GT.US

Photo Upload: When I took the picture I turned the camera to frame the photo properly. When I look at the photo in the directory on my hard drive, the orientation is correct. When I upload it it is sideways. What is the work around while I await this to be fixed?

I've come home with coordinates and pictures for some old Medieval Churches from Croatia. If anyone is interesting in doing one from an uncategorized waymark, please let me know. I always come home with the best of intentions, but only the first dozen or so that I get entered actually make it to waymarks.

I wouldn't deny for a minimal waymark. I do encourage more in the approval. The minimal waymarks are like stubs that another might one day add information to. I think it is important for the item to be added to the inventory of the category so there is a place to start from.

Personally, I would prefer that an officer edit my waymark, rather than asking me to do it. Sometimes we are not on the same wavelength for formatting and it's easier for them to do it than me. I can imagine that if my waymark were a subject I was an expert on, and it wasn't just copy/paste or gentle rewording, I might have an issue with someone correcting my words, but I would say less than 1% of all waymarks are made by experts on the particular waymark they are creating.

Seeing the Waymarking Coing Icon might pique the interest of a geocacher.

The Waymarking interface invites people update the waymark when they visit, by pointing out missing variables. In addition the Edit function is a a part of the process. The Category officers may edit without permission, and anyone can suggest an edit that is approved by an officer.

In addition, we officers have a lock function to ensure the the waymark stays the way we edited it.

It always surprises me when people feel they can read other peoples thoughts, and can state anothers motives for doing anything. I always imagined the people who view our waymarks not to be other waymarkers living vicariously through the waymarks of others, but researchers using the website as a source of information. I feel that anything that improves the quality of a waymark improves the value and usefulness of the site in general. As an officer, I would not think twice about tweaking a waymark for spelling, grammar, or something minor. As an officer, I spend a great amount of my limited time to volunteer to approve waymarks, and if I felt I was at risk by a specific waymarker for any reason I would refrain from approving their waymarks. I appreciate being made aware that I am at risk of being sued for my volunteer work.

The location in the title is helpful when searching.

I feel like I put much more effort into a decline than I do an approval. My goal is that a person understands very clearly what it will take to be approved or why it will not be approved. My pet peeve is people that send things to group vote with no comment. If you think something could go either way, the least you can do is say why. Then there are the people that are afraid to deny, so they send it to group vote. Example, if it says 2 pictures and there is only one, you deny and you don't send it to group vote. P.S. I will be in Ljubljana tomorrow afternoon.

Good Golly, I see we already have a categorty of Accessible recreation spaces. I did pop off a note inviting the NPR people to post as waymarks.

I was listening to a story on NPR yesterday about accessable playgrounds http://www.npr.org/2013/08/27/213827534/for-kids-with-special-needs-more-places-to-play My link At the end they said they were starting an inventory of accessable playgrounds http://apps.npr.org/playgrounds/ I am wondering if we might be able to itegrate this project into our playgrounds category? Possibly a pull down, or a tag that would make the subset of accessable searchable? Or might someone invite the NPR people to post as waymarks and link from their database for better information? Unfortunately, I am leaving for vacation on the Adriatic Seaside with limited internet access, and not too many spare minutes to spare before I leave. I was hoping somone might grab the ball and run with this idea?

The Edit feature is really the best way to address this. It's a pretty stable process. I usually look at the map when reviewing, but not to the detail of trying to figure if the building is the right one.

1. Gmail just started this auto sorting of incoming emails into folders. Do anyone have advice, tips or things to watch out for? My concern is with all the Waymarking emails going to one folder I might miss somthing. 2. I've noticed that most of the people I correspond with on this forum don't click the "Allow recipient to see my email" button. What is the reason for this? Personally, I have a very short memory, and I like to include the original email in the reply. Without that button checked, I can't do it on my cell phone. I need to go to my desktop and copy/paste it into the message. And I can't tell you how many times I have typed in a big long email on my cell phone, only to have to go to noreply@Waymarking.com . Going back to item 1, with the generic Waymarking subject line, emails may get lost.

http://librarianbyday.net/2009/09/28/how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-photo-from-flickr/ This link describes how to credit a photo you have used with a creative commons licence.

Most of us can't approve waymarks unless we are officers in the category. Have you emailed the officer who logged in most recently? That's often the first step. Two of those officers have logged in within the last few days, so I'd send them a polite email. Thanks for the reply, yes I have. But haven't heard anything back from the person who approved my previous HM's. The need to get rid of some dead weight in that category. I see 2 officers that haven't logged on since 2007, and 1 that hasn't logged in in over a year.

I had to revaluate a wayamark and decline because it was accused of using a copyrighted photo. Can someone please add a link to the pinned useful links that summarizes the correct way to cite a photo used with the creative commons licence? This is what I put in my decline message, but I was working from memory and I'd like to have the proper wording available when I occasionally need it. "I have reevaluated this waymark, and declined. The photographs for a waymark must be taken by you personally, or used with permission. If you are using someone elses photo with their permission you must give them credit for their photograph in your description. An example of this would be "The photographs were taken by John Smith and used with his explicit permission" or "The photographs are from user photolover on wikipedia (link to original) and shared under a creative commons licence". Please correct this and resubmit to share your lovely waymark. GT.US"

I just saw the sad news on facebook. I met him and his family when I visited Missouri several years ago. He was a great waymarker, and he will be missed.

I'd like to help debug the coordinates issue. 1. enter them into the create a waymark page, and click save. Use the post with no catgeory, when you save it will have a dialog about a uncategorized waymark 2. Hit reply to this and post them here, also. Copy paste/the URL to the waymark you created in your reply. Then use the map in the upper right to see where your coordinates point to and tell us what is bad about them.

I think the waymark search only searches the title.

Ouch! Thats my primary method of both searching and posting.

Perhaps some tweaking of the search terms might be in order for the Specific Wars Monuments and Memorials category? I did a search on "Specific" and it didn't come up I did a search on "war" and it didn't come up I did a search on "memorial" and it didn't come up

Specific says "This category is not for memorials which are primarily focused on a specific war(s)."

I wouldn't expect Groundspeak to add that sort of functionality to Waymarking. All waymarks are public. Waymarking doesn't even have a members only option. Waymarking is the red headed step child to geocaching, and we very rarely get functionality that we ask for that would benefit all waymarks, let alone something to benefit a subset of waymarkers. Given that, Groundspeak is a commercial enterprise, and may consider a venture if the price was right. If you didn't want to go in that direction, maybe you could make a public waymark of the tree and memorial, and for private parts put something like, please email me for more information.

I don't see a waytours posting for Gettysburg, but there are several other battlefields that have a waytours waymark.