Which category for this?

October 30, 2017

GREAT, I will post it in Military Installations too.

When I was on vacation in RLP last month. I stood on top of the Bismarck tower in Landstuhl, speaking a German.
He often looks with his binoculars at Airbase Ramstein and told me that there will be huge upgrades in the coming months.
Lots of big hangars for more planes and even hospitals.
Perhaps because of the threatening attitude in the world against the USA.

Grtz & Thx John.

October 31, 2017

18 hours ago, dreamhummie said:

GREAT, I will post it in Military Installations too.

When I was on vacation in RLP last month. I stood on top of the Bismarck tower in Landstuhl, speaking a German.
He often looks with his binoculars at Airbase Ramstein and told me that there will be huge upgrades in the coming months.
Lots of big hangars for more planes and even hospitals.
Perhaps because of the threatening attitude in the world against the USA.

Grtz & Thx John.

drink a Bischoff Hefe Weissen for me next time you are down there. Or better yet, mail me a case! :-)

1.1k · November 1, 2017

There's a lot of art-related categories that I've never tried -- mainly because I'm pretty strong left brained, though I do compose music from time to time.

Is there a category into which I could submit a statue of King Kamehameha? Or does it even warrant a Waymark?

[I am in agreement that not everything has to be Waymarked. ]

November 1, 2017

If it is as statue : Monarchs of the World

1.1k · November 2, 2017

Oh well. Turns out that someone had beat me to it, so I got a visit. Actually logged a slew of visits on Oahu. Thanks.

December 28, 2017

Hello community, first of all a little early, I wish you a happy new year for the year to come, that you find and publish full of new quality waymark as you know so well.

I recently found a lighthouse that marks the separation between the North Sea and the Channel, I have already placed in the category of lighthouses, but is there a category that marks the separation between two seas?

1.5k · December 28, 2017

Does it belong in any benchmarking categories?

December 28, 2017

3 hours ago, elyob said:

Does it belong in any benchmarking categories?

I do not think so

5 hours ago, BK-Hunters said:

Maybe: River Origins, Destinations and Confluences

I will try, thank you

January 4, 2018

Official Local Tourism Attractions?

http://www.cote-dopale.com/tourisme/phare-de-walde

1.1k · January 4, 2018

Wikipedia Entries might also be an opportunity. See https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phare_de_Walde

January 4, 2018

9 hours ago, PISA-caching said:

Wikipedia Entries might also be an opportunity. See https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phare_de_Walde

thank you very much, I have already published in "Wikipedia Entries", but I'm looking for another category that really shows this exceptional point as the border between two ocean.

12 hours ago, Chickilim said:

Official Local Tourism Attractions?

http://www.cote-dopale.com/tourisme/phare-de-walde

Thank you very much, I tried, I wait for the answer

January 6, 2018

What category for this memorial - aside from Citizens Memorials?

I have three photos, of the memorial which you can see here:

http://www.Waymarking.com/gallery/default.aspx?f=1&guid=5a6f02f1-6383-456d-bd64-c23c9383d6b6&gid=2&st=2

Maybe that would work in People-Named places but I'm not sure. Human migration monuments?

Thanks

1.1k · January 8, 2018

~~Irish-American Historic Places maybe?~~ Ooops. that waymark is in Canada, not the USA. Sorry.

Edited January 8, 2018 by PISA-caching

1.1k · January 20, 2018

Lately I took a photo of this cross:

The category Churchyard Crosses wants "free standing crosses" that are "NOT attached to a church", so it wouldn't qualify there.

The category Christian Crosses also wants a "free standing monument". So, any idea where I can list this one?

January 20, 2018

30 minutes ago, PISA-caching said:

Lately I took a photo of this cross:

The category Churchyard Crosses wants "free standing crosses" that are "NOT attached to a church", so it wouldn't qualify there.

The category Christian Crosses also wants a "free standing monument". So, any idea where I can list this one?

statues of religious figures

Edited January 20, 2018 by vulture1957

1.1k · January 20, 2018

35 minutes ago, vulture1957 said:

statues of religious figures

Great idea. Thanks a lot. Why didn't I think of that??? :-)

January 20, 2018

I always keep that category in the back of my mind. If it fits in there, usually the other categories won't accept it.

