yramc600:What about an endangered/threatened animals category? Waymarks could be posted for each location where the waymarker sited an endangered/threatened animal. If the same species is posted more than once in different locations, fabulous! Zoo animals would be "visited" most often. But for wild animals, when posting a new waymark, we get a warning if there's already a waymark within a certain distance in that category, if that warning comes up for the same type of animal, a visit should be posted instead of a new waymark.
I'd like to see plants and animals kept separate here, but similar categories for both could be fun.
There are endangered species websites that list by region like
this and
this and of course the
WWF lists them too. I was really surprised to see so many in my home state.
Are you saying make this a just wild animal sighting? Or just be ok with the fact that black rhino would see many waymarks? I still like the thought of having just a single category for all species rather than separating them out into different categories. For this particular idea we could also seperate it out a little bit to prevent a little of the waymark bloat to be "endangered animals," "threatened animals," "endangered plants," etc. You could also narrow out mammals, reptiles, birds etc for a little more. I don't mind the idea of adding the 10-15 cats that might ensue... I'm personally just more concerned with the 2-5k plus categories we'd get if we started adding individual species as categories in and of themselves.
If we made a category like this where we were ok with seperate species being in there multiple times, we would definitely need to come up with some limitations on how many waymarks in a radius like say within 10-25 miles (Personally, I'd rather start big and maybe in time have a lower radius if it was called for, rather than start small and realize we started it too small and need to go up later therefor needing to delete waymarks which is awful). Would also need to come up with a naming system to allow for differentiating between them.