Tuena
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Thanks for the advice.
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I have received an email from a curator of a heritage museum asking could they have permission to use reproductions of photos from one of my waymarks. Apart from my photos two have been added by visitors. Can I just give permission or is there a procedure? I have seen a few of my photos on the net & these show the source as Waymarking.com as I recall.
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17 hours ago, colleda said:
I tried it. Typed Oberon, NSW and clicked on that from the drop down selection. The next page lists caches with two options "Add 95 to list" shown. Or, "Map Geocaches" which, if clicked, shows the town of Oberon and all its caches, about a dozen or so, mostly Mysteries.
Thanks for that - I'll use the map option from now on.
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I get a similar result. If I search the town of Oberon,nsw I get a cache on a road that leads to Oberon & then have to scroll down to find what I want. If I search for Nowra,nsw I get Berry some 15 Ks away by road. If I search for berry,nsw I get Berry. Go figure. As to search filters on this page which you get upon logging on https://www.geocaching.com/play/search one only needs to add the state to the location, normally. Fortunately I have a fall back option on another site.
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If the person hasn't met the requirements to record a visit then delete the log & notify them. I did this several years ago for a large number of visits by a particular person who recorded visits along the lines that they lived in the area & would have visited the site at some stage. They needed a combination of waymarks to allow them to look for a geocache. After the deletions by myself (& another from across the ditch), they visited the waymarks & took the required photos.
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Had you stuck to: This category will not accept elevated buildings which are entirely residential there could be no haughty replies etc.
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Under the forum titled Buildings on Stilts you were adamant that elevated residences constructed after 1900 would not be acceptable. Now you're saying (based on the URL) that these are acceptable eg:
This category will accept elevated buildings which are entirely residential, whether permanent residences, beach or lake rental properties, hotels/motels or condominiums.
Such a change should have been mentioned prior to Peer Review.
There are a huge number of elevated weatherboard houses in flood prone areas. Many have been jacked up with the steel framework built under them. Not something I would take a photo of given they are someone's home.
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I get this in Google Chrome on Windows 10 whether using the site or via GSAK.
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On 3/28/2021 at 6:01 AM, Wolfen32 said:
It still seems to me that the vast majority of these are permanent. I'm not sure about the rumors of them moving. seems some think they are interesting but not permanent, others think they are permanent but not interesting. with some digging perhaps we can come to consensus. It seemed to qualify for both when I brought the topic to the forums. Just unfortunate that it became a vehicle for pre-existing disputes. I'm just here to help the game itself.
Any idea why peer review is stalled? It went to vote and... nothing happened. Is this typical? Thank for any help if you can offer it. Respectfully, please.Your proposal was denied via Peer Review but from what I can gather you have simply resubmitted it for a second go. See Wayfrog's comment about self service coin operated laundromats in relation to a question from me viz https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/356790-self-service-coin-operated-laundromats-voting/ Similar?
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I got the feedback questionnaire yesterday & saw this topic today. Have only ever used the old profile page (dashboard) so had a look at the new & given the imminent demise of the old, will change to the new. There are a few things I don't particularly like though - the position of the links on the left hand side, Advanced search has disappeared, no nearby Waymarks, Your Lists & Lists are duplicated.
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I am somewhat confused by the voting on this proposal. Yesterday there were 12 votes cast with a 50/50 spread, today just 2 both for. What has happened?
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2 hours ago, Torgut said:
I am not charmed by this idea, despite the great draft work. It's just like... fine... next, shall we create a category for church stone artefacts, and then for church glass artefacts and so on...?
I suppose each church is filled with dozens of wooden objects. I will have nightmares with the idea of seeing all these waymarked. Pages and pages of Waymarks when browsing what's there to see in a given town.
And how will people define "unusual" and specially "interesting"?
There is already a category for stone church artefacts so one less thing to worry about. The church I attend has dozens of wooden pews which aren't interesting or comfortable. The pulpit is of wood but nothing to write home about. And it's locked outside services so no photographic opportunities anyway. I do have a stone church artefact but as I recall it was outside.
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Saw that the other day when I was considering whether to volunteer as an official for a few more categories - neat.
