Where are the largest caches?

Last week I determined the size of the size groups that are available in geocaching. This week I use those values to calculate which country has on average the  biggest caches. As usual with these list topped with countries that have a few large caches. In this case the one large cache of US Minor Outlying Islands is enough to offset the three other smalls to give it the number one position with more than sixteen litres.

Again I make a table with the average size for countries with more than ten thousands caches:

Netherlands	2.222
Czechia	1.972
Australia	1.746
Switzerland	1.657
Belgium	1.505
Slovakia	1.476
Germany	1.454
Canada	1.260
United States	1.238
Norway	1.231
Austria	1.177
South Africa	1.168
Denmark	1.148
Sweden	1.136
Finland	1.108
New Zealand	1.095
Poland	1.048
Portugal	0.990
Spain	0.888
France	0.859
Ireland	0.780
United Kingdom	0.694
Italy	0.603
Japan	0.438

We can see that this weeks winner is The Netherlands with more than two point two liters. Number to with just under two liters is Czechia and third place is for Australia with one and three quarters of a litre.

In the bottom we see the United Kingdom with almost seven hundreds  millilitres. Italy with six hundreds millilitres and Japan in last place with an average cache size of less than half of a litre.

How large is a small? Or how small is a large?

While difficulty and terrain ranking for caches are quite difficult to determine, limits for cache sizes are explicit stated in the guidelines:

Micro	< 100 ml
Small	100 ml - 1 l
Regular	1 l - 20 l
Large	> 20 l

So we can say the size of a small is somewhere between 100 and 1000 ml. But what number can we put to a large? When

I put the points between the sizes on a graph. These are the red dots. It's impossible to put a straight line though it. But a power curve seems to fit very well. For those who are interested, the formula is:

 y = 0.0002889774 ⋅ x^8.896249

We can enter the numbers fore the sizes. This gives:

Micro	0.29 ml
Small	140 ml
Regular	5.0 l
Large	66 l

For your information: The size of a photo cannister is about 50 ml, an 30 cal ammo box is 3.5 litres a 50 cal 7.5 litres.

But where are caches getting the most favourites in Switzerland?

Last week we saw where a caches get a high percentage of favourites in Switzerland. It's also interesting to see where caches get the most area. Then number one is Schöftland with on average fifty favourites per cache. With many great caches by Breiteweg 4, 5040 Schöftland, Switzerland Svendi.

The rest of the top three is located near Basel. Number two is Rheinparkstrasse with forty three favourites per cache. With a big contribution from mrradach's caches to that result. With twenty eight favourites the third place if for Arlesheim. An area where many people create well rated caches, don pipolino is one of them.

For the next caches we return to last weeks top area: Zurich. Number four is Effretikon and five Winterthur. Both have just under twenty eight favourites per cache. In Effretikon you can find nice caches by Don Rodolphos. In Winterthur, the caches of tiaratami collect many favourites.

Where does Einstein cache?

Last week we found out Switzerland has the most favourites relative to the number of found logs. Today we are going to look where the caches with those many favourites can be found.

We see a number of hotspots south of Zürich. The top one with more than fifteen percent is Herrliberg. The caches of cassiopeias contribute a lot to this.

The second place is for Mönchaltorf. Two teams Fortunei and anbolusa make a great contribution here. Effretikon, also in the area of Zürich comes in third. Don Rodolpho plays a big part in this area. Both have about fourteen and a half percent favourites.

Other regions in Zwiterland have also a high percentage of favourites. Near Bern we find Büren an der Aare with almost fourteen percent favourites. Here we can find many great caches by Power-Ey. Near Basel we find another series of hotspot. With more than thirteen percent favourites Fehren has the highest rating. A shout out to meury for their caches.

Albert Einstein studied at the polytechnic in Zürich, from 1896 to 1900. From 1909, he was a Professor in this city.

Which is Einsteins most favourite geocaching country?

A few weeks ago we looked at which country had the most favourites per cache. But as Albert Einstein teached us: "Every thing is relative". So this week we don't look at the number of favourites an average cache scores, but to the favourites relative to the number of found logs in a country.

When we look at the numbers we see again the countries with few caches score the extremes. Yemen with only two caches with eighteen founds and five favourite ends in the first place with almost thirty percent favourites per log. Second are the Wallis and Futuna Islands which only cache collects with twenty five percent favourites. Third place for Tonga with just under twenty five percent favourites.

Again we look at the countries with at least ten thousands of  caches. Then we got the following result:

Switzerland	7.4%
Netherlands	7.0%
Belgium	6.8%
Germany	6.6%
Ireland	6.3%
Austria	5.8%
Denmark	5.8%
Norway	5.5%
Sweden	5.4%
United Kingdom	5.0%
New Zealand	5.0%
South Africa	4.9%
Finland	4.8%
Australia	4.7%
Italy	4.6%
France	4.5%
Canada	4.5%
Spain	4.5%
Slovakia	4.3%
Czechia	4.1%
Portugal	4.1%
United States	3.9%
Poland	3.2%
Japan	3.1%

Who would expect the country Einstein moved to in 1895 and became a citizen of in 1901 would be his favourite country.

When we compare this week top with that of a tree weeks ago, we see the Netherlands has dropped one place with seven precent. Belgium gained one place and Germany lost one. The last country with more than six percent favourites per log is Ireland.