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Not so many: Vegetarian Eateries—"The Big Tofu" Buddhist Temples Bell Ringers FIRST of its kind KFC—Colonel (no idea how a vegie became a colonel?) Japanese Restaurants However, I do tend to drop off the grid for a few days, a week, at a time, while travelling in the back blocks of SEA.

I would be interested in seeing some stats on Waymarking to date. I recall when we hit 300k someone (someone--fame is fleeting), crunched the numbers for us. Great if that could be done again.

ummm, My first thought is that this would not be 'interesting' enough to be a category—of course, I am a cat person. Knowing the location of a kennel would be useful, but for this purpose a host of other resources already suffice. The question is, would enough waymarkers find kennels interesting enough to make the effort to waymark? Is it sufficiently 'wow' to be worthy of consideration as a category? Myself, I think not.

Somewhat related. I read on wired.com that the us military is now asking its personnel not to take geo-tagged photos of military material. Doing so has obvious security risks.

Gee, I go to sleep and a new category forms! What would happen if I stayed awake more? I would add an exclusion for temporary columns. I am thinking say, outside a used car lot, for example. These may even be of stone, but clearly intended to be no more than temporary.

fi67 I did find the statement about municipalities just a little unclear, also I understand your thinking about the historic tripoints. I do feel that the requirement for a reference should be mandatory. I made some changes to the English. Overall the original was good, just some idiom and my idiomatic suggestions. Again, a great idea. ------ based upon Wikipedia (March 2012): A tripoint (also known as a: trijunction, triple point, and, inexactly, as a tri-border area), is a geographical point at which the borders of three countries or sub-national entities intersect. * (I feel that sub-national, should be hyphenated, removing the quotation marks allows for changes. I am being pedantic.) * re wikipedia: I would include the date of the reference. Wiki (as with all things) changes over time, best to document the date of the reference (my academic past emerging here). Also the wiki entry is not in good English. I feel reducing the wiki quote to a simple definition, and then re-writing the rest of the text produces a better result. Do not confuse tripoints with trigpoints; this is something different. (I don't like abbreviations in formal documents) There are between 157 and over 200 known international tripoints—the number depending on the exact definition. At the state/provincial level there are several thousand. Many of these national points, and some state level, are recognised by specific markers. We are primarily looking for tripoints at the national and state (province, region...) level. Places where the borders of three (or more) countries or states meet (a mix of state and national is acceptable). Historic tripoints are also welcome, but these cannot be a mix of contemporary and historic. For example, a place where a current border crosses a historic border is not what we are looking for. If the tripoint is located on a body of water, then the location of the marker is acceptable. If there is no marker, create your waymark at the closest point of permanently dry land to the tripoint. (group all the info about tripoints together) There are three exceptions to the above criteria. First, while normally only national and second level borders are sought, if there is a location where five or more lower level boundaries meet (e.g. county, municipiality), these junctions will be accepted due to their rarity. Second, although not tripoints, locations where a borderline meets the sea are welcome. Third, locations where 2 straight borders meet at a 90 degree angle, AND there is an interesting marker or cairn, will be accepted. * Is there an inconsistency between #2 and #3? Neither are tripoints, but #3 requires a marker, but #2 does not. Either both or neither require markers? Most IMPORTANT. Don't get into trouble! Don't cross, or even approach, political borders where it is illegal (or dangerous) to do so. Check, and get permission when needed. Instructions for Posting a Tripoints and Multipoints Waymark: Find a site that is a tripoint and obtain the coordinates. Describe the location and the marker. Tell us the history of this place. When was the border established? Is there a monument? Who erected it? How did you reach the marker. Is there any difficulty in doing so? The more, the better. * I am thinking here of 3rd world tripoints. Getting there can be a challenge. * Let me know what you think of my suggestions.

My first thoughts: Looks and sounds good. Did not know there were so many. description To find and record all national, and second political level, border tripoints and multipoints. You mention sub-divisions with five or more boundaries. This means, for example, if five municipalities meet at a point then this location could be included? I would make these three mandatory: Poilitical Entities Type of Location Current or Historic These to me seem essential. If they are not included formally then the waymark would not be adequately documented. Question of documentation. Easy enough for nations and states, but for historical and municipalities not necessarily so much. Some requirement requesting a reference or documentation to attest for the the accuracy of the waymark is needed.

I agree with the marker requirement for corners. I disagree on this if it is a tripoint especially for those that are water related. My home state I believe has 7 tripoints but all but two are either in the Mississippi River or the Missouri River thus they do not have markers. (the two in the southwest have markers) This post has been edited by BruceS: Yesterday, 12:18 PM --------- BruceS Talking about these rivers, are you suggesting that a waymark be made on water? I ask this without any flippancy (or buoyancy) as I in fact did this for a river CONFLUENCE. My thinking about the necessity for a marker is based on the need to correctly identify the boundary location. Are these boundaries known to a sufficiently high degree of accuracy to allow a way marker to determine the location and make a waymark, without a marker? We can approach a boundary looking at google maps on our smart phones and stop when the lines meet, but is this good enough? A marker provides a single, unambiguous location. Having said all of this I now recall that I have a province boundary marker from Cambodia which shows the meeting point of three provinces--so I am on board.

To answer both questions—if there is a plaque or marker, that recognises the 'corner' then yes, it can be waymarked. If no marker then the corner lacks public recognition, which can be taken as an indication that it is not sufficiently significant to be worthy of a waymark.

Yes, indeed. I have mentioned this from time to time, and from time to time it is a more or less common problem. I can only suggest, as was suggested to me, using a minus sign "-" in your coordinates. This bypasses the erratic coordinate selectors. Hang in there, I am sure one day it will be fixed. One day.

Wow. Rapid prototyping here. My only suggestion—there must be a marker of some description.

To be frank, no. Words, not html.

@fi67 Sorry to hear that you had this experience. As Dave said, from what I read on photography websites, in the US you can photograph anything visible from public land, which of course includes police stations. I have also read on the same sites that a lot of cops don't like photographers taking such pics. What is annoying is the lack of standardisation. Some places will have no trouble with pics (in Cambodia I was invited inside to have tea and biscuits with a provincial senator), while at others you will be brusquely told to leave. To add my 2c worth, I feel that this level of control is an abuse of power. Civil servants should be serving the public not dictating. And not the biggest fan of cops.