Waymarking Challenge

[vulture1957]

22 hours ago, Bon Echo said:

I think he meant "Departments" and not Categories. There are 15 departments, shown at the top of the page here: http://www.Waymarking.com/categories.aspx

In the Great Lakes region of Canada / USA I don't think any departments are hard to get. Animals, Oddities and Waymarking Multifarious and less common but those also have the fewest categories within their departments.

As far as categories that are only in the one part of the world, I suspect there are more that are USA-only or North America-only than in any other part of the world. I can think of a bunch not including the many state historical markers and benchmark categories. Underground Railway Sites, woodmen of the world, etc.

yes, I see where I mis-read that. I'd have to agree with Measurement Standards (which Prime Meridian is part of).

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34 minutes ago, vulture1957 said:

yes, I see where I mis-read that. I'd have to agree with Measurement Standards (which Prime Meridian is part of).

We always have have exta woodmen of the world tombstones, so if anyone wants to partner we can help with that icon

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3 hours ago, Benchmark Blasterz said:

Andreas, the answer to that is YES - I like your wife’s style on Waymarking.

 

Ya know, if she will buy and send me a humming stone, I have a publicly-accesible place for it that would be free to visit and available 24/7 (Garland Central Park). If she’ll hurry up it can be a FIRST of its zkind (First public art in Garland), but if she dawdles it can still be a superlative (ONLY humming stone in Texas). 

I would also note that I like your wife VERY much, we can name it after her or whoever she chooses, AND both Christmas (Dec) and my birthday (Feb) are coming up . 

LOL!! I think insect hotels are a little cheaper than humming stones. Not to mention the postage we would have to pay. :-) But if you can convince Jack in the Box to open a branch in Austria and give me - let's say - 5% of their profit, we will soon have enough money to send you a humming stone.

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Took a look at your waymark and love it. I've never seen an insect hotel made of wood pallets. What a fabulous idea!

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6 hours ago, PISA-caching said:

Took a look at your waymark and love it. I've never seen an insect hotel made of wood pallets. What a fabulous idea!

Not in Texas it's not!  That thing will be full of black widow spiders, scorpions, and rattlesnakes in NO TIME FLAT!! EEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!

[vulture1957]

23 minutes ago, Benchmark Blasterz said:

Not in Texas it's not!  That thing will be full of black widow spiders, scorpions, and rattlesnakes in NO TIME FLAT!! EEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!

OK, so spiders (Black Widows) are not TECHNICALLY insects. them and the scorpions would be OK for me as users of the hotel. Now, I'd have to forego the ratllers!

[+fi67]

My next 10K/10K: Burgdorf, BE, Switzerland:

Population 16295 as of December 2016; waymarks two weeks ago: 0, today: 30 (1 waiting)

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On ‎30‎.‎11‎.‎2017 at 2:00 AM, BK-Hunters said:

WOW! You got some really good categories there. Now go back and get the other 1,500 that must be waiting...

It just occured to me - given that there are no other WMs there and it's a good sized town you might have a chance for a Tally=30 Lucky 7. This is something I've been seeking for five years now. Closest we've come is 28. Good Luck. I hope you find one!!!

Keith

 

WooooHoooo!!! It took a lot of research to find candidates for all the 15 departments and I spent some extra time trying to use as many different locations as possible. Now I have my first Lucky 7 waymark with a tally of 30. Apart from the fact that a Lucky 7 waymark with tally 30 is something special I have to say that Steyr is truely a great place with lots of very old buildings and a great landscape.

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9 hours ago, BK-Hunters said:

CONGRATS, you lucky Dog!!!   

Yer makin' me jealous!!!

Keith

 

I keep my fingers crossed for you. Sometimes the distance between success and fail is quite short. I had a special area of Steyr in my mind and I found almost all the categories there, but in the end I had to give up and find a new location. Fortunately, I found this other area of Steyr where I found something for every department online(!). That way I could make a plan of all the photos I have to take. So, quite some effort, but worth it.

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After fulfilling the 10/10 challenge in Amstetten and Steyr (both of them in Austria), we - for the first time - fulfill it for a city outside of our home country: Cremona, Italy. According to Wikipedia, Cremona has a population of 72,680 people and had zero waymarks before we created ours. Unfortunately, we spent just one night in Cremona and had daylight for only a couple of hours. So, we will not end up with that many waymarks, but a few are still to come.

Edited July 15, 2019 by PISA-caching

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13 hours ago, BK-Hunters said:

Just a guess, but I'm betting that more than one of your WMs has the word Stradivarius in it...

Keith

 

That's right, they have two different statues of him (one in front of his former house and one on a square that is named after him) and a replica of his tombstone and probably much more, that I didn't find.

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@Tante.Hossi 

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Imola -> Population 70,000 

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Funny, we will travel to Italy too very soon, and I have found a small city that also has no WMs yet. 

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Italy is great! Faenza -> 58.953 (31. Dez. 2019) 

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Mantova/Mantua (and more to come) -> 48.414 (31-3-2021)

[+ScroogieII]

Would you two please STOP THIS already??

