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In the filter section, one can "filter out" waymarks WITHOUT photos. But we PREFER  waymarks WITHOUT photos.

How about a filter that SCREENS OUT waymark listings WITH photos?

OR .... EVEN BETTER....  MUCH BETTER

How about  having to bring up HIDDEN PHOTOS ..... ie, the listing opens WITHOUT photos and one has to "CLICK TO VIEW" photos .......

Yours from wanna-be waymarkers ...

"sandrats"

 

 

You won't find many waymarks without photos as most categories require them.   I actually want more of the photos visible which is why cooliris (piclens) is so great. If I want to see listings without photos I will get  a phonebook..... boring.

If you don't want to see photos.... don't open the waymarks and just scroll quickly to the bottom of the waymark list and click the box for select all... download as a loc and go find them.

I certainly don't want any photos to be hidden.  I want to see what people have discovered, without having to do any clicking.

The main discovery aspect of Waymarking is to discover things to waymark.

After a place is waymarked, then the discovery is to go there and discover some aspect that the waymark's page itself doesn't provide.  This could be another view (photo), another tidbit of information, or a personal experience there.

I assume your point could be exemplified by the waterfall category.  Someone locates it for you (provides coordinates) and provides a picture that gives you some idea of what it's like.  You're certainly not going to discover this waterfall.  It was probably first discovered by people thousands of years ago, and it was recently documented by a waterfall explorer - the waymarker.

The thing to discover by visiting a waymark is to discover what YOUR experience is when you're there.  A picture or series of pictures can't replace that.

I think it's possible to set your browser to a text-only mode.  You could do that when planning to visit waymarks.

There's a Best Kept Secrets cat.  Those probably don't have many photos...

sandrats:

In the filter section, one can "filter out" waymarks WITHOUT photos. But we PREFER  waymarks WITHOUT photos.

How about a filter that SCREENS OUT waymark listings WITH photos?

OR .... EVEN BETTER....  MUCH BETTER

How about  having to bring up HIDDEN PHOTOS ..... ie, the listing opens WITHOUT photos and one has to "CLICK TO VIEW" photos .......

Yours from wanna-be waymarkers ...

"sandrats"

 

 

 

I get what you are saying, you are requesting something that would closer emulate Virtuals.  In many Virtuals you didn't know what you would see till you got there or at least that was the idea.

Bruce's idea sorta works, but I name mine so you know anyway.

 

BQ

BruceS:

You won't find many waymarks without photos as most categories require them.   I actually want more of the photos visible which is why cooliris (piclens) is so great.

Thanks BruceS for the PicLens tip! I did not know that waymarking.com was enabled, many sites aren't yet. Sorry to be kinda off topic.

BruceS:

You won't find many waymarks without photos as most categories require them.   I actually want more of the photos visible which is why cooliris (piclens) is so great. If I want to see listings without photos I will get  a phonebook..... boring.

I couldn't agree more.  Just because I've seen a picture of the Grand Canyon in a book doesn't mean that I don't want to visit it now.  The more pictures I see of it, the more I want to visit.

I think that given the current structure of Waymarking, your best bet to avoid the pics, and keep the element of surprise is to just download the .LOC files, like BruceS suggested.  You can toss 'em into GSAK, or whatever, and then into your GPS.  That way you really just have coordinates without the pics and everything.

I'm also thinking that my brower at home (Firefox) has an option to not load pictures....I'm not certain though, I just think I remember seeing something like that in the options somewhere.  Who knows, if you have Firefox there might be an extension out there to do that as well.  It might end up being a pain, but that could be an option.  Turn off image loading before you visit the site, then turn it back on when you jump over to another site.

It seems like hiding pictures would be easy enough to implement.  I understand what Sandrats is getting at.  People who want virtuals are told to come here, but the surprise aspect of many virtuals isn't captured here.

Maybe the site could have a "surprise me" mode someday.  It would hide names, pictures and even the categories when you do a search, just giving you coordinates for teh waymarks in the area.  Your ignore lists would still apply, but you'd get coordinates for SOMETHING interesting, and you'd have to go there to find out what.