Bon Echo
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The maps are not yet updated this morning, Quebec still does not show up on my Maps.
But I took a look at the archived Starbucks Waymark that Elyob posted and can conclude that when a Waymark is archived, if you previously visited that Waymark you will still be credited for that Waymark at least in terms of Categories Visited and # of visits in that category and Total Visits. The Starbucks icon is also displayed on the Category Grid.
In that example, the archived Starbucks waymark was visited by “licenced”; when I check his/her profile (“Waymark Lists” – “Visited”) I see they visited 1 Starbucks, but when I click the “1” there are no waymarks shown – and that makes sense since it was archived.
See for yourself:
I poked around a bit further and found an archived listing for a Lustron house, with visits. If you look at user Facedances http://www.Waymarking.com/users/profile.aspx?f=1&guid=b70584ae-c675-41fa-bf6b-27c77a3616a4&mypage=2>=1&dt1=1/1/2005&dt2=12/10/2016 , you will see he/she visited two Lustron Homes (including this archived one: http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5MZ0_A_Desert_Tan_Lustron_on_the_corner_in_Bedford_OH ). Yet if you click the “2”, only one is shown (because the other is archived)
So I feel confident now to say that when a Waymark gets Archived, your visit stats associated with that waymark stick around. That includes Total Visits, Categories Visited, and Category Grid icons (and likely maps)
But what happens if that same Waymark gets deleted? Can an archived Waymark be deleted? I know that unfinished ones can be deleted, but not sure about archived ones (I don't have any archived Waymarks).
So I suspect that the New Brunswick visit was to a (now archived) waymark… and I’m starting to wonder if I am losing my mind, imagining Waymark visits that never were. It seems less probably that users are archiving and then deleting their waymarks. And maybe not even possible (can someone confirm this please?).
Hmm, also wonder now what happens if you delete your own visit (or if it is deleted by the waymark owner). Testing now.....
Ps - yes if you visit a “photo challenge” or “UHaul” category you get credited my visits to places you have never been to. I have visits to Brazil, Finland, Maryland, and a couple other places I’ve never been because of visits to those categories.
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Release Notes - December 6, 2016
Today’s release brings more design consistency to the Geocaching map as seen on Geocaching.com and the Geocaching® app.
[*]All icons on the website map now match what you’ve already been seeing on the Search results page. The new icon colors also match up with the app.
[*]The views at various zoom levels on the Geocaching.com map are now more similar to the app. For instance, when you’re zoomed farther out, caches are denoted by a smaller dot icon with color only.
[*]When you zoom in, you’ll see larger icons with more detail.
[*]We have recategorized the Filterable Cache Types to match the mobile app.
Nadja from HQ’s product team is watching the thread to answer questions whenever possible.
Why not update the appp to match the pre-existing website, instead of creating theapp and then changing the website to match?
And why do they even need to match?
I wonder how many players use both (app and website maps).
Just curious.
EDIT: the A-TEAM posted while I was writing this...seems we were both thinking along the same lines
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Last time i found a category to submit this waymark, which represents a hare and a snail, but i can not find again this category, but may be there is not
Any idea ?
Simulacra
http://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=f5565982-08c2-4327-b9c2-19ec1ebcef0f
Would also qualify for a locationless cache another site that still allows them (there are a couple out there) - PM for details if you wish
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Let me know when Québec becomes part of your stats.
Will do. Some of the stats have updated but not all:
Quebec - still shows 0 visits. Likely won't update until tomorrow.
Total # Visits: now 812
# of Figurative Public Statues visited: Now at 8 and includes your waymark
Here's another interesting twist:
Looking at my map I see a visit to New Brunswick. Like QC, have not been to NB since before my Waymarking days. Did I retro visit one? Was curious so I searched "Waymarks I've Visited" and filtered for location - New Brunswick. All Dates, no other filters.
No Waymarks Found.
???????
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For reasons that I won't get in to, I am willing to (and interested in) archiving a new waymark.
http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WMTK4Z_LOdysse_Gatineau_Qubec
Visit it first, then we'll know.
Perfect, thank-you for the offer.
