sagefemme

Has anyone else had trouble completing the online form for recognition for their nextEarthcache master level? I didn't have any trouble with the submission forms before, but I've just qualified for Platinum Level, and I can't get the submission form to cooperate. For starers, it only provides inputs for three (3) caches. Then it gives me error messages, not just for the three I input, but also for all the other required codes that I don't see inputs for. I should disclose that I'm working on an iPad. Would this problem disappear if I use a we page designed for desktop or laptop instead of an iPad app?

fi67, I certainly take your point. My own habit is to waymark one outstanding example within a category/subcategory and leave other examples for other waymarkers (in the event that they might have similar goals. Sometimes I don't get the best example... sometimes, it's just the closest to my home, or the first one I come across. Be that as it may, as new people come into this hobby, they ought to be able to find something to waymark in their areas of interest. Some day, though... saturation point will be reached. Certainly if Waymarking becomes as popular in my area as geocaching is, Waymarking will become more about visiting than posting...

This feedback is really good and really useful! Team Sieni's research suggesting a UK and an International association, and Silver Quill's info about Canadian UU churches suggests to me that concerns over geographic limits are easily overcome. For my part, I only seek to add subcategories because the more generic church categories don't work very well in my area. "This Old Church" category is fine if it's 100 years old, but I came across a church, built by Louis I. Kahn in 1962, that I waymarked under subcategories of "Architecture" ("Master Architects - International Style " and "Great Buildings of the World"), but couldn't waymark as a church per se. I'm not saying this particular church needs cross-marked again, but why shouldn't such a fine church be represented in the religious buildings category? I don't know all the ways waymarkers use this database, but if I wanted to visit a church in my travels outside my home church, I would look up churches on Waymarking.com at my destination. The most generic of church categories doesn't cover enough ground to serve as a "catch-all", nor should they ... right? And what about interfaith chapels? At present, they can't be waymarked anywhere, again, because there is no catch-all subcategory. Some interfaith chapels are among the finest architecture out there. I'm thinking of the chapel at the Air Force Academy in Colorado for example.

With the success of my first waymark category, I feel emboldened to try another. There are Universalist Churches going back to the mid-1800s in the USA. There are Unitarian Churches as well. Today, there is a Unitarian Universalist Association that effectively joins the two. I've waymarked two of these (one each) in my area under different categories (National Register of Historic Places, This Old Church, Great Buildings, International architecture). But each of these is still a vibrant church community, and these categories barely touch on the present vitality of the church. So this is a Come All call to anyone who would like to help me launch another category in the subgroup Religious Buildings.

Hi folks, thanks for the interest in my question. I put the call for vote out one more time, and this time it PASSED! Now I have a question for cldisme... in order to pass, did ALL my officers need to vote, or just a majority? Does anyone else think it would be worthwhile make a suggestion to Groundspeak Programmers about providing more information to the category leader about the vote outcome? The process clearly states that any "No" vote ends the process, but wouldn't (took action/didn't take action) feedback be helpful to the leader so he/she knows who to focus his/her attention on? sagefemme

Yes, I'm casting my vote right after I set submit the poll/vote/whatever, so I believe the polls have gone out properly. I can see my own action, but I don't get a tally at the end of the three days, nor any other feedback about whether other members have cast votes. You don't think there is anything wrong on the system side do you? Just human error/inattention? sagefemme

This is all good sound advice. But what happens if you've done the research, found a niche, attracted some group members, written up a description, sent it out for a vote, and your group members don't send back their votes? I'm not getting any feedback of any kind. (Is the vote software broken, I ask myself? That would explain why I'm not even getting Nay votes.) Would it make a difference if I trolled for more members, and replaced the (voting) leadership with members who are perhaps more likely to respond? sagefemme

Can someone talk to me about these third party apps? I just bought a Blackberry w/ ATT voice and data, because the salesman told me that's what would work best for my purposes (and I believed him). I know I can download maps and apps, so how to make geocaching while travelling easier?!

I have a similar inquiry... Is there a specific script that works best on the logbook etc.? I know from the guidelines what has to be on/in the cache. I also gather from the few finds I've done that they generally start with a notice to the muggle world what it is they've found, and if they weren't looking for it, please put it back where they found it. Can it be just that brief?

I was beginning to wonder how seriously cachers took CITO... I took a tall kitchen trash bag with me to a single cache in an urban park, where cachers had been in recent days/weeks. I stopped TOing when the bag started to tear from the weight of the glass. (I worry about glass on steep hillsides. Lots of evidence that people are sliding, and lots of glass to potentially injure themselves along the way.) I should have taken the camera in too. Do you think I ought to plant a few more trash bags in the cache to plant a seed?