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i didnt filter the cache # in my formula, but still we only went up .03! i know i have posted a lot and saw quite a few others sprout up-about 800 new marks in just over a month. not bad. we can close the gap soon enough....

chapterhouseinc:

i didnt filter the cache # in my formula, but still we only went up .03! i know i have posted a lot and saw quite a few others sprout up-about 800 new marks in just over a month. not bad. we can close the gap soon enough....

I'm sure we can all do it with the Waymarkers in Jacksonville, Tampa and the Charlotte Harbor area. The trick is to do it where it's not the Waymarking equivalent of tossing film canisters in bushes. Waymarks for the sake of waymarks never made sense to me.

Massachusetts (As of 03/04/09):

Waymarks:  2192
Geocaches:  5603

Ratio, WM/GC:  0.391
Ratio, GC/WM:  2.56

Wow, I had lost track of the number of geocaches in the state.  I'm working on the waymark numbers!

Woooo hoooo!

For my personal ratio in California, its 161 WM and 1 GC. Thats a whopping .0062!!!!!!!! Oops, this is not like golf?

Never mind.

been a while: here is a FL update:
(no filters)
GC: 20931
WM: 11850 (an increase of 2420 in 8 months)

for every WM there is 176 GC. for every GC there is .56 WM.

These numbers make no sense.  I have been informed multiple times that nobody waymarks.

Its not about the numbers.  Its about the icons!!

Well geocaching has caught up a bit in Missouri.  Currently 5117 geocaches and 6723 waymarks,  so there are 1.313 waymarks for ever cache.   Sounds like I need to do some at home waymarking.  Well of the 1000+ waymarks in my queue less than half are in my home state.

Hmmm maybe a set of stats I will have to do for my blog.

welcome to the world of nobodys....

if nobody waymarks even fewer post in the waymarking forum.....

i think that a lot are turned off because they think it takes too much time....but creating poasint and maintaining a cache takes more effort....

i had someone tell me today that posting a benchmark was way too involved for them....it really doesnt get much easier than that....

Finland
Waymarks 120
Geocaches 10342

Waymarks / Geocaches ratio is ~ 0.012
Geocaches /Waymarks ratio is ~ 86.2

I guess waymarking is just getting started here.

btw. my home town
Waymarks 33
Geocaches 71
Waymarks / Geocaches ratio ~ 0.46
Geocaches / Waymarks ratio ~ 2.15

I didn't do a Nebraska calculation, but for York, NE the ratio as of this a.m. is 11 caches (three active local cachers)  and 115 waymarks within 5 miles of "center."   The waymarks are by BruceS, NevaP and yours truly.
Since I'm doing waymarks  to
(1) "publish" local history and
(2) highlight facilities that might be of interest to Interstate 80 travelers,
my motivation is different than trying to plug holes in a category grid or simply rack up high numbers.
Regards, Stan Schulz, Library Director, Kilgore Memorial Library, York, NE
[p.s. my workplace is ( WMPB9 ) -- waymarked by BruceS three years ago. ]

steveherrick:

For Georgia where I also do a lot of waymarking and geocaching:
5982 waymarks 6231 geocaches
0.96 ratio

As of today 10/21/09 it is getting better

7731 Wm 7812 GC

98.9 % I am trying to upgrade that WM number a little.

.98......
thats the best ratio yet......wonder if anyone else is better.....
well, were gonna be there a week in Dec....i can push it up some then......

chapterhouseinc:

thats the best ratio yet......wonder if anyone else is better.....

Check my post a few up

Rayman:

New York:
12,522 caches
6,113 waymarks (only 950 are mine, I'm slacking)

2.04 caches per waymark or
.49 waymarks per cache.

I guess I'm a little surprised by that since nearly all of downstate (NYC and Long Island) is fairly unwaymarked. There's probably a ton of things that can be waymarked in those areas too.

 I understand NYC has some neon

dinoprophet:

These numbers make no sense.  I have been informed multiple times that nobody waymarks.

Maybe it's just me, but could this be why sometimes it feels like we're Groundspeak's red headed stepchild?

geobwong2k:

Woooo hoooo!

For my personal ratio in California, its 161 WM and 1 GC. Thats a whopping .0062!!!!!!!! Oops, this is not like golf?

Never mind.

I think I got you beat (not that it's about the numbers) (wink wink nudge nudge)
For Michigan, I got 1215 waymarks and Zero geocaches.
That leaves me with an additional 946 waymarks spread about the US & Canada and still no caches.
Personally, I like the ratio, and it's much more fun than golf. Unless you're talking disc or miniature. If so, then waymark 'em.

Maybe someday, I'll shove something into something else and stick it in my backyard, then whoever comes looking can visit over a dozen waymarks. Let me know ahead of time and there'll be beverages.

South Carolina WM 2525 GC 3882 This is, of course if you don't count the two WMs that are listed in SC, but are in NC and GA.~~ or the 10 events and one CITO Ratio: 0.65

BruceS:

What is your state/province/country Waymark to Geocache Ratio?

For my state of Missouri - currently has 5953 Waymarks and  4154 Geocaches. 

The ratio is 1.43 Waymarks per Geocache.

Probably half of the waymarks are yours   Should we adjust the ratio so it is more in line with states containing only us mortals?

Kentucky as of 10/22/09:

3295 Waymarks
6807 Geocaches

That is 0.4841 waymarks per geocache or 2.0659 geocaches per waymarks.

I collected the posted data and did a linear regression to get a formula to predict the number of waymarks in a state from the number of geocaches.  This formula excludes the foreign countries listed.

w = 0.181885g + 3242.347

w = # of waymarks in your state
g = # of geocaches in your state

The correlation coefficient was 0.68477.  I tried a few different regressions, but I didn't get a better fit.

Getting close..perhaps by the end of the weekend Waymarks will surpass the GC's As of right now 10/31 it is 7838 GC 7808 WM 99.6%

As of this minute there are now more WMs in Georgia than GC 7840 GC 7842 WM and I still have some WM in the approval que as do others I am sure.

I have added a couple posts to my blog A Number of Ways on Waymark to Geocache ratios.  Sorry about the formatting... you will have to scroll down some to see the lists.   The blog isn't liking my table format... I will try to figure that out tomorrow.

Here is a situation for Croatia...
Waymarks: 362
Geocaches: 369

W/G=0.98
G/W=1.02

I'll make an effort to increase the number of waymarks, and increase W/G ratio to over 1 before the end of this year.

I have 299 Croatian waymarks (82.6%). Would be cool to have few more waymarkers here.