hippy_jeeper
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Pretty sure that the first picture is Hephaestus, and so would go here: http://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=9b8b29d4-7536-45af-a212-b68ad9446e40
As for the stallions they would probably best go in equestrian statues, here: http://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=194ebc56-a1e9-4240-91ff-fcec467fb128
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Oh I'm not discouraged at all. If anything I'm more motivated, although I'm still trying to figure out which oak tree was 10 inches in diameter in 1935
. With GS's info on benchmarks so out of date I haven't even really bothered with it much, preferring to pull up the original datasheets and go from there. I'm not a numbers guy so the random geocache doesn't interest me. I'll skip the low hanging fruit and go for the difficult to get to ones. The same reason I won't put up but so many waymarks. Waymarking a subway or a hardware store is just low hanging fruit to me, I'll go for the sweeter juicier ones that take some effort thanks.
That does seem to speak to the original topic though. From a tadpoles pov it seems like the Waymarking site suffers from a case of benign neglect on the part of the GS. Don't advertise it, don't seamlessly integrate it, don't make it intuitive, and as far as I can tell by all means don't let people go from one to the other without having to log in again.
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A quick bit of googling took me here: http://www.getamap.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/
Should be easy enough from there.
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As a new guy here I guess I'll post my thoughts on this topic based on what I've noticed.
1) I suspect that many GCers don't even know that the Waymarking site exists. It's not as if there's a flashing banner saying Hey! want to see some cool things in your area? Find them on Waymarking! Personally I would never have found the Waymarking site if I weren't interested in learning how to find benchmarks.
2) The Waymarking site isn't as "user friendly", especially if you aren't a premium member. Here's an example: To go to a cache near my home I simply pull up the (fullsized) map and move it around to my area, find a cache and click on it, then download it straight to my gpsr. If I want to find a waymark site to visit I have to use the (little) map, then pick a category, sort by closest, then click on one that I want to go to. As I'm not a premium member I can't download any info to my device. I have to enter the info by hand. For me that's the big one, even as a basic member it's a one button operation to download basic cache info to device, here a basic member isn't a redheaded stepchild, he's an ugly third cousin.
3) I'm pretty okay with taking a pic as proof of visit. The requirement that you put down what you ate at a fast food place is pretty amusing, if I go to wendys can I just put the number 5 in the field? (I do like the son of baconator)
The upside is that I did put in my first waymark today, even though I went 0/4 on benchmarks I was able to log a small monument right in the middle of town that no one else had noticed. The downside is that one of the benchmarks I was looking for was supposed to be 6 inches from that monument
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Where to post this?
in General Waymarking Topics
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I just reread the category description and you're correct. Good luck with that one, I went through the category list and couldn't figure out one either.