This is a tough problem, Lodewijk. It's our first year so I can only share our experiences and let you and others with more experience decide what the right thing to do is. Independent of your decision, it's great to see how much you care to make the right choice. :-)

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicubunu@gmail.com> wrote:
I think we need a bit of input from the national teams.

+1, the case of each country can be very different and in the absence of a standard/globally accepted way to register monuments, it's hard to make decisions with very limited local input.

Here are the two examples we ran into in Iran's contest this year:

1) We had two questions early on about the unlisted monuments and whether people can upload photos for those. The two examples that I heard were the Caspian Sea (which resonates with the Nile river photo) and Milad Tower in Tehran. In both cases, I told the users that they cannot upload these photos as part of the contest since they are not registered. (Milad Tower is one of the most iconic towers/buildings in Tehran and I would count it as a monument if the formal registration wasn't a concern.)

2) We ran into an uploaded photo of a monument with no ID, too, and we decided to keep it. Here is a longer version of the story and how we decided to move forward: 

We have the Cyrus' tomb as part of the top 10 photos with no monument ID associated with it. In this case, Pasargadae which is an area that includes the Cyrus' tomb has a monument ID, but Cyrus' tomb itself seems not to have one, and we decided that we can consider the photo from Cyrus' tomb as a photo of Pasargadae, and then later figure out if it needs to be registered on its own as well or not. But, we didn't manually add the ID to the photo. In this case, it seems to us that it was confusing to the uploader what monument he/she had to choose (all the uploaders' other photos are associated with monument IDs), and it seemed the uploader had decided to go ahead and upload anyway. We accepted this upload. 

Best,
LilyOfTheWest
 

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On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder, in some of the international nominees (beautiful pictures again
> btw, congratulations), there are some where there is no identified monument
> available. For example, there is a photo of the Nile river without any
> identified monument, and in Brazil a photo of the Army headquarters without
> identified monument.
>
> I have my doubts about such photos - while they are of good quality, if
> there is no identified monument, I wonder if they should be disqualified for
> the international prizes.
>
> I would value your thoughts on this. Maybe it doesn't come up at all (I
> don't know how high up they will end), maybe it does.
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
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