February 6, 2018

Spirit of '76. possibly Exceptional Trees.

Edited February 6, 2018 by vulture1957

1.4k · February 18, 2018

Not sure, but I would go for Abstract Public Sculptures.

February 18, 2018

You could try Kinetic Sculpture and Art

1.5k · February 18, 2018

Realistic object, it is a wind gauge.

February 20, 2018

My next "which category" question: http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WMXQ9M

A concrete post with R/W stamped on it. Turned out to be a highway Right of Way marker and there's an interesting blog post from an Arkansas museum about those markers. Turns out a waymarker contacted them to find out what those markers were all about: http://shilohmuseum.org/wordpress/right-of-way/

Submitted and declined in Public Land Survey Monuments and in US Benchmarks. The latter category does accept Right-of-way markers if they are in the form of disks, but not posts such as this one.

1.5k · February 23, 2018

8 hours ago, BK-Hunters said:

Outcome "Wind Gauge - Lethbridge, Alberta, has been denied"

Realistic Object Sculptures: seems more functional than an art sculpture

Functional?!? Having spent plenty of time in Lethbridge, I never experienced wind that could move that thing.

Edited February 23, 2018 by elyob

1.1k · April 15, 2018

I think the last time you had a heart that was accepted in the "Silhouette Public Art Sculptures" category, no?

1.1k · April 15, 2018

Ok, well my second guess would be "Wayside shrines". To me, these objects are a modern variation of what the "Wayside shrines" category describes as "some sort of column or pillar ... placed by a road or pathway". If I were a fan of that category, I would also like to see these concrete signs of religion, but of course it's up to the officers to accept it or not.

1.1k · April 16, 2018

Well, why not? But you shouldn't rely on me. I'm not an officer in that category and English is not my mother tongue AND I know little about these items. The category talks about "small sacred monuments". I assume that your monuments are not sacred, but I don't know it and I also don't know how strict the officers take the word "sacred". But maybe you should directly contact the leader of the according group.

1.4k · April 16, 2018

7 hours ago, PISA-caching said:

Well, why not? But you shouldn't rely on me. I'm not an officer in that category and English is not my mother tongue AND I know little about these items. The category talks about "small sacred monuments". I assume that your monuments are not sacred, but I don't know it and I also don't know how strict the officers take the word "sacred". But maybe you should directly contact the leader of the according group.

Well, I had some unpleasant experiences with this group in the past. Their definition of wayside shrines is very, very narrow and basically only covers one specific type that is almost exclusively found in the area of the former Austrian Empire. They have one officer, though, who accepts almost everything, but this is usually going to be corrected by the other ones soon.

But the cross in your picture above fits well in the wayside cross category.

1.5k · April 16, 2018

Edited April 16, 2018 by elyob

April 20, 2018

27 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

I found a funny Cars vehicle in Alabama, and was checking to see if it fits in a category. Dead vehicles isn't a fit, but they have a link if the vehicle is turned into a piece of art (which mine is, I think). But the link is dead, so I don't know what they are referring to. Anyone know?

Perhaps Permanent Car Displays?

April 20, 2018

You also have Art vehicles

1.1k · April 20, 2018

8 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

I found a funny Cars vehicle in Alabama, and was checking to see if it fits in a category. Dead vehicles isn't a fit, but they have a link if the vehicle is turned into a piece of art (which mine is, I think). But the link doesn't provide anything helpful, so I don't know what they are referring to. Anyone know?

The link is not working, but should lead to the Art Vehicles category. The link goes to
http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/default.aspx?DCTGUID=8d57df3d-8797-40e6-b961-4b3abc973642 but the parameters are wrong.

If you take any link to a category, for example http://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=d704d91d-1a3b-4c64-8bd2-1aac836f1ff2&r=10&st=2 and replace the ID in it with the ID of the link above, you get http://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=8d57df3d-8797-40e6-b961-4b3abc973642&r=10&st=2 and voila, you're in the Art Vehicle category.