Yer makin' me so envious of all those 10/10 cities nearly at your doorsteps that I could almost yell at the cat, do my laundry or even write a poem!!!

Keith

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Well, The Pud didn't need yelling at and I really didn't feel like doing the laundry, so, instead, the poem (Really, what else did you expect?)

 

Ten thousand folks, when not a hoax, is rare as it can be
The towns we've seen, though lush and green, and quite a sight to see
Have seldom more than several score of populace at best
Our towns are small, but that's not all they are here in the west
They're on a street which one may meet a deer a moose or bear
But finding one that's not been "done" is genuinely rare.

 

When we arrive at these folks' hive we're ne'er the first to be
The 'Markers who, drove sternly through, the night to clearly see
By dawn's first light that wondrous sight, a town that's theirs to take
A city filled with Waymarks billed as "Featured" they can make.
Though only one may have been "done" it quenches quick our thirst
For those we do, though ten or two, will never be a "First".

 

With COVID still high on the bill, a trek to nether lands,
That place Canucks will just say "Shucks" and go to get their tans,
May cure the ill I harbour still o'er insufficient towns
The way things are I'll keep the car here safely in the downs.
I'll envy you your Waymarks true and play it year by year
I'll think and try and by-and-by still hold this challenge dear.

Edited October 15, 2021 by ScroogieII

[+Alfouine]

Ok for this challenge

Anglet : 40 000 pax

0 waymark and now 14 waymarks

 

I wanted to do Bayonne, the town nearby, 0 waymarks and 49 000 pax, i took my photos in may 2021 but someone has published only one waymark in june 2021 !! bad luck...

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On 9/4/2022 at 9:17 AM, Alfouine said:

Ok for this challenge

Anglet : 40 000 pax

0 waymark and now 14 waymarks

 

I wanted to do Bayonne, the town nearby, 0 waymarks and 49 000 pax, i took my photos in may 2021 but someone has published only one waymark in june 2021 !! bad luck...

Great job! 

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Rijeka in Croatia, population: +- 110,000 

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On 10/15/2021 at 2:31 AM, ScroogieII said:

Would you two please STOP THIS already??

Yer makin' me so envious of all those 10/10 cities nearly at your doorsteps that I could almost yell at the cat, do my laundry or even write a poem!!!

Keith

 

Sorry, Keith, but I have to do it again: Perugia, Italy (160,000+ inhabitants). 11 Waymarks so far and several more to come.

 

Interesting fact: So far, the province of Umbria, Italy had only 21 WMs, while the neighbour Tocana has 1235 WMs! But soon we will have another vacation in Italy. This time we will visit the Marche region and there are only 6 WMs in that region so far. And they have several cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants. 

Edited September 20, 2022 by PISA-caching

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9 hours ago, PISA-caching said:

... soon we will have another vacation in Italy ...

 

Is that all you Austrians do is VACATION?!?!?!    --  

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When I was young, I made longer (3-4 weeks) vacations and after 2 vacations I had (most of the time) spent most of my free days. But nowadays we hardly make vacations that are longer than 8 days. At the same time I get an extra week of vacation from my employer,  because of my age. AND, I earn "a little" more than I earned when I was young. So, I have enough time and money to enjoy multiple vacations per year. Especially, because it was not that easy during the hard times of the Pandemic.

 

Just to tease you a little more: We will also visit some Christmas Markets in Switzerland/France for a few days at the end of November and some more in Germany/France one week later. But I don't think that I will fulfill this challenge in any of the mentioned countries.

Edited September 22, 2022 by PISA-caching

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On 9/21/2022 at 7:24 AM, PISA-caching said:

Just to tease you a little more: We will also visit some ... ...

 

Thanks a lot, Andreas. Just what I needed.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

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Yet another city: Todi, Italy - 15,724 inhabitants 

 

Several more WMs are yet to come. BTW: I was very lucky to discover a 9/11-Memorial there.

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Well ... I saw this challenge two weeks ago on the last post of Andreas. It was on Saturday while searching for a newspaper article with the St. Catharine church I realized that the city of Salzwedel with about 21,500 inhabitants had no waymarks prior our (unfortunately really short) visit at the end of March. I just managed to take some pictures around the church before the light got to bad for my smartphone camera. But the result is 11 waymarks in 7 departments.

[+PISA-caching]

One more on the list: Bistrita, Romania - which (according to Wikipedia) has 78,877 inhabitants. 

 

 

[+FamilieFrohne]

And another one, we visited in our vacation: Trollhättan in Sweden with about 48000 inhabitants. As we started exploring the city, there was no waymark in the radius of 10km ...

Currently there are 29 waymarks published in 13 departments and four WM still waiting for review

[+fi67]

This took a while, but now I have another one.

 

Delémont, Switzerland, 12 739 inhabitants, now 65 waymarks (and two waiting for wayfrog, I suppose).

 

I once changed trains here and waymarked the station almost ten years ago. Now I came back and that was still the only waymark in town. 3481 days between the first and the second submission is most probably a record for this challenge.

 

And 28 of these 65 are new first of the category in a region waymarks (the station not counted).