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Seeking input and officers for a category and group that I'm interested in forming.

They're called Life Lists and Bucket Lists. They were recently made popular by the Jack Nicholson/Morgan Freeman movie about two terminally ill men intent on fulfilling their life-long wish lists before they die.

After reading a recent popular book by travel writer Patricia Schultz, "1000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List," I was inspired to combine this with my waymarking passion to create a new category or Bucket List of waymarks using the sites and experiences indexed in this book and her follow-up "1000 Places/U.S.A and Canada.

Many of the featured places are listed at 1000beforeyoudie.com. Examples include the Pyramids of Giza, Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe), Taj Mahal, etc. Also listed are festivals/events like the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) and Mardi Gras (New Orleans), and experiences like Tracking the Mountain Gorilla (Uganda).

Only one waymarking submission would be accepted per indexed book entry (including larger entries like Rome, New York, Paris, etc.) Many sites could be waymarking traditionally (Coords, Photos, Description) and must focus on a landmark or recogziable site featured in the book. Festivals and Events must be attended and treated similar to the Festivals category. Experiences would have to reflect where thrill-seekers could find the experience (It's listed in the book).  

Whaddaya think? Ready to start your Bucket List?

Interested participants are welcome to join The Bucket List group now accepting officers.

 

 

I like the idea, but for me his 1000 places may not be mine. I'd like it to include our places (maybe only 1 per waymarker) along with his 1000. That said, if you want to restrict it to his 1000, I would vote to approve it.

Fatcat

Good idea.

The general places like Rome need to have a central location identified as the spot to waymark it.

City hall or it's equivalent. Visits to these could be anywhere in the city as long as they add coordinates and encourage a photo for the visit log.

I feel that using a controlled and previously indexed list will help officers in the approval process. Although I may not agree with all the featured places, I feel that maintaining a list of "high quality" submissions would be complicated with the ability of a waymarker to submit anything he wants just to say it's on his Bucket List.

I might favor an optional field on the submission page to allow waymarkers to tell us about their own Bucket List/Life List. 

TheBeanTeam:

Good idea.

The general places like Rome need to have a central location identified as the spot to waymark it.

City hall or it's equivalent. Visits to these could be anywhere in the city as long as they add coordinates and encourage a photo for the visit log.

As far as I can tell, most of the indexed sites feature photos or mention specific landmarks/must sees. Submissions would be required to be "localized" to a central or recognizable set of coords.  

 

I like the idea.  I would restrict it to the list in the book rather opening it up to what is on others' lists unless except if there is another authors book with a similar list.  This makes it much easier for the group to manage, much like the Great Buildings of the World has a defined list.   For those location which cover broader locations,Rome,  New Orleans,  etc, I would clearly define what location you want the coordinates taken as best you can so that it will be easier to prevent duplicates.  Some of the locations listed this may be difficult as they span nearly a whole country.

scooter bill:

I feel that using a controlled and previously indexed list will help officers in the approval process. Although I may not agree with all the featured places, I feel that maintaining a list of "high quality" submissions would be complicated with the ability of a waymarker to submit anything he wants just to say it's on his Bucket List.

I might favor an optional field on the submission page to allow waymarkers to tell us about their own Bucket List/Life List. 

I agree that the indexed list or possibly a few identified lists is the way to go. The less subjective the better if you are going to be approving for a category.

But including more than one list might be worthwhile as long as it was verifiable.

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There is an idea for a photo goal here though. A bucket list photo goal of things to do before you die.

It could be a great photo goal waymark that could be visited if one of the items on the list was achieved.

scooter bill:

TheBeanTeam:

Good idea.

The general places like Rome need to have a central location identified as the spot to waymark it. ......snip

As far as I can tell, most of the indexed sites feature photos or mention specific landmarks/must sees. Submissions would be required to be "localized" to a central or recognizable set of coords.  

So using the Lewis & Clark trail as an example. Would you only be able to waymark the Columbia River Vista of Crown Point as depicted in the photo or would you be able to list other locations along the trail?

I love this one! I think I may have even suggested it once.

Once I saw that you have an establish set already to work from, instead of it being a subjective list... I was totally onboard with the idea.

All the power to you! It would be cool to have Waymarking covert this into an online checklist for people!

BQ

I was skimming through the books and was wondering how things would be for abstract enteries. The category says one per entery, but some are compilations (the landmarks of New York one with Grand Central and the UN HQ). How would those be done? Maybe it would be better to do one per mentioned site.  Also enteries with sites, experiences, events all in the same entery. How would that be handled?

saopaulo1:

I was skimming through the books and was wondering how things would be for abstract enteries. The category says one per entery, but some are compilations (the landmarks of New York one with Grand Central and the UN HQ). How would those be done? Maybe it would be better to do one per mentioned site.  Also enteries with sites, experiences, events all in the same entery. How would that be handled?

The American Guide Series is a similar format, yes?

globetrotters.us:

saopaulo1:

I was skimming through the books and was wondering how things would be for abstract enteries. The category says one per entery, but some are compilations (the landmarks of New York one with Grand Central and the UN HQ). How would those be done? Maybe it would be better to do one per mentioned site.  Also enteries with sites, experiences, events all in the same entery. How would that be handled?

The American Guide Series is a similar format, yes?

With the American Guide category each of the mentioned locations could be waymarked.  Thus in the example given there could be a waymark for Grand Central and another for UN HQ.   However as saopaulo stated if it says one per entry then what would be waymarked. 

BruceS:

  However as saopaulo stated if it says one per entry then what would be waymarked. 

If this was in the games category I envision one possible incarnation there could be a total of 1,000 waymark submissions. All others would then be visits.
However.....
The stickiness of this is obvious. Say I submit one for the Lewis & Clark trail at Crown Point in the Columbia River Gorge?
What is to stop someone else from posting a waymark at Fort Clatsop near Astoria. As a reviewer this becomes problematic.

Also in looking around there are no online complete lists and in one comment at the Flicker group dedicated to this topic lists have been removed in the past at the request of the the book publisher. The reason? Copyright violation.

So now we have an additional problem. Without a complete list or database waymarkers must obtain a book to see all of the locations listed.  Not a huge issue but an issue.

Then is the category limited to one book or do you allow the other books and add a title variable?

I think this is a workable category but it has some serious stumbling blocks.

Here is my latest brainstorm concerning this topic.

2 categories:

The first, a places category with no limitations other than if a particular spot is already waymarked by someone. This opens the category to all of the Lewis & Clark locations. (I know it causes a redundancy issue for some but oh well)

The second, a games category that uses a life list of things to do before you die approach rather than Places to see. This category would use a specific list of some sort. When number 1 is waymarked then it is taken. Waymarkers who achieve life list goal number one after its initial waymarking would visit the waymark and provide the coordinates of the achievement.

 
 

I would say there is another option, open the category to any specific location mentioned in the book.  Thus if under New York City it talks about Grand Central Station and UN Headquarters then each could be a waymark.  Thus the potential number of waymarks from each book may be many more than 1000.

Right,

That is my first option suggestion.

The second would be for a games type category for Things to Do and not Things to See.

So a parachute jump that is high on a life list, say number ten would allow one waymark to be created in a category that falls under teh games department.

Any location featured in the 1,000 places to see books would be fair game in whatever dept. a category of that nature wound up.

 

I would like to be part of this group. I know, however, there are atleast two books, one with the title 1000 places... in America, and the other 1000 places... in the world. Would the category be limited to one or both books?