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esquimaux

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  1. The definition you've found is in a US-centric dictionary.

     

    And it may be (and probably is) that tailgating is a US-centric (or possibly North American) activity. I don't know know that there really is any other way to explain it.

     

    Am I to take it from the definition that the tailgating referred to is an informal affair?

     

    That depends on what you mean by "informal". Do people usually dress up? Not usually. Do people often spend more on the tailgate party than they do on the event tickets. Yes. Do they plan weeks in advance. Yes. Do they organize large groups to get together for a tailgate party before a game. Yes. Can you show up uninvited to a tailgate party? Often, yes.

  2. This should help clarify a bit:

     

    We had an inclination that one of the first category requests would be something taboo. In fact Places > Entertainment category is currently using the joke icon we had for hooker corners. For the first iteration of Waymarking we decided not to allow any taboo categories but even so you may end up seeing them in categories like bars anyway. I mean some bars are also strip clubs, right?

     

    So, considering that the GPS wielding community of geocachers is used to a family-friendly, the question is posed - What is an inappropriate waymark category and should they be allowed in some fashion? Yes, I expect this to be a very popular topic.

     

    Here are my thoughts:

     

    1. During the beta period, we should keep this family friendly for the sole fact that the site isn't designed to handle adult material and filter it from members of the family.

    2. Features (whatever they may be) will be created to designate categories as "family friendly" - to maintain this rating the category manager should agree to uphold a set of requirements to make the category meet these requirements.

    3. Reporting methods are in place for waymarkers (new word!) to report, ala craigs list style, waymarks to be labeled "inappropriate" or "miscategorized" or "spam" (or whatever). After some determined threshold of reports the listing is autoarchived by the site.

     

    Additionaly we could adopt ratings systems like the ESRB for certain categories. From there you would have to put a cookie on your machine to allow you access to certain ratings, or you would need to be logged in and have your account set to allow this level of material.

     

    Your thoughts?

    From http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=105962

  3. Perhaps instead of a 2/3 vote there can just be a minimum number of yes votes required. I don't really know what forum traffic is like, but if a suggested category gets 20, 50, 100 approvals, whatever the number may be, isn't that enough to suggest that it's wanted, rather than, as suggested above, people voting against a category because they don't like the person placing it. Of course if you want to hold veto power, you can use that in the face of several people voicing an objection to a particular suggestion. But the 2/3 approval (or even 50%+1) seems stiff, especially since it's typically the same people in the forums, and it's their biases the new submitter is up against. A standard minimum may make it more practical to get a new category published.

  4. Divided by a common language again!

     

    In the UK tailgating is following the vehicle in front too close. 

     

    What is tailgating and can the category be renamed so as to be understood by all?

     

    tail·gate

    v. intr.

    1. To follow another vehicle too closely.

    2. To participate in a picnic that is served from the tailgate of a vehicle, as before a sports event.

    - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tailgate

     

    For a better understanding of #2 above, see http://www.tailgating.com/.

     

    It's got it's own dictionary entry - I'm not sure what else you could call it!

  5. Some may say that this type of thing is "everywhere we look so you can't shelter your kids". I say that it is only everywhere we look if WE let it be everywhere we look. There is no reason it has to be on this site. There are plenty of other wonderful, exciting, artistic, etc places that can be featured. Why not just concentrate on those.

    First, if it's only where you look if you let it be, use that same blind eye here. Second, life is more than the wonderful, exciting, artistic places that some people would like to limit it to. Life includes scrap heaps, construction areas, waste water recycling plants, and, yes, strip clubs. Just because they exist doesn't mean you have to go there.

     

    And if they want to add an adults only section to accomodate this type of target, fine.

  6. This is an answer from a different topic that I found, but may be useful for anybody who looks at this one, so I'm adding it here. Maybe this could be included in the FAQ:

     

    USGS and NGS are not the same.

     

    NGS is in the Dept of Commerce

    USGS is in the Dept of Interior

     

    95% of the USGS marks are not in the NGS database becuase USGS never submitted the data. Why, they had more imporatant things to do like mapping the USA.

     

    The USGS marks you do find in the NGS database are there primarely because NGS used them.

     

    Why don't they put them there today? To much work for too little gain. Everything is in paper form in filing cabinets. Would take 10 yrs and 10 million dollars to database thousands of marks and more then likely most of them don't exist today. Also the methods used to establish their position does not meet todays standards. USGS considers many of them obsolete.

  7. I recently found a Benchmark that I can't find any information on. The marking on the disk is 212 FMK with a year of 1974 found at N 36 36.071 W 118 04.941. I admit I'm fairly new at the whole BM thing, but I'm at a loss on what to do with this one. :)

     

    Any help will be appreciated.

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