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2 hours ago, BK-Hunters said:
Another comment, this by Chickilim:
I'm sorry to discover this peer-review without being able to take part in time to the discussion on the forum. In France, many rural churches have near their portal of entry a "stone of the deads" (also called "restoir") on which formerly the body of a deceased was deposited pending the arrival the priest, who arrived sometimes a few days later! .. (http://gerval2.free.fr/pierredesmorts.htm). Curiously very few of these stones table were protected by a roof and the protection of the body was left in the care of potential relatives who had possibly stay remain near the body until his funeral. However, some of these "waiting stones" are placed under "caquetoirs" (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caquetoire_(architecture)), a porch roof at the entrance of the churches, intended to protect the faithful from bad weather before or after Mass. I will change my "Abstain" in "Yeah" if these "stones of the dead" protected under "caquetoire" can fall into this category. ;-)
I agree wholeheartedly that these should be included in the category, as long as they can be documented in some fashion. This is the type of comment I had hoped for here in the forum so the category could have been modified appropriately prior to peer review. Oh well, it'll get done one way or another.
Keith
These "waiting stones" are already accepted in Stone Church Artifacts:
Church Lych Gate Coffin Stones
The lych gate coffin stone is within a porch or entrance to the churchyard where the coffin bearers placed the coffin on a wide seat, whilst waiting for the priest and the rest of the funeral cortege. These stones were in the centre of the entrance.
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On 6/21/2019 at 2:16 PM, stevnated said:
What do other lone geocachers do about ticks? I found one on my back that I couldn't reach. Tried to coax it out but ended up with the head embedded, then had to wait ten days to see my mom who helped me dig it out! Geez. Any tips on avoiding getting them, or getting rid of them immediately after minor bushwhacking?
I use a Coghlans Tick Remover - a small cylinder with a clamp at one end & a spring on the other. Grip the tick & twist anti-clockwise & the whole tick is removed. In hard to reach places someone else gets to use it. Spay repellent & wear a wide brimmed hat.
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I had a look at the hide stats in a 50 kilometre radius from home (Shoalhaven City, NSW) & there has been a surge in hides since 2015, from 121 per annum to 263 last year & 84 so far this year. A major reason would be power trails hidden in the Southern Highlands which started to take off in 2017. Wollongong has a few PTs but fairly old & much the same in the Shoalhaven, with one hidden this year. I'm not a financial member of Project GC so no stats on archived caches. Interest in the activity by local geocachers waxes & wains, myself included although I support another listing site as well.
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26 minutes ago, Goldenwattle said:
They shouldn't have been going from cache to cache. That's NOT how they should have travelled. They were not TBs; they were caches. Being a cache they should have been re-hid in a new place each time by itself. That's how the four in Australia used to operate.
The four I found in Australia were as you state - caches in their own right. Three were the Traffic Control series, the other originated overseas. They generated a lot of interest.
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On 1/27/2019 at 5:18 PM, BK-Hunters said:
I guess if you were to ask the Wayfrog he might be able to fill us in, provided new statistics are available.
Keith
Done.
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Do we have any updated statistics? I can't recall or find any for last year.
Also is it possible to list stats for declines?
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Slow as a wet week but no errors.
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On 10/24/2018 at 5:11 PM, BK-Hunters said:
Given that you're "down under", that would seem a logical thing to do.
Convoluted - I couldn't agree more. However, since the search function has been anywhere between flaky and nonfunctioning for years now, I have gotten used to it and never even try to do it any other way any more.
Keith
I was just "having a go', a stir about the hemispheres. No offence meant. I use your search option now. I go into Goggle Earth, write down the coordinates, type them into Geocaching Australia for the conversion, copy that etc. Google maps didn't work for me as I couldn't find any co-ordinates. I've saved the searches into Notepad eg Bega [lat:-36.675133, lon:149.843133] so I have a permanent record.
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I'm in favour of this category, with or without the exclusion. There are several in Australia with the majority off-limits to the casual climber. Some are very tall others short but on the top of mountains. Geocaching Australia has a Locationless cache Firetowers GA2654 which has 63 entries.
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1 hour ago, Lynx Humble said:
On the right upcorner click on the `'Welcome to the new map What's this?'' to opt out.
Thanks for that. I've opted out (never knowingly opted in) & searches are back to normal.
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