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That's a difference. The average price for a normal coffee in Switzerland was CHF 4.50 (EUR 4.70) in December, but it's easier to find one for 6.50 in and near cities. Special creations like in Starbucks can be up to 9.50. (OTOH, I have not seen a restaurant that offers filtered coffee since I was a kid in the early 70s.)

Welcome back! FamileFrohne has said most. The site has been looking the same for ages and is not really suitable for mobile devices. Although we did not even expect that, there have been some improvements recently. But this was mostly background stuff, affecting stability and performance, nothing to see. So you have to find your own procedures. There are a couple of GPX readers for Android that can display the locations on a map and show the most important metadata. I cannot tell you the best one, because I have not visited places with a lot of waymarks for a long time and my area is visited out. Many are free or have a free basic/test version, so you can try. The many files are a problem for most of them. I usually downloaded all those GPX files and combined them in to one with GSAK. Then I downloaded the single large GPX to my mobile, because most apps I used then had problems with many files. OT: Wow, that is a lot of coffee for so little money. Around here you almost get half a cup for that. I guess, it would pay to travel to Germany for my next cup.

I have another great category in my queue that looks like nobody else is caring about. Waterfalls

This is not the right thread. Here, I am looking for help in categories where I am the only active officer, but not the leader. I am not only not an officer in that category, I have still to find my first submission to it. They are not common in my area. Try this: https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/349206-absent-leaders-and-unresponsive-officers/

I like them... Just not in my bedroom. They are really hard to get out again when they are panicking, turning rounds and rounds and filling all the walls with tiny pieces of feces. Tip of the day: You need a large plate to minimize their action radius and direct them towards the open window.

Looks like this is also the case here. But you don't need an invitation. Enrollment is on. Just join the group, then I can promote you.

Strange! (Is this a task for botroon?) Just join the group, enrollment is on.

I am not very familiar with this category. The way I read the description, a mosaic has indeed a not very high probability to succeed. But I am not an officer, you'll know if you try. Is it mosaic enough for Mosaics?

All right. I sent you an invitation.

Maybe you mix Vintage Ad Locations with Ghost Signs. The first is for ads in newspaper, the latter for text relics in public area, often these are ads, but not necessarily so.

Thank you! I have been waiting for this cue. Until now I have promoted new officer roles to: Alfouine 3 pmaupin 3 FamilieFrohne 2 ScroogieII 2 Walking Boots 1 Now I have two more categories with my own submissions waiting for over week, which is currently how I find out that I am alone there. Train Stations/Depots: This is usually not a difficult one. Just keep in mind that this category is in the Buildings department. The category is not looking for stops without any structures. And former stations are welcome as well (the building, not the site). Preserved Machines on Public Display: The difficult thing are all those exclusions. We did not want that, but the category came quite late and there were already a lot of older categories that covered a part of the area. Crossposting is fine, but when all waymarks in a category are by definition are also valid in a second one, we have a problem. So we had to exclude many "machines". No vehicles, no military equipment, no agricultural or household stuff. And the location must be accessible to the public free of charge, so many museum exhibits are excluded as well. Who is interested?

I don't think I understand what you mean, but there is indeed a problem in the "use". There is no real feedback. The poster will receive an email with all the comments, but not the officers. So many/most officers just start a vote and then forget about it. They never check the results. They do not learn anything and the next similar case will also go to vote. And so on.

Yes, and I then started the promotion process. The vote will take two more days.

So join the group.

This is on they way. I expect the process to be finished in two days or so. The next one is tough if you don't like denials. Apart from a few regular posters, almost anyone gets it wrong in the beginning. There are periods where I have to deny more than two thirds of the first submissions. It is City and Town Halls. It is not a very difficult category, but it has quite a long description so it is easy to miss something. The main problem for beginners: The category was originally desgned to waymark both, the town hall building and the town as a whole. This was not my idea, but I like and fully support it. The category asks for a physical description of the building, but also the founder was quite lenient in this respect. The minimum is at least one full paragraph of each, building and town. And I have to say, that I do ignore a part of the requirements. The strict naming convention and the ban of HTML are both quite outdated and cannot be justified in 2024. Who is interested?

