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The new blurb on the home page talks about having gone over the 150,000 benchmark in total number of waymarks posted, and 800 separate categories.  High fives all around!  Esp. to the Groundspeak staff who have provided us with such a great hobby!!

Here are a couple of other stats I would like to know.

How many unique contributors have posted waymarks?
From how many countries are there waymarks posted?
How many visit logs have been posted?
How many waymarks have visit logs posted?

There are other stats I'd love to see, like a country and state breakdown by number, but these are the ones about which I am most curious!

This is not so much of a statistic, but what about a list of waymarks that have been on for the longest period of time and still have not had a single visit logged.

SearchN:

This is not so much of a statistic, but what about a list of waymarks that have been on for the longest period of time and still have not had a single visit logged.

This is the oldest waymark without a visit logged to it. WM8

TheBeanTeam:

SearchN:

This is not so much of a statistic, but what about a list of waymarks that have been on for the longest period of time and still have not had a single visit logged.

This is the oldest waymark without a visit logged to it. WM8

Cool!  Ambrosia!

So, I thought I'd check out WM1 - A McDonalds in Seattle by bootron on 08/11/2005 (I guess we can blame him for setting the precedent for commercial categories and fast-food franchises).

So, then I thought I'd find my first waymark  - WM7WV A McDonalds in Alton Bay, NH approved by bootron!  It even has a visit.  Just trying to follow our leader.   That was on 2/21/2006, a few months after I got my first GPSr and started this new thing called geocaching.  Both have been a lot of fun and I've learned tons!

Thanks BeanTeam! Interesting how did you come across this one? Out of the way, but certainly not inaccessible. Its at a point now where you almost hope it does not get any visits so it can maintain its record. There is a cache nearby that has had visits as recent as Sept this year. I guess none of the geocachers were waymarkers as well.

silverquill:

So, I thought I'd check out WM1 - A McDonalds in Seattle by bootron on 08/11/2005 (I guess we can blame him for setting the precedent for commercial categories and fast-food franchises).

And he approved his own waymark! *gasp*faint*!

My first was a Scenic Look-out which is no longer applicable (WMJJA), which is why I set it invisible. It's now a well-manicured park with nice ammenities and parking spots. A walking path leads past that spot now, when before you would just drive your car up to it. debbado did a modern waymark of the area.

Redneck Parrotheads:

And he approved his own waymark! *gasp*faint*!

Before groups you had to approve your own if you did a waymark in a category you owned.

BruceS:

Redneck Parrotheads:

And he approved his own waymark! *gasp*faint*!

Before groups you had to approve your own if you did a waymark in a category you owned.

Some even show that the owner accepted it, when in fact they didn't. many of my early ones show that I accepted my own which I have never done.

BQ

Here are some statistic by country.  There are a few countries where search fails. (South Korea for example)  Several waymarks were incorrectly listed in countries where they were not actually located as I found them I emailed the waymarker and informed them.   In some cases all waymarks listed in a country were listed there incorrectly and I did not list those countries in the list.

