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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.

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.

What is the easiest way to get these numbers?

For Alberta Canada

After filtering out the events...there are 6457 caches and 1992 waymarks

3.24 Caches to Waymarks

But I'm working on it.

KE

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

globetrotters.us:

What is the easiest way to get these numbers?

To get number of waymarks click on waymark tab --> additional search options-->region search select your country than state if applicable

To get number of caches click on hide & seek a cache on left menu-->select either state or country from dropdowns

Pennsylvania:

5828 Waymarks
13456 Geocaches

0.435 waymarks per geocache!

Colorado, United States

1,539 waymarks to 10,295 geocaches.

0.15 waymarks per geocache.

6.69 geocaches per waymark.

Thankfully we have a lot of waymarkers (mr. volkswagen, condor1, ronjean, Team Min Dawg, and a few others that escape me right now), so I'm sure that waymarking will certainly catch up.

wildwoodke:

For Alberta Canada

After filtering out the events...there are 6457 caches and 1992 waymarks

3.24 Caches to Waymarks

But I'm working on it.

KE

I helped you along a little I was only there for about 6 hours and contributed 36

Somehow I contributed 36 to the Colorado total also and was only there for about 6 hours too.    I was driving north along the eastern edge.

Oregon:

3926 Waymarks
14264 Geocaches

.275 Waymarks per Geocache.
3.63 Geocaches per Waymark.

Edit to fix math error

For Wisconsin: 2206 Waymarks to 10237 geocaches
ratio: 0.2154

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

For CA 59,756 caches vs. 14,161 waymarks

caches to waymarks 4.220

waymarks to caches 0.237

North Carolina currently has 13,230 geocaches and 3,311 waymarks.

So that's 4 geocaches for every waymark or 0.25 waymarks for each geocache.

Just ignore this. Nothing to see here. Move along.

0ccam:

Texas:

28,495 Geocaches

4,955 Waymarks

That's a hair over 0.17 (waymarks per geocache).   That's AWFUL.

There's nearly 6 (5.75) geocaches for every waymark.

My theory: It's because we Texans haven't been waymarking very many restaurants, even though we have lots.

(BruceS HAS been down here.  So it's not that. Not sure about saopaulo1.)

0ccam:

0ccam:

Texas:

28,495 Geocaches

4,955 Waymarks

That's a hair over 0.17 (waymarks per geocache).   That's AWFUL.

There's nearly 6 (5.75) geocaches for every waymark.

My theory: It's because we Texans haven't been waymarking very many restaurants, even though we have lots.

(BruceS HAS been down here.  So it's not that. Not sure about saopaulo1.)

Yep I have been to Texas, I have 256 there... I was in Texas more than 6 hours   (Missouri only has 166 food and drink waymarks in total)

0ccam:

0ccam:

Texas:

28,495 Geocaches

4,955 Waymarks

That's a hair over 0.17 (waymarks per geocache).   That's AWFUL.

There's nearly 6 (5.75) geocaches for every waymark.

My theory: It's because we Texans haven't been waymarking very many restaurants, even though we have lots.

(BruceS HAS been down here.  So it's not that. Not sure about saopaulo1.)

I've been there...I have about 60 in Houston with another couple dozen in the can waiting for some time.

 

KE

Ontario Canada

Geocaches = 12,519
Waymarks = 3,799

3.3 Geocaches per Waymark
0.3 Waymarks per Geocache

23.3% of all listing in Ontario are Waymarks.

And I've really been slacking over the last year...

BQ

For CA 59,756 caches vs. 14,161 waymarks

caches to waymarks 4.220

waymarks to caches 0.237

It should probably be pointed out that a significant number of those Waymarks in CA are due to saopaulo1's efforts :)

Another interesting aside is that the nearly 60,000 active caches/Events is merely a fraction of the total number of Geocaches that have been Published in the state since the inception of Geocaching (>100,000).

In another shameless plug for the State, I'll also point out that we lead the Nation in Wherigo Cartridges (nearly 80).. ;)

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.

Florida:

8633 Waymarks / 17520 Caches

.49275 WMs per GC / 2.029 GCs per WM

this number should be changing proportions this year, there are several of us in the state and many many visitors that come through....

Tennessee

10,435 non-event geocaches    with 493 placed in 2009 as of today

  4,186 waymarks - not a good way to check 2009 posts

0.40 WM/GC ratio

 

Kingsport, TN - within 10 miles from downtown Circle Circle

426 geocaches

463 waymarks

1.09 WM/GC ratio

A better ratio?

 

vhasler:

Tennessee

10,435 non-event geocaches    with 493 placed in 2009 as of today

  4,186 waymarks - not a good way to check 2009 posts

0.40 WM/GC ratio

 

Tennessee has 281 waymarks in 2009.   To get number click on Newest waymarks (this will bring up the newest 2000 waymarks worldwide and sorted by date), click on filter,  Select country and region, then update.  Page back until last year's waymarks are found.  There are 25 waymarks per page.  For Tennessee the change over is  on page 10.

As of this morning (2/26/09) the State of Florida has:

• 9430 Waymarks
• 18,208 non-Event Geocaches

If I've done this right, it's a ratio of .52 WM/GC.

I guess I'd better get crackin'.