+J S-B Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 FEBRUARY 17, 2013 Geocaching.com celebrated 2 Million geocaches worldwide. When do we celebrate number 3 Million? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Jan 11th 2017. Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Jan 11th 2017. I heard January 10. Am I wrong? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Jan 11th 2017. I heard January 10. Am I wrong? I suppose we'll find out on Jan 10th Quote Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Jan 11th 2017. I heard January 10. Am I wrong? I suppose we'll find out on Jan 10th I calculated January 10th at 2358 hours cst. I could be off by a few minutes so there's a possibility of it happening on the 11th local time. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 First Quarter 2017. 14.02. 18:00 | 3,000,000 | geschätzt am 01.08. 3/3 would be cool. Hans Quote Link to comment
ohgood Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 how mamy are maintained ? Quote Link to comment
+lee737 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I wonder how many people will have caches hidden and written up, just ready to hit submit as the numbers tick upwards.....? Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 how mamy are maintained ? I can vouch for my 30. No promises on the remainder. Quote Link to comment
+Ant89 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 if giving a time be sure to give it in UTC as it's worth remembering that although this is a US owned company, it operates worldwide. Quote Link to comment
+captnemo Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Feb 29, 2017 Quote Link to comment
+Ben0w Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Feb 29, 2017 We will get a souvenir for that, will we? Quote Link to comment
+MKFmly Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Feb 29, 2017 We will get a souvenir for that, will we? Yes, this one! Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 how mamy are maintained ? I can vouch for my 30. No promises on the remainder. Only one in 100,000??! Say it ain't so, Hzoi! Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 I wonder how many people will have caches hidden and written up, just ready to hit submit as the numbers tick upwards.....? There were vicious rumors that #2,000,000 was not randomly chosen, but was actually cherry-picked from submissions that day in order to have a model cache take the honors. (I would never believe such tales of chicanery, of course!) Do you think number 3 million will be a so-called "winter friendly" cache?? (See relevant thread for acronym information.) Quote Link to comment
+Manville Possum Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 how mamy are maintained ? I can vouch for my 30. No promises on the remainder. Just a guess, but I think about 95% of the caches listed here are maintained by the CO and another 3% are community maintained. Groundspeak has a working system with volunteer reviewers and a very active community of geocachers that flag caches with issues. Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Where do they even show the number? It used to be right there on the home page, but I don't see it anywhere. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Where do they even show the number? [...] There: Cache Numbers Worldwide (click here) Hans Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Jan 11th 2017. I heard January 10. Am I wrong? I suppose we'll find out on Jan 10th I calculated January 10th at 2358 hours cst. I could be off by a few minutes so there's a possibility of it happening on the 11th local time. I figured that someone did an extrapolation calculation (which I assume lead to January 11). *However,* did they take into account that in the final week there will be an above-average number of submissions?? I went a day earlier for that reason, but that may not be nearly enough of an adjustment. Quote Link to comment
ohgood Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 how mamy are maintained ? I can vouch for my 30. No promises on the remainder. Just a guess, but I think about 95% of the caches listed here are maintained by the CO and another 3% are community maintained. Groundspeak has a working system with volunteer reviewers and a very active community of geocachers that flag caches with issues. well it sounds nice anyway. like a press release. Quote Link to comment
+bflentje Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Is the 3 millionth active cache or the 3 millionth GC number, according to the numbering system? I hope it's the first and not the latter. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Is the 3 millionth active cache or the 3 millionth GC number, according to the numbering system? I hope it's the first and not the latter. Yes, it will be the 3 millionth active cache. We passed the 3 millionth GC code long ago (roughly June 2012), and are now approaching 6 million (one created and published today was number 5908344). Once this one is over, how about guessing when we run out of 7-character GC codes? GCZZZZZ would be the 28,218,030th code, so it'll still be a while yet. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Once this one is over, how about guessing when we run out of 7-character GC codes? GCZZZZZ would be the 28,218,030th code, so it'll still be a while yet. We'd need to know what's on the "naughty words" list, as there are certain letter/number combinations that they won't use, so there aren't quite that many codes available. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Once this one is over, how about guessing when we run out of 7-character GC codes? GCZZZZZ would be the 28,218,030th code, so it'll still be a while yet. We'd need to know what's on the "naughty words" list, as there are certain letter/number combinations that they won't use, so there aren't quite that many codes available. The letters I, L, O, S, and U aren't used in GC codes because they can be confused with other characters. Otherwise, all other letters of the Latin alphabet and the numerals 0-9 are used, for a total of 31 possible characters (or "base-31"). Also, the codes before and including GCFFFF only used the letters A-F and the 10 numerals ("base-16" or "hexadecimal"). I was using this tool which takes all of this into account, so the numbers I quoted are accurate assuming that converter doesn't have any bugs. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Once this one is over, how about guessing when we run out of 7-character GC codes? GCZZZZZ would be the 28,218,030th code, so it'll still be a while yet. We'd need to know what's on the "naughty words" list, as there are certain letter/number combinations that they won't use, so there aren't quite that many codes available. The letters I, L, O, S, and U aren't used in GC codes because they can be confused with other characters. Otherwise, all other letters of the Latin alphabet and the numerals 0-9 are used, for a total of 31 possible characters (or "base-31"). Also, the codes before and including GCFFFF only used the letters A-F and the 10 numerals ("base-16" or "hexadecimal"). I was using this tool which takes all of this into account, so the numbers I quoted are accurate assuming that converter doesn't have any bugs. I thought there were some letter/number combinations,which could be construed as offensive, excluded too, e.g. there will never be a code GC1F*CK .... Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) [...] I thought there were some letter/number combinations,which could be construed as offensive, excluded too, e.g. there will never be a code GC1F*CK .... Yes, that's been avoided by not giving the U (as The A-Team just wrote before your post ) Mark: iSOUL is been letting out from Groundspeak. Hans Edited October 7, 2016 by HHL Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 [...] I thought there were some letter/number combinations,which could be construed as offensive, excluded too, e.g. there will never be a code GC1F*CK .... Yes, that's been avoided by not giving the U (as The A-Team just wrote before your post ) Mark: iSOUL is been letting out from Groundspeak. Hans Ah yes, didn't spot that, what about GC1C*CK given that all the numbers (including 0) are allowed Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Once this one is over, how about guessing when we run out of 7-character GC codes? GCZZZZZ would be the 28,218,030th code, so it'll still be a while yet. We'd need to know what's on the "naughty words" list, as there are certain letter/number combinations that they won't use, so there aren't quite that many codes available. The letters I, L, O, S, and U aren't used in GC codes because they can be confused with other characters. Otherwise, all other letters of the Latin alphabet and the numerals 0-9 are used, for a total of 31 possible characters (or "base-31"). Also, the codes before and including GCFFFF only used the letters A-F and the 10 numerals ("base-16" or "hexadecimal"). I was using this tool which takes all of this into account, so the numbers I quoted are accurate assuming that converter doesn't have any bugs. I thought there were some letter/number combinations,which could be construed as offensive, excluded too, e.g. there will never be a code GC1F*CK .... Going to have to run a search for GCWTF... Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) [...] Going to have to run a search for GCWTF... Hehe, that doesn't work because those short codes were just hexadecimal code (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F) Hans Edited October 7, 2016 by HHL Quote Link to comment
+baer2006 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Ah yes, didn't spot that, what about GC1C*CK given that all the numbers (including 0) are allowed A perfectly valid GC code (https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1C0CK_goodnight-loving-trail). I'm quite sure there are a lot of "interesting" GC codes in many languages, even if ILOSU are not available. Especially when 1 looks like I and 0 like O. Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Maybe I'll stop then. That's plenty. Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Interesting. The geocaching.com search page says there are 2,956,592 caches (2,899,639 if disabled caches are excluded) as of 18:03 in HQ's timezone. It would be interesting to see how the daily growth rate varies over the course of the year. I don't use GSAK, so not sure I can figure it out. I'm pretty sure that the majority of caches are in the northern hemisphere, so the winter weather might mean a slower rate of cache publications? Or maybe the holidays create an uptick in Event caches to counter any declines in physical cache placements? Or maybe there are more disables/archivals during certain parts of the year? Or maybe...??? Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 (edited) [...] It would be interesting to see how the daily growth rate varies over the course of the year. [...] It's decreasing at the very moment. The 3-3-3 trick is doable. There are 2964308 Groundspeak caches listed today. Cache listing # 3000000 will probably be published in 75 days on or around 14.02.2017. Current net growth rate: 478 caches/day | 14483 caches/month. Hans Edited December 1, 2016 by HHL Quote Link to comment
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