Here are my (relevant stats) before I go and post a log. I will post a log today and wait for my stats to fully update. Maybe wait a day or two before you archive it.
Visits to Quebec: none (in the Waymarking sense, even though I once lived within walking distance of the border (assuming the Ottawa was frozen enough to walk across of course - but that years before Waymarking existed).
# of Waymarks visited: 811
# of Figurative Public Sculpture visited: 7
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Over the last year it seems a number of Waymarks that I VISITED have been archived. Or I'm loosing my mind (not to be ruled out...)
For example, I'm sure there were a small number of Waymarks in Swan River MB when I visited there last summer. I took photos of a couple historic plaques and have some memory that they were already waymarked. Last month I discovered they were not waymarked, so I did it. In fact, there are currently no waymarks in that town except a small number that I have since waymarked. I'm so sure there were some when I checked last year. Okay, maybe I'm just confused.
But then there is the case of Lincoln Trail State Park in IL. Camped there this summer and I vividly remember that it was Waymarked and that I posted a visit. I remember that it was called something like "Lincoln Trail Wilderness" which I found amusing and posted a comment about the sign being changed etc. I also recall it being an old waymark with no visits. I also have some memory of at least a few Waymarks being already posted near the log cabin in Marshall IL (not far from the State Park) - but I cannot find them now. Is this all in my head or are they being archived?
I checked my profile and see only one visit for IL and it's for a photo challenge (that's annoying on a different level but I will save that rant for another time). I'm so sure that I at least posted a visit to the Lincoln Trail SP.
My question is - if you post a visit and the WM is later archived, what does that mean for your personal stats - milestones, categories visited, states with visits etc?
My hutch is that it all vanished along with the Waymark. If that's true, I'm probably going to start posting even few visits that I already do, since it can all disappear.
Anyone want to experiment? We will need to create a Waymark, post some visits, then archive it. A bit of work involved. Anyone interested? Obviously easier if someone already knows the answer
And fwiw I did try many google searches trying to located these "missing" waymarks but without luck (using the site:Waymarking.com phrase in the search).
Bon Echo
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This is interesting, try Silhouette Public Art Sculptures and Artistic Seating. This may work in both categories.
Let us know the results.
10 points for you BK-Hunters. Trackman was declined in Abstract Sculptures with a note to submit to Silhouette Public Art Sculptures, which I did. It was approved shortly thereafter. I thought it was too multi-dimentional to be classified as Silhouette - I can see the sculpture has projections in all three visible dimensions, and it was for that reason that I decide to submit to Abstract. There's so much subjectivity with sculptures, that's one of the reasons I seldom waymark them. I'm not complaining, and I don't envy the category managers who must decide which category some sculptures best fit.
Thanks everyone with you help getting this one submitted.
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Here's a statue I found in 2013 and couldn't decide what category. I know the Sculptures categories can be hard to figure out. Can some of the experienced members here help me out. FWIW these are the only photos I have for this sculpture. It is created with bits of metal collected along the old railway. The bench is also constructed from old railway rails.
Trackman should be a Figurative Public Sculpture, as it is recognizable as a human form.
If Trackman is too abstract of a human form for Figurative Public Sculptures then it would likely fit in Abstract Sculptures.
Thanks. I submitted it to Abstract Sculptures just after I posted the questions. Still waiting for a result.
I probably won't bother with the bench since 1) I didn;t get too good of a photo of it, 2) it doesn't interest me enough, and 3) i;ve seen others like it, so it's not all that unique (to me anything "artistic" should also be quite unique). Others probably have different opinions, which is what makes the world an interesting place. Glad to be part of it
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Here's a statue I found in 2013 and couldn't decide what category. I know the Sculptures categories can be hard to figure out. Can some of the experienced members here help me out. FWIW these are the only photos I have for this sculpture. It is created with bits of metal collected along the old railway. The bench is also constructed from old railway rails.
Trackman should be a Figurative Public Sculpture, as it is recognizable as a human form.
If Trackman is too abstract of a human form for Figurative Public Sculptures then it would likely fit in Abstract Sculptures.
