Difference between revisions of "Talk:Globetrotters Geohash"

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Every Continent?

Do I have to go to Antarctica? --Jevanyn 17:10, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

If you do you should wait for one of those days when the coordinates are at the big end of the latitute numbers, so you can walk in a very small circle to do the ultimate multihash. -Robyn 03:39, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

An Antarctica requirement would make this impossible for practically everybody. I edited in that you would have to go to "the five inhabited continents North and South America, Africa, Eurasia and Australia". --Ilpadre 17:22, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Candidates

Please add yourself if you have visited more than one continent. --Ilpadre 17:22, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

How Many Continents?

Is reevaluation appropriate? I have always thought of Europe and Asia as being separate continents, thus making seven and making this award more attainable. My brief research revealed the vast majority of sources subscribe to the seven continent model. Interestingly to me, significantly more sources show America as a single continent and Eurasia as two continents than the converse. However a little more research will revel an argument can be made for the proposition that there are as few as three. --Bos 07:28, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

How would increasing the number of required continents make it easier to attain the award? Also, Europe and Asia are separate continents only from a political/eurocentric perspective; they are not separated by any tectonic plate boundary. The scientific (which in this case is the geographic) community prefers the Eurasia/two-Americas-model I used to separate the continents for the achievement. All the other models are more politically and historically grounded. What are your sources for a separate Europe/Asia-model? --Ilpadre 08:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Increasing the number would make it easier if you still had to only go to five. - Robyn

Graphics

I just wanted to say that the imagery for this award is beautiful. This was not drawn by Randall, right? Whoever did it, thank you so much! If you also did the images for some of the other ribbons then extra thank yous!Virgletati 20:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes. At this point one reason not to switch to the seven continent model is that it would break the ribbon. --starbird 08:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

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 :How would increasing the number of required continents make it easier to attain the award? Also, Europe and Asia are separate continents only from a political/eurocentric perspective; they are not separated by any [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg tectonic plate] boundary. The scientific (which in this case is the geographic) community prefers the Eurasia/two-Americas-model I used to separate the continents for the achievement. All the other models are more politically and historically grounded. What are your sources for a separate Europe/Asia-model? --[[User:Ilpadre|Ilpadre]] 08:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
+::Increasing the number would make it easier if you still had to only go to five. - Robyn
 == Graphics ==
 I just wanted to say that the imagery for this award is beautiful. This was not drawn by Randall, right? Whoever did it, thank you so much! If you also did the images for some of the other ribbons then extra thank yous![[User:Virgletati|Virgletati]] 20:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 :Yes. At this point one reason not to switch to the seven continent model is that it would break the ribbon. --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 08:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)