[Waymarking in Italy]

11 hours ago, PISA-caching said:

We will be in the area of Pisa, Italy for a few days in mid november. It will again be a guided round-trip where we visit a pasta factory, see the olive harvest, visit a truffle festival etc. 

 

In preparation of our trip through Scotland you fellow waymarkers had tons of good suggestions about which categories I might find. Now I prepare for Italy, but so far I found no category that is Italy-related (beside the four Pizza categories ). Any ideas?

 

If you find a Italian Benchmark take some pictures there may be a category for that in the future ?

[Waymarking in Italy]

25 minutes ago, BK-Hunters said:

Human error - the "Leaning Tower of"

 

That one already exists Leaning Tower of Pisa ?

[New Category Icons]

Here are two attempts for the Caritas Internationalis icon, one with the background in red and the other with the background in white.

Which do you prefer?

 

[New Category Icons]

On 10/9/2018 at 6:55 PM, wayfrog said:

Done.

 

Thanks Wayfrog 

 

On 10/9/2018 at 7:07 PM, BK-Hunters said:

 

Okay just checked and it is now updated with the new icon.  

 

Thanks razalas for another great icon and wayfrog for adding it to the category. 

Mystery solved? 

 

Of course, the category has its unique icon 

[New Category Icons]

1 hour ago, Bon Echo said:

The icon that I currently see for Man-made animal bridges and crossings  looks very much like the icon for Public Playgrounds.

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I assumed it was a temporary stand-in. The rainbow-coloured structure looks more like playground equipment, and nothing like a bridge or tunnel. The icon that razalas has prepared is in my opinion a better representation of the category.

Not that I have any say, but hey look, I just did

 

 

This is the Department icon, all new categories created within this department receive this icon until an unique icon is created for it.

 

44 minutes ago, BK-Hunters said:

Hi, I have contacted Doug about this mystery. I requested he post on the forum, hopefully to illuminate this dilemma.

 

Let's see if we can solve this mystery  

[New Category Icons]

Hi Barb, before creating the icon I did a search to see if someone already created and I did not find anything. Where did you see it?

[New Category Icons]

Here  is an attempt to create an icon for the "Man-made animal bridges and crossings" category, what do you think?

 

 

[New Category Icons]

On 18/07/2018 at 3:50 PM, PISA-caching said:

 

I like #1. Maybe a stronger red (like in the other Icon) would be nice, but otherwise it's perfect. Thanks a lot.

 

Here it is with a stronger red:  

 

On 18/07/2018 at 8:05 PM, RakeInTheCache said:

The column part looks good to me. Would it be possible to get the arch into more of a semi-circle?

 

Here are my best attempts to create a semi-circle arch (this is very difficult due to the limitation of 24x24 pixels): 

-With two arches: 

-With one arch:      

[New Category Icons]

On 12/06/2018 at 12:01 AM, PISA-caching said:

Now that the Chronograms category is online, I would be very grateful, if someone had a good idea for an icon. Unfortunately, I'm not creative at all. All I could do was this:

 

 

 

 

Here are my attempts to create an icon for the Chronograms category:

1 

2 

 

 

On 15/07/2018 at 3:04 PM, RakeInTheCache said:

I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in creating an icon for the Romanesque Architecture category. I was thinking something like reproducing either two columns and one arch or three columns and two arches from the attached arcade illustration.

 

Here it is with three columns and two arches:

 

 

What do you think? Any suggestions?

[cannot categorize an uncategorized waymark]

I have not see it in the site, but I have tested it

and it works that way.

[cannot categorize an uncategorized waymark]

Only Premium members can categorize an uncategorized waymark, Basic Members can't do it.

[ISS Sightings May 21 2018 - Houston to Albany]

I check that older post and I think I got it, this is the one underlined in red in the table?

[ISS Sightings May 21 2018 - Houston to Albany]

Just now, 8Nuts MotherGoose said:

razalas - We need a town near you. If you are in Lisbon, you may be too far south for the pass on the morning of May 21, and too far north for the pass on the morning of May 22. If you are near Mirandela, you will have a great view for the morning of May 21.

Also see the next post.

I'm in the north of the country in the city of Guimarães almost the same latitude as Mirandela (around N 41° 26.813 W 008° 17.509)

[ISS Sightings May 21 2018 - Houston to Albany]

I live in Portugal if it passes around here will be happy to do it.

[Women's waymarks]

I did not do a search but I remember at least one category for women "Woman’s Clubs"  

[Women's waymarks]

A few years ago when I started to Waymarking I had an idea of creating a category about a person (in this case was an architect) and brought the discussion to the forums (the old ones that were lost) and it was almost consensual that it was not a good idea, and that in the future it would 't be a good procedure to create new categories about individuals  and those that existed were from the beginning of the Waymarking.

In relation to a category where the criterion for inclusion is gender, in my opinion it is not a good solution. Here where I live there is much discussion and controversy about a new law about what they call positive discrimination, the problem with this is to have positive discrimination it has to be negative disctimination on the other side, they say is parity in numbers. (If a person one of the best in is area of expertise competing for a job together with a person who is bad at the same expertise, may not be hired not on the basis of  his quality but because of is gender .) To me the society should not be forced but educated to eliminate any type of discrimination by gender.

I hope my thoughts and information on the local controversy will be useful in this discussion.

 

[Permanent outdoor stages]

If the stage has a restricted access and it's not possible to view it and to photograph it from an unrestricted location it will be excluded.

[Awarded Locations]

This week I will try to write a first draft and then we will continue the discussion from there.

[Permanent outdoor stages]

I have attended several theater and musical shows in Permanent outdoor stages usually located in parks or squares and I think it would be an interesting category.

Bandshells (structures that have a roof and are enclosed on three sides) would be excluded.

Some examples courtesy of a google search:

Example:  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13

And some examples that I have visited:

Example:  1   2   3    4  (Ex. 3 and 4 are from Google street view, I do not know where I put my photos. )

What are your thoughts on this?

[WooooHooooooo]

I do not know why but I never really focused on visits, I have to start to log visits to waymarks 

 

On 24/03/2018 at 5:27 AM, Max and 99 said:

Well that is great that you found them!   Does anyone else ever take waymark vacation photos,  then hope and hope no one else has posted a certain waymark? That's me. I have a few priorities that I will check out ASAP so I can get them posted before someone else snags them.

This has happened to me a few times, find a rare category to me and have to wait to get home to see if has not been waymarked yet 

 

On 24/03/2018 at 0:19 PM, BK-Hunters said:

Are we the only waymarkers that make a "To Do List"  before heading out on a road trip? 

 

I never did. I usually go to visit a location and there I see What can be waymarked, unfortunately because of this I've missed some rare categories to find for me. 

[New Category Idea: Cáritas]

Just now, OLapis said:

I'm trying to create the category but it's not easy, Can anyone help me? Thank you.

I'll be happy to help, I'll contact you 

[Category monopoly in a country]

Interesting, I'll check how many first waymark of a category in a country I have.

[New Category Icons]

On 10/03/2018 at 2:05 PM, Michaelfiles said:

 

How long can it take, Is it possible to contact someone 
 

Usually it doesn't take too long.

If you want, you can contact wayfrog, 

[New Category Idea: Cáritas]

I like the idea, despite not being a religious person I think that due to its size and importance Cáritas deserves a category.

 

[New Category Icons]

Just now, Michaelfiles said:

Wonderful,
And now what must happened for to use this

Thanks 

Now we just wait, when he can Wayfrog will upload the icon