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Ray 22 years, 9 months ago.
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Is anyone available to help me gather some Geocaching statistics? I know some of you have a nack for gathering data on cachers. I would like some data for an upcoming meeting with the DNR. Below are a list of items I am looking for:
[*]Number of Geocachers in Wisconsin
[*]Number of caches placed in State Parks
[*]Number of caches placed on State owned property.To a lesser degree I would also be interested in the amount of caches in city parks and county parks.
If anyone is able to help me out with any or all of these numbers, let me know. I would greatly appreciate any help. I will be out of town the few days proceeding the meeting and won’t have time to compile the data myself.
Meeting is Tuesday, Jan 21 in the PM. Info would be needed by Tuesday morning
Brian
[email protected][This message has been edited by GrouseTales (edited 01-16-2003).]
To quote Cheesehead Dave, “73.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot anyway…”
The numbers you are looking for may not be available. I could give you some educated guesses, but their validity is seriously questionable.
Cachers number about 1000 of these no more than 40% are active (cached in any 3-month period). up to 5% of the logs I have seen at the cache have not appeared on the web pages.
The number of cachers appears to be growing at an exponential rate. we have rather few that have been involved for more than a year. There was a good number that joined the ranks in the spring of 2002 following the April JS article on caching by Stanley Miller and a March news item in the Oshkosh paper. There was a similar increase after Christmas 2002. Visitors from out of state also contribute a good number of finds on a regular basis.Caches on state managed lands may be tough to estimate. For many small preserves, I couldn’t tell you who manages the lands. I suspect that it may be a larger number than I would estimate. Ephraime Wetlands – State? Jingle Bell Rock – State? Petrified Springs – County?
Of the 200+ caches we have visited, I recall entering no more than a dozen State “Fee Areas”
To make a long story short, I enjoy playing with the numbers, but I have no hard numbers on the stats you need. Perhaps, if you take my perceptions and combine them with the perceptions of others, you may be able to come up with some more meaningful numbers.
Ray [the beast]
[This message has been edited by Trudy & the beast (edited 01-17-2003).]
Unfortunately my dial-up connection is way to slow to surf the 600+ caches to determine the type of land they sit on.
Wish I thought of this a few weeks earlier.
If anyone else can post some more concrete numbers, let me know.
I don’t know if this would help or not, but I have imported (as of January 1st) all of the caches in WI into Microsoft Streets and Trips so that it has a push pin in its location. Streets and Trips has Terrain, Political and Road map screens. Although it can show resturants, and other stores it doesn’t have anything to show what state parks a location is in. I think it has a few, but not all. But, a map printed with the push pins could be compaired to a state map that shows state parks and a pretty good count could be done I would think…
I can publish a map with the geocaches as push pins on a map to a website (MS Streets and Trips exports to html), and I could also provide the saved file that contains the data. (I don’t know if this would break some geocaching.com rule considering I just use it as a personal resource normally)
If any of this could help, feel free to let me know.
Nick
of The cacheseekersNick, if you could send me a jpg file that shows all the cache locations in Wisconsin, that would be helpful for our DNR meeting. I was planning to print the state map from the Buxley site, but yours will probably print with better resolution, right?
I can zoom in all over the state and do section by section too. I am not going to be near my computer at home that has this tonight, but I’ll be back tomorrow early afternoon and I’ll get it to you.
Nick
Brian,
I have a number for you:
as of 5:30 tonight, Dan Miller has counted 1434 people/teams that have logged at least one cache in Wisconsin.
Rayquote:
Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
Brian,
I have a number for you:
as of 5:30 tonight, Dan Miller has counted 1434 people/teams that have logged at least one cache in Wisconsin.
RayGreat! thanks for the info
kbraband,
I’ve taken snap shots out of MS Streets and Trips. I saved them as high quality jpgs incase you wanted to print them. A total of 7 images in a zip file, which is about 6MB. Since that is too large for e-mail servers to transfer in most cases I’ve posted it on my webserver.
http://majestic.hubns.net/~cacheseekers/wigeo.zipI did a full WI map snapshot, and then zoomed in to get some closer shots. I can zoom all the way to street level, so if there is a particular area you’d like me to zoom into because of some heavy cache spots let me know and I can do that.
I forgot to also mention that I have the waypoints for all the caches within a 500 mile radius of Madison in a .loc file, and I’m able to export that into an excel spreadsheet if the DNR wants a list of lat/lon of the WI caches.
Hope these help some,
Nick
of the cacheseekersThe bottom right of the state looks like someone spilled the box of tacks . Nice work!
Nick, Thanks for the cache map! It should come in handy for the meeting. We want to be able to show the DNR managers at a glance how widespread and popular geocaching has already become in Wisconsin.
No problem at all. I’m just glad I can help out some.
Nick
Brian, Ken,
I made an attempt to identify stewards of the lands on which we found caches and hope this will be of help.
of 227 caches found
80 – not readily identifiable
30 – on privately owned land
17 – on state managed land
111 – on land managed by city/county/other gov agencyThis data is retrospective, I did not collect data as we cached.
Ray
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