MountainWoods

I use BaseCamp with my Garmin GPSr. I think some folks are hesitant to try it because it's free (since it only works with Garmins). It's very easy to use and organize waypoints of any kind - Waymarks and Soggy Paper Game waypoints, geotagged photos, and so on. Although it has the typical "tree structure" of a computer file system - items, lists, folders, and folders within folders, etc. - a given waypoint can belong in more than one list (within totally unrelated folders); and so on. For folks like me who think very structured*, this is a very powerful tool. And you can export lists (or individual waypoints) into a GPX or KML file for use elsewhere. For example: I can set up a list of potential waymarks (as waypoints), export them, put them on my Android phone, and use a GPX Viewer application to quickly see them and navigate to them by the usual means (Google maps, etc.). (* I rarely have to Search the My Documents folder, because everything is already laid out in a logical structure.)

I like these "Waymarking took me to" happy accidents. Whilst Waymarking the many cemeteries near us, and the various categories therein, I came on the grave of Albert E. Brumley, who wrote over 800 gospel songs, including the ubiquitous "I'll Fly Away". That's just one cool thing. My wife and I are still chuckling about our visit to Marshall Cemetery in Carroll County, Arkansas; where the landowner told us "Here's the keys to my 4WD pickup. Use that to get over to the cemetery and back. Don't use your car." Our car is a 4WD off road, but I was glad for the offer after driving back to his home. The hill between his place and the cemetery is as steep as some of our ATV trails here at the ranch, and that's pretty steep. Don't know how they have a graveside service there, and yet the latest burial was from 2016. There are many other odd and funny occurrences from our Waymarking trips. I should have kept notes on them.

No. We currently still have the 1.5 Mbits/sec service we had back then. But our phone service (CenturyLink) is being upstaged by our power company (Barry Electric Cooperative)! We'll be replacing our internet service AND phones (using VoIP) in about a month (sometime in May). So long old phone carrier, time for some real speed. And from our power carrier at that! They're the ones bringing in the fiber optic below their power lines on the poles. (BEC has always been a great company, so that's not surprising.) Another great advantage is that we won't have to switch off our phone lines during lightning storms. I installed a big knife switch on the incoming phone line some time back, after we had lost so many phones, modems, and what have you on the CenturyLink phone lines. We through the knife switch off during lightning. With fiber optic, we won't be doing that. We can actually watch the storms approaching on the web during the storm!

Thank you. I like replies that provide useful information. Of course, this work around does require extra steps, as you've pointed out. Getting the coordinate search working again will be wonderful. By the way, I still only get the map to display about 35% to 40% of the time; and that's after getting a new computer with (absolutely lousy) Windows 10. Most of the time it just shows an empty box. We have 1.5 Mbits/sec here, and someone mentioned that it could be an internet latency issue, though I don't see why. If it's going to display something, it should just display it, no matter how long it takes TO display it. But soon that may not be an issue, since we're getting fiber optic put in with speeds of about 256 Mbits per. That'll be wonderful!

You're still missing the point. You are assuming that one knows something before they know it. How am I supposed to know that there are no waymarks within 30 miles of where I want to post the new one, unless I can use COORDINATE SEARCH to see what is in the vicinity? There is no other "handle" or reference thing to see if there are waymarks in the area, except to start to make a new one that may or may not be extraneous. Anyway, I use the coordinate search very often; and it does not make sense for someone who doesn't use it to say that it isn't necessary just because they don't use it. Naturally, everyone has to waymark the same way or they are doing it wrong?

Please provide a way given: Coordinate search is not working. There are no waymarks within 30 miles of the area where I want to check to see if I'm making a "new" waymark. I'm at a loss to figure out how to find what's at that location, and open to suggestions.

Those of us who waymark out in the country, and in areas where there are not a lot of Waymarkers, don't have the luxury of using an existing waymark to see if what is in the area of our, say, Country Church or whatever. Using the nearest waymark 30 miles away is going to give you a listing of things around there; but it might take page after page to see that there might not be anything in the area of your "new?" waymark. And even then, how do you know when you've waded through enough pages of waymarks near that 30-mile-away waymark to determine that you've actually covered the desired area? Nope. The only way to do it when you're out many miles away from other waymarks is to use the coordinates.

Oh boy. I use that feature a lot. It's a quick way to make sure I'm not about to try to waymark a bunch of existing waymarks in an area. Yikes.

Are you talking about memorials to them? That's Citizen Memorials (or one of the military memorial categories). Are you talking about graves? That's Grave Of A Famous Person

We go through Fairland fairly often, on the way out to Bartlesville. Now we'll have an association with this gigantic metropolis.

Well I only got 94, so there!

I recall from an earlier discussion that the phone app, by choice, does not do everything that you need to submit a waymark. The idea being (I think) to inhibit low quality waymarks that are quickly drummed up on a phone, where it is harder to type in quality descriptions and so on. I may be wrong, but this is what I recall from a few years ago. The idea is to give you something that you can use to "stub" the waymark, then finish it later when you have time to finish your research and so on. At any rate, I still have the issue that I have to login to it every time I start it up from scratch. It only remembers my login if I leave it running in the background. And yes, I do have cookies enabled, except 3rd party cookies.

