+BruceS Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 This thread is for posting useful links to find potential waymarks or sources of information to complete the waymark submission. Please limit the posts to posting of new links and refrain from discussion of them. Quote
+BruceS Posted June 15, 2012 Author Posted June 15, 2012 From Ianatlarge World Heritage. http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en Public Art Around The World — a list and information on public art. http://www.publicartaroundtheworld.com/ Thailand academic institutions Directory http://www.university-directory.eu/Thailand/Thailand.html#.T9bqT45pEXc State of Western Australia War Memorial website http://www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/Pages/Default.aspx Blog discussing Thailand government. Useful for statues, tourist spots, buildings, and so forth. http://tambon.blogspot.com/ Asia's architectural heritage http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/ Quote
+bpratt Posted June 16, 2012 Posted June 16, 2012 From Ianatlarge World Heritage. http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en Public Art Around The World — a list and information on public art. http://www.publicartaroundtheworld.com/ Thailand academic institutions Directory http://www.university-directory.eu/Thailand/Thailand.html#.T9bqT45pEXc State of Western Australia War Memorial website http://www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/Pages/Default.aspx Blog discussing Thailand government. Useful for statues, tourist spots, buildings, and so forth. http://tambon.blogspot.com/ Asia's architectural heritage http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/ Great topic Bruce thanks for starting it. Quote
+Lat34North Posted June 18, 2012 Posted June 18, 2012 American Guide Series http://www.librarything.com/series/American%252BGuide%252BSeries Historic Markers http://www.hmdb.org/ Historic Markers - AL, FL, GA & TN http://www.lat34north.com/MarkerAcrossSE.cfm NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/summary.asp River Gauges http://water.usgs.gov/ GA - http://ga2.er.usgs.gov/gawater/index.cfm Static Artillery Displays – American Civil War Cannons http://robinsonsbattery.org/122629.html U.S. Benchmarks http://www.geocaching.com/mark/ Quote
+Lat34North Posted June 18, 2012 Posted June 18, 2012 Business Addresses Google Earth There are icons that appear on Google Earth for many businesses, when you click on the Icon the name of the business and its address pop up in a message box. You can use the coordinates as the search criteria on Google Earth. Quote
+dtrebilc Posted June 25, 2012 Posted June 25, 2012 United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/ English Heritage Listed Buildings http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/ List of British Isles moveable bridges http://www.movablebridges.org.uk/ UK Ordnance Survey Bench Marks http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/ Quote
+vhasler Posted June 26, 2012 Posted June 26, 2012 NPS Passport Cancellation Stations http://www.eparks.com/cancellations.pdf Updated 6/1/2012 Quote
+Country_Wife Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) Canada's Historic Places | Lieux patrimoniaux du Canada www.historicplaces.ca - listing of all national and provincial registered historic sites, along with lengthy descriptions giving location and reasons for historic status Edited June 28, 2012 by Country_Wife Quote
KC9PDY Posted November 3, 2012 Posted November 3, 2012 Indiana resources: Find an Indiana Historical Marker http://www.in.gov/history/2350.htm Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources: Benchmarks for Indiana http://www.in.gov/dnr/water/3573.htm General resources: Historic Map Works. Particularly useful are the vintage maps (I was looking at a 1930's Indiana Plat Book map) for helping with the period descriptions of Benchmarks. http://www.historicmapworks.com/Browse/ http://www.bridgehunter.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Quote
+flipflopnick Posted December 20, 2012 Posted December 20, 2012 Openplaques.org Maplink! Lockups in UK British Post Offices Farson webcams all used regularly Quote
GT.US Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 http://librarianbyday.net/2009/09/28/how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-photo-from-flickr/ This link describes how to credit a photo you have used with a creative commons licence. Quote
+jhuoni Posted April 17, 2014 Posted April 17, 2014 (edited) Texas Historical Commission's - Texas Historic Site Atlas Virginia Department of Historic Resources - Virginia Highway Historical Markers GeorgiaInfo An Online Georgia Almanac - Historical Markers By County State Historical Society of North Dakota - Historic Sites Edited April 17, 2014 by jhuoni Quote
vulture1957 Posted August 11, 2018 Posted August 11, 2018 I have this one pulled up all the time (along with Google maps) http://www.Waymarking.altervista.org/stats/AllIconListInAlphabeticOrderWithout.html Quote
+Max and 99 Posted August 11, 2018 Posted August 11, 2018 13 minutes ago, vulture1957 said: I have this one pulled up all the time (along with Google maps) http://www.Waymarking.altervista.org/stats/AllIconListInAlphabeticOrderWithout.html It's probably a problem on my end, but that link gives me an error message. Quote
+T0SHEA Posted September 17, 2018 Posted September 17, 2018 I have a link to a site which has catalogued essentially all the military equipment on display in Canada, including artillery, war planes, armoured vehicles, small arms, etc. There are also pages on locomotives in Canada AND many pages on warplanes in the US and warplanes of various countries. It is a real handy link to have when one finds an old War of 1812 cannon, for example. Home page: Silver Hawk Author 1 Quote
