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How do you consider a route to be travelled?
Markkos1992:
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--- Quote from: kjslaughter on March 15, 2021, 12:05:37 pm ---Curiosity question. How does everyone consider a route to be travelled? Do you have to be the one driving the car? Do you count if you are just a passenger? Or at an extreme level, would you count a route travelled if you were on a bus?
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Heck, I would include walking the route. That's how I've covered some temporary route gaps in North America, and also some routes within downtown London's "congestion zone" where I couldn't drive my rental car. Also, the only routes I've traveled in Italy (except as a baby, since I have no way of figuring out how my family in 1957 got from Rome's old airport to Naples) were in a taxi from one of Milan's airports, and a bus to the other airport.
We map one route in Michigan (state route 185, an eight-mile loop around Mackinac Island) that is off-limits to motor vehicles except emergency vehicles or other rare exceptions. More than two dozen of our users have clinched it, by horse-drawn carriage, on a bicycle, and/or on foot.
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I have had times where I walked the route because it was closed for an event in a town back when we had those pre-COVID.
jayhawkco:
As long as I'm within 10 feet of the surface of the road, it doesn't matter if I'm in the driver's seat, the passenger seat, or in a double decker bus, that means I traveled the route. On AARoads people were trying to claim clinched counties that they flew over. That's madness.
I've traveled pretty extensively internationally and I wouldn't have most of those routes if I didn't count being in a car someone else was driving.
Chris
Markkos1992:
--- Quote ---On AARoads people were trying to claim clinched counties that they flew over. That's madness.
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Did they not read the Mob-Rule home page?
--- Quote ---The rules are simple: you visit a county, then you count it. To visit a county, just cross the plane of the county line. Usually, you visit a county in a car, but it is possible to visit counties by biking, hiking, or even skiing. Generally, we don't count flying over a county, especially flying in a commercial jet airplane (it's just too hard to see the signs that say "Entering Beaufort County").
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kjslaughter:
--- Quote from: Markkos1992 on March 15, 2021, 02:22:41 pm ---
--- Quote --- Did they not read the Mob-Rule home page?
--- Quote ---The rules are simple: you visit a county, then you count it. To visit a county, just cross the plane of the county line. Usually, you visit a county in a car, but it is possible to visit counties by biking, hiking, or even skiing. Generally, we don't count flying over a county, especially flying in a commercial jet airplane (it's just too hard to see the signs that say "Entering Beaufort County").
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My thoughts exactly! And here's my map for reference: http://www.mob-rule.com/user-gifs/USA/kjslaughter.gif
On TripAdvisor, there is a city visited map option. Look under member profile and then Travel Map if you haven't done this. My sister and I made separate rules for that. Airport layovers don't count and to count a visit to a city we decided your feet have to touch the ground. So driving through Shreveport only counts if you stop and buy gas.
And I was listing buses as extreme because I know when on bus trips as a teen at least that you would be distracted by multiple things and not really paying attention to the route and sites along it. Some of y'all's examples are definitely more extreme than what I was thinking!
bejacob:
For me, the mode of transit isn't important. What matters is knowing I traveled a particular road segment.
The majority of my mapped travels on this site were done in a car, either mine or a rental, and more often than not, I was driving solo. I do have a few places where I was the passenger in someone's car or a taxi. Likewise there are a handful where I was in a bus.
There are some routes that I have traversed, but without being able to definitively say the exact route, those are not included. I'm pretty sure my family drove along CA1 between LA and SFO when I was a kid as I remember stopping at San Simeon. Unfortunately, without knowing the starting and ending points or where we might have deviated from the route, I've only included the parts of the PCH I have driven myself.
How I traveled a stretch of road isn't important. As long as I know I covered a route by some means, it's in.
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