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the blue quasar:Never one to decline a category for that reason, I must confess that restaurants do seem to be getting out of control. I do admit that I lead several of these categories: A&W, Dairy Queen, Hooters, Johnny Rockets, Subway and Tim Horton's. But even as I look over that list, these are either novelty restaurants or ...

OK, a few thoughts on this one: 1) Like silverquill pointed out, be careful about major alterations. 2) I find the idea of a bicycle tender category very useful. I cannot find these searching google. I cannot find these opening up a yellow book. Although many exist, that doesn't mean every place of business/public area has one. Knowing where ...

the blue quasar: Redneck Parrotheads:By hand-drawn, you mean cisterns? Sounds like fun! :) That isn't what ''hand drawn'' means to me. I took it as a bucket or a manually operated pump. ... These work in wells and cisterns. BQ Oh, that would be included, too? OK, then I know of a few to waymark. What about those that are added for ...

I was thinking about a Carl's Jr category, but was debating on including Hardee's in there. I didn't even know there was such a place as Green Burrito or Red Burrito. Anyways, I like the approach (considered it for my Chili's category, but decided against it for various reasons). Would this go under national chains>burgers, or just national ...

Nearly 200 countries. But you also have to consider the countries that may have had benchmarks, but are no longer countries. That certainly is a possibility. So, theoretically, you could have more categories than countries. I doubt this is the case now, but very well could be in the future. I guess you have to ask which would be better. One ...

Colorado, United States 1,539 waymarks to 10,295 geocaches. 0.15 waymarks per geocache. 6.69 geocaches per waymark. Thankfully we have a lot of waymarkers (mr. volkswagen, condor1, ronjean, Team Min Dawg, and a few others that escape me right now), so I'm sure that waymarking will certainly catch up.

dinoprophet:I've always had the idea that waymarkers are just a subset of geocachers.  But that's probably not true.  Out of curiosity, who here did not migrate to waymarking after first being a geocacher? I learned of waymarking through the geocaching website. That being said, I started waymarking before I started geocaching, and ...

Redneck Parrotheads:When I stopped showing mine, the SPAM from Groundspeak accounts stopped. I can't tell if I've gotten SPAM based on my email having been visible for a long time and gmail does a great job of protecting me from the SPAM monsters. Speaking of monsters, the worst I've ever been SPAMmed has been from signing up on ...

steveherrick:I'm pretty sure I've never seen this category.  Start one and I'll join. Ditto.

Never seen one before. Is it Canadian only?

Although I like the idea, I figure if it can't really can't gain acceptance here (or at least is met with this much hesitation), then it won't pass peer review. Maybe at a later date this could work, when blue boxes really start to disappear. Thanks everyone for their comments.

Redneck Parrotheads:the category can be narrowed to only consider Artistic in-service post boxes... like R2D2. I'm sure there's more out there. There's something along this vein that could work if it was written right. I believe by doing that you'll lose the usefulness of the category. Also, the only really unique ones I have seen are the R2-D2 ...

Alright, I just kind of skimmed through the other replies. Boring - Sure, it's boring, but there a ton of ''boring'' categories out there. You have a point, BruceS, when you say that just because we have some doesn't mean we need more. Prevalence - I agree with many of the comments about post office locations having post office boxes. After ...