Bon Echo Posted September 23, 2018 Posted September 23, 2018 (edited) On 2018-09-17 at 3:34 PM, BK-Hunters said: I have a link to a site which has catalogued essentially all the military equipment on display in Canada, including artillery, war planes, armoured vehicles, small arms, etc. There are also pages on locomotives in Canada AND many pages on warplanes in the US and warplanes of various countries. It is a real handy link to have when one finds an old War of 1812 cannon, for example. Home page: Silver Hawk Author It's a good resource but watch for errors. No idea how he gets all that info, but it safe to say he doesn't visit every item listed. For example a pair of cannons near where I live were listed as being brass, but when I inspected them it was clear they were iron. And some of the markings were incorrect. But thanks to that site I learned how to find and decipher the various marks on at least the many British 1812- era cannons in my part of the world. I was amazed to learn how much can be determined based on a couple letters and numbers stamped in various places. I sent him an email offering photos and details but never received a response. Edited September 23, 2018 by Bon Echo 1 Quote
+T0SHEA Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 Yeah, I've used it for info on several cannons in the Maritimes and have so far found one error, this one on a German mortar in Alberta - serial number was off by 6 digits. Keith Quote
+T0SHEA Posted October 24, 2018 Posted October 24, 2018 Anybody here use Copyfish? It's available as an extension for Chrome - possibly in other formats, as well. What's Copyfish, you ask? It's a little extension which allows copying text from an image on a web page, outputting it as text. It does a passable job, sometimes the results are perfect, sometimes much less so. Naturally, it depends on the quality of the original. It can be really useful when you'd really, really like to use a snippet of text and are (like me) such a clumsy typer that it would be quicker to copy it than to retype it. One example is WMing a news article from an old scanned newspaper. If the scan is reasonably good Copyfish shines here. It's (usually) quicker than doing OCR on a screen shot. It can also be handy when one encounters a web page which doesn't allow right clicks or clicking, dragging and copying. One option is often to save a copy of the page, remove the offending script, then load the page locally and copy the text. Sometimes a "CTRL U" will do the trick, as well. The other option is Copyfish. Keith 2 Quote
+T0SHEA Posted August 25, 2019 Posted August 25, 2019 Here's a useful item for Lucky 7 Waymarkers, possibly others, as well: https://flopp.net It's an online mapping utility which allows one to put markers on a map (several different maps are available, including a satellite view), name the markers, and put distance lines between markers, measuring the straight line distance. It's real handy, both for making a map to go along with a Waymark and for making sure WMs are within the requisite distance. Flopps Maps can even be used to "Fit" WMs within the required distance (161 metres or 805 metres) by creating a centre point, inserting lines from it to the most distant WMs, then moving it around until everything fits. it will accept both Decimal Degrees and Degrees and Minutes as input. Don't forget to put a copy of your initial coordinates in the "Coordinates or Location" box at the top right before you start. That is needed to get the map presented to your place of interest. They used to have access to a Google URL shortener but Google dropped that utility, so the URLS can get pretty long. For those who are concerned about huge, long URLs, they can use this: https://tinyurl.com to shorten them. Keith Quote
vulture1957 Posted April 20, 2020 Posted April 20, 2020 Narayan, has some really nice scrpits for Waymarking. The ones for the map sure are helpful https://www.Waymarking.com/users/profile.aspx?f=1&guid=9394e8bb-cb86-4d60-8867-1c74955fe4e2 Quote
+iconions Posted April 21, 2020 Posted April 21, 2020 Since we are giving away secrets - if anyone gets into my neck of the prairie here in the Sunflower State and decides to post historical buildings or sometimes bridges, here is a great resource that will usually help with more information - you do not have to sign up for the service - you can search as a guest: Kansas Historic Resource Inventory It's been a great help when I post Victorian Era Architecture and getting more information on my National Register Contributing Buildings. Quote
+PISA-caching Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Today I was looking for information of a specific milestone in Skopje, North Macedonia and found the Austrian website http://lupa.at/. The database includes more than 30,000 antique stone monuments and more than 60,000 photos. Unfortunately, it only includes monuments that are in or in front of museums and offers the information only in German language (let me know if you need help). The main focus is of course Europe, but the database contains items to be found in more than 30 countries (unfortunately only one monument in the USA and none in Canada), but it is a very useful source for information on waymarks in the categories Milestones, (ancient) Relief Art Sculptures, and probably much more. Quote
+QuesterMark Posted November 3, 2021 Posted November 3, 2021 Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/ Quote
