Dreaming of Updates

[+Torgut]

We are all very well aware that for some reasons changes and updates in WM website will be no more than a mirage, apart from little fixes and improvements. I felt like writing what I would dream of, in terms of changes. There are a few ideas, but if I had to chose one, this would be the one:  stack WM's in listings, so if there are 25 WM's for the same object, they would show as one in the search results. This stack would be then open, showing all the 25 WM's.

The reason why I never used WM actively as a travel plan helper was this saturation. If one travels to a city - say, Paris or Barcelona - he will need to face an endless list of WM's for places like Sagrada Família or Notre Dame. It's fair and positive they exist, but scrolling literally pages with the same subject just to find a similar situation immediately after.....

In a way, the Google Earth file helps. There, the stack technique is applied. It had to be.  

[+PISA-caching]

I very much agree, but there's one idea, that I would prefer: A useful app for my mobile phone (Android)! Whenever I come to a new location, I can check within very short time, if there are geocaches around or if there are adventure lab caches around. But if I want to see if there are waymarks around, it takes more time and isn't as easy as with caches. I think that a modern and easy to use app for all mobile phones will not gain loads of new WMers, but definitely some.

[+Ariberna]

35 minutes ago, PISA-caching said:

I very much agree, but there's one idea, that I would prefer: A useful app for my mobile phone (Android)! Whenever I come to a new location, I can check within very short time, if there are geocaches around or if there are adventure lab caches around. But if I want to see if there are waymarks around, it takes more time and isn't as easy as with caches. I think that a modern and easy to use app for all mobile phones will not gain loads of new WMers, but definitely some.

I don't know, the iphone app costs and is useless. It has a lot of bugs and you can't create. You can't see all of them either...

[+Bear and Ragged]

18 hours ago, Ariberna said:

I don't know, the iphone app costs and is useless. It has a lot of bugs and you can't create. You can't see all of them either...

 

Waymarkly on the iphone?

Works fine for me. Don't remember paying? If I did it was a one-off "tip" which hasn't had to be paid again.

The developer is always up to listen to bugs/suggestions for the app, and is prompt at implementing them.

 

Have no wish to write-up Waymarks on my phone. Rather do that on a computer.

[+Ariberna]

On 9/10/2024 at 6:25 PM, Bear and Ragged said:

 

Waymarkly on the iphone?

Works fine for me. Don't remember paying? If I did it was a one-off "tip" which hasn't had to be paid again.

The developer is always up to listen to bugs/suggestions for the app, and is prompt at implementing them.

 

Have no wish to write-up Waymarks on my phone. Rather do that on a computer.

Yes, it was worth 7 € forever.
Yes, the developer responds to issues 6 months later.
You can't see them all, sometimes you think there is no WM because you don't see them and you can't create in the WM app.
In short, a scam. And there are still people who say if they are going to release it on Android... better not to buy it. It's almost more efficient to open the web and look at the nearby ones.

[+Walking Boots]

I'm really happy with Waymarkly on my iPhone. I think I paid a small amount at the start but nothing has happened since. I pay annually for geocaching which is much more expensive.
The small mistakes that have been there from the start have been corrected and I can see all the waymarks. So I use it a lot when I travel and it has been really useful.
However, I would never create a Waymark on a phone...for me it would become unmanageable when I have to find source material, write text, translate, crop images and so on. When a Waymark becomes publicly available to the whole world, I prefer that there are not too many errors - And yet I think that there are quite a few translation errors, but I have to live with that..