Alabama	937		Afghanistan	1		Lesotho	1
Alaska	293		Aland Isles	2		Liechtenstein	6
Arizona	1104		Albania	1		Lithuania	3
Arkansas	463		Antarctica	9		Luxembourg	22
California	13759		Argentina	10		Macau	2
Colorado	1476		Armenia	4		Macedonia	1
Connecticut	408		Aruba	5		Malaysia	17
Delaware	384		Australia	782		Malta	26
District of Columbia	364		Austria	130		Martinique	9
Florida	8263		Bahamas	13		Mauritius	2
Georgia	5950		Bangladesh	1		Mexico	100
Hawaii	544		Barbados	8		Monaco	3
Idaho	1146		Belarus	1		Netherlands	3237
Illinois	3845		Belgium	201		Netherland Antilles	1
Indiana	1585		Belize	4		New Zealand	237
Iowa	846		Bermuda	11		Nigeria	1
Kansas	799		Bolivia	1		Norfolk Island	6
Kentucky	2399		Brazil	3656		Northern Mariana Islands	6
Louisiana	1510		British Virgin Islands	1		Norway	82
Maine	447		Cambodia	12		Oman	2
Maryland	988		Cayman Island	10		Panama	16
Massachusetts	2026		Chile	4		Peru	3
Michigan	5280		China	85		Philippines	3
Minnesota	908		Columbia	9		Poland	87
Mississippi	409		Cook Islands	1		Portugal	374
Missouri	5872		Costa Rica	21		Puerto Rico	8
Montana	645		Croatia	319		Qatar	2
Nebraska	1140		Cuba	1		Romania	1
Nevada	846		Cyprus	1		Russia	133
New Hampshire	1511		Czech Republic	415		Saint Kitts and Nevis	4
New Jersey	2161		Denmark	180		San Marino	2
New Mexico	660		Dominica	1		Seychelles	1
New York	6047		Domincan Republic	2		Singapore	58
North Carolina	3323		East Timor	1		Slovakia	86
North Dakota	163		Ecuador	5		Slovenia	84
Ohio	4559		Egypt	14		South Africa	175
Oklahoma	794		Estonia	11		South Korea	???
Oregon	3897		Faroe Islands	1		Spain	666
Pennsylvania	5764		Fiji	2		Svalbard and Jan Mayen	1
Rhode Island	203		Finland	74		Sweden	115
South Carolina	2281		France	922		Switzerland	334
South Dakota	864		French Polynesia	6		Tanzania	3
Tennessee	3956		Germany	1048		Thailand	153
Texas	4889		Gibraltar	1		Tunisia	6
Utah	2095		Greece	55		Turkey	10
Vermont	710		Greenland	2		Turks and Caicos Islands	2
Virginia	2481		Guadeloupe	2		Ukraine	13
Washington	4078		Guam	2		United Arab Emirates	13
West Virginia	650		Guatemala	2		United Kingdom	10768
Wisconsin	2081		Honduras	5		Uruguay	13
Wyoming	403		Hong Kong	4		US Virgin Islands	10
			Hungary	63		Vanuatu	1
Alberta	1969		Iceland	13		Vatican City State	4
British Columbia	2159		India	26		Venezuela	2
Manitoba	407		Indonesia	8		Vietnam	22
New Brunswick	128		Iran	6		Zambia	1
Newfoundland	22		Iraq	9
Northwest Territories	13		Ireland	361
Nova Scotia	99		Israel	5
Nunavut	15		Italy	201
Ontario	3705		Jamacia	12
Prince Edward Island	22		Japan	157
Quebec	122		Jordan	2
Saskatchewan	198		Laos	4
Yukon Territory	7		Latvia	6

Gee.. the guy gets the day off and look what he can do!

Great job Bruce! I've fixed one of my two errors (the site refuses the second edit)

BQ

the blue quasar:

Gee.. the guy gets the day off and look what he can do! Great job Bruce! I've fixed one of my two errors (the site refuses the second edit) BQ

Yes you will have problems with ones where the site somehow let you get a country state/province mismatch such as Ontario, Cambodia (you are not alone with that plight)

Great list Bruce!  I had even placed a few waymarks for I believe Alabama and listed them by mistake to Georgia then catch and correct it. I need to check and make sure all are correct, you can place a waymark in any country or state regardless of the coordinates given. Maybe a future version would make it so you can't do that. If the cords don't match the geographic region, then it will not let you submit it. Not sure how that would work exactly, but I would think it possible.

Thanks everyone, very interesting information here on the early days of waymarking!

SearchN:

Great list Bruce!  I had even placed a few waymarks for I believe Alabama and listed them by mistake to Georgia then catch and correct it. I need to check and make sure all are correct, you can place a waymark in any country or state regardless of the coordinates given. Maybe a future version would make it so you can't do that. If the cords don't match the geographic region, then it will not let you submit it. Not sure how that would work exactly, but I would think it possible.

Thanks everyone, very interesting information here on the early days of waymarking!

There are several listed in Alabama which are not located there.  These are older waymarks from when the list defaulted to Alabama once the United States was selected.  People should take a look at their map on their profile and check the color of Alabama and if they haven't been to Alabama it should not be any shade of blue.

Great stats Bruce. How can we list all waymarks in an area (say everything in a state) ?

These stats show that if your country/state doesn't have enough waymarks (I'd say 100), you need to get busy!

Fatcat

fatcat161:

Great stats Bruce. How can we list all waymarks in an area (say everything in a state) ?

Currently (it may change when new search is released),  to get all waymarks for a state/country click on link below the box where you can enter an address for searching  "additional search options"  A box will appear select the tab for region search.  You will then be able to select country - state desired.   (I know it well I did it for all the states and countries listed one at a time to compile the list)

BruceS:

Here are some statistic by country.  There are a few countries where search fails. (South Korea for example) 

There are 217 waymarks in South Korea.  I don't know what the search doesn't work.  I put in Seoul as a center for a search, and several major cites between there and the south, and I always got no more than 217 within 100 miles.  And, no, they are not all mine.  But, there will be lots more, though I'm currently working on some of my backlog from the U.S.

