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    Photo Goals - Here to help

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    The different standards are creeping in again.

    Can I quote an answer in the Waymark vote " I don’t know how many times it needs to be said that simply taking a photo of yourself, or some object is not a valid photo goal for this category. There must be an action associated. '  How did  Get "Arrested" pass the vote, sitting in a car and having a photo taken? Even the description says it all,  read it!  Its just taking a photo of yourself sitting in a car.  Looks like different standards again.

    And to Scroogiell....love the idea of your paper aeroplane, if you have action photos that would be a good one, bring it on.... (but of course that's only my opinion).

    Photo Goals - Here to help

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    Oooops, your waymark is not such a perfect example afterall.  Nothing unusual about having a photo taken with a flag.  But it is 'weirdo' though, the number of Country flags in there when you specifically said "National Flags will not be accepted". ...even hand-held small flags when  "they MUST be full sized! "  Shouldn't you, as the waymark owner, manage your goal visits and delete those that don't comply?

    Or, should this Photo Goal be declined too,  just like the others? And where's the ACTION?  :rolleyes:

    Photo Goals - Here to help

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    Please bring back the "Wear Your Best Suit" photo goal.  I've just completed the goal and now I see it has just been archived. Why? Just because someone thinks its not daring or death defying enough?? As my log stated, "Everyone likes getting dressed up now and then, and these days we don't seem to get enough opportunities to put our glad rags on. "

    This is what photo goals used to be about, just doing something and having fun, didn't have to be an ‘eye rolling’ thing or a ‘Dare You’ thing. Getting really dressed up IS doing something, especially if it’s for an important occasion.

    The Past Activity page makes interesting reading, so many Declines then Approves then Declines again, for the same goal, it looks like no-one knows what they're doing!

    Wear Your Best Suit was one of those, approved and now gone,  PLEASE  bring it back for good!

    • Surprised 1

    RIP BruceS

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    This is very sad news. Bruce was always a big name in Waymarking,  we looked up to him as a mentor and friend. Bruce made a trip to New Zealand and left some waymarks in the South Island,  many of which we have already visited.  These places will have a very special memory for us now, and Bruce's name will always live on through the waymarks he created in our little corner of the world.  Haere ra Bruce, we will miss you.

     

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    Release Notes (Geocaching Forums)- July 17, 2017

    in Geocaching HQ communications

    Posted

    On 18/07/2017 at 1:39 PM, Punga and Paua said:

    And are we going to get the Forums back on the Waymarking site at some stage? Currently, when we click on Forums on the Waymarking site, we are just getting the message: 404 Not Found.

     

    22 hours ago, Rock Chalk said:

    Yes, tomorrow.

     

    14 hours ago, iconions said:

    Tomorrow, there'll be sun! (and forums!)
    Thanks for the update Rock Chalk!

    OK, it is now tomorrow in the land that sees the sun first, although today there is no sun...BUT, we have the Forum link back on the Waymarking site! So, a very big THANKYOU.

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    Category Proposal - Space Art

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted

    Please explain, is this category restricted to waymarks of the art works created only by the list of International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA)? Or is it intended to be a category covering any work of space/alien art by any artist anywhere in the world? I noticed the description was taken from their website so I assumed that the IAAA artworks were the only ones that we could waymark. Or is the category open to any Space related art by any artist that we might discover on our travels, eg. murals and other outdoor exhibits.

    Australian Heritage

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted · Edited by Punga and Paua

    The instructions for posting waymarks into this category clearly state: The category includes Australia, all Australian islands, Torres Strait Islands, Norfolk Is, Overseas and External Territories. There are 5 listed under Overseas they are all Status:Listed Places, 2 are on Commonwealth list and the others are on Overseas Places of Historical Significance list. So that answers the question, Yes, there are 5 places on the "Overseas" list.

    Australian Heritage

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted

    The Australian Heritage Sites Category is now in Peer Review. Please vote Yea and help us gain a new and useful category which has been missing from Waymarking for too long. Australia is a large open sunburnt country, from sandy red outback deserts to tropical green rainforests, to misty blue mountains, to long golden coastlines, it is full of interesting history and heritage. We would like this opportunity to proudly list this Nation's treasures for all the world to see. And you're all invited to come Down Under and enjoy them!