Thanks. I submitted it to Abstract Sculptures just after I posted the questions. Still waiting for a result.
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Sometimes I think a category manager can be more abrasive in what they write, maybe more abrasive than they intend to be or maybe just more than normal for them (i.e. having a bad day or something). I submitted three waymarks to a category recently and two of the three were accepted but with a sharp note about a small missing data in the variables, and that future submissions would be declined if not corrected (in fairness that person did fix the two submission to add what I left out). The third submission was left for a few days until another reviewer looked at it. I felt sort of wrist-slapped and formed an opinion about that member and the category - not because of what was said, but how it was said. A couple weeks later I submit one to a different category, and get a encouraging message with the acceptance from the same member. Opinion updated. I will try to remember that and not take anything too personal when written in comments for accepted or declined waymarks.
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Here is an example of what the older CSA headstones looked like.
I don't see American Civil War veterans headstones being a USA only category. Many fled the USA after the War of Northern aggression.
yep, found some of those in Texas as well
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I agree that this will be a hard sell since it would be a USA-only category (maybe a few in other countries but not too many).
How can it be adopted to include other countries, and yet not allow it to become over-prevalent?
This made me think of some graves I found while in Texas - they were for "decorated" soldiers, and their medals were listed on their graves. For example, here's one for a Vietnam soldier that was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Too prevalent? Worldwide? Existing category?
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Here's a statue I found in 2013 and couldn't decide what category. I know the Sculptures categories can be hard to figure out. Can some of the experienced members here help me out. FWIW these are the only photos I have for this sculpture. It is created with bits of metal collected along the old railway. The bench is also constructed from old railway rails.
More info from a geocache listing:
The Trackman statue that you see is the third one on this site. They were all constructed from broken railway hardware. The first Trackman was erected in 1993 and a few years later it disappeared. Ten years later another was set up but it did not last too long either. The current one was built in 2010. (Hopefully this one will stay).
Thanks for the advice.
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If you look at the 224 waymarkers with over 500 waymarks, less than half are active.
Having 5oo or more waymarks is not a qualification for being an active reviewer. I have less than 200 but review most submissions to the two categories I manage (officer) within a day or two.
I also alternate between being a premium and regular member, and I don't understand why that's even part of the discussion since it has no bearing on one's ability to manage existing categories.
And one more thing. Don't read too much into the last visit date - the last visit date is when the payer logged into Waymarking OR geocaching, and many "former waymarkers" are still active geocachers. So it may appear they are still active, but they total tuned out on Waymarking.
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Here's a pertinent thought - if there were as many Waymarkers as there are Geocachers, we would all be visiting by now. The only unwaymarked sites left would be in that strange and mysterious land to which I'm transported with Google Maps when I forget the minus sign in the longitude.
K.
Or when a new [insert location name here] opens up, then there would be a race to get out the door and get the images to get FTW (First to Waymark).
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Here is an interesting dilemma:
As an officer, do you approve your own waymarks?
As an officer, if one of your waymarks is put to a vote, do you vote; if so yea or abstain.
Also, do you visit your own waymarks?
No^3, I also do not log Attended on any Event that I host. Seems obvious to me. Same way I don't send myself a birthday card.
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Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party and won't be able to vote due to my current status as lowly member. I can tell from reading the description that these two examples would be excluded but you might choose to explicitly state it. In Ontario two common non-church-owned facilities that may be rented by a church group for Sunday services include public schools and movie theaters.
Good luck with the category and peer review. I symbolically vote yea.
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I use chrome and installed the script. It worked! Yay
I turned on my browser this morning and got a message that google had blocked the script because it was not from the google store, with no way to unblock it.
Now what?
Easy solution. Stop using chrome and start using Firefox. The only feature I like on Chrome is the ability to save a page as a pdf, so I use Chrome just for times when I want to do that. Otherwise it's Firefox. I'd like to believe that it's one less chance for Google to collect data on my online habits (aside from performing searches while in firefox) but they probably have found a way around that.
