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Nice :) Is it valid though? I thought you might have had to swim across the harbour because there's more of the country on the other side of it

by ekzy 5y ago

wasmitnetzen 5y ago
GeoWizard (the "inventor" of this sport) goes waterline-to-waterline or border-to-waterline. Of course, it's an entirely arbitrary rule, but so is every other rule in sports.
- ionwake 5y ago
  I feel strongly about this subject as I actually travelled to liechtenstein to do the same , I failed, which I am at peace with. My problem with is, a margin of error of 25 meters for a run of less than a km isnt what I would call platinum, my gripe here is with geowizard. I feel the error margin should increase for each km, for example by one meter. So a straight line across a continent allows for a larger margin of error, but 1km , well you better stick to the line. I know noone will read this but I had to let it out. Its not coming form a bad place I just want better rules!
  - mdrzn 5y ago
    The OP used GeoWizard's measurements for the points (like less than 25m for Platinum) but GeoWizard usually goes for waaaaay longer than 1km. So the "fault" is on OP, if at all.
  - filoeleven 5y ago
    As someone else posted, https://www.scoremyline.com/ https://www.scoremyline.com/ is another metric that is available. GeoWizard collaborated with its creator, and has said that some of his own lines are better with this metric while also stating that the whole thing is of course arbitrary anyway. This seems like a good match for what you seek.
    - ionwake 5y ago
      This is exactly what I needed - thank you!
x4e 5y ago
In Tom’s videos (which this post is based off) he says that you just have to reach sea water
- dane-pgp 5y ago
  Which doesn't work well for land-locked countries. I'm sure that some sensible (albeit still arbitrary) geometric rule could be invented, such as requiring that the line bisects the country into two regions which have areas that differ by at most 50%, for example. Alternatively, or additionally, the length of the line could be required to be greater than some specific fraction of the country's total border/coastline (assuming that has a rigorous definition). For countries composed of multiple islands (or a mainland with some islands), the rules should probably require that the line pass through the biggest island / mainland, but perhaps multiple islands would need to be crossed (on the same straight line?) in order to meet the "bisecting area" rule above.

Nice :) Is it valid though? I thought you might have had to swim across the harbour because there's more of the country on the other side of it

by ekzy 5y ago

Nice :) Is it valid though? I thought you might have had to swim across the harbour because there's more of the country on the other side of it

wasmitnetzen 5y ago

GeoWizard (the "inventor" of this sport) goes waterline-to-waterline or border-to-waterline. Of course, it's an entirely arbitrary rule, but so is every other rule in sports.

ionwake 5y ago
I feel strongly about this subject as I actually travelled to liechtenstein to do the same , I failed, which I am at peace with. My problem with is, a margin of error of 25 meters for a run of less than a km isnt what I would call platinum, my gripe here is with geowizard. I feel the error margin should increase for each km, for example by one meter. So a straight line across a continent allows for a larger margin of error, but 1km , well you better stick to the line. I know noone will read this but I had to let it out. Its not coming form a bad place I just want better rules!
- mdrzn 5y ago
  The OP used GeoWizard's measurements for the points (like less than 25m for Platinum) but GeoWizard usually goes for waaaaay longer than 1km. So the "fault" is on OP, if at all.
- filoeleven 5y ago
  As someone else posted, https://www.scoremyline.com/ https://www.scoremyline.com/ is another metric that is available. GeoWizard collaborated with its creator, and has said that some of his own lines are better with this metric while also stating that the whole thing is of course arbitrary anyway. This seems like a good match for what you seek.
  - ionwake 5y ago
    This is exactly what I needed - thank you!

x4e 5y ago

In Tom’s videos (which this post is based off) he says that you just have to reach sea water

dane-pgp 5y ago
Which doesn't work well for land-locked countries. I'm sure that some sensible (albeit still arbitrary) geometric rule could be invented, such as requiring that the line bisects the country into two regions which have areas that differ by at most 50%, for example. Alternatively, or additionally, the length of the line could be required to be greater than some specific fraction of the country's total border/coastline (assuming that has a rigorous definition). For countries composed of multiple islands (or a mainland with some islands), the rules should probably require that the line pass through the biggest island / mainland, but perhaps multiple islands would need to be crossed (on the same straight line?) in order to meet the "bisecting area" rule above.