    Australian Heritage

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted

    I have had a look at the proposal but , according to the Australian Heritage page they claim over 20,000 locations as in the submission , however on the Commonwealth list there are 400, the National list 107 and 19 on the World list , where are the other 19.500?? and how do I find them ??. As of 2012 the Register of the National Estate ceased to exist. Do we include the individual State Heritage lists?

    The only link you need is this one: http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl

    There is a State option, click on NSW for example (no need to fill out anything else) and it will show a complete alphabetical list of over 6000 listings, South Australia had over 3000, Tasmania has 2300 and so on. I found this link is the best way of looking up Heritage listings. There are other State Lists and a lot of other links, and some that just don't seem to work. This one is the best. You will see down at the bottom of the Search page, there are also links to further sites, so it's all there on the one page.

    Australian Heritage

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted

    Having lived in Oz we’re allowed to call Australia our second home (or are we “foreigners” too).

    On our holidays across the Tasman we enjoy seeing the many beautiful old sandstone buildings, the small heritage villages and other interesting historic places and we feel this Australian Heritage category should exist and will survive as there are plenty of keen waymarkers in Australia and plenty of visiting waymarkers from other countries (we know because they also visit our Aussie waymarks). We would support this category and it certainly gets our vote.

     

    Some of the Australian heritage places may be a little harder to recognise as there appears to be no official dedicated Heritage plaques on them. However the online State Heritage Registers will quickly show if they are listed and acceptable as waymarks into this new category. There are other various assorted plaques that are waymarked under Australian Historical Markers and these may overlap some heritage sites, but there are so many more significant and valued historical and cultural heritage places without plaques in this country that deserve to be waymarked.

    A Heritage Category in Waymarking could also prove to be a very useful guide for tourists visiting Australia.

    pictures on cache page

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by Punga and Paua

    Hey there everyone, I'm trying to tile the sides of one of my geocaching pages, but the picture wont do it. I only see the whole picture cut off in the middle by the geocaching blurb. How can I tile to picture to be on the left side, and on the right side? Is there some kind of code I have to put before the picture html code? Thanks. If you would like to see an example of my problem, look up Piranha's Railroad Relics in Portsmouth NH. Thanks

     

    https://coord.info/GC6XFN3 Piranha's Railroad Relics

     

    You've set the image to be the cache page background. As such, it's working the way it should, and always has worked.

     

    If you want the image to appear inside the cache description:

     

    Help Center → Hiding a Geocache → Geocache Ownership: A Long-Term Relationship

    4.4. Add images to your cache page

    http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=59

     

    B.

    Did not want to put it in the cache description, just wanted to have the whole picture show to the sides of the cache description. Wasn't sure if the picture needed to be smaller. Thanks for your response.

    M.

    Yes, you will need to make the picture a lot smaller. You can experiment a bit with size, keep editing until you get it right. See our cache background https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6KB4J_scoria-isnt-flat-central-plateau?guid=39ffdd0a-d04f-4c76-a859-7ce989c49e9a Is this how you want the background to look? Hope this helps.

    Absurd ? part Two

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted · Edited by Punga and Paua

     

    Can't we just have these two waymarks accepted, let's stop this absurdity and move on.

     

    HEAR, HEAR!

     

    K.

     

    I looked at it, added a little to it, and submitted it to Figurative Public Sculpture. :) There is no information on who the artist is and when it was installed, so we shall see what the COs decide to do. We respect every one of the reviewers that have looked at this WM, and hope the community will accept the decision of the COs, whatever it may be.

     

    I had hoped I could find extra information about the waymark on line, but I could not.

    Les Eléments

    de Thierry ALBERTI et Denis LUCASELLI From Google translation: Created in 2008 with the support of the municipality, under the impetus of a handful of founding members passionate, Font Romeu proposes a museum whose walls extend beyond imagination. Look up the website. http://museesansmurs.e-monsite.com/

    And here on YouTube

    What an awesome place.

    Absurd ? part Two

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

     

    Can't we just have these two waymarks accepted, let's stop this absurdity and move on.

     

    HEAR, HEAR!

     

    K.

     

    I looked at it, added a little to it, and submitted it to Figurative Public Sculpture. :) There is no information on who the artist is and when it was installed, so we shall see what the COs decide to do. We respect every one of the reviewers that have looked at this WM, and hope the community will accept the decision of the COs, whatever it may be.

     

    I had hoped I could find extra information about the waymark on line, but I could not.

    Les Eléments

    de Thierry ALBERTI et Denis LUCASELLI

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