Great work on the stats, though!

I would like to see some of these statistical features built into the system so it doesn't have to be done this way, and they could be real-time.  I'd love to be able to do some of this by category, too!

silverquill:

BruceS:

Here are some statistic by country.  There are a few countries where search fails. (South Korea for example) 

There are 217 waymarks in South Korea.  I don't know what the search doesn't work.  I put in Seoul as a center for a search, and several major cites between there and the south, and I always got no more than 217 within 100 miles.  And, no, they are not all mine.  But, there will be lots more, though I'm currently working on some of my backlog from the U.S.

Great work on the stats, though!

I would like to see some of these statistical features built into the system so it doesn't have to be done this way, and they could be real-time.  I'd love to be able to do some of this by category, too!

The search that does not work is Region search for South Korea (and a few other countries).   If you do a region search you can click on the category + and it will display the number of waymarks in each category for that region.

One other stat I think would be interesting to see is a list of users in order by their number of waymarks contributed.  I know that the top 2 would be saopaulo1 and BruceS, but beyond that I'd have no clue who has been the most prolific (maybe silverquill?).  Not that waymarking is all about the number you contribute, and some of them would be like comparing apples to oranges.  I just think some sort of ranking would be kind of neat so I could see where I fit into the grand scheme of things.

I second wampa-one's idea.

SearchN:

Thanks BeanTeam! Interesting how did you come across this one?

Each waymark's web address has the wayamark code in it.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMZF

I changed the code of whatever waymark I was looking at to WM1, WM2, etc until I got to WM8.

I knew that some of the first ones had been visited but wanted to look at them again anyhow.


Thanks for the list BruceS.

Fun stats.

I third Wampa-One's comment, as I've also wondered the same thing myself. I wonder how GrandHighPoopbah did it for the geocaching side http://www.cacherstats.com/, and if it would easily convert to waymarking stats?  Maybe the WM's owned KML can be uploaded and extracted somehow like on Itsnotaboutthenumbers?

Speaking of statistics, now that Waymarks are being integrated into GSAK we now have another cool stat listed. http://images42.fotki.com/v1371/photos/1/1075120/5205125/stats-vi.png :-)

I've been watching this for a while for waymarkers that I see that have over 500 waymarks (or there abouts) ...I do it by grunt effort using homepages and autofill when I type in the name tracking them in an excel sheet.....these waymarkers represent 44 % of the total waymarks submitted.

This is an interesting list...but my respect goes out to waymarkers with interesting an informative waymarks...not the commercial types...except for Tim Horton's of course (spoken like a true Canadian ).

If I have missed anyone let me know and I'll add you (them).

Place	Handle	Waymarks
50	bcrockcrawler, xstitcher, & BMXer	435
49	jake39	487
48	Peter and Gloria	500
47	Squirreleen	502
46	MNSearchers	534
45	FiVermont	535
44	the federation	538
43	FRLK	550
42	monkeys4ever	618
41	Mr. 0	637
40	shorelander	646
39	Bernd das Brot Team	648
38	cldisme	662
37	Sir Lose-a-lot	665
36	Team Smokey	674
35	nevap	688
34	unimoggers	707
33	0ccam	720
32	flipflopnick	725
31	The blue quasar	743
30	8nuts mothergoose	882
29	frivlas	890
28	showbizkid	897
27	sfwife	898
26	Rose Red	937
25	sneakin deacon	951
24	jimmyev	979
23	rayman	1104
22	rakeinthecache	1178
21	geo*trailblazer 1	1233
20	ptcrazy	1276
19	Math Teacher	1351
18	deano1943	1361
17	ggmorton	1392
16	AD0or	1397
15	macleod1	1418
14	Dragontree	1436
13	globetrotters.us	1676
12	team farkle 7	1685
11	wildwoodke	1770
10	s5280ft	1797
9	ucdvicky	1885
8	volcanoguy	1965
7	hikenutty	2237
6	steveherrick	2364
5	brentorboxer	2824
4	chapterhouseinc	3043
3	Silverquill	3379
2	bruces	6640
1	saopaulo1	7397

Great list

Cool to see the information. Wish I were on it.

555 Waymarks

I am actually surprised that my numbers would even put me near the top 50. I am rather slow at getting the things posted.

Consider the B-Team added....