Seals/stamps/ sellos directory.

[jrobasdan]

Wise Pilgrim or whichever app needs a seal/stamp locator function with preview images. Albergues are a given, but it’d be cool to know which other places have seals or even what they look like, like a map overlay.

 

[Vacajoe]

That’s a HUGE task given that nearly every bar, restaurant, hotel, and sometimes roadside stands have a stamp. I’ve found great joy being surprised every time I get a sello through not knowing what it will be.

 

[roving_rufus]

See

Los sellos del Camino

Recopilacion de los sellos que los peregrinos estampan en su credencial de camino a Santiago de Compostela

www.lossellosdelcamino.com

 

[jrobasdan]

See

Los sellos del Camino

Recopilacion de los sellos que los peregrinos estampan en su credencial de camino a Santiago de Compostela

www.lossellosdelcamino.com

Nice thanks.

 

[jrobasdan]

That’s a HUGE task given that nearly every bar, restaurant, hotel, and sometimes roadside stands have a stamp. I’ve found great joy being surprised every time I get a sello through not knowing what it will be.

How do you think places get reviews or information posted online about them in the first place? Better yet, have you heard of Wikipedia, or Yelp, or Instagram or Facebook?

It’s definitely NOT “nearly” every bar and restaurant, and since you’ve taken the time to think thru a reply I hope you’re not suggesting the code would be difficult/complicated.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I stayed in nearly all private lodgings on my recent Norte Camino. I asked for stamps/sellos for my credential at all of them, and also a few bars and restaurants along the way. I was sorely disappointed as not even one was a unique, attractive "Camino" looking sello. In fact, most appeared to be a "return address stamp" used for mailing letters.

 

[henrythedog]

Wise Pilgrim or whichever app needs a seal/stamp locator function with preview images. Albergues are a given, but it’d be cool to know which other places have seals or even what they look like, like a map overlay.

On the Frances; if there isn’t a sign up saying ‘no sello’ it’s highly probable that there is one.

Spain’s bureaucracy is renowned and businesses have to stamp receipts, invoices etc. the stamp they use is for business purposes not ‘Camino specific’ (which is what is generally understood by ?Hay un sello aquí?) but it is a sello nonetheless.

 

[Vacajoe]

How do you think places get reviews or information posted online about them in the first place? Better yet, have you heard of Wikipedia, or Yelp, or Instagram or Facebook?

It’s definitely NOT “nearly” every bar and restaurant, and since you’ve taken the time to think thru a reply I hope you’re not suggesting the code would be difficult/complicated.

Yipes! Dear friend, this site (like the Camino) is a place of kindness and people assisting others in a friendly manner. Dial it down a bit and appreciate that much of the work of Pilgrim websites and Apps are done at a very low profit or even nonprofit by kind Camino Angels. Your tone above can easily be misinterpreted as attacking and I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way.

Creating a collection of preview photos for every sello on the CF would be a large process for little benefit. App creators already struggle with keeping their information current on albergues and food offerings and this would yet add another information point to gather. While you suggest that it’s a simple process, I’d argue that one person trying to collect, post, and keep current thousands upon thousands of sellos in their app is unreasonable.

Perhaps you could achieve a similar goal by starting a movement to crowdsource this information by having pilgrims post a photo of their sellos to the “Wikipedia, or Yelp, or Instagram or Facebook” page of each business they visit.

I hope your Camino journeys are full of kindness and grace (and interesting sellos).

 

[Vacajoe]

It’s definitely NOT “nearly” every bar and restaurant

You are correct. It’s not “nearly”…it’s “EVERY”! Spain requires an official stamp for businesses. They may not be the fancy or pilgrim ones you are seeking, but it’s their sello and recognized as such by the Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago.

 

[naplesdon]

Do the search on your own, dude. Nobody is going to do it for you. Wise Pilgrims has too many other things to deal with keeping the "important" things up to date. GHEEZ!

 

[mspath]

Perhaps you might enjoy
this earlier thread which displays what some consider their most prefered sellos.

 

[David Tallan]

I hope you’re not suggesting the code would be difficult/complicated.

Since the code is so simple, perhaps you might volunteer to create it. I know it is beyond my capabilities.

 

[SabsP]

How do you think places get reviews or information posted online about them in the first place? Better yet, have you heard of Wikipedia, or Yelp, or Instagram or Facebook?

It’s definitely NOT “nearly” every bar and restaurant, and since you’ve taken the time to think thru a reply I hope you’re not suggesting the code would be difficult/complicated.

