Talk:Globetrotters Geohash

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

This clarifies the discussion I abandoned some years ago upon realizing it was dominated by pride of authorship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent Bos

Should we vote on that? I'd be in favor of the 7 continent version too, with the requirement to visit all inhabited ones (or even all) to get the "full" achievement. --Crox 14:55, 24 October 2011 (EDT)

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)

Borders

Where would the borders be between: North and South America Africa and Eurasia Eurasia and Australia/Oceania (probably less difficult to decide but since we're on the subject)

I do like the Europe - Asia idea since they are pretty different and far away places and deserve some commendation on getting both. But .. well...change is hard :) User:Phi-loci-raptor 2 Nov 2010

The traditional border between Europe and Asia is the Ural mountains. I was surprised when I realized that Europe and Asia were not separate rungs on the ladder, but I can live with that. It's an incentive to go to the neglected southern continents. -Robyn 02:37, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Europe and Asia are clearly two different continents. Treating them as one super continent is, um, weird and wrong. Also, we inhabitants of the southern continents don't feel neglected - it's ok. Stevage 02:28, 19 October 2011 (EDT)

Please explain: Why are they "clearly" different? Just because it's difficult to travel from one end to the other? Again: Eurasia lies on one tectonic plate. I don't see any scientific/geographic reason (only cultural and political ones) why Europe should be separated from Asia. --ilpadre 03:00, 19 October 2011 (EDT)