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A friend of mine passed away last year and I use a domain named after her as a small memorial, sally.pro. I just gave it a LOC record pointing to a bench in the
by bonyt 2y ago
A friend of mine passed away last year and I use a domain named after her as a small memorial, sally.pro. I just gave it a LOC record pointing to a bench in the park that we adopted for her.
- nickburns 2y agoI shall have a rest on this bench in honor of your friend if I'm ever in Astoria Park.
- vamega 2y agoI’m in Astoria, I’ll go pay a visit this week!
- edent 2y agoIf you have a geotagged photo of the bench, we'd be honoured to host it on https://openbenches.org/ https://openbenches.org/
- ramon156 2y agoIts insane how many there are in the UK
- edent 2y agoTo be fair, we are a UK based site - and most of my friends are in the UK. But, yeah, even in other Anglophone countries I've visited there haven't been as many memorial benches.
- bonyt 2y agoThanks, I’ve uploaded some photos. https://openbenches.org/bench/33460 https://openbenches.org/bench/33460
- edent 2y agoLooks gorgeous! Much appreciated.
- LinuxBender 2y agoI didn't even know this site existed. This is really cool. I will stop procrastinating and get a bench.
- pdonis 2y agoIs there a reason why you require photos to be geotagged rather than allowing people to manually enter a location?
- edent 2y agoBecause people tend to have fallible memories whereas GPS is reasonably accurate. If you've walked a costal path and taken a dozen photos, are you really going to remember where each one was? Every phone for the last decade has geotagging built in to its camera app. Relying on EXIF is the easiest way for us to ensure the map is broadly accurate.
- pdonis 2y ago> Because people tend to have fallible memories whereas GPS is reasonably accurate. GPS locations are simple to look up on, for example, Google Maps--I just click my mouse at the place where I know the bench I took a picture of is located. My memory of where it is is not at all fallible since it's a memorial bench for my parents just down the street from the house where they used to live. I could easily enter the GPS coordinates from Google Maps into your site if your site would allow me to. > If you've walked a costal path and taken a dozen photos, are you really going to remember where each one was? But your site is not for uploading random photos people take on walks. It is for uploading pictures of memorial benches. The locations of those are much more likely to be remembered by the people who want to upload the pictures, accurately enough to get GPS coordinates in the way I described above. > Every phone for the last decade has geotagging built in to its camera app. I've only had my phone a few years and the photos I have of the bench I wanted to upload are not geotagged. I know that because your site told me so when I tried to upload them.
- winemud 2y agoI'm sorry for your loss
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- INTPenis 2y agoWow that's so interesting. I have a domain for my SO that passed away and we scattered her ashes at her facvorite camp site. So I should do the same.
- vamega 2y agoHow do you go about adopting a bench in Astoria Park?
- bonyt 2y agohttps://www.nycgovparks.org/opportunities/support/honor https://www.nycgovparks.org/opportunities/support/honor It took a while, with emails going unanswered for long periods at times.