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Danie Viljoen

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TB & GC statistics for 27 May 2011:

 

There are 1013 TBs and GCs in 665 of the 5485 active South African caches. It is good to see we are back over 1000 again!

 

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 17 trackables

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 17 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 14 trackables

GC2PMYQ - Tswaing Crater Sleepover III, 2011: 14 trackables

GC24TZG - Home Base: 13 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 3 June 2011:

 

There are 1005 TBs and GCs in 655 of the 5515 active South African caches.

 

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC2WW6Q - An Aussie in Cape Town: 19 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 16 trackables

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 14 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 14 trackables

GC24TZG - Home Base: 13 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 17 June 2011:

 

There are 1013 TBs and GCs in 655 of the 5563 active South African caches.

 

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 23 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 16 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 22 July 2011:

 

There are 951 TBs and GCs in 627 of the 5777 active South African caches.

 

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 23 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 14 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 5 August 2011:

 

There are 954 TBs and GCs in 635 of the 6383 active South African caches.

 

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 29 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 18 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 15 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 12 August 2011:

 

There are 980 TBs and GCs in 662 of the 6405 active South African caches.

 

The trend over the last 2 years has been one additional trackable in circulation every 5.8 days, and one more cache with trackables every 21 days.

The percentage of South African caches carrying trackables decreased from 18.6% two years ago to 10.3% today. I think there are two reasons for this - firstly the number of new caches grew much faster than the number of trackables in circulation, and secondly, almost half of all the new caches since then have been micros, which usually can not accommodate trackables.

 

There are 4 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 29 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 17 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 16 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 12 trackables

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OK everyone - I know how Danie loves his statistics AND loves a challenge. I have a thought that might produce some interesting figures. Many of us have trackables in circulation and all of us who have some in circulation have had some disappear. What would be interesting is to see what the "loss ratio" or "survival ratio" is for trackables. Is there a way of doing that or would each cacher have to submit there trackable figures - survivors vs MIA's - manually for Danie to calculate.

 

Looking forward to some ideas / suggestions / comments.

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There are a number of problems to calculate this: The moment a trackable leaves Africa, I lose track of it. I'll need to know where all trackables are for the whole world, which is impractical, with the limitation of 5 PQs per day. The second problem is when is a trackable really lost? Some cachers keep them for months, and others are logged in the wrong caches. Yet another problem is that trackables are removed (stolen, or not logged) but are still shown as being in a cache. (The owner of the trackable, as well as the cache owner, can easily correct this, but it is often not done.)

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TB & GC statistics for 26 August 2011:

 

The downward trend continues - there are now 941 TBs and GCs in 652 of the 6417 active South African caches.

 

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 11 trackables

 

I have been monitoring the trackables for slightly more than 2 years now. During this time the record was 33 trackables in one cache - 2010 Techno Event 2, on 21 May 2010.

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TB & GC statistics for 2 September 2011:

 

There are 965 TBs and GCs in 643 of the 6433 active South African caches - one in ten caches contains a trackable.

 

There are 4 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 15 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 12 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 16 September 2011:

 

There are 990 TBs and GCs in 645 of the 6493 active South African caches.

 

There are 4 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 30 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 14 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 12 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 18 November 2011:

 

There are 1061 TBs and GCs in 668 of the 6681 active South African caches.

 

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel: 36 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 23 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 13 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 12 trackables

GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 13 January 2012:

There are 973 TBs and GCs in 658 of the 6809 active South African caches.

 

There are 6 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 22 trackables

GC143XC - The Palm Tree TB Rest Stop: 14 trackables

GC18JR9 - Bloem N1 TB Motel: 14 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 13 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables

GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 3 February 2012:

There are 1018 TBs and GCs in 661 of the 6886 active South African caches.

 

There are 6 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 17 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 16 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables

GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

GC3AVQT - Lowveld Leap Year Event: 11 trackables

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Danie

 

Any chance of reporting:

 

1) Similar stats for all of Africa? I assume SA have the vast amjority of trackables - event though we have about 86% of the caches - I would imagine well over 95% of the Travellers?

2) Any idea on the total number of travellers ever in sa? - or perhaps total number of tb visits (multiple visits and dips included)

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Any chance of reporting:

 

1) Similar stats for all of Africa? I assume SA have the vast amjority of trackables - event though we have about 86% of the caches - I would imagine well over 95% of the Travellers?

It should be easy to do the same for the whole of Africa - I did not realise there was any interest. I'll add it during the next round (probably tomorrow).

 

2) Any idea on the total number of travellers ever in sa? - or perhaps total number of tb visits (multiple visits and dips included)

Do you mean the total number of GCs and TBs over all time? I kept weekly snapshots of everything in Africa from about August 2009. I guess one could extract a master list of all the trackables in Africa since that time, but it will be a lengthy manual process. I'll think about it...

