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Updated. Thank you. In 24 hours, I will create a group vote to approve the category. Then I'll move forward with peer review.

Thanks Erik. I guess typing up the write up at 1am allowed for a few grammar/spelling errors to slip through the cracks. I made the necessary changes and added a few more clauses. I'll leave this open for discussion for a few more days before I call a group vote and send it off to peer review.

Should be on the group page: Category Status: The World War I Sites category has been created (with variables). If you can't see it, here's the direct link: https://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=42887aa0-984e-4f4c-b699-3a704896cd19&gid=6&exp=True

Ok, I just wrote up the rough draft of the category. Anything I should add or subtract?

I just created the group. Feel free to add yourself. I will be adding officers accordingly. https://www.Waymarking.com/groups/details.aspx?f=1&guid=bbbb33b0-41f6-4913-ad96-e7a0a1a2ba07

I've notice this too. We do have Civil War Sites and WWII sites. WWI sites might be an interesting topic. I could get is started, but it is up to others if this is even worth pursuing to create a proposal.

All these votes lately are crazy. The Waymarking algorithm tends to favor yea than nay for some reason, and this has been an issue for as along as I can remember. Likely because of the "abstain" which should be counted as neither yea nor nay, isn't.

I'd be interested.

It appears that there is a certain member of the community, who I will not name, that is out to get me. He has continued to set votes forward to remove me from my officer positions in at least 100 categories I review in. I have contacted this member several times over the past few months, and he has continued to ignore me. I have contacted the website administrator and Groundspeak about his full out assault and borderline harassment towards me. I know I am not the only one who has had an influx of "group vote" emails in the last few minutes. I don't understand what has gotten into this member, but they clearly do not want to listen to reason and want to see my demise, and fail, in Waymarking. Most of these groups he has called votes in, I have been around since the very beginning of the category. Some over a decade old, long before he began Waymarking. I have began to contact every other member of all the category he has called votes in, some of them have voiced their concern too about this particular member these last few weeks. I wanted to see what others thought about this full scale attack, as I hope he is not doing this towards anyone else. As a side note, please vote "nay" in the categories you manage. I have already been removed in several groups he is an officer in for no reason other than he "hates" me. Thank you.

You can try the Smithsonian inventory if it's listed there. When all else fails, try the relief art sculpture category. At least it'll go somewhere. IOOF should accept these as they have in the past. You might also want to try the citizen memorials category. If this is not a grave, I will approve it there.

Must be a European thing as I've never seen a "barefoot path" here in the states. I feel this might be enough to create a new category at the very least. Interesting, yes. Is a new category redundant, in my eyes no. Prevalent, maybe. Don't feel like any of the existing categories would be a good fit. Maybe outdoor science displays, but its a stretch.

All emails from Waymarking seem to have disappeared for me this afternoon. I can see that when I submit new ones, I don't get a confirmation email. Same happens when I get an approval. Checked my spam/junk mail but nothing is in there. I seem to be getting emails from geocaching still. Anyone else having this issue with Waymarking emails or is it just a one way thing?

Same. I am in PST as well, and some times it is showing tomorrow's date. Wish Groundspeak would fix the issue. It's been several weeks.

I was only getting this error message when uploading downloaded photos from my previously approved waymarks to my desktop, then re-upload those photos. I've been doing it that way for years and this is the first time I have had issues. Strange as it only happens with specific photos and not ones I download to my desktop from my phone. Hopefully time will fix this issue.

All of a sudden, I get this error message when I try and upload a photo. Anyone else have the same issues? Just started about 10 mins ago. Tried using a different file (even exporting the jpg) but get the same results.

Abstract art or news story locations (if there is an article) off the top of my head.

I don't think this is a duplicate of the direction and distance category. The examples I provided are not the same as what would be accepted in that category. If I submitted these examples into that category, they would almost certainly get declined. That isn't to say that there could be some overlap, but again this category could be more restrictive on only allowing distances, not both distances with directions.

By my definition above, I think it should be 1600 km.

Ah, good point! I had not thought of that. Your comment jogged my memory. During a recent trip to West Virginia I stopped by at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy Center, a sorta rest stop for hikers. Inside, I did find some distance signs that are not highway signs. Here's an example:

I've always found it interesting and fascinating to find distance signs which are abnormally large. Sometimes driving on highways I see signs that tell me I'm thousands of miles to a destination. This typically occurs where a road or highway begins, indicating the distance to its terminus. I've always enjoyed seeing these unusual distance signs. By that I mean distances that exceed 1000 miles (1600 km). I've attached a photo that I took as an example. I think this would make an interesting category, as I do enjoy finding these from time to time. I see some potential, but wanted to run it by the community before developing a group. Thoughts? Comments?

Says I need to request access to view the link. Can you make it public?

In the last several weeks I've came across several memorials/monuments to those who lost (or are fighting) their battle with cancer. Since there isn't a category specifically for "Cancer Memorials and Monuments" I thought I would create one. I think this would be a great addition to the site. Maybe expand it to include all diseases? Just a thought, I want to know what the community thinks. Let me know your input!

Last September my home thermometer read a record temp of 113 F. Must have been a record for my city. This was also during the California Wildfires, so the sky looked orange for a few weeks. Where I'm at now (Maryland) it's a much cooler 90 F.

Me, personally, I would say no. Don't think we need to add all space stations. But others may have different opinions.

Yes, I've noticed that too. Back in the day (about 10 years or so ago) this was super frequent and annoying, especially when I manually typed in my coordinates. But it seems like the automatic reset of coords to 00.000 is back after a few year hiatus. It tends to happen if you are on the edit screen for a while and didn't click the save button to actually create the draft. Once you create the draft, the coords seem to stick.