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No it's not the same, because "Nearest waymarks" references the position of the waymark currently beeing displayed, whereas "Search from here" uses the current position of the map as center point. So, you can move the map around and then search from this position. This is much more convenient than copying coordinates from Google Maps etc.
Oh! Since I had never used the feature, I was unaware of that. Would have been handy. Ya learn something almost every day!!! If I suddenly feel the need to use it I'll try the script.
On a side note - the fix is sooooo simple that if someone were to bring it to the attention of Waywizard, Bootron, et all, mebbe they would invest the 5 minutes required and do the deed!!
BK-Hunters, install the script and try it. It is so nice to be able to drag the maps anywhere you want, hit a single button and you are instantly shown a list of waymarks for that area. Don't wait for it to be fixed, that might not happen.
On a side note, while scrolling around on the map to test the fix, I stumbled upon an Ontario Provincial Plaque for John Muir http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WMF5F_JOHN_MUIR. Turns out he lived and worked in Ontario for a short time. I had no idea.
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Apparently, this won't get fixed by Groundspeak. So, I packed the fixed code in a Greasemonkey script. If anyone is interested, the script is here:
Installation on Firefox:
(1) Install Greasemonkey Addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
(2) Click script link and confirm script installation
(3) Maybe you'll have to enable the script in about:addons > User scripts
Installation on Chrome:
(1) Download the script
(2) Open chrome://extensions
(3) Drag & Drop downloaded script on page (2) and confirm
No warranty given, but tested successfully in latest FF & Chrome on search-results-page and waymark-details-page.
Narayan, that's so awesome - it's fixed (at least on this computer)! Installation on Firefox was a breeze since greasemonkey was already installed for send2cgeo.
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It was a very handy feature, I used it a lot when I started Waymarking. Now when I want to find a specific location, and then the nearest waymark I either need to pull coordinates off google maps or search the geocaching maps for the nearest cache and then use the "Nearest waymarks" link. Much less convenient.
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Here's one of mine I'd like to recommend.
Feed the Carp - Linesville Spillway - Linesville, PA
http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WMMPNB_Feed_the_Carp_Linesville_Spillway_Linesville_PA
Probably one of the few legitimate "please feed the animals" locations where the animals to be fed are completely wild, not caged. usually feeding wild animals is discouraged. This site see upwards of 400,000 visitors per year!
Or this one, seems like that technology really took off!
World's First Successful Long Distance Telephone Call, Aug 10 1876 - Paris ON (Canada) - First of its Kind
which of course has another "end" - can't make a phone call unless someone can receive it:
World's First Successful Long Distance Telephone Call, Aug 10 1876 - Brantford ON (Canada) - First of its Kind it
Finally, this one may be my favourite Waymark submitted to date:
History of the United States Of America - 1776 to 1904 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, USA - Timelines
Not sure any of those are on par with some of the really great Suggested Waymarks that are currently on there. Pick one if you think it's suitable.
Thanks
Wow, thanks Checkmark or Waywizard! I just noticed two of the waymarks were selected as Featured Waymarks.
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Here's one of mine I'd like to recommend.
Feed the Carp - Linesville Spillway - Linesville, PA
http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WMMPNB_Feed_the_Carp_Linesville_Spillway_Linesville_PA
Probably one of the few legitimate "please feed the animals" locations where the animals to be fed are completely wild, not caged. usually feeding wild animals is discouraged. This site see upwards of 400,000 visitors per year!
Or this one, seems like that technology really took off!
World's First Successful Long Distance Telephone Call, Aug 10 1876 - Paris ON (Canada) - First of its Kind
which of course has another "end" - can't make a phone call unless someone can receive it:
World's First Successful Long Distance Telephone Call, Aug 10 1876 - Brantford ON (Canada) - First of its Kind it
Finally, this one may be my favourite Waymark submitted to date:
History of the United States Of America - 1776 to 1904 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, USA - Timelines
Not sure any of those are on par with some of the really great Suggested Waymarks that are currently on there. Pick one if you think it's suitable.
Thanks
until I get reassigned.
What happens when a Waymark is archived
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Me too....but the maps are not updating
still not showing Quebec of Vermont. Broken.