I have 1/100th of that many waiting for review. And waiting. They're all in categories for which I'm an officer, but I don't want to approve my own Waymarks, of course. I've begun procedures to promote more officers in those groups. Go, go, go, go, go!

I'll let the long description of this waymark do the talking. We've had discussions like this in the past, but I couldn't find one to continue. So it's time for More Interesting Experiences Whilst Waymarking. What's your latest stories?

Every year there's a sector of folks who go around this Pi Day thing. Some skirt its circumference. Some try other angles. Seems like we've been doing this since we got off the Arc. But there is no beginning or end to it, I guess. Folks from a considerable radius from me enjoyed the day. I am diametrically unconcerned.

Gotta check the forums, John. Note that the first post on this Meet and Greet was almost 2 months earlier. Check the forums about once every week or every other week and you'll stay pretty current. Thanks for the approval. We missed you.

Whoever she was, I'm sure she took some professional photos of us experienced Waymarkers standing there grinning. My wife also got a photo at the same time -- just a quick phone snap; not professional. But it should look similar, anyways. MountainWoods (me) is the big guy in the overalls near the center. Next to me in a kind of orange shirt is Benchmark Blasterz. Next to her in the yellow shirt is 8Nuts MotherGoose. Next to him in the blue shirt is TerraViators. Next to him is Vulture1957 (which anyone will tell you is a great year). I don't know the names of all the folks at the left (my right). Perhaps someone can provide that information.

We had a great time meeting the other Waymarkers that were able to attend. Although it was geared toward educating folks (typically geocachers) about Waymarking to "get them over the edge" and into the hobby, it was great getting to compare notes with other experienced Waymarkers also. Fun! Thanks 8Nuts MotherGoose!

I had the advantage of not being around when Waymarking was spun off. I started out doing geocaching, but kinda got tired when so many GCs were soaking wet or missing. So I checked out the other games. Other than using the GPSr and logging (as fi67 pointed out), I did not look for more commonality than that. I didn't know anything about locationless caches or any of the history. All I know is that I started visiting tons of Waymarks in my area and like the idea. For about 3 months I didn't think I'd ever actually make a Waymark, let alone be an officer in a category's group. But I submitted my first waymark for a Woodmen of the World marker in a cemetery where the well-known Waymarker GEO*Trailblazer 1 had "run out" of candidate WotW Waymarks (since only 4 are allowed per person per cemetery), and when that was accepted, I was hooked. I like 8Nuts Mother Goose's description of the various audiences for Waymarks. I may be looking for Baptist Churches while Waymarker Joe may be looking for Country Churches, and we end up at the same place because of two different Waymarks on the same location. The idea is to let folks know what interesting things are in an area, even if such things match multiple areas of interest.

Okay. I figured out the "nearest waymarks" being 9 miles away thing. There is an option - ON by default - to ignore the ones you've already visited. (Surprised that there's any within 20 miles that I haven't visited. Got more visiting to do!) Turned it OFF and all was fine. EXCEPT, when I come into this app the first time every day, I have to login again. Also when I haven't been in the app for a few hours -- not sure how long -- I have to login again. Seems like the browser is expiring a cookie that it shouldn't be, or something. Perhaps it's the browser's fault, not the proxy?

I'll probably be coming directly to J&J's at the specified time, because I doubt that I can get to the regular event in time. Looks like J&J Pizza is a nice small storefront from a street view - nice and cozy. However, if it's larger than it looks like to me, what name should we ask for when we get there? The Waymarkers? Or ....? (Remember, most of us don't know what the rest of us look like!)

For now it seems to be staying logged in, even after dismissing the browser and coming back in. I'm using Chrome on an Android. The same one that I had the login problem with 3 or 4 years ago. However, it still is rather limited in use. It is showing my current location on the map. That's good. And I told Chrome to allow the page to use my current location. No problem there. But when I hit the button for nearest waymarks to my location, it starts with waymarks over 9 miles away, even though there is one literally in my back yard (not figuratively), and there a slew of them in my town only 2.5 miles away. No matter how many times I leave the "app" (really just a proxy that uses the Groundspeak API for Waymarking), it still shows my correct location, but the "nearest waymarks" are over 9 miles away. Goofy. Not sure what I can use it for. Another "fix this and then I'll use it" thing.

Computers aren't very expensive these days.... Just don't get Windows 10. Windows 7 is okay, as long as it's going to last. Or Linux, even better. Windows 10 stinks. On ice!

Ditto. I looked at them several times, but it never turned out to be something that I'd want to do. I had other ideas in mind for something called a Scavenger Hunt, but what Groundspeak decided on wasn't the same as any of my ideas.

Yeah. After all, we'll be ditching two church services that day to attend the Meet and Great, and I'm the church pianist, and my wife leads the singing. (Fortunately we have subs for both of those positions.) Yeah, I know. It's usually the wife that plays the piano while the husband leads. But we're backwards.