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Speaking of TB stats, I've been tracking those that have visited my hotel - GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel http://coord.info/GC2CG7X

To do this, I've had to manually keep a spreadsheet of visitors, when they logged in and out. I've noticed a few double visits, but as these don't get double listed in the 'all past trackables' list, i'm not sure how to find these. Anyway, I thought readers of this thread might enjoy these graphs. Also, any suggestions as to how to do this easier, or other things you like to see for the stats of a given hotel. Feedback very welcome.

 

as of 31 Jan 2012: 323 Visits for 317 unique trackables. (not including geokrets, I haven't been tracking these)

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TB & GC statistics for 10 February 2012:

There are 1567 TBs and GCs in 968 of the 8067 active African caches

There are 1001 TBs and GCs in 656 of the 6919 active South African caches.

 

Rest of Africa: 566

Western Cape: 339

Gauteng: 232

Kwazulu Natal: 132

Eastern Cape: 71

Free State: 69

Mpumalanga: 65

Limpopo: 39

North West: 35

Northern Cape: 19

 

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 17 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 13 trackables

GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 11 trackables

GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

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Is it possible that many of the African caches that have TBs indicated as being there in fact don't have any in them? My experience in "remote" areas has shown this to be the case quite often. I was in Bali 2 weeks ago and 2 caches had in excess of 10 trachables listed in each of them. The one cache had 2 and then other - with 14 listed - had none! i had similar experiences in remote caches in the Spanish and French Pyrenees as well.

 

The majority of the African caches containing trakabkes will more than likely be in Morrocco which has huge traffic from Europe and perhaps has similar stats to Bali? Don't know. Just posing the question.

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The breakdown for Africa is as follows:

 

Africa: 1567 trackables in 968 caches out of 8067 (12.0%)

South Africa: 1001 trackables in 656 caches out of 6919 (9.5%)

Rest of Africa: 566 trackables in 312 caches out of 1148 (27.2%, sorry - I made a mistake yesterday)

Egypt: 137 trackables in 61 caches out of 182 (33.5%)

Namibia: 86 trackables in 52 caches out of 172 (30.2%)

Morocco: 42 trackables in 21 caches out of 74 (28.4%)

Reunion: 28 trackables in 20 caches out of 50 (40.0%)

Kenya: 26 trackables in 13 caches out of 49 (26.5%)

Mauritius: 23 trackables in 12 caches out of 43 (27.9%)

There are more African countries with trackables, but far fewer than the above.

 

I also suspect that quite a number of these trackables are missing, but never removed from the cache inventories. This is a problem even in South Africa.

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TB & GC statistics for 17 February 2012:

There are 1552 TBs and GCs in 956 of the 8091 active African caches

There are 987 TBs and GCs in 651 of the 6937 active South African caches.

 

There are 6 caches with more than 10 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 15 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 14 trackables

GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 11 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 11 trackables

GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 2 March 2012:

There are 1618 TBs and GCs in 991 of the 8143 active African caches

There are 1033 TBs and GCs in 678 of the 6982 active South African caches.

 

There are 7 caches with more than 11 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 25 trackables

GC2FX23 - College of knowledge (Egypt): 17 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 14 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 13 trackables

GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 13 trackables

GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 12 trackables

GC3BRDC - Cape Town Leaps: 12 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 16 March 2012:

There are 1614 TBs and GCs in 998 of the 8192 active African caches

There are 1027 TBs and GCs in 680 of the 7023 active South African caches.

 

There are 7 caches with more than 11 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 21 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 15 trackables (It's back on the list!)

GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 13 trackables

GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 12 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 12 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 12 trackables

GC3BRDC - Cape Town Leaps: 12 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 23 March 2012:

There are 1728 TBs and GCs in 1048 of the 8217 active African caches

There are 1109 TBs and GCs in 721 of the 7029 active South African caches.

 

There are 8 caches with more than 11 trackables:

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 22 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 19 trackables

GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 17 trackables

GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 13 trackables

GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel: 12 trackables

GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 12 trackables

GC3BRDC - Cape Town Leaps: 12 trackables

GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 12 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 4 May 2012:

There are 1656 TBs and GCs in 1021 of the 8395 active African caches

There are 1045 TBs and GCs in 687 of the 7181 active South African caches.

