I already tried appealing this since trail markers are eligible (Trails & Markers), but the appeal was declined for being a “common street distance marker”, which just isn’t a thing? At least not here. This is a local promenade and beach, where a local potter was commissioned to create distance markers from the start of the prom to the end of the prom. There are around 10 distance markers along it including a “Start” and a “Finish” marker. It is definitely not a common street distance marker.
As best I can tell, the appeal reviewers tend to stick with the review decision unless there is an overriding reason to go against it (much like a legal appeal court).
Since this was rejected by the community as being generic, and there is no strong case to make otherwise, that will be why the appeal was unsuccessful.
There may simply be too many of these markers along the trail for them all to be accepted as individual POI. How long is it?
Things like this tend to repeat itself. I submit similar one myself but community reject it because it repeat every 100m. I only succeed once i submit it as whole route
The generic decision makes no sense to me though as normal streets don’t just have a carved distance marker placed into the ground. It should be eligible under trail markers. I’ve even had other types of distance markers accepted before that have no connection to any trail.
The trail itself is 1 mile long, and I believe there’s a start, 400, 800, 1200, 1500, and 1 mile marker stone.
I didn’t as I genuinely cannot find the one I was going to use. It had info about the commission, and photos of the potter creating the stones. All I can see now are a couple of news articles about it.
That is not my experience. Most of the things I appeal are approved. Of course, I don’t bother appealing anything that was an iffy nomination to begin with.
Source material will always be important when you make claims like this. You have to understand what reviewers see every day. People write blatantly false information trying to get wayspots approved. I’ve seen claims that “George Washington planted this tree.” And then the photo just shows some regular 20 year old tree in a person’s front yard.
So when you say that a local artist made these rather average looking tiles, we need to see that proof. It sounds like an interesting project. We just want to know that the information is real.
I have 11 appeals accepted and 9 rejected. I qualified that comment because it’s my own impression, but also it does make sense as a way of processing appeals
Should I resubmit with as many links as I can find then? I’m still not understanding the generic decision though. Normal roads don’t just have distance markers like this.
I believe its rejected because there are many of it in the area. Personally i also want each of it to be wayspot. But it might be hard to get it past community review for individual marker. I only succeed with making whole marker set as one jogging trail. You can try again imho. You might have different experience than mine.