Currently I do chose the categories I list here by my own submissions waiting for over a week. I do not want to let someone else's submission sit there for too long, so this reveals mostly categories where I am active in posting myself. This time I have identified three more. They are all more global than the last one. and not really difficult. So there is no reasson to limit the candidates. Except for the usual stuff, of course. People who constantly try to ignore category requirements and/or always try to get away with the least possible effort will not become good officers. I believe that is fact, not opinion. Let's start with the easist one of them: Hydroelectric Power Stations. Things to look for: We are looking for the site where the generators are, not dams or lakes. The picture requirements ask for pictures of the machine house and the water supply. If possible. There are stations where one or the other are underground. We try to welcome these as well, but then we expect that the submission adapted to the special situation and impossible requirements are not just dropped without any replacement. Special cases need special quality. They can be abandoned, but there must be recognizable relics. And here Hydroelectric means: Water + Gravity = Electricity. No hot water, geothermal energy is not covered by this category. Who's interested?

Thank you for all your interest in the various topics and your willing ness to help. It's already a while since I've chosen the new officers, but I had not much time to come back to this thread. (You see, holidays and stuff). I have chosen the two waymarkers with the least number of categories to manage yet and the most waymarks posted themselves in this category. And they live in areas where those structures are common (waymarks from their two countries combined make about 40% of the category). Welcome FamilieFrohne and Walking Boots! They already have started reviewing a while ago.

That is the way it has been for quite some years. Paragraphs (line break characters that is) do only work in the long description. All other multi-line text boxes do need HTML tags like <br> or <p> for formatting.

I do not explicitly reject anyone. But I do make a ranking, based on the information available. And this information comes either from regular active participation in the forum or from the waymarks published. So someone has only one published waymark in three years and never posts anything in the forum will hardly ever be in the first position. I am fully aware that this strategy will do some injustice to some people, but I know that it also keeps away people who are not suitable for this duty. And much more of the latter. Looking for a new job in the real world out there is the same. You will not be judged by what you can, but by what you can show. Sad, too!

The next one: Transformer sub-stations. This is my category, so no vote is required and it's supposed to be quick and easy. We do welcome all types of sub-stations (buildings, not the equipment), but the focus is on the traditional early 20th century tower type usually seen in continental Europe. In some areas these are fairly unknown to the public (although they often exist. but don't have a special appearance). So we receive a fair amount of submissions, that have nothing to do with what we are looking for. So I would like to have a new officer who is familiar with them. I am looking for active waymarkers with a sense for quality in their own waymarks as well. And I hope for someone who does not already have over 100 categories. And something completely different: Is there a strategy when you are the only active officer with limited permissions, open enrollment is off, there is no other group member to promote, because they are all inactive or lazy waymarkers, AND you do NOT want to take over the category?

It's not broken. It is how it is and any attempt to change it would upset the part of the Waymarking community that has learnt to deal with it and created their strategies to circumvent this weird issue. Posts are recorded according to Pacific Time. Visits are recorded according to UTC, which is GMT without DST. One part is better for Americans, the other part is considering European needs. I guess Australian waymarkers just laugh about this sort of problems.

No, I did not mean officer four, who is inactive anyway. Maybe the third active officer was not aware that he was abused as part of a coup by a problem waymarker and might change his opinion.

Now you really confused me, because I am an officer in Pyramids too, and I have not noticed anything special going on. All right, it was just an example and I am not living in an alternative reality. Now I am relieved. You can check the situation with officer three and re-evaluate if they agree.

This round is already over. It works well, but I had to learn two things. The initiator of a promotion vote has to vote as well. I didn't realize that at first, because the link to the voting page does not appear immediately. But after I received the corresponding emails it was clear. Then, but I am not absolutely sure about this, I had the impression that the promotion just got stuck after the tree days, until I re-visited the group pages. So, the same problem as with waymark votes, but maybe it was just a coincidence. I probably have a few more categories to offer. I will come back to this thread when I have identified some of them.

If this was possible, we should remove all existing commercial chain categories. This will not happen, but there is no sensible reason at all to allow another one. There are many waymarkers who think like me.