeling), and it's more difficult to get a total number of those, so I'll just ignore that. Edited August 25, 2014 by The A-Team Quote Link to comment
+Manville Possum Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 (edited) The third would be Benchmarking. Edited August 26, 2014 by Manville Possum Hunters Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 (edited) I thought that Wherigo might be interesting. But the fact that it uses specialized hardware that I don't have, and am not likely to get, kinda does that in for me. Through the years the GPSrs added geocaching support, and they already have waypoints - which is all you really need for Waymarking. But I doubt that the below-the-top-end units (entry level to mid level) are ever going to add Wherigo capability. I could be wrong. But I don't see any trend toward adding it to the new low to mid-level units. It's kind of like video phones. No one bought one because no one had one because no one bought one. Geocaching took off so extremely (like basic telephones versus video phones), that it warranted adding the capabilities to the most basic units. But Wherigo ... ? (WheredItGo?) Edited August 26, 2014 by MountainWoods Quote Link to comment
+Lat34North Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 Maybe bruces or checkmark could find out and post it to the News page. Quote Link to comment
+lumbricus Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Presently there are 564,487 waymarks worldwide, listed in 1077 user-created categories. Quote Link to comment
+MountainWoods Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 (edited) If you go to the home page of Waymarking (when you can get there), the current count is given in a continuously-updated line of text. Look for Waymarking Site Statistics Presently there are 564529 waymarks worldwide, listed in 1077 user-created categories. Edited August 26, 2014 by MountainWoods Quote Link to comment
+gpsblake Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 waymarks by year via archive.org 1/29/14 - 591137 66.0k 1/18/14 - 525134 78.0k 1/14/13 - 447166 72.7k 1/12/12 - 374472 82.5k 1/13/11 - 291921 67.5k 1/12/10 - 224415 69.5k 1/17/09 - 155147 Must say, it's been very consistent since 2009 although a small ststisical drop over the past year Quote Link to comment
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