-Granted. The waymarking site just does not seem wonderful to me. It seems awkward. I can find things but it seems like more work than I am used to. That may be the problem. I am USED to working the geocaching.com site and have not spent a great deal of time working the waymarking site. The Geocaching.com site is many years old and there are still things that are being improved. The waymarking site could use some work and when the changes are made things will be easier but at least there is a framework for cataloging these really cool, (and some really stupid), locations. For one I would like to be able to run waymarking PQ's. There IS a steep learning curve with the waymarking site as there is with the geocaching.com site as there also is with Photoshop (which I have given up on may times). Once mastered tho, I am sure it gets a little easier.
I am sure that there are people that are more interested in collecting a silly little icon more than visiting a neat spot. If that is the case, than yes, they will not be able to drive past a location and get a bump in their numbers. What they will get from the site is the chance to learn about and visit a lot of pretty neat places. If it takes being bribed with a stupid yellow icon to get people to visit neat places, just find someones old lightpole cache, log it about a thousand times then go visit some neat locations. Everyone wins.
As far as your specific casino waymarks, there is no reason that they should not have been either listed or at least addressed. Each waymark category is run by a leader and 3 or 4 members. Each one can address your submission. I would write the group leader and ask what the heck is up. I do not know if there are guidelines on how the waymark committee does it's business like the cache reviewers do but we have to at least address a new cache within something like 72 hours. With several people managing each category, I would think that would should hear something back very quickly. As far as your mission wawmark, I don't know. I have a lot of cachers write me claiming that they filled out a cache page only to discover that they forgot to press the submit button of forgot to check the box about reading the guidelines. I don't know the ins and outs and traps of submitting a waymark. My local expert would be BruceS. He has submitted more than anyone else I can recall.
Andrew Senger wrote:
- Glenn, I tried Waymarking this weekend and am a little disappointed with the site. I "added" two new casinos to the "Casinos" category. After finishing the first, I got an email saying it will be reviewed. I have yet to see anything else, it's not on the site, and I can't find it in any of my personal pages. The second I did was worse. I haven't gotten an email, but I can see it on one of my pages. It says there's no image attached to the location, yet there's an image in its "Gallery" -- which I uploaded when I put in the information. The site is a little difficult to work with when you first start. I've figured it out, but it took a while. Also, if you happen to find something that you know would match a category (a cannon in a park, for instance), you'd better know what information you can get about it. I tried to upload one this weekend, but I needed to include A LOT of information that I didn't know I'd need (and I'm not sure I could have gotten anyway!). I'm trying to get into it, but it's taking some time. There's a huge learning curve with it. Andrew
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