Waymarking review
Grounspeak the organization that maintains The Geocaching Website has a new website called Waymarking. The new site is dedicated to finding places whether physical or virtually that might be of interest to people. It seems to be a place to search for what were once labelled as virtual and locationless geocaches. We wonder how popular this will end up being. Although many geocachers say that the numbers are not important, most discuss numbers on a regular basis. Waymarking does not have a log of how many waymarks have been found. The site also has many categories that are pretty much worthless. There is a category for McDonald's Restaurants. Do you really need to grab your GPS to find a McDonald's? There is another category for blogs. You all know that we have a passion for writing and reading blogs, but do you expect us to hunt down blog writers with our trusty Garmin Vista?
There really is not much on the site yet. For our zip code there are two postings. One is for a funny mailbox. The other is for my personal blog. Maybe we should run out to see just how funny that mailbox really is.
Personally we liked the old system of virtuals and locationless geocaches. Yes they probably were not regulated as well as they should have been on Geocaching.com, but it was a one stop place to download coordinates of cool places to visit. The locationless category made an awareness of your surroundings as you drove to other geocaches in the hopes that you would spot something that you could log. We have heard the arguement that locationless caches were too easy and were being used by people to rack up their numbers. If done right the locationless caches took the same amount of time to complete as regular gecocaches because of the required pictures and a well written log including a good description and the history of the object in question.
As avid geocachers and loyal fans of Groundspeak we will keep our eyes on the Waymarking site in hopes that Groundspeak will turn it into something of value, but at this time it is not high on our list of websites to visit.
There really is not much on the site yet. For our zip code there are two postings. One is for a funny mailbox. The other is for my personal blog. Maybe we should run out to see just how funny that mailbox really is.
Personally we liked the old system of virtuals and locationless geocaches. Yes they probably were not regulated as well as they should have been on Geocaching.com, but it was a one stop place to download coordinates of cool places to visit. The locationless category made an awareness of your surroundings as you drove to other geocaches in the hopes that you would spot something that you could log. We have heard the arguement that locationless caches were too easy and were being used by people to rack up their numbers. If done right the locationless caches took the same amount of time to complete as regular gecocaches because of the required pictures and a well written log including a good description and the history of the object in question.
As avid geocachers and loyal fans of Groundspeak we will keep our eyes on the Waymarking site in hopes that Groundspeak will turn it into something of value, but at this time it is not high on our list of websites to visit.
2 Comments:
Locatonless caching is very much alive and kicking, just not on GC.com or waymarking.com.
Terracaching.com has an active locationless (scavenger hunt) section.
Thanks for the reviw. I to have found little use for waymarking.com. I hate that they are not doing a better job of making it something of purpose. I agree with your review.
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