Waymarking

Waymarking is a recreational activity in which it comes to interesting and picturesque spots in the nature (eg mountain tops ) to locate specific buildings (eg water towers) or other points of interest to photograph and publish the determined coordinates. From historic locomotives, monuments, churches, bridges and lighthouses to personal favorite pub or the nearest McDonald's restaurant can log in diverse points. Thus, it is also possible to find interesting points of a specific category for a specific resort area.

Formation

Originally waymarking is the result of geocaching, where you have not given, as usual, the coordinates of an interesting point, and these visits means of navigation aids, but conversely has a particular point and published on the coordinates. Therefore, such items also reverse cache or cache Locationless were called. The first of these points were found on the first part commercial geocaching geocaching.com website, where now a considerable number has been found. New Locationless caches can be there no longer re-adjust and no longer sign new observations, but recent finds are preserved in the statistics. Similar to geocaches in which no cache container or logbook are available, such as virtual caches and webcam caches, geocachers are some of the opinion that this kind of search has nothing to do with the original geocaching.

Because the waymarking was now separated from the original idea of finding geocaches, Groundspeak, Inc. (the operator of geocaching.com ) launched a new website specifically for waymarking. Waymarks are summarized here in predefined categories, and it can also create new categories if enough users have this compiled Waymarks.

Related Topics

Similar pastimes with use of GPS are Geocaching, Geodashing, visiting Konfluenzpunkten and the geographer project.