[Some Like It Hot]

Around here we are having record breaking temperatures for April, in my zone 30°

[Waymarking not published]

The waymark was sent to group voted and got stuck in the know website bug (sometimes after the group vote if approved the waymark is not published until an officer opens the group page) I have opened it and the waymark was released.

[New Category Icons]

With the resizing the image became blurred, unfortunatelyI can't improve it .

I tried to create one following the usual design of the pixel art in the wm icons if you want  to use it.

 

[City Names in Giant Letters (again)]

Nice work for a first category write up.

Just a couple of suggestions:

- Giant letters definition, the minimum size to be considered giant .

- The description language must be the local one and English can be added as second language. This should be the other way, description must be in English and local language as a second language (as an example in a trip to Japan if we find one it will be almost impossible to me to write a waymark in Japanese).

 

Hope to post some in the category 

[10 000 Waymark]

Congratulations on this milestone 

[Error con la Referencia de registro de Merimee DB]

The problem is the date it must be 2/3/1927

[Which category for this?]

3 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

Is there a category for a small, outdoor live music stage? It's not for theater.

 

Permanent outdoor stages

 

I'm trying to create a category for those, it's a little in standby, perhaps it's time to move forward with it?

[Absent Leaders and Unresponsive Officers]

The Ancient Aqueducts category it's working without any problems and not abandoned. There should be no intervention in a category unless it's abandoned and not working, this is a line that should not be crossed.

[Which category for this?]

On 8/1/2021 at 1:03 PM, T0SHEA said:

Thanks.

 

 

 

Glad I could help 

[First to post]

That data is amazing , some time ago because of the other topic mentioned above it took me a couple of weeks to check one by one the firsts in a country .

At the time I counted 222 and now I have 242 first in a country. First in a region I didn't count then (it would probably take me a year) but I'm in 8th nice .

Thank you for you work.

 

[Which category for this?]

14 minutes ago, T0SHEA said:

This monument is about the loss of life in a overturned pontoon boat. 

Not quite a ship wreak. I know about Citizen Memorial. What about the accident? Is there a category for this?

 

 

 

May 14, 1942
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the United States
 soldiers lost with the sinking of a US Corp of Engineers Pontoon Barge
 on  May 14, 1942 at Charlie Lake, British Columbia, Canada
 

 

 

Maybe in the "Disaster memorials" category?

[New Category Icons]

For the "Italian Cultural Heritage" I have created this two:

 

 

I prefer the first one.

[New Category Icons]

On 7/13/2021 at 5:58 PM, ScroogieII said:

 

OMG!!!

I completely forgot about an icon for the category.  I had made an icon  for the group page, but never thought about the icon for the category!

So THANKS, Pedro for going ahead and doing these. I will follow the crowd and go with #2. It's the clearest and most obvious "Elevated Building".

 

So, is our Wayfroggie listening?!?!?! I'd love it if Pedro's #2 were to magically become the Elevated Buildings' icon. Hint, hint... ...

Keith

 

I would choose the second too. 

I'm glad you liked it, thanks. 

[New Category Icons]

I have tried to create an icon for the new category "Elevated Buildings", here are some attempts:

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think?

[Which category for this?]

I'm working in a category that would fit this, it started as a table tennis but at the time the draft it has englobe more types of similar items.

I will create a group to show the category.

[Which category for this?]

Just now, Becktracker said:

I am requesting the help of other waymarkers:

 

In a town in Brabant I came across a little house and found a sign that it is a communal freezer safe. This was built in 1960 before everyone had a freezer at home. You could become a member and then rent a freezer box. The boxes are inside a machine which rotates to allow access to the boxes. The sign states that it is one of the last active freezer safes in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, in the next village over there is also a working freezer safe so I can't use 'last of its kind'. I've tried household appilances to no avail. Can I post it in any of the Waymarking categories?

 

 

 

If this is in the Dutch National Cultural Heritage register it can be posted on the  "Rijksmonumenten - Dutch National Monuments" category and if has a sign maybe it can be posted in the "signs of history" category.

[Which category for this?]

I think the best place for it is the "Bailey Bridges" category.

[Abuse of Waymarking for own advertising purposes]

If you categorize it you create a new waymark, and the uncategorised waymark remains with a link between the two.

[Uprisings category]

If this wasn't exactly a war, maybe this could go into the Political Revolutions Category .

[Participatory budgeting project sites]

We are always learning in this discussions of how different things are in other countries, here the PB allows the people to decide how  to use a percentage of the municipal budget by presenting proposals (are reviewed to exclude  ridiculous/joke proposals such as demolishing a National Monument) that are then voted and the ones with the most votes are made.

 

Most on the major projects made by the municipality (not of the PB) are put to public appreciation, and the people can tell their opinion about it  (but it is only advisory and not binding).

 

I will let this mature for a wile and learn a little more of how it works in other countries. 

 

Thank you for your thoughts on the subject.

[Participatory budgeting project sites]

"Participatory budgeting (PB) is a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making, in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget. Participatory budgeting allows citizens to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, and gives them the power to make real decisions about how money is spent."

From Wikipedia

 

Here the city where I live we have a participatory budgeting, so we can present projects and vote in the projects that have been presented. For some years now that I vote (never present a project), and I find the process interesting and very democratic, and results in some nice improvements to our city.

 

I did a little research a they can be found in all continents. 

 

What do you think about a category that compile this projects created by participatory budgeting?

 

[New Category Icons]

It looks like number 2 is the winner 

[New Category Icons]

Here are 3 attempts for an icon to the "Unique Artistic Door Handles and Knockers" category.

I like the second one more.

 

 

 

 

[Which category for this?]

11 hours ago, PISA-caching said:

 

The text on this commemorative plaque (attached to a street lantern) in Ohrid, North Macedonia is:

On this spot the Austrian Army erected the first electric street lantern in 1916.

'100 years electric light in Ohrid!'

Sponsored by: EVN Macedonia / The City of Ohrid / Austrian Embassy / Lions Club Lychnidos

 

Now I wonder what the best categories are for this plaque. Several come to mind: 'Lions Clubs International Markers', 'First of its Kind', 'Signs of History' (probably not), 'Commercial Commemorations' or is there one that I missed, but fits much better?

 

The only ones that I can remember are the ones that you mentioned  

[Happy New Year to ALL]

Happy New Year everyone!