+QuesterMark Posted November 3, 2021 Posted November 3, 2021 Ghost Towns of America: https://www.geotab.com/ghost-towns/ Ghost Towns category on Waymarking, for convenience: https://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=bdffdac0-35e4-4ac9-86fb-a3d65a918c1f Quote
+PISA-caching Posted May 13, 2022 Posted May 13, 2022 Many of us know www.openstreetmap.org, but did you know that there is also a project called https://www.openrailwaymap.org/? Might be useful for WM in the Active Rail Locations category or other train related categories. 1 Quote
+ScroogieII Posted May 14, 2022 Posted May 14, 2022 (edited) 20 hours ago, PISA-caching said: Many of us know www.openstreetmap.org, but did you know that there is also a project called https://www.openrailwaymap.org/? Might be useful for WM in the Active Rail Locations category or other train related categories. This is TOO COOL, Andreas. THANK YOU!! The site includes a spur off a Wye near my home that I know exists, but have yet to find on other RR maps. Though it's indicated as more of a path than a RR spur, I can tell by the terrain that it was, or was at least intended to be by the Great Northern RR, a spur. I have walked down that spur, now just a raised section of land, many times and will many times in the future. It's indicated by the arrow in the pic below. Off the south end of the Wye is what could well be the shortest rail trail in the world, just 410 metres in length. All the tracks here were abandoned and removed in 1936. Strangely, though, it doesn't include the extension from the northeast corner of the WYE which went to the station, a block or so short of the Columbia & Western track passing by running northwest-southeast. It also has left out the section of track from the northwest corner of the Wye which is continued on the map to the northwest. Edited May 14, 2022 by ScroogieII Quote
+ScroogieII Posted May 20, 2022 Posted May 20, 2022 (edited) On 5/17/2022 at 12:47 AM, PISA-caching said: Sounds like a WM for Superlatives. Nice thought, but, as I said, it "could" well be the shortest rail trail in the world". Unfortunately I have no proof of that, nor any claims by others of its superlative status. Edited August 28, 2023 by ScroogieII Quote
+Ernmark Posted January 9, 2023 Posted January 9, 2023 Useful Links for US Benchmarks Category - Benchmark Map Viewer - By Scaredy Cat Films - maintained by fellow GC member Monkeykat National Geodetic Survey Data Explorer (noaa.gov) - this is the viewer from the National Geodetic Survey Station Selection - NOAA Tides & Currents - also from the NGS - a great source of info on tidal benchmarks. BenchMap - Apps on Google Play - Benchmark App available in Play Store for Android users 1 Quote
+ScroogieII Posted January 15, 2023 Posted January 15, 2023 (edited) Thanks for posting that, Ernmark. I'm gonna try that Android App. Though I don't plan on going back to the US anytime soon, I'm hoping it may be of some use with Border Monuments in the future. And while we're at it here are my most used Canadian Benchmark URLs: Passive Control Networks - Canada wide map of all Canadian Benchmarks. Lots of other tools, options and links on this page. Gravity Network - Canadian Gravity Network stations PROVINCIAL NETWORKS - Portal to all provincial networks within Canada Alberta Geodetic Control Unit - pointer to Alberta benchmarks and survey markers of all types. Lotsa stuff to wade through here, but INVALUABLE in discovering thousands of markers not catalogued anywhere else. SPIN - Alberta Spatial Information Network - land titles data products, registered survey plans, township images, survey control markers Geodiscover Alberta - The essential Alberta map. Instructions on how to use are in a pane on the left. MASCOT Home - British Columbia's portal to BC survey markers, including Canadian Benchmarks. International Boundary Report - For the more adventurous Benchmark Hunters, a very interesting 1937 Report by the International Boundary Commission. It includes information on boundary monuments, as well as information on now obscure Benchmarks related to border monuments. Other than by serendipity, few would likely find many of these benchmarks without the aid of this book. Edited January 15, 2023 by ScroogieII Quote
+Country_Wife Posted November 1, 2023 Posted November 1, 2023 (edited) Geodiscover Alberta looks awfully cool! Here are some pages I've found useful for Canadian historical waymarks, from the general to the specific: The Canadian Encyclopedia - an encyclopedia of all things Canadian: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/ Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Home – Dictionary of Canadian Biography (biographi.ca) Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada - Good info on architects of historic buildings: Introduction | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada https://www.archiseek.com/ is an Irish architecture website, but they have worldwide info also, and it has been useful for the history of some Canadian buildings . There is a search bar buried at the bottom left corner of their pages (I almost missed it!), or you can do a Google search with the site:archiseek.com tag at the end (e.g. Ottawa site:archiseek.com to find all Ottawa buildings). Peel's Prairie Provinces - all kinds of digitized historical info (including postcards) about Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Eventually it will all be at Internet Archive: Peel's Prairie Provinces : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive However, Peel's is currently migrating from the old University of Alberta website; it isn't all at Internet Archive yet, so you may wish to start with Peel Prairie Provinces - UofA Library (ualberta.ca) Edited November 1, 2023 by Country_Wife 2 Quote
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