Anyway, Permanent Car Displays might be the best chance.

April 20, 2018

This waymark not painted has been approved in art vehicles

1.1k · April 21, 2018

11 hours ago, Alfouine said:

This waymark not painted has been approved in art vehicles

"painted" is not an exclusive criteria. The description says "... painted or otherwise decorated by hand. Vehicles with decals or stickers are no good here." It will be up to the officers, if the decoration of that car is "by hand" and "art".

12k · May 26, 2018

On 5/24/2018 at 7:17 PM, Max and 99 said:

Ooh! I just saw a new waymark published: a letters sculpture in the Abstract Art category.

Well of course my word sculpture was declined after someone else's was approved.

1.5k · May 27, 2018

It looks nice in Silhouettes.

12k · June 1, 2018

This is a new one for me, even though I regularly struggle with art categories:

The face on this sculpture is figurative (see the closeup), but from the neck down I think it's abstract.

Which category?

12k · September 3, 2018

Help, please. Which category? Thank you!

September 3, 2018

1 hour ago, Max and 99 said:

Help, please. Which category? Thank you!

silhouette. if viewed from the side, it is just 3 lines.

1.1k · October 8, 2018

In Edinburgh there's a Coffee shop called "The Elephant House". Next to its entrance is a small metal plaque saying that J.K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) and some more writers have spent a lot of time there writing their books.

I took photos of the plaque and the shop, but now I'm not sure in which category I shall post the waymark. I thought about UK Historical Markers, but I'm not sure if this is the kind of history they are looking for and they ask for the 'Historical Marker Issuing Authority' and I guess the plaque was simply attached by the coffe shop owner himself. Soooo:

Dead Poets' Society Memorials? Citizen Memorials? Celebrity Hangouts (although I saw none of the mentioned writers there)? Or just Independent Coffee Shops?

Or all of the above? :-)

1.1k · October 10, 2018

Meanwhile one waymark was approved in the Citizen Memorials category.

I also would consider J.K. Rowling to be a celebrity, and I will give it a try, but then I think that one of the officers might say, that J.K. Rowling was working (writing her novels) there and not hanging out. On the other hand, if I browse through that category I see several waymarks where celebrities were not hanging out at the waymarked location. We'll see.

Update: The waymark was also accepted in the Celebrity Hangouts category. WoooHooo!

Edited January 7, 2019 by PISA-caching

December 20, 2018

Do you think this would fly in the Unusual Signs category?

The "sign" is posted on a toilet seat in the washroom of a dive shop. It's a single-person washroom, so there are no "accessibility or privacy" issues other than if the store is closed, or maybe having to wait for the washroom to be available. Actually, it was less awkward taking this photo than it is for many other WM photos (in busy public places)

One issue maybe is that I don't have the "general area" photo but really I can't get much more in the view standing in a 5'x5' tiny washroom

December 20, 2018

I would try in Unusual sign

1.9k · July 22, 2020

Quick question - hubby and I visited a couple of wineries yesterday - waymarks coming soon in the Wineries category. Both have tasting rooms on the site, and one of the tasting rooms is unique (in my experience!) as it is a very large wine barrel (capacity of 49,000 gallons) that has been converted to a tasting room - so I'm thinking it could be waymarked as a winery/tasting room, but also as a re-purposed structure, or unique building, or something. I looked through the Buildings subcategories, and all I saw that seemed to apply is Odd Shaped buildings. Structures - it doesn't fit the overall definition ("A structure is a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity. Not a building.")

So, ideas on where else I could possibly add this as a waymark? Unfortunately, at our visit yesterday I didn't get any interior photos, as the tasting room was closed, and it was drive by order pickups in the parking lot. I got one exterior photo of the tasting room and one of the winery production site, hopefully enough for it to be approved. We didn't get to taste any so I may have to wait till we CAN taste before submitting. We have tasted many of the wines on previous visits though, would that count?

I guess this turned into more than a quick question and probably wandered off topic too. I hope that doens't get me into trouble with TPTB around here!

