+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted August 20, 2005 Posted August 20, 2005 I am a geocacher and an amatuer aviation archaeologist. As a general rule, plane crash sites are protected sites. The aviation archaeologist snob within me doesn't like the idea of posting exact coordinates for these areas. As far as I know (not very far! ), there is no aviation archaeology site that lists these locations (coords), for what I think are obvious reasons. If you bring the general public to these places, they will mess with the wreckage, or worse- take pieces. I know of at least one geocache by a wreck that has been archived due to the "new traffic." Now, the cache itself was hidden within the wreckage, which obviously is not a good idea. I think a better idea would have been to hide the cache down trail from the wreck, with a note and coords to the wreck, further down trail. Cachers with an interest can continue down the trail, others would head back. From what I can tell, this is all still in the learning stages, so sorry about the long winded rant. As Waymarking is essentially geocaching, we cannot afford to have people getting the wrong idea. A quick perusal of categories shows cemeteries, cave drawing/fossil areas as ideas for waymarks. These catagories are already under fire for geocachers. Is a person holding a GPS a cacher or a waymarker? How is the outside observer to know? I guess all I'm trying to say is that we have to be VERY careful about how we go about some of these. At the very least, the crash site pages should have the standard, " do not remove or disturb any wreckage from this site," or something to that effect. That is all, flame away!
+budd-rdc Posted August 20, 2005 Posted August 20, 2005 Maybe your request can be merged with the already existing Waymark subcategory of Plane Crash Sites. I posted a listing, and took care not to disturb any of the wreckage there, but your concern is legitimate - there will be others who won't exercise the same respect and discipline.
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted August 21, 2005 Author Posted August 21, 2005 Locking this and moving it to the "getting Started" forum...I think that is where it should be.
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