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.

Where are the most favorite caches by logs in The Netherlands?

Last week we looked at the areas in the Netherlands where caches get on average the most favourites. It's logical that caches that get found more, also get more favourites. So this gives easy caches and caches in areas with many geocachers an advantage. This week I look at in which areas where we look at where are caches getting the most favourites per log.

The  top area with almost 15% is Broek between Sneek and Joure. With many caches of xNTM-27xx contributing to this result. Congratulations.

Just as last week the Beekbergen near Apeldoorn comes in second place with 12.5%. Last week number one is now in third position. The area of Malden near Nijmegen collects 12.4% favourites. A shout out to Geo Chaos and remralcache for their great caches.


Last weeks number five has gained one position. The caches near Helmond collect 11% favourites. Well done djpebe. In fifth place also with 11% is Peest near Assen. Where klinki creates high rated caches.

Where are the most favorite caches in The Netherlands?

Last week we saw that in The Netherlands on average caches are rewarded with almost thirty favourites. This week I show you where the caches with the most favourites can be found.

The map below combines two statistics the number of caches determines the opacity, where the areas that are the most transparent have the fewest caches and the most opaque ones the most. The average number of favourites sets the hue. The hottest cache area, those with the most favourites are coloured red. Blue for the area with the least caches and green is in between.

The top area for favourites with almost one hundred and eighty favourites per cache is Malden near Nijmegen. Many caches by remralcache make this happen.

Near Apeldoorn there are two hot spots. One with almost one hundred and ten in Uchelen. Another one in Beekbergen with almost one hunderd favoures per cache. In the first area we see many high rated caches by Geo Chaos and in the second by Josvstaalduinen.

Next is Hippolytushoef where De Bosmannetjes have created many interesting caches giving this area an average of almost eighty favourites per cache. The caches of djpebe helped Helmond to be in the fifth place with just under sixty favourites per cache.

What's the most favourite geocaching country?

I'm not wondering in what country the most favourites are given. That is bound to be the country with the most caches: The United States has accumulated almost four hundred thousands favourites with overr one million caches.

When we look to the number of favourites per cache. We get the extreme results for countries with very few caches. The nine caches of Vatican City have accumulated almost three thousand favourites. We see also big numbers for Gibraltar, Sint Maarten, San Marino, Lichtenstein and Monaco.

At the other side, there's only one cache in Eritrea and Guinea-Bissau both have not gotten a favourite yet, and neither have the nine caches in Comoros.

When we look at only countries with a decent number of caches, where I define a decent number as at least ten thousands caches. The following list appears:

Netherlands	29.3
Czechia	20.5
Germany	16.9
Belgium	16.8
Switzerland	16.7
Austria	13.2
Finland	11.3
Denmark	10.5
Slovakia	7.8
Portugal	7.2
Ireland	6.8
United Kingdom	6.1
Sweden	6.0
Norway	5.0
Australia	4.7
New Zealand	4.4
Spain	4.2
France	4.0
Italy	3.9
United States	3.8
Canada	3.4
South Africa	3.0
Poland	2.5
Japan	1.0

The country with the most favourites is The Netherlands with an average of almost thirty favourites per cache. Followed by Czechia with more than twenty. Runners up are Germany, Belgium and Switzerland with almost seventeen favourites per cache.

The glorious winner of the absolute numbers end in the bottom five, only leaving behind Canada, South Africa, Poland and Japan.