As suggested already : please feel free to develop such an app.
There might be a market for this , though I am not in the least interested.
One of the best albergues imho are not on social media. They might not even have fancy sellos but their hospitality is generous.

See this simple sello from the humble albergue parroquial in Tosantos.

Parroquia de San Esteban de Tosantos

Recopilacion de los sellos que los peregrinos estampan en su credencial de camino a Santiago de Compostela

www.lossellosdelcamino.com

 

[jrobasdan]

You are correct. It’s not “nearly”…it’s “EVERY”! Spain requires an official stamp for businesses. They may not be the fancy or pilgrim ones you are seeking, but it’s their sello and recognized as such by the Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago.

Obviously “Camino specific” is what I’m talking about.

 

[jrobasdan]

Do the search on your own, dude. Nobody is going to do it for you. Wise Pilgrims has too many other things to deal with keeping the "important" things up to date. GHEEZ!

As some helpful people have already commented usefully, there are databases. However, thank you for your contribution.

 

[jrobasdan]

Perhaps you might enjoy
this earlier thread which displays what some consider their most prefered sellos.

Thanks!

 

[dick bird]

Wise Pilgrim or whichever app needs a seal/stamp locator function with preview images. Albergues are a given, but it’d be cool to know which other places have seals or even what they look like, like a map overlay.

Just about every business along the Camino will happily give you a stamp, not to mention every govt office, so it would be a very cluttered map.

 

[jrobasdan]

Do the search on your own, dude. Nobody is going to do it for you. Wise Pilgrims has too many other things to deal with keeping the "important" things up to date. GHEEZ!

Online tools are clearly and specifically data that people compile for other people.

 

[jrobasdan]

Just about every business along the Camino will happily give you a stamp, not to mention every govt office, so it would be a very cluttered map.

Los sellos del camino already does this and has some maps but without location services. It may be seemingly many places in whichever given town, but it is very much not “every business”.

 

[dougfitz]

Albergues are a given, but it’d be cool to know which other places have seals or even what they look like, like a map overlay.

Interesting! As an erstwhile IT project manager, 'cool' never got any traction as a justification in any functional use case, and I would have been politely shown out of the room presenting it in a business case.

As an aside, you now join the ranks of the members here who float their fantastic idea about improving the Camino that involves someone other than them doing something, often with no obvious reward.

 

[dougfitz]

Online tools are clearly and specifically data that people compile for other people.

Indeed. I suggest most where there is a strong commercial imperative to have a presence, and they are more likely to provide their own data for that. Organisations that pay to collect data are more often ensuring that it is behind a paywall or have other arrangements for recovering the costs of their data collection efforts.

 

[jrobasdan]

Interesting! As an erstwhile IT project manager, 'cool' never got any traction as a justification in any functional use case, and I would have been politely shown out of the room presenting it in a business case.

As an aside, you now join the ranks of the members here who float their fantastic idea about improving the Camino that involves someone other than them doing something, often with no obvious reward.

As actual useful replies have noted, los sellos del Camino mostly does what I asked about.

 

[dougfitz]

As actual useful replies have noted, los sellos del Camino mostly does what I asked about.

And that is a labour of love by someone who was prepared to follow up on his vision by actually taking action, engaging collaborators in that endeavour, etc. Not someone just recommending that others do that for him. There is a difference!

 

[jrobasdan]

And that is a labour of love by someone who was prepared to follow up on his vision by actually taking action, engaging collaborators in that endeavour, etc. Not someone just recommending that others do that for him. There is a difference!

I welcome any helpful information/ contribution at all.

 

[dick bird]

Los sellos del camino already does this and has some maps but without location services. It may be seemingly many places in whichever given town, but it is very much not “every business”.

As others have mentioned, every business in Spain is required, by law, to have a rubber stamp. Some of them are friendly enough to stamp your credencial for you.

 

[jrobasdan]

As others have mentioned, every business in Spain is required, by law, to have a rubber stamp. Some of them are friendly enough to stamp your credencial for you.

I think it’s pretty clear I’m not talking about McDonald’s or CobBay or Alimerka.

 

[C clearly]

Wise Pilgrim or whichever app needs a seal/stamp locator function with preview images. Albergues are a given, but it’d be cool to know which other places have seals or even what they look like, like a map overlay.

I welcome any helpful information/ contribution at all.

Thanks for presenting this idea. If anyone wants to explore it further with you, perhaps a private Conversation would be a good way to proceed.