July 23, 2020

7 hours ago, CAVinoGal said:

Quick question - hubby and I visited a couple of wineries yesterday - waymarks coming soon in the Wineries category. Both have tasting rooms on the site, and one of the tasting rooms is unique (in my experience!) as it is a very large wine barrel (capacity of 49,000 gallons) that has been converted to a tasting room - so I'm thinking it could be waymarked as a winery/tasting room, but also as a re-purposed structure, or unique building, or something. I looked through the Buildings subcategories, and all I saw that seemed to apply is Odd Shaped buildings. Structures - it doesn't fit the overall definition ("A structure is a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity. Not a building.")

So, ideas on where else I could possibly add this as a waymark? Unfortunately, at our visit yesterday I didn't get any interior photos, as the tasting room was closed, and it was drive by order pickups in the parking lot. I got one exterior photo of the tasting room and one of the winery production site, hopefully enough for it to be approved. We didn't get to taste any so I may have to wait till we CAN taste before submitting. We have tasted many of the wines on previous visits though, would that count?

I guess this turned into more than a quick question and probably wandered off topic too. I hope that doens't get me into trouble with TPTB around here!

ahh, we're pretty laid back around here. Once in a while one of us or another gets a bit persnickety, but then we get some rest and all will be well.

Now, as for the questions -- I'll have to take some time and look at them. I'll get back to you if I can give any suggestions.

1.9k · July 28, 2020

On 7/22/2020 at 6:16 PM, vulture1957 said:

On 7/22/2020 at 10:44 AM, CAVinoGal said:

Unfortunately, at our visit yesterday I didn't get any interior photos, as the tasting room was closed, and it was drive by order pickups in the parking lot. I got one exterior photo of the tasting room and one of the winery production site, hopefully enough for it to be approved. We didn't get to taste any so I may have to wait till we CAN taste before submitting. We have tasted many of the wines on previous visits though, would that count?

ahh, we're pretty laid back around here. Once in a while one of us or another gets a bit persnickety, but then we get some rest and all will be well.

Now, as for the questions -- I'll have to take some time and look at them. I'll get back to you if I can give any suggestions.

Update: I just submitted the winery for review, so we'll see if I can use previous tastings to rate my top 2 wines - I explained all that in a private note at submission.

I'm still trying to figure out what other category (categories) it would fit into - the tasting room is a converted wine barrel, so appropriate and very unique. And it's also the oldest winery in Lodi. Is there a category for the oldest something? I also have an idea for the largest of something - where do those kind of things go?

July 28, 2020

16 minutes ago, CAVinoGal said:

Update: I just submitted the winery for review, so we'll see if I can use previous tastings to rate my top 2 wines - I explained all that in a private note at submission.

I'm still trying to figure out what other category (categories) it would fit into - the tasting room is a converted wine barrel, so appropriate and very unique. And it's also the oldest winery in Lodi. Is there a category for the oldest something? I also have an idea for the largest of something - where do those kind of things go?

Like 99 said, Superlatives. Oldest, largest, etc. But I can't find anything for the big barrel now tasting room. I don't think it really makes it as a building.

1.9k · July 28, 2020

1 hour ago, vulture1957 said:

Like 99 said, Superlatives. Oldest, largest, etc. But I can't find anything for the big barrel now tasting room. I don't think it really makes it as a building.

Okay. Superlatives will work for Oldest, and Largest for another idea I have - but I need to get photos of the Largest.

The tasting room doesn't fit the description for a "building" category. It's unique, as far as I can tell. I love it - and I'll keep looking through categories and hope to find a place it will fit. What is Uncategorized? Just a place where you put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else?

1.9k · July 28, 2020

Maybe Ginormous Everyday Objects? A "regular" wine barrel is about 60 gallons, 3 feet tall. This one is 50,000 gallons, and half the barrel is about 20-25 ft high but much bigger around. I think it would qualify.

Update: Submitted. We'll see how it goes.

Edited July 28, 2020 by CAVinoGal
Added info/updated

July 28, 2020

Ginormous - good catch! that should work

July 29, 2020

Anybody more savvy than I am about sculpture? Freestanding Arches and Citizen Memorials accepted this bronze arch made up of stacked books. Anywhere else this could go?

Which category for this?

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