 

There are only 3 caches with more than 11 trackables:

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 38 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables

GC1B7N5 - Pretoria Hitch Hiker Hotel: 13 trackables

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Is it possible that many of the African caches that have TBs indicated as being there in fact don't have any in them? My experience in "remote" areas has shown this to be the case quite often. I was in Bali 2 weeks ago and 2 caches had in excess of 10 trachables listed in each of them. The one cache had 2 and then other - with 14 listed - had none! i had similar experiences in remote caches in the Spanish and French Pyrenees as well.

 

The majority of the African caches containing trakabkes will more than likely be in Morrocco which has huge traffic from Europe and perhaps has similar stats to Bali? Don't know. Just posing the question.

 

This certainly is possible - I know one or two of the Egyptian caches have some "retired" TBs from elsewhere placed in them - perhaps the reviewers need to look at this (?) not soure of whther thjis is allowed - e.g. a virtual in Cairo.

 

But some like Karen's House in Nairobi often do contain a good few and keep a good healthy turnover of TBs from tourists.

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TB & GC statistics for 18 May 2012:

There are 1677 TBs and GCs in 1021 of the 8395 active African caches

There are 1035 TBs and GCs in 687 of the 7181 active South African caches.

The African caches with the most trackables:

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 40 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables

GC3HXHA - Bri-Shel TB Lodge: 13 trackables

GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 13 trackables

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Thought this might be of interest. A TB of mine has been placed 1 month short of 4 YEARS after having been retrieved :P :P by the cacher - same cacher! No note or mention - just quietly dropped off and the next cacher to the cache has discovered it. :D

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TB & GC statistics for 9 Oct 2012:

There are 2448 TBs and GCs in 1392 of the 10419 active African caches

There are 1105 TBs and GCs in 672 of the 7651 active South African caches.

 

The African caches with the most trackables:

GC3WXRQ - MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers Inn: 66 trackables

GC3B0EJ - MEGA South Africa 2012: 57 trackables

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 27 trackables

GC1QECR - Vaal TB Hotel: 17 trackables

GC3QE0E - Beautiful Garden TB Hotel: 16 trackables

GC3WK8G - QCXXXII - October 2012: 16 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 16 Nov 2012:

There are 2528 TBs and GCs in 1488 of the 10570 active African caches

There are 1156 TBs and GCs in 725 of the 7730 active South African caches.

 

The African caches with the most trackables:

GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 35 trackables

GC3HXHA - Bri-Shel TB Lodge: 22 trackables

GC3X813 - Louise & Gerhard at 3000: 16 trackables

GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 15 trackables

GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel: 15 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 28 Jun 2013:

There are 1178 TBs and GCs in 750 of the 8546 active South African caches.

 

South African caches with the most trackables:

1. GC3WXRQ - MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers Inn: 18 trackables
2. GC1QECR - Vaal TB Hotel:                                      16 
2. GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel:                    16
4. GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!:                  15
5. GC46M14 - Hermanus Bug-Packers Traveller's Lodge:             14

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Wow -a big drop - from 2528 in November to 1178 today.

 

also number of caches with TBs dropped by almost half!!!!

 

Any comments to why? :o:unsure:

Read carefully - you are comparing Africa with South Africa. It increased from 1156 trackables in 725 caches in Nov 2012 to 1178 trackables in 750 caches now.

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TB & GC statistics for 11 Oct 2013:

There are 1279 TBs and GCs in 780 of the 9482 active South African caches.

In the rest of Africa (including Madeira and the Canary Islands), there are an additional 1491 trackables.

 

South African caches with the most trackables:

 

1. GC3WXRQ - MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers Inn: 24 trackables
2. GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel:	                 23 trackables
3. GC2EX44 - Curse of the FTF # 3 - Gauteng (Guardhouse):	 22 trackables
4. GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel	                 21 trackables
5. GCKE1H  - African Wild Dogs:	                                 20 trackables

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TB & GC statistics for 18 Jul 2014:

There are 1473 TBs and GCs in 795 of the 10592 active South African caches.

In the rest of Africa (including Madeira and the Canary Islands), there are an additional 1740 trackables.

 

South African caches with the most trackables:

1. GC31WXR  Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel:	                37 trackables
2. GC4GQFR  Pretoria East Letterbox:	                        33 trackables
3. GCYW1Z   Pop Inn:	                                        17 trackables
3. GC4NVBP  Urban Village 63 TB Hotel:	                        17 trackables
5. GC4VYMW  The Travelbug Prison:	                        16 trackables
5. GC3WXRQ  MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers Inn: 16 trackables
7. GC4M0BV  Three Shrubs TB Hotel:	                        15 trackables
7. GC3HXHA  Bri-Shel TB Lodge:	                                15 trackables
9. GC1B7N5  Pretoria Hitch Hiker Hotel:	                        14 trackables
9. GC548HP  Intersect 2.0:	                                14 trackables

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