DougK

I have to agree. I take the time to set the date visited to the date of the my pictures. I do this for correctness and I'd hope to see the statistics match.

I don't want to be too negative here, but I think category officer need to do a better job of checking that a waymark is at the specified coordinates. This can be done with either maps or street view, to make sure the object is at least near the bubble on the map. To me, coordinates and photos, along with research, are the essence of Waymarking. If the coordinates are off, problems arise when people attempt a visit or the waymark gets filed by someone else later with the correct coordinates. I believe the proper response to this situation has been mentioned that the one with correct coordinates, even if later, should be accepted and the one with incorrect coordinates reviewed and declined, because it is inaccurate. I bring this up because I've been working offline with sbcamper, trying to figure out why 75% of his waymarks are a quarter mile off. First, he says he's taking coordinates where he takes the picture, and he often is using a telephoto lens. But he still ends up with coordinates that are 0.2-0.3 miles away and not even in a line of sight view of the waymark. Something else is wrong. At least 4 of 5, that were approved today are wrong. (Dog park on a golf course, burger king at a residence, petrosomatoglyph in a lake…) In particular, officers reviewing waymarks from the California-Oregon area for this waymarker, should pay a little more attention. Declining and asking for better coordinates is doing a favor to Waymarking in general and particularly this waymarker.

… but he'll probably never log it, so he can keep his stats where they are.

Very nicely done! I'd say BruceS is only missing QXZ.

Were you able to attach photos to it from your phone using the Upload photos page?

Off topic: What you're doing is drive-by Waymarking - someone who posts visits with no photo, and a comment like "Seen it when when I drove by." You asked to be put on my waymark list of 1,000+ visits about a month ago. Now, a month later, you're at 1500 visits - all (most that I looked at) with no photos. Where're the photos for your 1500 visits? Stop and get your camera out to do some real Waymarking.

My suspicion is that these constructions will lead you to a Lego store or a LegoLand Theme park, where they're clustered. Excluding these, how many will you find?

That is an amazing stack of icons, of what amounts to a catalog of the contents of the museum! At least for waymarkable items. Thanks for pointing out that search.

I've waymarked ten painted utility boxes by the same artist, Vanessa Stafford. When I go to the painted utility boxes and do a search for her name: <Painted Utility boxes by Vanessa Stafford> I only get 8 of the ten waymarks. The two that do not show up are the two most recently filed, WMDQBR and WMDPRN. The same is true for another artist, Arturo Thomae. <Painted Utiltiy boxes by Arturo Thomae> This query produces no results, but should result in waymarks, WMDQQD and WMDQBK, again waymarks recently filed. This happens on multiple computers and different browsers at my house. Is there a Waymarking search problem that doesn't show recently filed waymarks? This appears to be the same problem discussed in <Missing WM in search.>

If you are using Garmin Communicator from Safari on a Macintosh, then Garmin has identified a conflict between the Plug-in and the Flip4Mac Quicktime enhancement. Their solution is to use the Garmin Communicator in FireFox, which does not encounter the problem or remove Flip4Mac if you want to use the plug-in from Safari. No word on time to fix. I've verified that the Plug-in works from FireFox on the Mac. HTH

It looks like the major dependency for Wherigo Builder is the .Net framework. What's so magic about this framework that it can't be replaced by Foundation/AppKit in Cocoa? Both my son and I are intrigued by Wherigo and eager to put some ideas we have into cartridges. But we only use Macintosh. With the tremendous success of the iPhone applications and many new first time developers, it's clear that the Cocoa development platform is viable, easy to use and can produce applications for handheld devices. An interesting application might be a Wherigo Player for the iPhone 3G to expand the Wherigo audience by millions! Anybody working on that? We have a Colorado and an Oregon GPS and have both enjoyed the Wherigo experience on them, but we're withering over the lack of support for developement on the Macintosh. If Wherigo Builder is considered an Alpha product still, can't we get some alpha level work done on a Macintosh version. With the creative reputation of the Macintosh community, I'm sure you won't be disappointed by expanding your developer base. Please help us.