Difference between revisions of "Talk:Brunswick, Maine"
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Nova Scotia? I thought there had to be some NS land in the grat to qualify it for the NS cat. --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 21:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC) | Nova Scotia? I thought there had to be some NS land in the grat to qualify it for the NS cat. --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 21:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
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:That would be news to me, although of course you may be right. But some of the ocean in this graticule is officially Canadian territorial water, which is why I put the category in. If you went water hashing there, you would be in Nova Scotia. -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 21:49, 1 May 2009 (UTC) | :That would be news to me, although of course you may be right. But some of the ocean in this graticule is officially Canadian territorial water, which is why I put the category in. If you went water hashing there, you would be in Nova Scotia. -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 21:49, 1 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
::That's certainly true. And I may be wrong; but my impression is that we don't generally categorize water (politically, I mean). Certainly the all-water grats haven't generally taken country/state categories. It's not perfectly logical, but it does have the advantage of matching up neatly with the [[Regional geohashing achievement|regional hashing]] rules. If I pull up [[:Category:Wisconsin]], say, I get links to all the grats I need to check off to get the regional achievement, and no others. --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 04:16, 5 May 2009 (UTC) | ::That's certainly true. And I may be wrong; but my impression is that we don't generally categorize water (politically, I mean). Certainly the all-water grats haven't generally taken country/state categories. It's not perfectly logical, but it does have the advantage of matching up neatly with the [[Regional geohashing achievement|regional hashing]] rules. If I pull up [[:Category:Wisconsin]], say, I get links to all the grats I need to check off to get the regional achievement, and no others. --[[User:Starbird|starbird]] 04:16, 5 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
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| + | :::You have a very good point. And water hashes are not exactly common. Hmmm. -- [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] 14:46, 6 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 14:46, 6 May 2009
Nova Scotia? I thought there had to be some NS land in the grat to qualify it for the NS cat. --starbird 21:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- That would be news to me, although of course you may be right. But some of the ocean in this graticule is officially Canadian territorial water, which is why I put the category in. If you went water hashing there, you would be in Nova Scotia. -- Benjw 21:49, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- That's certainly true. And I may be wrong; but my impression is that we don't generally categorize water (politically, I mean). Certainly the all-water grats haven't generally taken country/state categories. It's not perfectly logical, but it does have the advantage of matching up neatly with the regional hashing rules. If I pull up Category:Wisconsin, say, I get links to all the grats I need to check off to get the regional achievement, and no others. --starbird 04:16, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
- You have a very good point. And water hashes are not exactly common. Hmmm. -- Benjw 14:46, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
