Rob & Lisa Posted March 12, 2002 Share Posted March 12, 2002 Hi. I've gone through the UK cache logs and made up a chart showing month by month the number of new caches, caches found and new cachers which I thought was interesting so thought I might put it up for others to see. It's at: http://www.cookie.demon.co.uk/geocache/stats.html It's interesting to see the activity didn't actually drop over winter (just stayed constant) and now it is getting warmer and the new cachers per month is increasing the number of caches found is going through the roof. Anyway, enjoy. Bah. The new boards now let me put my URL in but they mung it. Either copy and paste it or remove the underscore before 'cookie' Quote Link to comment
Scottworld Posted March 12, 2002 Share Posted March 12, 2002 Hehehhe....you PERL king ...you !!! Quote Link to comment
LazyLeopard Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 Thanks, that's an interesting graph. The really tricky statistic to gather would be the rate at which caches get removed. I checked the Project Ape "Mission 10b - Meridian Snake" on my way to work this morning, and can confirm it's no longer there. That set me to wondering how long caches survive... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk Quote Link to comment
Rob & Lisa Posted March 13, 2002 Author Share Posted March 13, 2002 Hmm. Interesting. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to find archived caches and I can't find any way to find out when a cache was archived so I should be able to do this from now on but not for the months in the past. Quote Link to comment
Rob & Lisa Posted March 13, 2002 Author Share Posted March 13, 2002 At Richard's suggestion, I've added an Active cachers line to the chart. It's interesting that since October every month approximately half of the people geocaching started that month. There's also an average found line and the total found has it's own scale as it is so much higher than the others. Cheers, Rob. Quote Link to comment
LazyLeopard Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 quote:There doesn't seem to be an easy way to find archived caches...nor any way of telling whether they were just never approved? Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk Quote Link to comment
Rob & Lisa Posted April 26, 2002 Author Share Posted April 26, 2002 Hi. I've added another page to our Waypoints page at http://roblisa.com/geocache/ which lists the caches that have been archived since the end of March. The archived date is the date of the first update after it was archived so will probably be a few days out. Ok, 10 metres. It's somewhere around here... Quote Link to comment
+Slytherin Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Rob & Lisa: I've added another page to our Waypoints page at http://roblisa.com/geocache/ which lists the caches that have been archived since the end of March. I know that in the past Jeremy has not liked having lists of archived caches published. Don't know why but I read somewhere that he had a problem with it. alex. Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 I suppose its because people may still hunt these caches even though they are out of the public domain, defeating the whole point of archiving. Some caches are archived even though the physical cache might still be in place, which would be an incentive for some to hunt them out. I really like seeing the list of archived caches - there are some good logs on these that would otherwise be lost from sight forever. ----------- el10t mobilis in mobili Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: I know that in the past Jeremy has not liked having lists of archived caches published. Don't know why but I read somewhere that he had a problem with it. alex. Well if the cache owner wanted people to continue to look for the cache they wouldn't have archived it. Publishing archived cache details partly negates the point of archiving it in the first place. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. Quote Link to comment
Rob & Lisa Posted April 26, 2002 Author Share Posted April 26, 2002 Well if he asks me to to remove the page then I will but I would have thought the problem was more with people having archived and active caches in the same lists. Mine are clearly a list of archived caches and they don't appear in any of the download waypoints files. Anyway, hope you meet some of you at the meet on Sunday. Ok, 10 metres. It's somewhere around here... Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Rob & Lisa: Well if he asks me to to remove the page then I will but I would have thought the problem was more with people having archived and active caches in the same lists. Jeremy occasionally posts to the UK forums which means he is probably aware of your web page and he hasn't complained about it yet, so it must be OK. I think you're right in that the object of archiving a cache is to prevent people from trying to do the cache and so a list of archived caches that are obviously archived is probably OK. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. Quote Link to comment
+Kouros Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Is your site still there? ------ O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Hamlet, II.2 252-253 Quote Link to comment
+Gary & Jane Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Try http://www.roblisa.com/geocache/ Quote Link to comment
+Kouros Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Gary & Jane: Try http://www.roblisa.com/geocache/ Cheers - worked fine ------ O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Hamlet, II.2 252-253 Quote Link to comment
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